Today is Friday, May 21, the 142nd day of 2004. There are 224 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, May 21, the 142nd day of 2004. There are 224 days left in the year. On this date in 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh lands his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1832, the first Democratic National Convention gets under way, in Baltimore. In 1881, Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross. In 1956, the United States explodes the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. In 1968, the nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, is last heard from. (The remains of the sub are later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.) In 1991, former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated during national elections by a suicide bomber.
May 21, 1979: The U.S. Economic Development Administration pro- mises Commuter Aircraft Corp. a $25 million to $30 million loan guarantee if it locates a new aircraft plant in the Youngstown area, U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams announces.
William B. Spann, immediate past president of the American Bar Association, delivers the commencement address at Thiel College, as 274 seniors receive their degrees at the 105th commencement.
William R. Shranko, former administrative assistant to Mayor J. Phillip Richley, wins the Greater Youngstown AFL-CIO's Political Education Committee's endorsement for mayor over City Clerk George Vukovich, the endorsed candidate of the Democratic Party.
May 21, 1964: Dr. John D. Millett, president of Miami University at Oxford and executive secretary of the Ohio Board of Regents, will speak at the 42nd commencement of Youngstown University, when 652 men and women will receive their degrees.
Two Pittsburgh area youths break away from Ohio Turnpike patrolmen at the door of the Mahoning County Juvenile Detention Center but are caught a short time later. The boys were taken into custody after being caught hitchhiking on the turnpike.
Scattered frost in the lowlands may have damaged some annual flowers and vegetable plants but was not widespread enough to cause general harm, Youngstown nurserymen report.
May 21, 1954: The disbarment of lawyers who are members of the Communist Party or who advocate its teachings is recommended by the Council of Delegates of the Ohio State Bar Association at the 74th annual convention being held at the Hotel Pick-Ohio in Youngstown.
The number of flights at an Air Reserve Training Center at Youngstown Municipal Airport would not overload or jeopardize the present flying facilities, a spokesman for the 502nd Air Defense Group says. Mayor Frank X. Kryzan has protested establishment of the facility, fearing it could interfere with airport operations.
Two temporary Catholic high schools, one at the old St. Edward Junior High building and one at Glenmary Home on Glenwood Avenue, will be set up in the fall to handle the overflow of students from Ursuline High School.
May 21, 1929: Merger of the First Presbyterian Church and the Westminster Presbyterian Church loom as a possibility with the announcement of the resignation of the Rev. Henry White, D.D., pastor of the latter church for 15 years. First Presbyterian has subscribed nearly $350,000 toward construction of a new church, but has not yet selected a site.
George Baun, Mahoning County dog warden, launches a campaign against sheep-killing dogs after reports from two farmers that 33 sheep have been killed and eight injured by dogs in recent weeks.
Four city vice squad officers are attacked during a liquor raid at a Kimmel Street home by the occupant, his wife and several small children, one of whom bit an officer on the hand. The couple was arrested, then released under bond.