Today is Monday, Sept. 20, the 264th day of 2004. There are 102 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, Sept. 20, the 264th day of 2004. There are 102 days left in the year. On this date in 1519, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sets out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. (Magellan is killed en route, but one of his ships eventually circles the world.)
In 1947, former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia dies. In 1954, the live T.V. drama "Twelve Angry Men" is presented as an episode of CBS' "Studio One" anthology series. In 1962, black student James Meredith is blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Gov. Ross R. Barnett. (Meredith is later admitted.) In 1973, in their so-called "battle of the sexes," tennis star Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, at the Houston Astrodome. In 1973, singer-songwriter Jim Croce dies in a plane crash near Natchitoches, La.; he was 30. In 1977, the first wave of Southeast Asian "boat people" arrives in San Francisco under a new U.S. resettlement program. In 1979, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, self-styled head of the Central African Empire, is overthrown in a French-supported coup while on a visit to Libya. In 1984, a suicide car bomber attacks the U.S. Embassy annex in north Beirut, killing a dozen people.
September 20, 1979: Copperweld Steel Corp. and the Warren Retail Merchants Association are planning the largest parade in Warren's history to mark Copperweld's 40th anniversary in October.
The Little Squaw Creek Development Co. Inc. plans a $22 million development on a 46-acre site commonly known as the Helwig property on Route 304 west off Belmont Avenue.
Commuter Aircraft Corp.'s plans to build an aircraft-manufacturing plant at Youngstown Municipal Airport receives a major boost when City Council unanimously approves filing a $3.5 million Urban Development Action Grant application on behalf of the company.
September 20, 1964: Stephen C. Baytos of Youngstown receives word that a group of businessmen with whom he is associated has been granted a franchise for establishment of a financial institution to be known as the First National Bank in Rochester, N.Y.
Personal income rises $2.5 billion in August to an annual rate of $494 billion, the Commerce Department announces. The average annual personal income for the first six months of 1964 is 5.9 percent above the average of a year earlier.
September 20, 1954: Arson is suspected in three fires that burned one former brothel to the ground and damages two other onetime vice nests in the Deforest area of Weathersfield Township.
Clarence Locke Miller, 70, of 44 Madison Ave., seven times a candidate for Congress, poet and fiery litigant in many lawsuits, dies in South Side Hospital, following a heart attack at his home.
The Sebring High School football team is ordered isolated by the Mahoning County Health commissioner after a member of the team is diagnosed with polio.
The 800-man United Auto Workers Union votes to strike the Johnson Bronze Co. plant in New Castle when the contract expires in a week.
September 20, 1929: Jacob D. Waddell has added 23 acres to the land he has donated to Niles as a municipal park. The park will contain a total of 75 acres and include an athletic field, volley ball and tennis courts and wooded picnic grounds.
Michael Fajcack, 42, of Wabash Avenue, an employee of the Republic Iron & amp; Steel Co., dies after falling 50 feet from a roof on which he was setting corrugate roofing material at the plant.
Frank Reed Whiteside, 63, a landscape artist of note, is slain by a mysterious gunman as he answers the doorbell of this quaint old home on Waverly Street in Philadelphia.