Today is Wednesday, Oct. 13, the 287th day of 2004. There are 79 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 13, the 287th day of 2004. There are 79 days left in the year. On this date in 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, is laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
In A.D. 54, Roman emperor Claudius I dies, after being poisoned by his wife, Agrippina. In 1775, the United States Navy has its origins as the Continental Congress orders the construction of a naval fleet. In 1843, the Jewish organization B'nai B'rith is founded in New York City. In 1943, Italy declares war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner. In 1944, American troops enters Aachen, Germany. In 1960, Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participate in the third televised debate of their presidential campaign. In 1962, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," by Edward Albee, opens on Broadway. In 1974, longtime television host Ed Sullivan dies in New York City at age 72. In 1981, voters in Egypt participate in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
October 13, 1979: Judge Robert E. Cook of Ravenna, a member of the 11th District Court of Appeals, is named Kent State University's Distinguished Alumnus.
German automaker Volkswagen is considering building a second U.S. assembly plant to supplement its highly successful New Stanton, Pa., facility, which employs 4,500 and turns out 1,000 cars a day. "We sincerely wish we already had it," VW of America President James McLernon says.
Columbus Day is marked in Youngstown with a Saturday morning parade downtown and the annual Columbus Day banquet at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. Community service awards are presented to Rosella Barbato, Catherine Caizzo Tavolario and Andrew Marino.
October 13, 1964: The Buckeye Elks Lodge presents its annual citizens awards to Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis and County Welfare Director I.L. Feuer at a recognition dinner.
Volunteer workers in the 1965 Community Chest-Red Cross United Appeal campaign enter the home stretch of the drive with $984,331 raised toward a goal of $1.6 million.
Barry Goldwater is coming to Youngstown, the first time a Republican presidential candidate has campaigned in the Greater Youngstown area since 1936, when Alf Landon opened his campaign from the back a train in his birthplace, West Middlesex.
October 13, 1954: A group of South Side lads who recently discussed going to the armed services decided to enlist en masse in the Air Force. The 18 boys all joined the Air Force together, the largest single group signed up by the Youngstown recruiting office in peacetime.
Youngstown's traffic engineering department is removing no-parking signs on downtown streets in anticipation of the reopening of the Market Street Bridge.
The United Labor Congress endorses the $1 million slum clearance bond issue in Youngstown and adopts a resolution calling for the defeat of the initiative ordinance that would repeal the Kimmel Brook Homes zone change.
October 13, 1929: A woman hit-skip driver strikes and kills Joseph Knox, 15, as he rides his new bicycle on the Market Street bridge. The youth, adopted son of Miss Susie Knox, had bought the bicycle with his earnings from doing odd jobs.
The Knights of Columbus hold their annual Columbus Day dinner, with 65 attending the banquet in the City Club at Tod House.
Youngstown has a shifting population which is increasing at the rate of three to 20 families each day, adding about 4,000 permanent residents each year.
Three weeks before Election Day, voters' interest in civic matters seems to be at a low point, with only 11,000 enrolling to vote on the first two days of voter registration.
An invitation is being extended by the Mahoning County Women's Christian Temperance Union to the Ohio WCTU to hold its state convention in Youngstown. The Mahoning County unit has reported the largest membership gain in the state, Mrs. W.E. Slagle notes.