Today is Sunday, July 11, the 193rd day of 2004. There are 173 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Sunday, July 11, the 193rd day of 2004. There are 173 days left in the year. On this date in 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J. (Hamilton dies the next day; although Burr is charged with murder, the charge is later dropped.)
In 1533, Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII. In 1767, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, is born in Braintree, Mass. In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps is formally re-established by a congressional act that also creates the U.S. Marine Band. In 1864, Confederate forces led by Gen. Jubal Early begin an abortive invasion of Washington, D.C., turning back the next day. In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first chief executive to travel through the Panama Canal. In 1952, the Republican national convention, meeting in Chicago, nominates Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president. In 1955, the U.S. Air Force Academy is dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado. In 1977, the Medal of Freedom is awarded posthumously to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab makes a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia. In 1989, actor Laurence Olivier dies at age 82.
July 11, 1979: A $5.6 million reduction in tangible personal property valuation due to the cutback at the former Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. will result in a loss of $339,970 in tax revenue for the Struthers city schools. Campbell schools will lose $420,000 and Youngstown schools, $700,000.
General contracting bids on Youngstown State University's health, physical education and all-sports complex range from $3 million to $4.7 million above estimates, when bids are opened in Columbus. A.P. O'Horo Co. bid $10.6 million and W.B. Gibson Co. bid $12.3 million.
Edward Kutevac is reinstated as Trumbull County planning director, retroactive to June, 1978, and with full back pay.
Dorothy DiBlasio pleads no contest to charges she conspired to murder her former husband, Dr. Leo DiBlasio and his wife, Patricia.
July 11, 1964: James H. Hazlett, assistant chief of the Austintown Township Police Department, is named chief and John Statler is named assistant chief. Hazlett's salary will be $6,500 a year.
P. Arthur D'Orazio is named to design the student center of Youngstown University that will be built at Bryson and Spring streets.
Additional recruitment and hiring of Negro teachers is urged by the Youngstown Chapter of the NAACP at a meeting with Youngstown school officials. There are only 58 Negro teachers among 1,075 classroom instructors.
July 11, 1954: A 13-acre site has been selected near downtown Independence, Mo., for the $1.75 Truman Library, which will house the presidential papers of Harry S. Truman.
New home construction in Sharon during the first six months of 1954 was the same as the first half of 1953, with permits issued for the construction of 36 new houses.
Construction has begun on a copper rod mill plant of the Packard Electric Division of General Motors at Larchmont Avenue Ext. and North River Road north of Warren.
Airline passenger traffic at Youngstown Municipal Airport hits a new high in June, says Donald Scheetz, airport managers. Three lines handled 9,323 passengers -- 4,931 boarding and 4,492 getting off -- in June. So far in 1954, the airport has handled 45,151 passengers.
July 11, 1929: Leonard T. Skeggs, general secretary of the YMCA, has been offered the general secretaryship of the Buffalo YMCA. Leroy A. Manchester, president of the YMCA, says "If we can show him that he has as big or bigger job in Youngstown, we will attempt to do so."
The Youngstown Municipal Railway Co. will purchase 10 40-passenger buses at a cost of about $110,000.
Chicago City Council repeals an ordinance prescribing how much skin can be exposed by a bathing suit. Backless suits are now legal attire, along with anything not too shocking to the sensibilities of a policeman.
The eyes of the aeronautical world will be on Youngstown in the latter part of the month when tests of an air mail pickup device are made at Lansdowne Field, says airport manager Edgar Leedy Jr.