Today is Saturday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2003. There are 172 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2003. There are 172 days left in the year. On this date in 100 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar is born.
In 1543, England's King Henry VIII marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr. In 1690, Protestant forces led by William of Orange defeat the Roman Catholic army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland. In 1817, naturalist-author Henry David Thoreau is born in Concord, Mass. In 1854, George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, is born in Waterville, N.Y. In 1862, Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor. In 1948, the Democratic national convention opens in Philadelphia. In 1972, George McGovern wins the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Miami Beach. In 1977, President Carter defends Supreme Court decisions limiting government payments for poor women's abortions, saying, "There are many things in life that are not fair." In 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announces he has chosen U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running-mate; Ferraro is the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket.
July 12, 1978: A young mother and her 4-year-old daughter are found slain on the second floor of their modest two-story frame home on Wilmington Ave. in New Castle. Dead are Mrs. Kathy Kadunce, 25, and her daughter, Dawn.
In a public demonstration of cooperation, the exponents of two ambitious -- and in some ways competing proposals -- announce yet another plan to utilize closed portions of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s Campbell Works. Mayor J. Phillip Richley and the Rev. Edward Stanton, director of the Ecumenical Coalition, hold a joint press conference.
The citizens of Conneaut appear undecided on whether or not U.S. Steel Corp. would be a good neighbor should the company build a $3.5 billion mill along Lake Erie.
July 12, 1963: Excavation begins on a 65-acre site purchased from the Salem Area Industrial Development Corp. on which will rise a $3 million A & amp;P Tea Co. warehouse and processing plant.
Weary rescue workers emerge from an abandoned coal mine in Castle Shannon, a Pittsburgh suburb, where three teen-age boys are believed lost. The boys' bicycles were found about 20 feet from the mouth of the mine and another boy said he saw them enter the mine.
Atty. William Green Jr., 40, of Rockview Ave., Youngstown, a former city prosecutor and an attorney since 1954, is confirmed by the Ohio Senate as a member of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission.
July 12, 1953: Plans are being made for a week-long celebration marking the 150th anniversary of the founding of Lisbon by the Rev. Lewis Kinney, a Baptist minister. Gov. Frank Lausche will dedicate the new Canton Bridge at the west end of the village.
Gov. Frank Lausche leads a gala parade through downtown Youngstown on the last day of the three-day national meeting of the Slovak Catholic Sokols.
President Eisenhower ends draft deferments because of fatherhood, unless extreme hardship can be shown. Men 18 through 25 are eligible for the draft, which resulted in calls for about 23,000 men a month.
July 12, 1928: A sweeping criticism of the city's bookkeeping methods and the manner in which the system was followed during the administration of Mayor Charles F. Scheible is contained in the report of State Examiner John E. Diemer.
Proposed state legislation making compulsory the carrying of automobile insurance by all drivers and barring the solicitation of suits by attorneys as the solution for automobile insurance problems is being met with promises of support from local state legislature candidates.
Celia Neimark, 15-year-old West Austintown chess prodigy, is participating in a chess tournament at Wadsworth, Ohio, as part of that town's observance of the founding of its chess club.