Today is Thursday, July 6, the 187th day of 2006. There are 178 days left in the year. On this date in 1944, 169 people die in a fire that breaks out in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers and

Today is Thursday, July 6, the 187th day of 2006. There are 178 days left in the year. On this date in 1944, 169 people die in a fire that breaks out in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum-and-Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn.
In 1535, Sir Thomas More is executed in England for treason. In 1777, during the American Revolution, British forces capture Fort Ticonderoga. In 1854, the first official meeting of the Republican Party takes place in Jackson, Mich. In 1917, during World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence capture the port of Aqaba from the Turks. In 1923, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed. In 1945, President Truman signs an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom. In 1945, Nicaragua becomes the first nation to formally accept the United Nations Charter. In 1957, Althea Gibson becomes the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2. In 1967, the Biafran War erupts. (The war, which lasted 21/2 years, claimed some 600,000 lives.) In 1989, the U.S. Army destroys its last Pershing 1A missiles at an ammunition plant in Karnack, Texas, under terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
July 6, 1981: A single-engine plane crashes onto a car traveling along Route 318 near West Middlesex, Pa., killing one of the men in the plane and injuring two other people. Dead is Dominic Coco, 21, of Liberty Township.
The fireworks program at Cascade Park in New Castle attracted a large crowd, but many left angry before the display was over because the display dragged out, with lapses reported as long as three minutes between some explosions.
Dominic Conti, Youngstown finance director, and Jerry Coleman, an active YMCA member, are among the first of Youngstown's handicapped residents to use a new ramp that allows people in wheelchairs easy access to the downtown YMCA.
July 6, 1966: The Youngstown Board of Education adopts a tentative budget of $14.8 million for 1966. Of that total, $11.8 million is for personnel of all kind, from the superintendent to maintenance.
A young Warren, Ohio, father drowns while trying to save a West Virginia teenager in the Little Kanawha River near Grantsville, W.Va. Dead are Larry W. Greathouse, 23, and Naomi Ruby Hopkins, 18, of Big Springs, W.Va.
Brooks Brothers, the Madison Avenue store that has been turning out clothes for stock brokers since 1846, is doing something very un-buttoned down. It is selling four-inch-wide ties -- broad as bibs and loud enough for race track touts.
July 6, 1956: Mayor Frank X. Kryzan will ask city council to place a $8.8 million bond issue before the voters to finance the city's portion of a $34 million expressway system.
A thug slugs Harvey Oberle, operator of Harvey's Place at 3780 Mahoning Ave., and escapes with $27 shortly after the tavern closed.
The U.S. Justice Department alleges that General Motors is monopolizing the manufacture and sale of buses and asks a federal judge in Detroit to order GM to scale down its bus manufacturing business.
July 6, 1931: Nine people are dead and 73 injured from traffic accidents, drownings, fireworks celebrations and heat ailments in Youngstown and vicinity over a long Fourth of July weekend.
All recent boy high school graduates are eligible to take the National Intelligence Test being given at the Youngstown "Y" College building at 416 Wick Ave. The highest scorer will win a Vindicator trip to Italy.
Clifton W. Miller, one of Youngstown's best known businessmen, former president of the McElroy Furniture Co. and builder of the Hippodrome Theater and Arcade, dies at his home at 1802 Elm St.
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