Today is Sunday, May 29, the 149th day of 2005. There are 216 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, May 29, the 149th day of 2005. There are 216 days left in the year. On this date in 1765, Patrick Henry denounces the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses. Responding to a cry of "Treason!" Henry declares, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
In 1790, Rhode Island becomes the 13th original colony to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1848, Wisconsin becomes the 30th state of the union. In 1903, comedian Bob Hope is born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, England. In 1917, the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, is born in Brookline, Mass. In 1932, World War I veterans begin arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they are not scheduled to receive for another 13 years. In 1942, actor John Barrymore dies in Hollywood at age 60. In 1943, Norman Rockwell's portrait of "Rosie the Riveter" appears on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. In 1953, Mount Everest is conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norkay of Nepal become the first climbers to reach the summit. In 1985, 35 people are killed in rioting that erupts between British and Italian spectators at the European Cup soccer final in Brussels, Belgium. In 1998, Republican elder statesman Barry Goldwater dies in Paradise Valley, Ariz., at age 89.
May 29, 1980: Nathaniel R. Jones, named to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati in the fall by President Carter, is honored at a reception hosted by the Mahoning County Bar Association at the Mahoning Country Club.
The City of Youngstown could be paying a premium of almost $2 million in 1981 for Worker's Compensation if city employees continue to file disability claims in excess of what the state considers normal, city council is told.
Sue Jung, The Vindicator's 1980 grand champion speller, outspells all but 40 of the 112 contestants in the National Spelling Bee in Washington, falling in the sixth round on "cenotaph," a type of tomb.
May 29, 1965: Three children are burned to death when trapped in an outhouse near Garrettsville in northern Portage County. Dead are Benjamin and William Schockey, 6 and 3, and Richard Bolyard, 12, of Leavittsburg, who was visiting.
A three and a half hour traffic jam ties up Struther's main street after the rear axle shears off a large Kaiser-Nelson Co. dump truck loaded with 60,780 pounds of slag.
A ruling of justifiable homicide is given by Dr. David A. Belinky, Mahoning County coroner, in the death of Everett Saunders who was shot by two police officers after he critically injured one city policeman and cut another.
May 29, 1955: Four sets of twins, all girls, will be June graduates of Woodrow Wilson High School: Kaliope and Katherine Glinatsis, Donna and Gloria Pandone, Katherine and Mary Rigelsky and Patricia and Phyllis Walko.
The Youngstown district, whose steel plants are rapidly becoming outmoded and uneconomical in the steel industry's expansion race, would get a chance to make a strong comeback as a major steel center if Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. merge, says J.L. Mauthe, Sheet & amp; Tube president. He estimates Bethlehem would spend $100 million to $150 million on expansion.
The legendary "Flathead Lake monster," a giant sturgeon weighing 350 pounds and measuring 71/2 feet in length is caught in Polson, Mont., by Leslie Griffith, Dayton, Mont. It took five hours to land the fish, which had been reported seen by many over the years.
May 29, 1930: Declaration of the first Republic Steel Corp. dividend in the same rate as paid by the old Republic Iron and Steel Co. strengthens the belief that the steel industry is confidently awaiting a turn for the better in the next month to six weeks.
Nine veterans of the Civil War are the honored guests at a pre-Memorial Day dinner sponsored by Rotarians at the Ohio Hotel. The veterans are James Whalen, Walter Greenwood, Charles Cota, Peter Thomas, Oscar Bosley, William Jackson, William Sprague, Robert Beatty and Joseph Leedy.
The sky is raining Vindicators. Hundreds of papers attached to tiny parachutes are dropped all over Youngstown and its suburbs from a plane operated by a pilot in the American Aeronautical Association's flying circus. Some of the papers contain coupons good for a free airplane ride.