Today is Friday, June 25, the 177th day of 2004. There are 189 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Friday, June 25, the 177th day of 2004. There are 189 days left in the year. On this date in 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.
In 1788, the state of Virginia ratifies the U.S. Constitution. In 1942, some 1,000 British Royal Air Force bombers raid Bremen, Germany, during World War II. In 1950, war breaks out in Korea as forces from the communist North invade the South. In 1951, the first commercial color telecast takes place as CBS transmits a one-hour special from New York to four other cities. In 1962, the Supreme Court rules that the use of an unofficial, nondenominational prayer in New York State public schools is unconstitutional.
June 25, 1979: Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are meeting in Switzerland, where they are expected to announce an increase in the price of crude oil to $18 per barrel.
Three veteran Fitch High School teachers are honored on their retirement: Betty Williams, Dorothy Evans and Delmas Dickerhoff.
June 25, 1964: James E. Corbett, 43, business agent of the 580-member Structural Iron Workers Local 207, is found shot to death in his home on Seifert-Lewis Road, Hubbard.
Dr. John Jacob Richeson, 90, of North Jackson, superintendent of Youngstown schools from 1926 to 1931, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home. He graduated from Ohio University in 1910 and had a distinguished career in education, retiring after his five years of service in Youngstown.
June 25, 1954: A strike by 250 milkmen is averted when an agreement is reached with four of Youngstown's major dairies. The agreement provides for 42 days, plus Sundays, off the first year, and a five-day work week beginning the second year.
Robert Lambert, 40, a laborer working on reconstruction of the Market Street Bridge, is killed when his foot accidentally touches a power generator for which he was building a wooden safety cover.
Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbot announces that Colorado Springs, Colo., will be the site of the Air Force Academy. Congress has appropriated $126 million for construction of the West Point of the air on a 15,000-acre site at the base of the Rocky Mountains.
June 25, 1929: A 10-day-old baby girl who was found in the Elks Club rooms is alive, happy and being well cared for. Elks Club members are establishing a $100 trust fund for the girl, so that she will get a few better breaks than she's gotten so far in her young life.
With traffic fatalities in Youngstown totaling 22 from Jan. 1 to June 24, compared with 17 during the same period a year earlier, Traffic Commissioner Carl Olson proposes strict enforcement of the city's jaywalking laws.
Salem Police Chief T.W. Thompson announces that the city ordinance that has been on the books for two years that prohibits the sale or possession for sale of fireworks in the city will be strictly enforced.