Today is Saturday, July 17, the 199th day of 2004. There are 167 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, July 17, the 199th day of 2004. There are 167 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill begin meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II.
In 1821, Spain cedes Florida to the United States. In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba, surrender to U.S. forces. In 1917, the British royal family adopts the name "Windsor." In 1944, 322 people are killed when a pair of ammunition ships explodes in Port Chicago, Calif. In 1955, Disneyland debuts in Anaheim, Calif. In 1975, an Apollo spaceship docks with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind. In 1979, Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigns and flees into exile in Miami.
July 17, 1979: A crayon portrait by Youngstown artist William Dotson of Danny Thomas, founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, is present to St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center, a St. Jude affiliate.
An FAA official has found that Youngstown, by virtue of its actions, has established Beckett Aviation Corp., a fixed base operator, as the "surrogate landlord" of the Youngstown Municipal Airport and its facilities. The FAA is investigating complaints of a Beckett monopoly by Everett Aviation and Youngstown Executive Beechcraft.
The International Institute opens its multicultural day camp at Mount Alverna Friary on South Belle Vista. One of the projects is creation of a 12-by-9-foot mural that will be displayed in Federal Plaza, a commission of the Ohio Arts Council as a salute to the International Year of the Child.
July 17, 1964: A goal of $1.6 million is set for the United Appeal, Community Chest-Red Cross at a meeting of the Community Corporation's executive committee at the Voyager Motor Inn.
The Metsch-Harker residence of East Liverpool City Hospital School of Nursing is dedicated. An open house at the $667,000 facility follows the dedication.
Mill Creek Park officials close 10 wells and springs because of contamination, the source of which is eluding Park Superintendent A.E. Davies and city health Commissioner Dr. Sidney Franklin. About 25 wells throughout the park remain open.
July 17, 1954: A bomb blast rips the home of Jack Sulligan, Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman, at 1966 Smithfield St., the second bombing involving a top Democratic Party official and the 28th in 32 months in the Youngstown district.
The House Appropriations Committee approves $687,000 for a warehouse and mechanical shop for Air Force facilities at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Over the protest of Cleveland's police chief, Cleveland Mayor Anthony J. Celebrezze offers to have his department take over the stalled investigation into the 2-week-old murder of Marilyn Sheppard, wife of a Bay Village osteopath.
July 17, 1929: Louis B. Seltzer, editor of the Cleveland Press, and Carlton K. Matson, chief editorial writer, are given a stay of execution by an appeals court on an order by Judge Frederick P. Walther that they be jailed for contempt of court for writing articles critical of Walther's handling of a horse race case.
An automatic voting machine will be demonstrated for members of the Mahoning County Board of Elections and other county and city officials. Law Director Carl Armstrong says he does not know whether he will approve purchase of such machines.
Large and smallmouth bass and channel catfish numbering 12,000 will be placed in Lake Newport in Mill Creek Park by the state fish and game association.