Today is Monday, Nov. 29, the 334th day of 2004. There are 32 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, Nov. 29, the 334th day of 2004. There are 32 days left in the year. On this date in 1964, the U.S. Roman Catholic Church institutes sweeping changes in the liturgy, including the use of English instead of Latin.
In 1864, a Colorado militia kills at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre. In 1924, Italian composer Giacomo Puccini dies in Brussels before he can complete his opera "Turandot." It is finished by Franco Alfano. In 1929, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd radios that he has made the first airplane flight over the South Pole. In 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews. In 1952, President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower keeps his campaign promise to visit Korea to assess the ongoing conflict. In 1961, "Enos" the chimp is launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbits earth twice before returning. In 1963, President Lyndon Johnson names a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. In 1981, actress Natalie Wood drowns in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, Calif., at age 43. In 1986, actor Cary Grant dies in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.
November 29, 1979: Jones & amp; Laughlin Steel Corp. announces that it will close its last Youngstown District iron and steel-making operations, the Brier Hill Works, before the end of the year. About 1,400 workers will be furloughed.
Delores J. Smith, executive director of the Warren-Trumbull Community Services Agency, says the agency is critically short of funds, and unless it can borrow money it will shut down temporarily within weeks.
The Ohio Lottery is running in the red, with $2.6 million in losses so far in 1979, says lottery Director Edwin C. Taylor.
November 29, 1964: The 38-year-old Palace Theater, showplace for many famous stage personalities, closes its doors for good. Within days workmen will begin stripping the interior of the building, which will be razed in the spring.
The Past Masters Association of the 24th Masonic District elects Arthur E. Swanson president.
November 29, 1954: Patrick E. McDermott, 55, the man who assassinated Don R. Mallett, editor of the Canton Daily News in 1926, makes his second escape from the Ohio Penitentiary. He walked out of the honor dormitory with a group of visitors and jumped into a waiting car.
A three-month-old puppy clambered over a high barricade for the first time in its young life and whined and tugged on the pajamas of two of the family's children until they awoke. The Boardman family of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wilson awakened to a smoke filled home and all, including "Lady," escaped to safety.
More than $26,000 is collected in the door-to-door collection of Mahoning County Fire Fighters March for Muscular Dystrophy. In Youngstown, some firemen worked as late as 11 p.m. to try to get every house visited. City residents provided $16,556 of the total.
November 29, 1929: A hit-skip motorist leaves August Wollett, 43, to die in W. Federal Street after running him over. Wollett, who died in St. Elizabeth Hospital, leaves a wife and four children. Police have no witnesses or clues.
A record cold wave sweeps through Youngstown, dropping the mercury to 12 degree, the coldest November day on record in the area. One man dies of exposure and another is killed when he slips into the path of a street car.
The Youngstown Auto Club has a shipment of 30,000 license plates, which will be sold at the club's office and at a number of substations the club has established throughout the county.