Today is Tuesday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2003. There are 162 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2003. There are 162 days left in the year. On this date in 1933, American aviator Wiley Post completes the first solo flight around the world in seven days and 183/4 hours.
In 1796, Cleveland is founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland. In 1916, a bomb goes off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, killing 10 people. In 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater. In 1937, the Senate rejects President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court. In 1942, gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons begins along the Atlantic seaboard. In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton capture Palermo, Sicily. In 1946, Jewish extremists blow up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90 people. In 1975, the House of Representatives joins the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. In 1983, Samantha Smith and her parents return home to Manchester, Maine, after completing a whirlwind tour of the Soviet Union. In 1995, Susan Smith is convicted by a jury in Union, S.C., of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons. She is later sentenced to life in prison.
July 22, 1978: Youngstown State University announces that it will break ground for the proposed sports complex Aug. 9 with ceremonies that will include speeches by Gov. James A. Rhodes and state Sen. Harry Meshel.
Low water pressure in three areas of Youngstown results in a request from the city water department to curtail lawn and gardening watering and car washing until the hot, humid weather ends.
Mahoning County Democratic Chairman Don L Hanni Jr. tells President Carter's aide, Joel McCleary, during a luncheon at the White House that the administration should immediately find avenues to improve employment in the Mahoning Valley if it is to hold the confidence of district voters.
July 22, 1963: Gov. James A. Rhodes of Ohio is the architect of a bold civil rights platform adopted by Republican governors at the 55th annual governors conference being held in Miami. It was a victory for New York's Nelson A. Rockefeller, but required the kind of practical politics of which Rhodes is a master.
County Judge Edgar G. Diehm hits a 38-year-old Boardman bookie with the maximum sentence, a $500 fine and six months in jail, but suspends the jail time on the condition that the man leave Mahoning County within 90 days.
A 17-year-old Struthers youth accused of making at least 20 obscene phone calls to women in the New Springfield area is arrested after Mahoning County deputies set a trap for him by having one of the women he had been calling agree to meet him on Clingan Road near Hamilton Lake.
July 22, 1953: Six hundred horses are arriving in Youngstown to compete for $35,000 worth of prizes in the four-day horse show at the Canfield Fairgrounds sponsored by the Mahoning Saddle and Bridle Club.
The Mahoning County engineer's office will move out of the courthouse in the near future with the commissioners' promise of $25,000 toward construction of a new $150,000 engineer's headquarters.
Joseph Knoerle, Baltimore parking and turnpike engineer, recommends that the city and private capital be used to build several small, open-deck downtown garages to solve Youngstown's parking problem.
July 22, 1928: Joe Cherry, 15, is killed and brothers Albert and Frank Ducheck, 12 and 14, are injured by a hit-skip driver in the road near Stop 23, Sharon Line.
Plans are unveiled for a beautiful new club house which will cost about $215,000 to replace the Youngstown Country Club building, which was destroyed by fire last spring.
Herman Weller, head of the city-state employment office in Youngstown, uncovers an old legal docket in his attic that was kept by his great-great-grandfather, Squire John Elser, in Columbiana County in 1845. One of the first entries is a "contract of labour" between William Eyster and Henry Niler in which Niler agreed to pay Eyster's son, John, $12 for three months work making oaken barrels at the rate of six a week.