Today is Friday, July 7, the 188th day of 2006. There are 177 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, July 7, the 188th day of 2006. There are 177 days left in the year. On this date in 2005, suicide terrorist bombings in three Underground stations and a double-decker bus kill 52 victims and four bombers in the worst attack on London since World War II. (The United States puts its subways, buses and commuter trains on high alert amid concern about a possible copycat attack.)
In 1846, U.S. annexation of California is proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison. In 1865, four people are hanged in Washington, D.C., for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Lincoln. In 1896, the Democratic national convention opens in Chicago. In 1898, the United States annexes Hawaii. In 1930, construction begins on Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam). In 1946, Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini is canonized as the first American saint. In 1958, President Eisenhower signs the Alaska statehood bill. In 1969, Canada's House of Commons gives final approval to a measure making the French language equal to English throughout the national government. In 1983, 11-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov.
July 7, 1981: The East Palestine Board of Education names Dr. Eugenia Gaye McGovern, 37, of Miami superintendent of the local school district. She is first woman to hold the top position in local schools, one of three females in the state and one of 69 in the nation.
Lynn Bollinger denies reports that he was removed as chairman of Commuter Aircraft Corp. or that there has been a shake-up of the company's management in any other way.
President Ronald Reagan nominates Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first woman justice in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States.
July 7, 1966: By a 6-1 vote, Youngstown City Council approves the plan for the first urban renewal project in the Central Business District.
Dr. Elmer H. Nagel, 79, past president of the Mahoning Medical Society who was recently honored for completing 50 years as a practicing physician, dies of a kidney ailment in St. Elizabeth Hospital. He was 79.
Proposals by 5th Ward Councilman Jack C. Hunter to realign the city's wards and survey the city's government through a "Little Hoover Commission" are sidetracked into City Council committees.
July 7, 1956: Youngstown informs the Air Force that it wants a substantial increase in the $625 a month rent that the Air Force pays the city for using Youngstown Municipal Airport for its air base.
A 19-year-old driver with a record of five speeding violations in the past year receives a suspended jail sentence on a reckless driving charge after he promises to sell his car within two weeks.
Twenty-two Youngstown district people have purchased federal gambling tax stamps, including seven in Niles, four in Campbell, one in Warren and three in Youngstown.
July 7, 1931: The field of candidates for superintendent of Youngstown schools has been narrowed to five by a three-man committee of board members. Thirty men had sought the job.
Youngstown Finance Director James E. Jones recommends a delay of at least a year in submitting any charter amendments to the voters.
John McCallan, 82, widely known Sharon area farmer, is killed instantly when an automobile attempting to avoid the mowing machine McCallan was driving on the highway drove up an embankment and then toppled onto the mower.