Today is Sunday, July 18, the 200th day of 2004. There are 166 days left in the year. On this date in 1947, President Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act, which places the speaker of the

Today is Sunday, July 18, the 200th day of 2004. There are 166 days left in the year. On this date in 1947, President Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act, which places the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.
In A.D. 64, the Great Fire of Rome begins. In 1792, American naval hero John Paul Jones dies in Paris at age 45. In 1932, the United States and Canada sign a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway. In 1936, the Spanish Civil War begins. In 1940, the Democratic national convention in Chicago nominates President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term in office. In 1944, Hideki Tojo is removed as Japanese premier and war minister because of setbacks suffered by his country in World War II. In 1969, a car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., plunges off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard; passenger Mary Jo Kopechne dies. In 1984, a gunman opens fire at a McDonald's fast food restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif., killing 21 people before being shot dead by police. In 1984, Walter F. Mondale wins the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco.
July 18, 1979: Poland Township joins CASTLO, the organization formed by Campbell, Struthers and Lowellville to pursue economic recovery, but the name of the organization will remain unchanged.
Developer Richard Mills' plans for a $3.5 million downtown office building for the International Business Machines Corp. receives a boost when the Youngstown Board of Control approves financial arrangements for the project.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the crash of a light plane near the Warren Airport in which Robert L. Smith, 38, of Warren was killed.
Elizabeth Parks, wife of accused murderer Robert Parks, testifies that she went to the FBI about the DiBlasio/Muffley murders after overhearing a conversation in which her husband allegedly planned to kill her. She has been under federal protective custody for four months.
July 18, 1964: The Mahoning County Board of Child Welfare votes to put a one-mill tax levy on the November ballot to build or purchase a new school for retarded children in the county.
Two days after a federal court orders his release, Dr. Sam Sheppard is on his way to Chicago with his fiancee, Arlane Tebbenjohanns, where they will be wed.
Home pay television comes to Los Angeles, where 2,500 homes are wired in for the debut. The first reaction is that the colors are great. One subscriber says that he saved $8.50 by watching the Los Angeles Dodger-Chicago Cubs game for a charge of $1.50, rather than going to the ballpark, where tickets cost $2.50, parking is $1 and beer and hot dogs are $1 each.
July 18, 1954: Youngstown's two top public officials, Mayor Frank X. Kryzan and Police Chief Paul Cress promise intensive efforts to solve the mysterious bombing of the home of Jack Sulligan, Democratic Party chairman in Mahoning County.
More than 600 horses from the finest riding stables in this part of the United States are arriving in Youngstown for the 11th annual charity horse show at Canfield.
Gov. Howard Pyle of Arizona, who stayed overnight at the Valley Park Hotel on Wick Ave. with his wife and two daughters while on their way to Lake George, N.Y., says his family was "impressed by the great industrial atmosphere" of Youngstown.
Military and civil defense authorities in Washington announce a plan for controlling "sky glow" in the event of an enemy attack, a system of dimming city lights but not blacking them out as in World War II days.
Dr. Sam Sheppard, in a statement issued to reporters by his lawyer, says he is certain the killer of his wife, Marilyn, will be caught eventually. "In view of the horrible nature of the crime, I do not believe that whoever committed it will be able to keep it concealed," he says.
July 18, 1929: W. Edgar Leedy Jr., Youngstown municipal airport pilot, accomplishes an outside loop, the most difficult maneuver in flying, in a tiny stock Argo biplane while flying near Alliance. The feat places him in the front ranks of stunt pilots in the country.
Walter Gibson, 10, and his 5-year-old sister, Grace, of Sharon are fatally burned after the boy dropped a match into a can of kerosene oil in the garage at the rear of their home on the Sharon-Mercer Road.
Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube and subsidiaries have record earnings of $5.90 a share and a net income of $6.1 million in the second quarter, the best showing since the post-war boom of 1919.
Youngstown is one of seven Ohio cities where a canvass will be conducted to determine the attitude of the citizens toward blue laws. The study has been commissioned by the National Association Opposed to Blue Laws. Why Youngstown, Dayton, Sandusky, Akron, Hamilton, Steubenville and East Liverpool were chosen wasn't said.
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