Today is Tuesday, May 11, the 132nd day of 2004. There are 234 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, May 11, the 132nd day of 2004. There are 234 days left in the year. On this date in 1904, surrealist artist Salvador Dali is born in Figueras, Spain.
In 1858, Minnesota becomes the 32nd state of the Union. In 1910, Glacier National Park in Montana is established. In 1943, during World War II, U.S. forces land on the Aleutian island of Attu, which was held by the Japanese; the Americans take the island 19 days later. In 1944, Allied forces launch a major offensive against German lines in Italy. In 1946, the first CARE packages arrive in Europe, at Le Havre, France. In 1949, Israel is admitted to the United Nations as the world body's 59th member. In 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the "Pentagon Papers" case are dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cites government misconduct. In 1981, reggae artist Bob Marley, 36, dies in a Miami hospital. In 1985, more than 50 people die when a flash fire sweeps a jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England. In 1996, an Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 catches fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashes into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
May 11, 1979: Cyrus Eaton, the Cleveland industrialist who advocated peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union during the Cold War years, dies at the age of 95. He will be buried in his native Nova Scotia. At one time or another, Eaton held controlling interest in Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Republic Steel Corp., Detroit Steel, Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. and the Chessie Systems Inc.
Lyle Williams' campaign committee spent $7,000 more than it took in during the 1978 race for the House of Representatives, according to the congressman's final campaign report. The shortage has made it impossible for the congressman to provide a trip to Las Vegas that was raffled off as a campaign fund-raiser, but money is still being raised so that the committee can make good on the trip.
Air Force pilots resume training in A-37 jet fighters at the Youngstown Air Base. The flights were grounded after a March 24 crash, which killed Lt. Col. H. James English of Girard.
May 11, 1964: Burglars break into Monroe Elementary School and take 50 pounds of Civil Defense survival foods valued at $12.
Entertainer Frank Sinatra is rescued after an undertow swept him seaward while he was swimming near his rented cottage on Kauai Island, where Sinatra was staying while filming a movie.
Three employees of Youngstown Sheet & amp; tube Co.'s Campbell Works are burned, two of them seriously, in an explosion at the blast furnace, which was being lighted.
May 11, 1954: Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan tells city council that if it does not act at once to prohibit rush hour parking in Federal Street, he will declare a state of emergency to clear the street of all parked cars between 4 and 6 p.m. while the Market Street Bridge is closed for repairs.
Youngstown Municipal Railway Co.'s president, Robert D. Huxley, estimates that the Boardman Transit Co. would need $5 million in working capital to take over bus operations in Youngstown and he questions the Boardman firm's capacity to raise that amount.
Judge Harold B. Doyle has installed red velvet modesty drapes in front of the witness chair and the jury box in his courtroom. The judge said some women had complained about feeling too exposed on the raised jury stand.
May 11, 1929: Unprecedented operations for the month of May continue at Youngstown district steel mills, which are averaging well above 90 percent of capacity.
Delegates from all over Ohio are attending the state convention of the Catholic Daughters of America in Warren. Among those attending is Bishop William J. Hafey of the diocese of Raleigh, N.C..
Youngstown police are attempting to find the parents of a two-month-old boy found abandoned in a traveling bag on the running board of an automobile in S. Garland Avenue.