Today is Friday, Sept. 3, the 247th day of 2004. There are 119 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Friday, Sept. 3, the 247th day of 2004. There are 119 days left in the year. On this date in 1783, the Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ends the Revolutionary War.
In 1658, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, dies. In 1939, Britain and France declare war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland. In 1943, the British Eighth Army invades Italy during World War II, the same day Italy signs a secret armistice with the allies. In 1967, Nguyen Van Thieu is elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution. In 1967, motorists in Sweden begin driving on the right-hand side of the road, instead of the left. In 1967, the original version of the television game show "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly, broadcasts its final episode after more than 17 years on CBS.
September 3, 1979: International Union of Electrical Workers Local 617 votes overwhelmingly to approve a new three-year contract with the Westinghouse Electric Corp. in Sharon.
The Canfield Fair's estimated Sunday crowd of 153,000 sets a one-day attendance record for the fair and virtually assures a five-day record when the fair closes.
South Side Hospital opens its $1.7 million parking garage off Oak Hill Avenue, providing 429 new parking spaces for the hospital.
September 3, 1964: Robert Heltzel, 46, president of the Heltzel Steel Form Co. of Warren, is pulled to safety after a gust of wind flips a private helicopter on its back and into Gravesend Bay. Heltzel was in New York to discuss construction of a new plant there. The helicopter pilot was also saved before the craft sank in 20 feet of water.
Sgt. Alvin Cullum York, a conscientious objector who became one of America's great World War I heroes, dies in Nashville, Tenn., after 15 years of battling the ravages of old age. He was 76.
September 3, 1954: Fire sparked by a lightning strike destroys the St. Columba Cathedral, a famous landmark on the city's downtown skyline. Only the bare walls and twin towers are left standing. Bishop Emmet Walsh estimates the monetary loss at $1.2 million.
Mahoning County's 108th annual Canfield fair is off to a record setting start, with 8,044 people attending opening day.
William Dean Howells II, 97, a former Youngstown resident and nephew of the famous William Dan Howells, one of the nation's greatest magazine editors, dies in Akron City Hospital of infirmities. For 30 years, he lived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dennick Wick on Genesee Drive, during a period when he was associated with a dairy industry publication.
September 3, 1929: Miss LaVerne Jackson, 18, of 309 Bond St., Youngstown, makes her first parachute jump from 1,500 feet above Bernard Airport. She jumped from a plane owned by the Irving Air chute Co., of Which Louis J. Campbell of Youngstown is chairman. Campbell is the son of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. President James Campbell.
Sheriff J. C. Risher of Trumbull County says Mike Thomas, 61, of Hubbard is murdered by robbers who gave him liquor containing enough strychnine to kill 50 men and then robbed him of $455 he was carrying. The plot, it is believed, was hatched in a Youngstown speakeasy.
Miss Mary Mildop of Youngstown is re-elected secretary of the Welfare Association of the Sightless of Ohio at the convention in Cincinnati. Warren was chosen as the site of the 1930 convention.