Today is Saturday, July 8, the 189th day of 2006. There are 176 days left in the year. On this date with 1776, Col. John Nixon gives the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, in

Today is Saturday, July 8, the 189th day of 2006. There are 176 days left in the year. On this date with 1776, Col. John Nixon gives the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, in Philadelphia.
In 1663, King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island. In 1853, an expedition led by Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Yedo Bay, Japan, on a mission to seek diplomatic and trade relations with the Japanese. In 1889, The Wall Street Journal is first published. In 1919, President Wilson receives a tumultuous welcome in New York City after his return from the Versailles Peace Conference in France. In 1947, demolition work begins in New York City to make way for the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations. In 1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur is named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea. In 1975, President Ford announces he would seek the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1976. In 1986, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, widely regarded as "father of the nuclear navy," dies in Arlington, Va., at age 86. In 1986, Kurt Waldheim is inaugurated as president of Austria despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes. In 1994, Kim Il Sung, North Korea's communist leader since 1948, dies at age 82.
July 8, 1981: Salem City Council approves a 1982 preliminary budget of $7.1 million, which will require a 1/2 percent increase in the city's income tax.
Elmer A. Ware Jr., 23, of Petersburg dies of a fractured skull after diving more than 25 feet off a steep slope and hitting rocks at a strip mine pool in Springfield Township.
The body of Charles Habib, 46, who was kidnapped from in front of his Ravenwood Ave. home is found in a field west of Liberty Road, adjacent to Mt. Hope Cemetery. He had been shot.
July 8, 1966: A head-on collision on Church Hill Road climaxes a high-speed chase by Girard police and injures seven people. The Warren driver of the car being chased flees on foot, but is arrested two hours later.
Parella Construction Co. of Youngstown is awarded a $218,283 contract for construction of the Front Street section of the Downtown Loop.
By a 49-1 vote, the nation's governors approve a resolution saying there can be no turning back from President Johnson's prosecution of the war in Vietnam. The lone dissenter is Gov. Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon, a Republican.
July 8, 1956: Two Ohio Edison workers are electrocuted, one when he tried to save his co-worker, while working on a substation in Warren. Dead are Donald McCauley, 43, or Niles and Chester Woodward, 27, of Warren.
The Youngstown District PGA will host a pro-three amateur golf tournament at the Mill Creek Park course.
July 8, 1931: Two notorious Cleveland bandits, John Russo and Harry Deutsch, are being held by Youngstown police after being positively identified by victims in the robberies of two local firms in which $6,254 was taken.
Former Traction Commissioner Harry Engle fought attempts to eliminate jitneys in Youngstown after the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co. and P.O. officials rejected demands for secret rate concessions at Idora Park.