Today is Thursday, July 24, the 205th day of 2003. There are 160 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, July 24, the 205th day of 2003. There are 160 days left in the year. On this date in 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts -- among them the first men to set foot on the moon -- splash down safely in the Pacific.
In 1862, the eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren, dies in Kinderhook, N.Y. In 1866, Tennessee becomes the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. In 1923, the Treaty of Lausanne, which settled the boundaries of modern Turkey, is concluded in Switzerland. In 1929, President Hoover proclaims the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounces war as an instrument of foreign policy. In 1937, the state of Alabama drops charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case. In 1952, President Truman announces a settlement in a 53-day steel strike. In 1959, during a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard M. Nixon engages in a "kitchen debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at a U.S. exhibition.
July 24, 1978: A storm sweeps through Columbiana County, downing trees and knocking out power. Ohio Edison says between 3,000 and 4,000 customers are without power in Salem, Lisbon, East Palestine and New Springfield.
Preliminary figures show that the 133rd annual Trumbull County Fair was the most profitable in its history, says board President Robert Cebula. Gate admissions totaled $62,800 and Cebula estimates a profit of at least $20,000.
The National Center for Economic Alternatives suggests that an Employee Stock Ownership Plan be established that would allow 3,500 re-employed steel workers to own a new corporation that would reopen the Campbell Works of the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. Skilled and experienced managers would be hired to run the company.
July 24, 1963: Vince Serman, a Youngstown lawyer; Lenine Strollo, a Poland tavern owner, and Nick Zappia, a local contractor, intend to appeal their convictions in federal court in Cleveland on charges of possessing counterfeit money.
Parella Construction Co. and Youngstown Pneumatic Concrete Construction Co. are awarded contracts by the Youngstown board of control for the city's $1.2 million sidewalk reconstruction project.
Despite slumping production, mill shipments of steel in 1963 will probably top any year since 1957, Iron Age, the metalworking weekly, reports. Production is expected to reach 73 million tons.
July 24, 1953: A fire that may have been started by an intruder sweeps through Ohltown Methodist Church, guts the building and causes a loss of more than $40,000.
Youngstown Water Commissioner Fred J. Hengen appeals to consumers to avoid unnecessary use of water during the next six weeks to eliminate low pressure difficulties experienced in some areas. He noted that on a recent sunny day consumption was 32 million gallons, but dropped to 26 million the next day, when it was raining.
The Columbia Broadcasting System announces that it plans to begin experimental color broadcasts on its network Sept. 15. The signal will be picked up in color on color sets and black-and-white on standard TVs.
July 24, 1928: The Akron Bar Association cites seven Youngstown lawyers, four from Akron and two from Cleveland for unethical conduct as part of the Akron bar's investigation of ambulance chasing. The Youngstown attorneys are Leon J. Knight, Maurice A. Gluck, Clyde W. Osborne, Elmer T. Phillips, Edward L. Wiliams, David F. Anderson and Venice J. Lamb.
Youngstown, which has been free from beggars for eight or 10 years, is being overrun with them. A former city official says he counted 15 on downtown streets, including one whom he questioned, who said he arrived in town at 11 a.m. and had collected $9 by 2 p.m. One was offered a ticket home to Pittsburgh, but said he didn't want to return there because begging was not permitted.