Today is Saturday, July 24, the 206th day of 2004. There are 160 days left in the year. On this date in 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts -- two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon --

Today is Saturday, July 24, the 206th day of 2004. There are 160 days left in the year. On this date in 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts -- two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon -- splash down safely in the Pacific.
In 1783, Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar is born in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1862, the eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren, dies in Kinderhook, N.Y. In 1866, Tennessee becomes the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. In 1923, the Treaty of Lausanne, which settles the boundaries of modern Turkey, is concluded in Switzerland. In 1929, President Hoover proclaims the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounces war as an instrument of foreign policy. In 1937, the state of Alabama drops charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the "Scottsboro Case." In 1959, during a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard M. Nixon engages in a "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at a U.S. exhibition. In 1974, the Supreme Court unanimously rules that President Nixon has to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor. In 1979, a Miami jury convicts Theodore Bundy of first-degree murder in the slayings of Florida State University sorority sisters Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy. In 2002, nine coal miners are trapped in a flooded mine in western Pennsylvania; the story ends happily three days later with the rescue of all nine.
July 24, 1979: Lawrence County Commissioner Frank Vitril, whose conservative thinking has frequently set him apart from his fellow commissioners, put some geographic distance between him and the rest of the board. He moves his office to the County Home, about three miles from the courthouse.
In a calm manner, Dr. Leo F. DiBlasio testifies about the violent murders of his wife, Patricia, and nurse, Mary Muffley, during the trial of Robert D. Parks. He was not able to identify Parks, however, since the gunman who killed the two women and wounded DiBlasio wore a mask.
Councilman Robert D. Spencer, D-6th, announces his opposition to a plan by Mayor J. Phillip Richley to discontinue ambulance service by the Youngstown Fire Department.
July 24, 1964: The Youngstown area has its eighth consecutive day of temperatures exceeding 90 degrees, with no break in sight. Area swimming pools are mobbed.
Donald R. Martin, 41, the father of six children, is killed when he falls 45 feet from scaffolding at the North River Road plant of Wean Manufacturing Co.
The United States and Germany reject calls by France for a four-power parlay to discuss the future of Viet Nam.
Charles Scott, 50-year-old mayor of Mansfield, and two Ohio businessmen are killed when their plane crashes while attempting to make an emergency landing at the estate of New York's ex-governor, Averill Harriman.
July 24, 1954: Charles Vernon Bush, 14, is named a page boy for the Supreme Court of the United States, the first Negro to be so honored. His father is a Howard University educator.
Construction of the Kimmel Brook Homes public housing project is delayed again by a court battle and a pending referendum vote on public housing units.
The Rev. John Burt, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Youngstown, is named chairman of the Coordinating Council of the Community Corporation, succeeding Atty. T. Lamar Jackson.
July 24, 1929: Mayor Joseph L. Heffernan dismisses Police Chief J.J. McNicholas and names Paul Lyden, former sheriff and county investigator, to head Youngstown's police department. Lyden, who demanded complete control of the department as a condition of his employment, is expected to shake-up the ranks.
A squadron of 30 to 40 airplanes will stop at Youngstown, Warren and Alliance during an aerial tour of Ohio that will begin in Columbus Aug. 19 and end at the national air races in Cleveland Aug. 24.
Bids are opened on a $55,000 addition to the Mahoning County Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Two buildings, one a doctors and nurses residence and one a 16-bed cottage, will be constructed.
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