Today is Tuesday, July 27, the 209th day of 2004. There are 157 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, July 27, the 209th day of 2004. There are 157 days left in the year. On this date in 1953, the Korean War armistice is signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.
In 1789, Congress establishes the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the Department of State. In 1794, French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre is overthrown and placed under arrest; he is executed the following day. In 1861, Union Gen. George B. McClellan is put in command of the Army of the Potomac. In 1866, Cyrus W. Field finally succeeds, after two failures, in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe. In 1960, Richard Nixon is nominated for president at the Republican national convention in Chicago. In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 to recommend President Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case. In 1976, following an American Legion convention in Philadelphia, Air Force veteran Ray Brennan becomes the first person to die of Legionnaire's Disease. In 1980, on day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran dies at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60. In 1984, actor James Mason dies in Lausanne, Switzerland, at age 75. In 1996, terror strikes the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park, killing one person and injuring more than 100.
July 27, 1979: A state study finds the Trumbull County Health Department to be understaffed and lacking adequate supervision. The Department of Health report also criticizes the county for having no written personnel policy, no written disaster services plan and no procedure for distributing health information to the public and industry.
Gov. James A. Rhodes vetoes legislation that would have eliminated a one-week waiting period and allowed jobless Ohioans to receive unemployment benefits more quickly. Rhodes said the veto was necessary to protect workers facing long-term layoffs and to control the cost of unemployment compensation insurance.
Ohio Lt. Gov. George V. Voinovich says "Cleveland's problems have become Ohio's No. 1 problem" and he is entering the race for mayor of Cleveland with a promise to bind its wounds.
Temporary layoffs of about 3,200 production workers at the General Motors Packard Electric Division in Warren will continue through August. The layoffs had been initiated in conjunction with the end-of-year model changeover.
July 27, 1964: An 18-year-old East Liverpool youth is in Columbiana County Jail in the shooting of Ira Baird, 30, of Youngstown, who was shot seven times and is in South Side Hospital. The youth said he did not know why he shot Baird.
John C. Echols of Cortland is crushed to death when he falls off a hay trailer while putting up hay on a farm on Sodom-Hutchings Road.
William R. Gollner, 32, of Austintown is electrocuted by a 220-volt line plugged into a dairy truck to supply power to its refrigeration unit while servicing the truck at Sealtest Dairy Co. at 3674 Mahoning Ave.
July 27, 1954: A police manhunt for the "Dynamite Kid" is centered on Oak Street Ext. after two Youngstown detectives fire several shots at a T-shirt youth fleeing across a cow pasture near there. The "Dynamite Kid" is a teen-ager robber who has terrorized shopkeepers by threatening to blow them up.
A three-week strike of about 500 construction laborers ends when they are awarded a 121/2-cent hourly increase by the Builders Association of the Mahoning Valley.
A million-dollar Mahoning County corn crop is being threatened by near-drought conditions that have developed after rainfall in July totaled about 25 percent of normal.
July 27, 1929: Nine Mahoning County men and two from Trumbull County are among 405 applicants who passed the Ohio Bar Association. They are Henry C. Church Jr., Robert F. Edwards, Wallace Gourley, Robert D. Huxley, Harold A. James, Harvey R. Rand, Vincent A. Virgallito, Albert J. Williams, all of Youngstown, and Jacob Moldel of Warren and Paul J. Regan of Girard.
Construction of a radio broadcasting station at the city jail and the attachment of receiving sets to police cars is recommended by former Police Chief J.J. McNicholas and by the new chief, Paul Lyden. The apparatus can be installed for about $4,000.
Campbell Police Officer Peter Petroff shoots and kills William Moore, 25, after Moore aims a pistol at police who were responding to a report of shots having been fired at the DeLuxe cabaret. Moore had shot J.T. Nelson during a quarrel.