Today is Wednesday, July 7, the 189th day of 2004. There are 177 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, July 7, the 189th day of 2004. There are 177 days left in the year. On this date in 1865, four people are hanged in Washington, D.C., for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Lincoln.
In 1846, U.S. annexation of California us proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison. In 1896, the Democratic national convention opens in Chicago. In 1930, construction begins on Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam). In 1946, Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini is canonized as the first American saint. In 1954, Elvis Presley makes his radio debut as Memphis, Tenn., station WHBQ plays his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right (Mama)." In 1958, President Eisenhower signs the Alaska statehood bill. In 1969, Canada's House of Commons gives final approval to a measure making the French language equal to English throughout the national government. In 1981, President Reagan announces he is nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
July 7, 1979: Martina Navratilova wins the women's title at Wimbledon, defeating Chris Evert Lloyd, 6-4, 6-4.
A $10 million grant that had been sought by Commuter Aircraft Corp. in Youngstown for training workers vanishes virtually overnight. The Labor Department says that $10 million for a single grant is "out of the question."
The Davis-Besse nuclear power plant, shut down in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident, is being restarted and should be producing electricity within days.
July 7, 1964: The Youngstown Board of Education adopts a $14.8 million budgets for 1965, an increase of $408,000. Most of the increase is for increases in teachers salaries and retirement benefits.
A 42-year-old South Side man, rushing home after being informed that his son had swallowed poisonous hair bleach, strikes a female pedestrian in front of his Market Street home. Both his 2-year-old son and the pedestrian were released after treatment.
Five men missing in a series of four dynamite explosions that demolished the American Cyanamid Co.'s Edinburg, Pa., plant are presumed dead.
The Ohio Department of Health advises Campbell Mayor Joseph A. Vrabel that the city's water treatment plant must be started at the earliest possible date.
July 7, 1954: A bulky 15-year-old boy who tried to take over an American Airlines DC6 before it took off from Cleveland Hopkins Airport, armed with a broken, unloaded 38-caliber pistol, is shot dead by Airline Capt. William F. Bonnell, who had a working, loaded revolver in his bag. The boy, Raymond A. Kuchenmeister Jr., had demanded to be flown to Mexico.
Roger M. Kyes, former secretary of Defense, now a General Motors vice president, arrives in Warren to tour Packard Electric Division facilities. Kyes says President Eisenhower has made substantial progress in preparation of the nation's defense establishment.
Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. announces increases in the prices of steel following the pattern set by United States Steel. The rise in price follows increases in wages and other benefits to the United Steelworkers.
July 7, 1929: The Port of Columbus, the new municipal airport in Ohio's capital, opens simultaneously with the launching of a 50-hour coast-to-coast air-rail passenger service operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Transcontinental Air Transport Inc. Passengers will travel by rail from New York to Columbus, and will than begin the first air leg of the trip to Los Angeles.
Two Youngstown police officers are suspended, accused by federal dry agents of stealing liquor from the police station. Federal agents say Youngstown's police department is mismanaged and should be changed, but Chief McNicholas says he won't resign.
Tickets are on sale for the annual Redpath Chautauqua that will be held July 23-29 at the Trumbull County fairgrounds in Warren. The opening day will feature the Jugo-Slav Tamburica Orchestra and Hilton Ira Jones with his popular scientific demonstrations.