Today is Thursday, May 6, the 127th day of 2004. There are 239 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, May 6, the 127th day of 2004. There are 239 days left in the year. On this date in 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burns and crashes in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.
In 1861, Arkansas secedes from the Union. In 1882, Congress passes, over President Arthur's veto, the Chinese Exclusion Act, which bars Chinese immigrants from the U.S. for 10 years. In 1910, Britain's King Edward VII dies. In 1935, the Works Progress Administration begins operating. In 1942, during World War II, some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrender to the Japanese. In 1954, medical student Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. In 1981, Yale architecture student Maya Ying Lin is named winner of a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
May 6, 1979: Ohio State University Quarterback Art Schlicter rolls up 215 yards and throws two touchdown passes to Doug Donley to lead the Reds to a 35-20 victory over the Whites in OSU's annual spring football game.
Susan Ezzo, an eighth-grader at St. Patrick School, Youngstown, wins The Vindicator Spelling Bee after a three-round duel with Cheryl Zarlenga of Canfield Middle School.
Ohio state officials and oil industry executives say President Carter's proposal for gasoline rationing is neither wanted nor needed in Ohio. Carter's proposal appears to be in trouble on Capitol Hill.
May 6, 1964: Veteran Democratic jurist Lynn B. Griffith of Warren wins his party's nomination for the Supreme Court seat to which Griffin was appointed. He will face Cincinnati Republican Louis J. Schneider Jr. in November.
U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan piles up 43,204 votes in the 19th Congressional District Democratic primary against 16,169 for his nearest competitor, Trumbull County Commissioner Robert Hagan. Kirwan will face Republican Albert H. James in November.
May 6, 1954: Dozens of the nation's top insurance and bank executives meet in Youngstown for a tour of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s Mahoning Valley facilities and then head by train to Indiana Harbor for a tour of facilities there.
Boardman School safety patrol boy Jimmy Messenger will be honored for heroism by President Dwight Eisenhower. The sixth-grader had both legs broken in January while protecting children with his safety flag in January.
Television station WFMJ will switch from Channel 73 to Channel 21 and will begin operating on its new channel within 30 days after Federal Communications Commission rulings.
May 6, 1929: The legislative committee of Youngstown City Council recommends that council pass a resolution disapproving advertising matter depicting women and girls using cigarettes. It is suggested that cards and posters with such depictions be banned under an ordinance that prohibits the public display of "obscene pictures."
Youngstown goes "air mad," as 20,000 people flock to Lansdowne Field and Bernard Field to inspect various flying machines, including a trimotored, all metal Ford plane outfitted as a flying grocery that is on display at Lansdowne.
An appeals court upholds a lower court ruling that Youngstown Mayor Joseph Heffernan did not have the power to oust Harry Engle as the city's traction commissioner without the consent of city council.