Today is Saturday, May 29, the 150th day of 2004. There are 216 days left in the year. On this date in 1765, Patrick Henry denounces the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses, responding to a

Today is Saturday, May 29, the 150th day of 2004. There are 216 days left in the year. On this date in 1765, Patrick Henry denounces the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses, responding to a cry of "Treason!" by declaring, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
In 1917, the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, is born in Brookline, Mass. In 1932, World War I veterans begin arriving in Washington, D.C., to demand cash bonuses they aren't scheduled to receive for 13 years. In 1942, Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" in Los Angeles for Decca Records. In 1942, actor John Barrymore dies in Hollywood at age 60. In 1943, Norman Rockwell's portrait of "Rosie the Riveter" appears on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. In 1953, Mount Everest is conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norkay of Nepal become the first climbers to reach the summit. In 1998, Republican elder statesman Barry Goldwater dies in Paradise Valley, Ariz., at age 89.
May 29, 1979: More than 3,000 people brave the rain and low temperatures to view Youngstown's annual Memorial Day parade.
The number of holiday traffic deaths is expected to be lower this Memorial Day weekend than the 528 who were killed in 1978, but the National Safety Council still expects the toll to top 500.
Richard Ferraro of the Union National Bank branch in Girard is elected president of the Girard Area Chamber of Commerce.
Diamond Shamrock Corp. announces that it will move its corporate headquarters from Cleveland to Dallas, partly because of what it characterized as a deteriorating image of the nation's 18th largest city.
May 29, 1964: Three witnesses who refuse to answer questions before the Mahoning County grand jury investigating crime and gambling in the Mahoning Valley are jailed for contempt. Joseph J. "Fats" Aiello, James "Dankers" Petrella and John Salvatore are in county jail.
Youngstown Bishop Emmet M. Walsh calls upon all Catholics in the Youngstown Diocese to join the fight for civil rights by writing to their senators urging support of an effective civil rights bill.
Eight of Youngstown University's top 11 graduates -- summa cum laude -- are pictured at the school's 42nd annual commencement. They are Marilyn Ann Paschke, Carolyn J. Walker, Maxine Schermer, Barbara Tyo Hendricks, Evelyn M. Mahoney, John S. Andrew Zetts, Russell A. Maddick and Carol Jean Murphy.
May 29, 1954: The Youngstown Municipal Railway Co. accepts the new city franchise and is making a survey of Boardman and Wickliffe areas preparatory to applying to the Public Utilities Commission for a certificate to operate there.
Youngstown College football stars, masquerading as chorines, perform a 20-act "Spring Varieties of '54" before a capacity crowd in C.J. Strouss Memorial Auditorium.
The district's second mysterious blast in a week damages the front of Johnnie's Grocery on West Rayen Avenue in what police believe is an indication of an undercover war between numbers game operators in Youngstown.
May 29, 1929: Coeds at Ohio State University will no longer have to lock the doors and open the windows when they feel the urge for a cigarette. The Women's Self-Government Association refuses to include regulations against smoking in rules for the next year. Individual sororities and rooming houses will be free to ban smoking if they choose.
Veterans of the Civil War are guests of the Youngstown Rotary Club at the Hotel Ohio. Veterans attending were James Whalen, Walter Greenwood, Oscar Bosley, P.G. Thomas, James Leedy, W.E. Sprague and William M. Jackson.
Indian bead work, Indian legends and nature crafts are promised as unusual and interesting pastimes at Camp Fitch, the YMCA boys camp on Lake Erie, by Nathaniel McCombs, and Indian youths from the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kan., who will be at the camp during the summer of 1929.