Today is Monday, Sept. 13, the 257th day of 2004. There are 109 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, Sept. 13, the 257th day of 2004. There are 109 days left in the year. On this date in 1788, the Congress of the Confederation authorizes the first national election, and declares New York City the temporary national capital.
In 1803, Commodore John Barry, considered by many the father of the American Navy, dies in Philadelphia. In 1943, Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China. In 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine is elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. In 1949, the Ladies Professional Golf Association of America is formed in New York City, with Patty Berg as its first president. In 1971, a four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ends as police and guards storm the prison; the ordeal and final assault claim 43 lives. In 1989, Fay Vincent is named commissioner of Major League Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bartlett Giamatti. In 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
September 13, 1979: At least 42 full-time CETA workers will be retained by Warren when federal assistance funds are cut off, but layoff notices are given to another 72 CETA-paid employees.
Western Reserve Transit Authority buses return to service without incident after 87 drivers, members of the Amalgamated Transit Union, end their one-day wildcat strike.
September 13, 1964: The Palace Theater, originally scheduled for demolition in the fall, will continue operate at least through the beginning of 1965.
Roy Wilkins of New York, national executive secretary of the NAACP, takes issue with Nathaniel C. Lee of Youngstown, president of the Ohio Conference of NAACP branches, on the organization's policy concerning political speakers. Lee said invitations to Democratic Sen. Stephen Young and his Republican challenger, U.S. Rep. Robert Taft, were being withheld because the national NAACP policy forbids talks by political candidates at state conventions.
September 13, 1954: The Civil War monument will remain in Central Square as long as the islands remain there, Mayor Frank X. Kryzan says as he breaks ground for a project to streamline the square.
The largest crowd ever to see a baseball game swarm into Cleveland Stadium to seen the Indians defeat the New York Yankees 4-1 and 3-2 in a doubleheader. A crowd of 86,563 see the Indians virtually clinch the American League pennant.
September 13, 1929: Realizing the serious tax situation that faces the taxpayers of Youngstown, the Mill Creek Park Commission has voluntarily agreed to defer some of the improvements planned for next year and reduced the budget by $29,000.
The new Fokker F-32, the largest airplane ever built in America, makes a successful test flight at Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., carrying 10 passengers and reaching a speed of 150 mph.