Today is Tuesday, Oct. 12, the 286th day of 2004. There are 80 days left in the year. On this date in 1492, Christopher Columbus arrives with his expedition in the present-day Bahamas.

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 12, the 286th day of 2004. There are 80 days left in the year. On this date in 1492, Christopher Columbus arrives with his expedition in the present-day Bahamas.
In 1870, Gen. Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington, Va., at age 63. In 1915, English nurse Edith Cavell is executed by the Germans in occupied Belgium during World War I. In 1933, bank robber John Dillinger escapes from a jail in Allen County, Ohio, with the help of his gang, who killed the sheriff. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers one of his so-called "fireside chats" in which he recommends the drafting of 18- and 19-year-old men. In 1960, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupts a U.N. General Assembly session by pounding his desk with a shoe during a dispute.In 1968, the summer Games of the 19th Olympiad officially open in Mexico City. In 1973, President Nixon nominates House minority leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president. In 2002, a bomb blamed on Islamic militants destroys a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.
October 12, 1979: Capt. Norma E. Satterlee of the Warren Salvation Army is named Woman of the Year at the 29th annual banquet of the Warren Business and Professional Women's Club.
Ohio Atty. Gen. William J. Brown asks the Ohio Supreme Court to order state inspection of natural gas rate increases, saying the Public Utilities Commission has failed to monitor increases that gas companies are attributing to their higher fuel costs.
The Civil Aeronautics Board staff recommends that the board require United Airlines to maintain two round-trip daily flights from Youngstown Municipal Airport to Pittsburgh, describing the flights, which United wants to drop, as "essential service."
October 12, 1964: Marlene Welrick of Warren is one of five members of the court for Kent State University's Homecoming ceremonies. Others are Cara Brunst, Bonnie Petallis, Shirley Henderson and Barbara Shant.
The Soviet Union puts a space ship with three men aboard into orbit, the first space launch to carry more than one man.
About 800 people dance and enjoy themselves at the St. Elizabeth Hospital Charity Ball, raising $10,000 for the hospital, an increase of $4,000 over the year before.
October 12, 1954: Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell comes to Youngstown to meet with local Republicans and to make a series of addresses to community groups urging support for the election of a Republican Congress.
The Public Health Cancer Association adopts a resolution saying there is now sufficient evidence of a relationship between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer to support a campaign against smoking. The resolution urges American youth to "ponder well the question of whether the risk involved in cigarette smoking is worth the pleasure gained."
The Monday Musical Club opens its 58th concert season with the Charles L. Wagner Co. presentation of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" at Stambaugh Auditorium.
October 12, 1929: The Sharon home of Leo H. McKay, youthful district attorney of Mercer County, whose crusade against liquor law violations for the last two years has made Mercer County one of the driest in the state, is bombed. McKay, his wife, three children, mother-in-law and a maid are unhurt.
James A. Campbell, president of the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. is named honorary chairman of the campaign dinner of the Youngstown YMCA. The Y's $1 million campaign will be unveiled at the dinner.