Today is Thursday, July 22, the 204th day of 2004. There are 162 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, July 22, the 204th day of 2004. There are 162 days left in the year. On this date in 1933, American aviator Wiley Post completes the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 and three-quarter hours.
In 1916, a bomb goes off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, killing 10 people. In 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater. In 1937, the Senate rejects President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court. In 1942, gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons begins along the Atlantic seaboard. In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton capture Palermo, Sicily. In 1946, Jewish extremists blow up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90 people. In 1975, the House of Representatives joins the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. In 1983, Samantha Smith and her parents return home to Manchester, Maine, after completing a whirlwind tour of the Soviet Union. In 1995, Susan Smith is convicted by a jury in Union, S.C., of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons. (She is later sentenced to life in prison.)
July 22, 1979: Two of the best known lawyers in America, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and Melvin L. Wulf, former counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, say they will lead the defense of the Northeast Ohio Legal Services in a suit filed by Teamster Local 3777 against NOLS and Teamsters for a Democratic Union.
The Youngstown Fire Department ambulance, one of the few remaining "frills" offered to Youngstown residents by city government, will be disbanded. The service, started in October 1842, has fallen victim to inflation and federal government belt-tightening.
There's a paradox in the American steel industry. On the one hand, industry leaders are complaining because American consumers import huge tonnages of foreign-made steel; on the other, the steel-makers themselves are importing about 6 million tons of foreign-made coke to make their U.S. steel.
July 22, 1964: Flash floods fill basements with water and create traffic tie-ups in Youngstown. Hardest hit was North Side Hospital, where water raced through doors and windows on the ground floor, causing a shutdown of the affected area for 30 minutes.
Enrollment at Niles McKinley High School in the fall will be 1,200, about 115 students more than the previous year and the highest number since the Depression days.
Thirteen teen-age boys arrested for creating a disturbance in the parking lot of Harding School on Cordova Avenue, are placed on probation by the juvenile court. The youths were arrested after failing to comply with police orders to disperse. Area residents say the school parking lot has become a gathering spot for noisy crowds of teen-agers.
July 22, 1954: Youngstown officials will go to Washington to conduct high-level meetings with the Air Force in an effort to settle a controversy over establishing an AF Reserve Center at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Municipal Judge Forrest J. Cavalier sentences racketeer S. Joseph "Sandy" Naples to six months in jail for promoting a numbers game.
Excellent weather, big bargains and free transportation lure thousands of dollar-wise customers downtown for Youngstown Dollars Day. Parking lots were turning cars away and early bird customers were lined up outside the department store doors before their 9:30 a.m. opening.
July 22, 1929: More than 300 children are marched to safety from the Lincoln Theater, 849 Himrod Ave., when a roll of film in the projection machine catches fire during a Sunday matinee. Projectionist Russell Minor was burned on the hands and arms as he tried to extinguish the fire. Mike Moran and Minor led the children to safety. The fire was contained to the projection booth.
Men's clothing valued at more than $2,000 was taken from the clothing store of Herbert Hartzell, 12 S. Phelps St., in the very shadow of the city police station. It is the second large theft of merchandise from a downtown store in a week.
A farm on Oak Street Extension, alleged to be one of the most notorious bootlegging places in the Youngstown vicinity, is rented from City Traffic Officer Harvey Altman, according to testimony in common pleas court.