Today is Tuesday, Nov. 30, the 335th day of 2004. There are 31 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 30, the 335th day of 2004. There are 31 days left in the year. On this date in 1782, the United States and Britain sign preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
In 1803, Spain completes the process of ceding Louisiana to France, which had sold it to the United States. In 1804, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase goes on trial, accused of political bias. (He is acquitted by the Senate.) In 1900, Irish writer Oscar Wilde dies in Paris at age 46. In 1936, London's famed Crystal Palace, constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851, is destroyed in a fire. In 1939, the Russo-Finnish War begins as Soviet troops invade Finland. In 1954, Elizabeth Hodges of Sylacauga, Ala., is slightly injured when an 81/2-pound meteorite crashes through the roof of her house. In 1962, U Thant of Burma is elected Secretary-General of the United Nations, succeeding Dag Hammarskjold. In 1966, the former British colony of Barbados becomes independent. In 1981, the United States and the Soviet Union open negotiations in Geneva aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe. In 1993, President Clinton signs the Brady bill, which requires a five-day waiting period and background checks for handgun purchases.
November 30, 1979: Cyclops Corp.'s Sawhill Tubular Division announces plans to modernize and expand its continuous weld pipe mill at its Sharon plant at a cost of $11.2 million.
More than 300 angry steelworkers demonstrate outside the U.S. Steel Corp. headquarters in Pittsburgh to protest the company's decision to close its Ohio and McDonald works.
Iran announces it will boycott a U.N. Security Council meeting on the takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran, darkening prospects for an early resolution of the dangerous showdown with the United State.
November 30, 1964: The Youngstown area gets about an inch of soggy snow. Some streets were slippery, but there were no reports of serious accidents.
Ohio registers 22 traffic fatalities over the four-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend, including four in the Youngstown district.
November 30, 1954: The proposed Mahoning-Grand River Floodway, which was counted on to solve eastern Ohio's major water problems, is given a severe setback when the Board of Army Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, sitting in Washington, rejects the $59 million project on the grounds that it is not economically justifiable. Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan said Cleveland and Pittsburgh interests lobbied for the unfavorable report.
Carl V. Weygandt, chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, promises Gov. Frank J. Lausche that he will reconsider his decision to resign the high court post.
Youngstown Municipal Judge Frank R. Franko fines a numbers operator $10 on a charge of possessing lottery slips, while criticizing the arrest as another example of selective enforcement by city officers.
November 30, 1929: Commander Richard E. Byrd conquers the South Pole, flying over the polar mountains in an 1,800 mile flight that took nearly 17 hours. He is the only man to have flown over both poles.
Attys. John J. Buckley, H.S. Jenkins and M.J. Palkovic are appointed at a salary of $225 each to act as special prosecutors in collecting $1.4 million in delinquent taxes in Mahoning County.
A 12-year-old Niles lad, Billy Davis, is credited with recording the license number of an automobile fleeing from a hold-up at a Niles store, resulting in the arrest of three men.