Today is Sunday, July 6, the 187th day of 2003. There are 178 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, July 6, the 187th day of 2003. There are 178 days left in the year. On this date in 1923, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
In 1535, Sir Thomas More is executed in England for treason. In 1777, during the American Revolution, British forces capture Fort Ticonderoga. In 1917, during World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence capture the port of Aqaba from the Turks. In 1928, a preview is held in New York of the first all-talking feature, "The Lights of New York." In 1933, the first All-Star baseball game is played, at Chicago's Comiskey Park; the American League defeats the National League 4-2. In 1944, 169 people die in a fire that breaks out in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum-and-Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn. In 1957, Althea Gibson becomes the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2. In 1967, the Biafran War erupts. The war, which lasts 21/2 years, claims some 600,000 lives. In 1989, the U.S. Army destroys its last Pershing 1-A missiles at an ammunition plant in Karnack, Texas, under terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
July 6, 1978: More than 100 persons are turned away from the Northside Hall, a bingo parlor at 1815 Belmont Ave., when city police and state agents block reopening of the hall.
Dale P. Lewis, the powerhouse behind a plan to build an aircraft assembly plant in Youngstown, counters a pessimistic report in the Wall Street Journal, saying he has no doubts about the success of his project.
U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti hints that state school officials may face contempt charges if the state doesn't come up with buses needed to desegregate Cleveland schools.
Nicholas Modarelli and Stephen N. Sofocleous, both of Campbell, file a petition in the Ohio Supreme Court contesting the results of the Democratic congressional primary in the 19th District, claiming dirty tricks by backers of incumbent Charles J. Carney gave him a narrow victory over George Tablack.
July 6, 1963: Fifteen hundred young Youngstown baseball fans board an Erie-Lackawanna passenger train for Cleveland to watch the Indians-Yankees game, the 18th annual excursion sponsored by city firemen.
Col. Leo F. McCarthy, 56, director of the 3rd Area Ohio Civil Defense Corps following the war and a leading Youngstown civic figure, dies at his Salinas Trail home.
Playing at the Northside Drive-In and Schenley and Wellman theaters, "Hud," starring Paul Newman and Patricia Neal.
July 6, 1953: The congregation of Faith Lutheran Church in Youngstown sits through the morning worship service unaware that the church's nearby office and garage building was on fire. Damage was estimated to $5,200.
Admitting that all he knows about the proposed activation of the 441st Fighter Bomber Wing at Youngstown Municipal Airport is "what I read in the papers," Mayor Charles P. Henderson appeals to the Air Force in Washington to let him in on their plans.
A Pennsylvania state policeman pulls over a car driven by Harry S. Truman and warns the ex-president to drive more carefully, after witnessing the car weave in front of other motorists twice on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Bedford. The president, who was driving home to Independence, Mo., from New York with his wife after they spent a week visiting their daughter, Margaret, was "very nice about it" and promised to be more careful.
July 6, 1928: Mayor Joseph Heffernan will meet with officials of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District to discuss the crisis that is developing in labor circles after A. Guthrie & amp; Co. announces that it will pay 30 cents an hour, 14 cents below the prevailing rate, for laborers hired to work on the Meander Creek dam.
Atty. Clyde W. Osborne of Youngstown argues at a meeting of the Ohio State Bar Association meeting in Cedar Point against adoption of a report condemning solicitation of clients. Oscar E. Diser, who has been leading a campaign against ambulance chasing in Youngstown, makes a strong plea in support of the report.
Clyde Anthony, 20, of Warren drowns in Lake Milton after his canoe overturns. He is the third of six sons of Mrs. George Anthony to die. One died of typhoid and another of diphtheria.