Today is Tuesday, July 29, the 210th day of 2003. There are 155 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, July 29, the 210th day of 2003. There are 155 days left in the year. On this date in 1981, Britain's Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. The couple divorce in 1996.
In 1030, the patron saint of Norway, King Olaf II, is killed in battle. In 1588, the English soundly defeat the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines. In 1890, artist Vincent van Gogh dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France. In 1900, Italian King Humbert I is assassinated by an anarchist; he is succeeded by his son, Victor Emmanuel III. In 1914, transcontinental telephone service begins with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco. In 1948, Britain's King George VI opens the Olympic Games in London. In 1958, President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates NASA. In 1967, fire sweeps the USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin, killing 134 servicemen. In 1975, President Ford becomesw the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland as he pays tribute to the victims. In 1980, a state funeral is held in Cairo, Egypt, for the deposed shah of Iran, who had died two days earlier at age 60.
July 29, 1978: In his first major administrative move, Warren's new city police chief, Richard Galgozy, reassigns 12 officers with the announced intention of strengthening the department's uniform division.
William E. MacDonald of Cleveland is elected president and chief executive officer of the Ohio Bell Telephone Co., succeeding Charles E. Hugel, who becomes executive vice president of the American Telephone & amp; Telegraph Co.
Cincinnati third baseman Pete Rose extends his hitting streak to 41 games, breaking a mark set by Ty Cobb.
July 29, 1963: The state of Ohio is ready to begin acquiring the right of way for the controversial widening of Wirt Street, says Youngstown Mayor Harry Savasten.
A 16-year-old youth has his left hand blown off and suffers severe powder burns of the face while firing a cannon at a mock battle commemorating the capture of Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan near West Point, Ohio. Richard J. Lacher of Alliance is in serious condition at Central Clinic in Salem.
George M. Humphrey, 2 1/2 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Humphrey of Newton Falls, is run over by a car on the beach at Lake Milton, but emerges without serious injury.
July 29, 1953: The Mellon-Stuart Co. of Pittsburgh takes out a building permit valued at $3.3 million for an addition and remodeling at St. Elizabeth Hospital, the highest ever recorded at the Youngstown Building Department for such a project.
The Youngstown Health Department issues gamma globulin to be administered to the 7-year-old brother of the city's latest polio victim. St. Elizabeth Hospital has treated 17 polio cases and South Side Hospital five cases.
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July 29, 1928: Four persons escape injury when a Stinson-Detroiter cabin monoplane valued at $12,000 cracks up during take off at Andrews Field on Meridian Road. Dozens of West Side residents flocked to the scene with small pans, jugs and oil cans to get part of the 75 gallons of high test gasoline the plane had in its wing tanks. The gas was given away as the plane was dismantled for shipment to its home port in Michigan.
Before an audience of over 4,000 persons at Canfield Fairgrounds, Sen. Thomas Heflin of Alabama describes himself as a "tolerant senator interested in the perpetuity of American rights," then launches into a speech in which he warns against efforts of Catholics to take over the nation. He claims that 50 percent of the federal employees in Washington are Catholic, while they represent only !0 percent of the population. Heflin says the Ku Klux Klan of today is as potent as ever.
Mrs. Charlotte V. Gulick, founder of the Campfire Girls, dies at her summer camp at South Casco, Maine. She was 62 years old.