Today is Friday, July 25, the 206th day of 2003. There are 159 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Friday, July 25, the 206th day of 2003. There are 159 days left in the year. On this date in 1956, 51 people die when the Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast.
In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant is named general of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank. In 1943, Benito Mussolini is dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest. Mussolini is later rescued by the Nazis, and reasserted his authority. In 1946, the United States detonates an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device. In 1952, Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States. In 1963, the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain initial a treaty in Moscow prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space or underwater. In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the first "test-tube baby," is born in Oldham, England; she'd been conceived through in-vitro fertilization. In 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein sign a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of war. In 2000, a New York-bound Air France Concorde crashes outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground.
July 25, 1978: At a news conference at the Western Reserve Economic Development Agency, the Rev. William Hogan, a Jesuit priest and one of the country's foremost steel analysts, recommends that a blast furnace-coke-sinter plant be constructed on a 560-acre site between Niles and Warren at a cost of $664 million.
Two New Castle, Pa., politicians, former state Rep. Dominick E. Cioffi and Mayor Francis Rogan, are spearheading a drive to get support for revival of the proposed Lake Erie-to-Ohio River canal.
July 25, 1963: Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes persuades the nation's governors to hold the 1964 national governors' conference in Cleveland, the Buckeye State's largest city.
Struthers police prevent a possible teenage gang war by picking up 20 boys in the Hopewell Drive area. The boys had a variety of weapons and it is believed they were heading to Yellow Creek Park to fight another gang.
"One Hundred Years of the Cavalry" is the theme of a historical parade in Lisbon that marks the 100th anniversary of Confederate Gen. John Morgan's raid.
July 25, 1953: The driver of a runaway motorboat that struck and injured two children in Lake Milton is fined $155 in Youngstown Municipal Court after pleading guilty to charges of intoxication, reckless driving and operating a boat without a permit.
The sale of the William J. Sampson property on Logan Road for $73,000 to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is completed. The white pillared home with its identifying windmill is owned by Mrs. Hubbard Kirkpatrick, the former Mrs. W.J. Sampson Sr.
Two East Side brothers are hospitalized after being shot in the legs by a bartender at the Ranch Tavern on Route 422 near the Pennsylvania Line. The bartender said the men smashed in a back door and tried to attack him.
July 25, 1928: Acting under orders from U.S. District Attorney A.E. Bernsteen in Cleveland, U.S. marshals arrest a 30-year-old Hazel St., Youngstown, man on a charge of conspiracy in connection with the federal investigation of a huge still found on the Aaron Schontz farm.
A petition signed by F.R. Hahn, president of the Mahoning County Bar Association, is filed in common pleas court asking the judges to conduct a thorough investigation of the legal profession in Youngstown.
The Federal Radio Commission renews until Sept. 1 the license of WKBN, which is owned and operated by the YMCA trustees. The station had been one of 162 slated to be eliminated by FRC action.