Today is Thursday, July 15, the 197th day of 2004. There are 169 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, July 15, the 197th day of 2004. There are 169 days left in the year. On this date in 1964, Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona is nominated for president by the Republican national convention in San Francisco.
In 1606, Dutch painter Rembrandt is born in Leiden, Netherlands. In 1870, Georgia becomes the last Confederate state readmitted to the Union. In 1916, Boeing Company, originally known as Pacific Aero Products, is founded in Seattle. In 1948, President Truman is nominated for another term of office by the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia. In 1965, U.S. scientists display close-up photographs of the planet Mars taken by Mariner Four. In 1971, in a surprise announcement, President Nixon tells the nation he would visit the People's Republic of China. In 1976, a 36-hour kidnap ordeal begins for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they are abducted near Chowchilla, Calif., by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell. (The captives escape unharmed.) In 1978, President Carter, in West Germany for an economic summit, presided over a "town meeting" during which he fields questions from about 1,000 Berliners. In 1979, President Carter delivers his "malaise" speech in which he laments what he calls a "crisis of confidence" in America. In 1992, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton claims the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York.
July 15, 1979: Despite the Mahoning Valley's steel industry problems, Ohio still ranks as the country's third-largest steel making state and the Youngstown district is the state's largest single steel producer.
Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes tours two teeming Vietnamese refugee camps in Hong Kong and promises that the Buckeye State will make room for "our share" of the boat people.
For the first time in 10 years, Ursuline High School students in David Helsel's chemistry class find living organisms in the Mahoning River. Algae, bacteria and one-celled animals are found unexpectedly.
Warren city officials are projecting a $79,000 deficit for the Packard Music Hall, nearly double the city's subsidy for hall operations in 1977.
July 15, 1964: Aeroquip Corp. has important plans for upgrading its Republic Rubber Division operations in Youngstown and increasing the division's employment and sales volume, says President Peter F. Hurst.
NBC correspondent John Chancellor broadcasts his own ejection from the floor of the Republican National Convention while millions of television viewers look on. There were also clashes between sergeants-at-arms on the convention floor and CBS newsman Mike Wallace and several newspaper photographers during the sometimes heated debate over the Goldwater platform.
The 62-year-old Youngstown Club reopens its top floors in the Union National Bank Building, heralding completion of a $500,000 remodeling following a disastrous fire in February 1963.
July 15, 1954: The Youngstown district, after sweltering in 100-degree heat, is buffeted and lashed by severe thunderstorms, causing thousands of dollars in damage and sending the mercury plunging by 40 degrees.
Temple McAllister of Warren, operator of a chain of dairy stores in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, is denied renewal of a milk dealer's license in Pennsylvania on grounds that he has "consistently and unreasonably defied the law." McAllister has fought a running battle with the Pennsylvania Milk Commission, attempting to break the price control system.
S. Joseph "Sandy" Naples is found guilty by Municipal Judge Forrest J. Cavalier on a state charge of promoting the numbers racket. Police Chief Paul Cress says Naples' conviction is the first of many to come, which will put the area's racketeers in jail.
July 15, 1929: Two big airplanes of the Ohio Air Transport Co. are christened at the formal opening of the company's new flying service at the Youngstown municipal airport.
Further indications are revealed that the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is seeking a new site for its passenger and freight station in Youngstown. If the passenger station is moved from Spring Common, it will allow for the plan proposed by Councilman Jerry Sullivan that a wide plaza be made of Spring Common and that the Mahoning Avenue Bridge be widened.
John Smith, president and treasurer of the J.W. Smith Sons Co. and the third generation to operate the family's shoe store, retires from the business and joins Wick & amp; Co. as a stock broker. Smith Co., one of the city's pioneers in the shoe business, had no announcement as to the future of the company.