Today is Thursday, Oct. 14, the 288th day of 2004. There are 78 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Oct. 14, the 288th day of 2004. There are 78 days left in the year. On this date in 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1066, Normans under William the Conqueror defeat the English at the Battle of Hastings. In 1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, is born in Denison, Texas. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, is shot in the chest in Milwaukee. Despite the wound, he goes ahead with a scheduled speech. In 1933, Nazi Germany announces it is withdrawing from the League of Nations. In 1944, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler. In 1947, Air Force test pilot Charles E. ("Chuck") Yeager breaks the sound barrier as he flies the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California. In 1960, the idea of a Peace Corps is first suggested by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to an audience of students at the University of Michigan. In 1968, the first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft is transmitted from Apollo 7. In 1987, a real-life drama begins in Midland, Texas, as 18-month-old Jessica McClure slides 22 feet down an abandoned well at a private day care center. Hundreds of rescuers work 58 hours to free her. In 1990, composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein dies in New York at age 72.
October 14, 1979: Linda James, executive director of Ohio Alliance for Returnables, walks from Columbus to Cleveland, picking up litter to dramatize the litter problem and solicit support for Issue 1, which would mandate a 10-cent deposit on all beer and soft drink containers sold in Ohio.
Edgar B. Speer, 63-year-old former chairman of the board of the United States Steel Corp., who got his early training in the mills of Youngstown, dies in Pittsburgh after a long illness.
Youngstown area sports fans get good news and bad news: YSU and OSU keep their perfect football records intact and former City Series stars A.J. Jones of Texas, Dennis Mosely of Iowa and Sam Shon of Ohio U. lead their teams to impressive wins. But the Pittsburgh Pirates have their backs against the wall after a 9-6 World Series loss to Baltimore.
October 14, 1964: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge David G. Jenkins rejects a petition for an injunction that would block William Cafaro Associates from building a $8.5 million shopping mall in Boardman Township. The injunction was sought by Mack Realty, a subsidiary firm of Edward J. DeBartolo Co.
Mahoning County Coroner David A. Belinky rules the death of a 16-year-old McDonald girl who died when her car crashed into a bridge abutment a suicide. Belinky made the ruling after studying new evidence and learning that the girl was despondent.
October 14, 1954: For the first time in 143 days, automobiles are rolling over the Market Street Bridge, which has a smooth new surface and a fresh coat of paint following an $800,000 reconstruction project.
The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District gets authority to go ahead with its $6 million link between Meander and Berlin reservoirs after the Supreme Court of the United States refuses to hear appeals brought by the Ohio Water Service co. and the city of Niles.
October 14, 1929: The deeds that made Brig. Gen.Count Casimir Pulaski one of the outstanding figures of the Revolutionary War are recounted by speakers at the Pulaski Sesquicentennial Celebration at Stambaugh Auditorium.
Dedication of the Sunday school auditorium of St. Luke's Lutheran Church on Evergreen Avenue draws a large crowd. The Rev. C.P. Wiles of Philadelphia, editor of United Lutheran Church literature, speaks.
Aubrey Hess, 30, vice president and general manager of the Alliance Aircraft Corp, is killed when a plane he had developed ignited and fell at the Alliance Airport.