Today is Tuesday, May 25, the 146th day of 2004. There are 220 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, May 25, the 146th day of 2004. There are 220 days left in the year. On this date in 1787, the Constitutional Convention is convened in Philadelphia after enough delegates show up for a quorum.
In 1935, Babe Ruth hits the 714th and final home run of his career, for the Boston Braves, in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 1946, Transjordan (now Jordan) becomes a kingdom as it proclaims its new monarch, King Abdullah Ibn Ul-Hussein. In 1961, President Kennedy asks the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In 1963, the Organization of African Unity is founded, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In 1968, the Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, is dedicated. In 1979, 275 people die when an American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare airport. In 1981, daredevil Daniel Goodwin, wearing a "Spiderman" costume, scales the outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in seven-and-a-half hours.
May 25, 1979: United Airlines will resume its Youngstown flight service on a limited basis, reflecting the end of the 55-day strike of machinists. Initially there will be only one inbound and one outbound flight daily, with other service resumed more gradually.
U.S. Rep Douglas Applegate, D-Steubenville, joins a solid majority of House Democrats in dealing a potentially fatal blow to President Carter's plan to deregulate the price of oil. The House measure would extend for a year oil price controls.
Former President Richard Nixon is selling his 26-acre estate in San Clemente, Calif., which had been used as the Western White House. Nixon and his wife, Pat, decided to sell the 12-room seaside estate because they were unable to afford the cost of maintaining the house and grounds.
May 25, 1964: Mahoning County shows a 25 percent decrease in traffic deaths during the first four months of 1964, with nine deaths, compared to 12 a year earlier.
Quick action by Patty Taylor, 12, saves her younger sister, Denice, 7, from drowning in a backyard pool at 1467 Ford Ave. The younger girl was in about 5 feet of water; when she did not surface, her sister pulled her to safety. She was treated at St. Elizabeth Hospital for shock.
A stampede by 45,000 spectators in a Lima, Peru, sports stadium after police fired tear gas at rioting soccer fans, leaves hundreds dead in what could be the worst sports disaster in history.
May 25, 1954: WFMJ-TV's new broadcasting tower is 1,015 feet tall, built on a site that is 1,033 feet above sea level. The tip of the tower is the highest point in Ohio, at 2,048 feet, 2 feet higher than the WHIO tower in Dayton.
Hundreds of downtown Youngstown businesses are without power for more than four hours after an Ohio Edison Co. circuit burns out in an underground cable in E. Commerce Street near Wick.
No serious traffic jams are reported in the first full day after the closing of the Market Street Bridge for repairs.
The A.H. Bailey Furniture Co. at 1716 Market St. is going out of business after 40 years in the furniture field in Youngstown.
May 25, 1929: After a fourth trial ends in a hung jury, Trumbull Prosecutor G.H. Birrell says he is prepared to try James Munsene a fifth time on charges of attempting to bribe Sheriff J.H. Smith. Munsene's defense lawyer, Clarence Darrow, left the courthouse without commenting on whether he would defend Munsene in a fifth trial.
Youngstown is the only city in Ohio and one of only eight cities in the nation to complete 1928 without a death due to typhoid fever.
Fire of mysterious origin destroys the Warner Inn at Petersburg, famous for its chicken dinner. The blaze started on the front porch and had spread too far to be controlled by the time it was spotted by a passing motorist.