Today is Friday, May 14, the 135th day of 2004. There are 231 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, May 14, the 135th day of 2004. There are 231 days left in the year. On this date in 1904, the first Olympic games to be held in the United States open in St. Louis, as part of the World's Fair commemorating the centenary of the Louisiana Purchase.
In 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory leaves St. Louis. In 1942, the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps is established. In 1955, representatives from eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign the Warsaw Pact in Poland. In 1964, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev joins United Arab Republic President Gamel Abdel Nasser in setting off charges, diverting the Nile River from the site of the Aswan High Dam project. In 1973, the United States launches Skylab One, its first manned space station. In 1975, U.S. forces raid the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recapture the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members are released safely by Cambodia, but some 40 U.S. servicemen are killed in the military operation. In 1998, singer-actor Frank Sinatra dies at a Los Angeles hospital at age 82.
May 14, 1979: Some 100 elderly residents of the Windsor Manor Nursing Home escape without injury when fire of undetermined origin breaks out in a single room of the home near Lisbon.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D.-Mass., unveils a national health plan in Washington, D.C. The bill faces stiff opposition in Congress.
Sen. Bob Dole announces his candidacy for the 1980 GOP presidential nomination and declares, "I will neither attack my opponents in the Republican Party nor the incumbent president."
May 14, 1964: A gasoline truck explodes with a roar at Western Reserve and Hitchcock roads after a collision between the truck and a car. The driver of the car, a Salem man, is injured; the driver of the truck escapes.
At least five industries, each with auto manufacturing ties, have expressed interest in sites near the proposed Lordstown General Motors plants, state officials say.
Mrs. Caroline Bonnell Hayward, 62, of Warner Road, social and Red Cross leader, dies at North Side Hospital. She was active in the social life of Youngstown during a gay era when Youngstown had many fashionable parties that brought people from Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
May 14, 1954: Two Warren rackets figures, Mike Farah and John Petercupo, and James Licavoli, a member of the notorious Purple Gang, settle income tax claims by the federal government of $455,000 for $100,000. The settlement is approved by Federal Tax Judge Norman O. Tiet-Jans.
Maj. Gen. Laurin L. Williams, assistant Army comptroller, speaks at a Youngstown Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Youngstown Country Club, as part of the city's observance of Armed Forces Week.
Mahoning County Republican Chairman Chester Bailey is re-elected unanimously at the biennial organization meeting of the GOP Center Committee.
May 14, 1929: Youngstowners 51,251 strong contribute a record $447,028 to the Community Chest, with indications that the drive will exceed its goal of $450,000 before the books are closed.
The United States moves to appropriate the old Front Street School property from its present owner, Stambaugh-Thomspon Co., to clear the way for construction of a new post office.
The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District opens bids for construction of a Niles standpipe. The lowest of 12 bids received was by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. of Pittsburgh at $24,585.