Today is Sunday, Nov. 21, the 326th day of 2004. There are 40 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, Nov. 21, the 326th day of 2004. There are 40 days left in the year. On this date in 1964, New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge, connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island, opens.
In 1789, North Carolina becomes the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1877, inventor Thomas A. Edison announces the invention of his phonograph. In 1934, the Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes," starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, opens in New York. In 1942, the Alaska highway across Canada is formally opened. In 1969, the Senate votes down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930. In 1973, President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the existence of an 181/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate. In 1979, a mob attacks the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans. In 1980, 87 people die in a fire at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
November 21, 1979: Robert L. Pegues, 43, former Youngstown schools superintendent, is hired as the new superintendent of Warren City Schools, filling the vacancy created by the resignation of Anthony Berarducci.
After more than 60 years as a downtown Youngstown landmark, Livingston's Women's and Misses Apparel will close its Federal Plaza West store. Stores at the Liberty Plaza, Southern Park Mall and Eastwood Mall will remain open.
Praying for the release of Americans held hostage in Iran will be the theme of Thanksgiving Day services at a number of Youngstown district churches.
The state begins legal proceedings in Portage County Common Pleas Court against Hooker Chemical & amp; Plastics Corp., hoping to force the company to share in the cost of cleaning the industrial waste dump in Deerfield Township.
November 21, 1964: One of the suggestions for making Youngstown roads safer discussed at a meeting of judges and police officials called by Municipal Court Judge Don L. Hanni Jr. is the possibility of mandatory automobile safety inspections, similar to those done in Cincinnati.
Three area buildings are honored by the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce with civic improvement awards. They are the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. Research Center in Boardman, Oak Hill Professional Building, 420 Oak Hill, and the USW Local 1418 building at Warhurst Road and Roosevelt Drive, Campbell.
Youngstown firemen and East Ohio Gas. Co. workers are credited with averting a possible tragedy for their quick efforts to contain 2,200 gallons of gasoline that spilled from an overturned Lyden Oil Co. tanker at Glenwood and Delason avenues.
November 21, 1954: A $5 million project to convert the Medusa Mine at Wampum, Pa., into an underground Air Force storage area has been postponed indefinitely, the Army Corps of Engineers at Philadelphia announces.
French military authorities warn Berber tribesmen to clear out of the badlands of the Aures Mountains before French forces take "terrible vengeance" on Algerian outlaws who rose against the government in October.
The Ohio Turnpike Commission will seek an injunction in Mahoning County court to stop erection of a huge billboard on private property near Beard Road, outside the right-of-way for the new turnpike. The billboard being constructed by General Outdoor Advertising Co. would advertise motels and restaurants available at the Route 7 interchange.
The Fyda White Truck Co. of 812 Poland Ave. is named Youngstown-Warren area distributor for the White Motor Co. of Cleveland and will handle sales and service of all White and Autocar trucks.
November 21, 1929: Tenants on the northeast corner of Federal and Chestnut streets are notified that they must vacate by early 1930 to clear way for construction of the new Warner Theater that will cost between $800,000 and $1 million.
William Platt, 60, a veteran employee of the Mahoning County road department, is charged with making out payroll checks to fictitious persons and cashing them himself. County Surveyor George Montgomery says shortages are expected to stretch over a long period of time and total $1,600.
Frank Cunningham, chief of police of Campbell, is arrested on a secret federal indictment charging him with soliciting funds from bootleggers for protection.
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