Today is Wednesday, May 19, the 140th day of 2004. There are 226 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, May 19, the 140th day of 2004. There are 226 days left in the year. On this date in 1994, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies in New York at age 64.
In 1643, delegates from four New England colonies meet in Boston to form a confederation. In 1906, the Federated Boys' Clubs, forerunner of the Boys' Clubs of America, is organized. In 1935, T.E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," dies in England from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash. In 1943, in an address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledges his country's full support in the war against Japan. In 1954, American composer Charles Ives dies in New York. In 1958, the United States and Canada formally establish the North American Air Defense Command. In 1962, during a Democratic fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden, actress Marilyn Monroe performs a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday to You" for guest-of-honor President Kennedy. In 1964, the State Department discloses that 40 hidden microphones had been found in the U.S. embassy in Moscow. In 1967, the Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space. In 1992, the 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises, goes into effect.
May 19, 1979: The Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, which supplies about a third of the gasoline sold in Ohio, says it plans to meet customer demands at the pump through the Memorial Day weekend.
U.S. Rep. Ronald M. Mottl, a Cleveland Democrat, asks President Carter to reconsider his nomination of Youngstown native Nathaniel R. Jones to a federal appeals court because Jones had filed five major school desegregation cases in Ohio as chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Mitchell F. Stanley, manager of WFMJ radio and television, is elected president of the Downtown Kiwanis Club.
The Austintown Fitch girls track and field team ends its season undefeated in dual meet competition and captures the Steel Valley Conference championship.
May 19, 1964: Gov. James A. Rhodes will participate when Saramar Aluminum Co. formally opens its new 250,000 square-foot plant in Warren, Marvin H. Itts, company chairman, announces.
The Youngstown Board of Education is considering a plan to hold seventh-grade pupils in the elementary building to relieve overcrowding at East High School, the enrollment of which has climbed to 2,000 in six grades.
William H. Coleman, a 50-year-old Marysville attorney, is elected overwhelmingly to a fifth term as chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party.
Struthers police and federal and state agents raid a Jean Street house in Campbell. A 55-gallon still is confiscated after its contents were drained into the gutter.
May 19, 1954: Michael Tomachick, 33, suffers burns of his face and hands while saving his wife, Dolores, and three small children from a fire that destroyed their two-story home on Erskine Quarry Hill near Lowellville.
The Rev. Gwynn D. Walters, Protestant chaplain, and Rabbi Sidney M. Berkowitz of Rodef Sholom Temple dedicate a new chapel in South Side Hospital. The chapel was built with funds donated in memory of several persons, including Frank Purnell, late chairman of the board of Youngstown Sheet & amp;Tube Co.
Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan says he will protest to high-ranking Air Force officials their plans to install an air reserve training facility at Youngstown Municipal Airport without the city's consent.
May 19, 1929: Clyde Van Dusen, a son of the great Man O'War, wins the Kentucky Derby before a crowd of 60,000. The colt's legendary father never got to run in the Kentucky Derby.
The cost of operating Mahoning County, including the courthouse, courts, county jail, various institutions, roads, sewers, bonds and interest, totaled $4,496,157 in 1928, according to figures compiled by Auditor John J. Arnold.
Dr. H.E. Welch, Youngstown health commissioner, predicts important changes will be made in hospital methods and hospital construction in the wake of the Cleveland Clinic fire, which killed 123 people, most by poisonous gas emitted from burning X-ray film. Chemists estimated fumes sufficient to kill 4 million people were produced by the fire.