Today is Tuesday, July 6, the 188th day of 2004. There are 178 days left in the year. On this date in 1854, the first official meeting of the Republican Party takes place in Jackson, Mich.

Today is Tuesday, July 6, the 188th day of 2004. There are 178 days left in the year. On this date in 1854, the first official meeting of the Republican Party takes place in Jackson, Mich.
In 1535, Sir Thomas More is executed in England for treason. In 1777, during the American Revolution, British forces capture Fort Ticonderoga. In 1917, during World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence capture the port of Aqaba from the Turks. In 1923, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed. In 1933, the first All-Star baseball game is played, at Chicago's Comiskey Park; the American League defeats the National League, 4-2. In 1944, 169 people die in a fire that breaks out in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum-and-Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn. In 1945, President Truman signs an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom. In 1957, Althea Gibson becomes the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.
July 6, 1979: The YSU Board of Trustees gives tentative approval to an agreement with the Youngstown Chapter of the Ohio Education Association that provides salary increases of 9 percent each of the next two years. In the first year of the contract, full professors will receive a minimum of $17,000 and a maximum of $31,700.
Former Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis and four top members of his administration are indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of bribery, extortion and racketeering.
Gold tops $290 an ounce for the first time ever in London and dealers predict it will top $300 soon.
July 6, 1964: Two adults and three children die in a fire in Denmark Township, Ashtabula County, after a kerosene stove explodes. The dead range in age from 11 to 66.
Fred Steitz, 53, of Risher Road jumps from his motor boat into Lake Milton and saves 10-year-old Joe Peterson of Cortland who went under while swimming. Steitz was alerted to the boy's distress by the screams of other young swimmers nearby.
Four persons are injured in an explosion at the American Cynamid Corp. near Edinburg, Pa.
July 6, 1954: Youngstown's newest bus service, an experimental express run from the South Side's Newport Theater to Central Square, gets off to a faltering start, carrying only eight passengers on six trips.
Three men who attempted to rob the Idora Amusement Co. are injured when they fall down a 60-foot Mill Creek Park cliff after a gun duel with the park's 52-year-old night watchman.
For the second consecutive year motorists on Mahoning County highways observed a safe and sane July Fourth with no fatalities and only a handful of minor injuries over the long holiday weekend.
July 6, 1929: Dominic Ignozzy and Mike Madick are winners of the Youngstown playground Olympics and will go to Atlantic City, where they will represent the city in the national finals of the Junior Olympic Games.
Two undercover Prohibition agents have been in Youngstown at the invitation of Mayor Heffernan and Chief McNicholas to investigate the disappearance of liquor from the city property room.
Between 40,000 and 50,000 men, women and children visited Mill Creek Park on the Fourth of July, Park Superintendent Francis E. Hughes reports, a single-day record.
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