Today is Friday, May 28, the 149th day of 2004. There are 217 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, May 28, the 149th day of 2004. There are 217 days left in the year. On this date in 1934, the Dionne quintuplets -- Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne -- are born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.
In 1533, England's Archbishop declares the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid. In 1863, the first black regiment from the North leaves Boston to fight in the Civil War. In 1892, the Sierra Club is organized in San Francisco. In 1929, the first all-color talking picture, "On with the Show," opens in New York. In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes a button in Washington, D.C., signaling that vehicular traffic could cross the just-opened Golden Gate Bridge in California. In 1937, Neville Chamberlain becomes prime minister of Britain.
May 28, 1979: John Allen Seymour, an 18-year-old airman from Los Angeles owes his life to the Nian Dancers of Canfield. After meeting four Canfield girls at Chanute Air Force Base when the dance troupe appeared there, Seymour and three other young airmen canceled their other plans for the Memorial Day weekend and drove to Canfield to see the girls. Seymour canceled his reservation for a seat on Flight 191, which crashed as it took off from Chicago, killing all 273 aboard.
Atty. Robert Millstone, a Youngstown native, is appointed associate division director in charge of the new office of Financial Responsibility and Securities Processing Regulation within the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Suman K. Mishr, a Youngstown Hospital Association staff physician and endocrinologist, is elected president of the Mahoning Valley Chapter of the American Diabetes Association.
May 28, 1964: Nine men from the Greater Youngstown area graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs and receive Air Force commissions. They are James J. Lydon, Martin S. Pesut, Peter L. Presti, Terrence L. Dillon, Edmund Rossnagel, William P. Cioffi, Milton R. Rutter, Joseph E. Driscoll and George W. Anderson.
Amish workmen rescue a woman who was stranded on top of her car in the middle of a private lake in Neshannock Township near New Castle. The woman, identified only as Mrs. Shaffer, was taken ashore in a boat after her car plunged through a guardrail bordering the lake.
May 28, 1954: An explosion that blasted a hole in the roof of the Union Distributing Co. beer agency in Girard was caused by dynamite, not by a compressor blowing up, as claimed by Youngstown's 3rd Ward councilman, Anthony Flask, a partner in the agency.
City, county and state patrols will be out in full force as thousands of district motorists take to the highways for the extended Memorial Day weekend.
The Mahoning Valley vitally needs more water if it is to survive as a major industrial area and there is no cheap substitute for the Mahoning-Grand Rivers Floodway, a number of speakers assert at a Warren Junior Chamber of Commerce civic forum.
May 28, 1929: W.H. Loller, secretary of the Youngstown Auto Club, says he's been given assurance that the state will aid the city in paying for the widening of Mahoning Avenue, Market Street and Hubbard Road. The state may pay as much as half the cost.
The Downie Brothers circus of 75 trucks passes through Central Square in Youngstown, en route from Greenville, Pa., to Salem, where the motorized aggregation will exhibit.