Today is Sunday, July 20, the 201st day of 2003. There are 164 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Sunday, July 20, the 201st day of 2003. There are 164 days left in the year. On this date in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon as they step out of their lunar module.
In 1810, Colombia declares independence from Spain. In 1861, the Congress of the Confederate States begins holding sessions in Richmond, Va. In 1871, British Columbia becomes a Canadian province. In 1881, Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrenders to federal troops. In 1942, the first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, later known as WACs, begins basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. In 1944, an attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb fails; the explosion at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters only wounds the Nazi leader. In 1944, President Roosevelt is nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of office at the Democratic convention in Chicago. In 1976, America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft makes a successful, first-ever landing on Mars. In 1977, a flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa., killing 80 people and causing $350 million worth of damage. In 1990, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, one of the court's most liberal voices, announces he is stepping down.
July 20, 1978: Columbiana County Probate Judge Guy Mauro denies an appeal filed by Hill's Department Store in St. Clair Shopping Plaza north of East Liverpool that was aimed at halting construction of a sanitary sewer line that will serve a rival shopping center planned for a tract occupied by the Skyview drive-in theater.
Youngstown Mayor J. Phillip Richley authorizes Police Chief Stanley Peterson to pay overtime to officers and patrolmen to keep the police department fully operative. Richley noted that it will be 30 to 60 days before the city can begin filling 47 vacancies on the department.
The 22nd annual Warren Police Circus comes to Mollenkopf Stadium. The Wallenda Circus features to grandchildren of famed tightrope walker Karl Wallenda and two other performers trained by Wallenda.
July 20, 1963: Henry L. Kuhn, 46, a U.S. Postman, is struck and killed while on his rounds by a car backing out of a Tod. Ave. driveway.
A 36-month contract is reached between Ohio Bell Telephone Co. and the Communications Workers of America that will provide pay raises of $2 to $5 a week for 19,200 Bell employees in the state.
Some 1,800 Steelworkers in the Pittsburgh area will be laid off in cutbacks ordered by U.S. Steel Corp. and Bethlehem Steel Co. The announcements come in the wake of industry wide production curtailments.
July 20, 1953: Extension of door-to-door mail service in Boardman and Austintown townships is being planned by Postmaster John E. Doyle.
A heavy fog blankets the Youngstown district, delaying two Capital Airlines DC-3 passenger planes from landing at the Youngstown Municipal Airport for an hour.
Two Mahoning County commissioners join forces in lopping $1,618 a month off the county's maintenance cost, cutting six jobs by abolishing the photostat department and eliminating two custodial jobs.
July 20, 1928: Judge George H. Gessner dismisses the injunction suit brought by Owen E. James, former Youngstown city councilman, and five other local taxpayers to restrain the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District from selling bonds and proceeding with the new water supply for Youngstown and Niles.
Cleveland Bishop Joseph Schrembs and Monsignor John T. O'Connell, vicar general of the diocese of Toledo, eulogize Monsignor John Klute during a funeral Mass at St. Joseph Church in Youngstown, where he had served for 45 years.
Michael Opsitnik, 39, of Struthers, a workman in the coke plant of the Sheet & amp; Tube Co. in Campbell, is electrocuted while attempting to repair an extension cord. Fellow workers said he had been out in the rain and was soaking wet and that another worker bumped into him while he was working on the line, which carried just 110 volts.