Today is Saturday, Oct. 9, the 283rd day of 2004. There are 83 days left in the year. On this date in 1888, the public is first admitted to the Washington Monument.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 9, the 283rd day of 2004. There are 83 days left in the year. On this date in 1888, the public is first admitted to the Washington Monument.
In 1635, religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1701, the Collegiate School of Connecticut -- later Yale University -- is chartered. In 1776, a group of Spanish missionaries settle in present-day San Francisco. In 1930, Laura Ingalls becomes the first woman to fly across the United States as she completes a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, N.Y., to Glendale, Calif. In 1936, the first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles. In 1958, Pope Pius XII dies. (He is succeeded by Pope John XXIII.) In 1962, Uganda wins autonomy from British rule. In 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara is executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia. In 1974, Czech-born German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, dies in Frankfurt, West Germany; at his request, he is buried in Jerusalem. In 1975, Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
October 9, 1979: The Justice Department drops a criminal investigation into alleged price-fixing in the steel industry, but is pursuing a probe that could result in a civil suit.
A Michigan man piloting a small airplane en route to Youngstown Municipal Airport with three passengers makes and emergency landing in a Hartford Township field after running out of fuel
Indiana Airways, a Pennsylvania-based commuter airline that operates six round trips daily between Pittsburgh and Youngstown, intends to incorporate in Ohio under a new name and expand its service at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
October 9, 1964: As many as 50 burglaries and auto thefts in Mahoning County may be cleared up with the arrest of four Struthers youths, says Capt. Jon Prystash, chief criminal investigator for the Mahoning County sheriff's office.
Appearing in Sharon, vice presidential Candidate Hubert Humphrey tells the teenagers in the audience, "Study ancient history, but don't vote for it," a reference to his view of the ideas espoused by the Goldwater-Miller ticket.
October 9, 1954: Heavyweight Champion "Rocky" Marciano is coming to Youngstown, where he will be the referee in two bouts at the Arena. Marciano will show a film of his title bout as a special intermission feature.
Three new cases of polio, all from Columbiana County, are admitted to Youngstown hospitals. Meanwhile 500 children at United Local School are given gamma globulin as a precaution. Their school was closed for a week because of an outbreak.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declares that the withdrawal of the United States "into isolation would condemn all Europe to Russian Communist subjugation and our famous and beloved Island to death and ruin."
October 9, 1929: A 23-year-old New Castle man is sentenced to one to 20 years in the Mansfield Reformatory in the death of a Sharon woman in an automobile crash at Hubbard Coitsville Road and Oak Street Extension.
A project to widen market Street is endorsed and a committee is appointed to work out a plan to stop the demoralizing of traffic by local and interurban buses on Central Square.
The Ohio Supreme Court upholds the validity of a contract between the county and Atty. David Shermer for the collection of delinquent property taxes. Shermer announces that he will begin immediately to collect $1 million in delinquent taxes.
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