Today is Sunday, July 9, the 190th day of 2006. There are 175 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, July 9, the 190th day of 2006. There are 175 days left in the year. On this date in 1776, the Declaration of Independence is read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.
In 1540, England's King Henry VIII has his 6-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled. In 1816, Argentina declares independence from Spain. In 1850, the 12th president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, dies after serving only 16 months of his term. In 1896, William Jennings Bryan delivers his famous "cross of gold" speech at the Democratic national convention in Chicago. In 1918, 101 people are killed in a train collision in Nashville, Tenn. In 1944, during World War II, American forces secure Saipan as the last Japanese defenses fall. In 1947, the engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten is announced. In 1951, President Truman asks Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany. In 1982, a Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, La., killing all 146 people aboard and eight people on the ground. In 1986, the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography releases the final draft of its report, which links hard-core porn to sex crimes. In 1996, former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm begins a drive for the presidential nomination of Ross Perot's fledgling Reform Party. In 2001, a divided court in Chile rules that Gen. Augusto Pinochet could not be tried on human rights charges because of his deteriorating health and mental condition, a ruling that effectively brings the 85-year-old former dictator's legal troubles to an end. In 2005, a purported Taliban spokesman in Afghanistan says the group has beheaded a missing American commando, but he offers no proof and the U.S. military says it is still searching for the Navy SEAL. (The body of the commando is found the next day.)
July 9, 1981: The city is installing new equipment at Youngstown Municipal Airport to monitor parking after the city filed eight forgery charges against Associated Parking Corp. of Youngstown, which had operated the parking concession.
About 1,200 supporters of the Very Rev. Richard R. Madden, popular superior of St. Teresa Monastery in Youngstown, are told Father Madden will retain his post until the end of the year and perhaps longer. In the long run, however, the Volney Road monastery will be closed, they are told.
Maintenance and service workers at the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority return to their jobs after accepting a new contract and ending a one-week strike. The one-year contract provides wage increases of 10 percent; the union had sought 12 percent.
July 9, 1966: The Ohio Board of Education refuses to approve the transfer of the northeast corner of Coitsville Township from the Youngstown school district to the Hubbard district. State Superintendent Martin Essex says the request by 24 parents centers on their desire to withdraw students from an integrated high school and he will not approve it.
Damage is estimated at $65,000 in a two-alarm fire at the Galaxy Restaurant, 258 W. Federal St., in Youngstown.
A nationwide strike that has shut down United Airlines and four other major carriers leaves between 400 and 600 passengers who normally use the Youngstown Municipal Airport stranded. Central Airlines is scrambling to find planes and add flights, as is being permitted by the Civil Aeronautics Board during the strike.
July 9, 1956: Alice Goff of Youngstown, a structural engineer at theTruscon Steel Division of Republic Steel Corp., is one of the pioneers in a growing movement toward more women studying engineering and pursuing a career. The inclusion of women in engineering professions is being driven by a critical shortage of engineers in the country.
The Youngstown area is gripped by one of the most serious labor-management disputes since World War II with the strike against major steel producers, but a stranger would never guess it from the crowds of shoppers on downtown streets.
Warren's new Lincoln Elementary School on Atlantic Street, one of the last to be built in the city's $3.5 million school program approved by voters, will be completed for use in September.
Five resident priests, including the pastor of St. Columba Parish, move from their ancient red brick rectory in West Wood Street to a modern residence and office building at Elm Street and W. Rayen Avenue.
Six district girls are elected to march with the Corps of Cadets at Kent State University. They are Rosalie Chilton of Vienna, Kathleen Bamberger of canton, Margaret Bustard of warren, Carol Skorepa of Bedford, Kay Schantz of Orrville and Cecile Critenden of Ashtabula.
July 9, 1931: Members of Youngstown First Presbyterian Church are urged to build their proposed new church on the present site at Wick Ave. and Wood St. in a report by Dr. Henry Tralie, noted church expert from New York.
It appears the marriage is off. Ten men selected by Miss Bobbie Connor as the most eligible suitors from among 70 who responded to her search for a husband refuse to take physical examinations. Miss Connor, 20, who advertised for a husband who would give her family $2,000, required the physicals and said she would take one as well.
The "cream" of boy high school students in the Youngstown district, 125 strong, take the National Intelligence Test administered at Youngstown College as part of a contest sponsored by the Central Press and client newspapers, including the Vindicator. Six boys nationwide will win a Mediterranean cruise.
Gov. George White signs a bill regulating the ability of ambulance-chasing lawyers to operate before the state industrial commission in workmen's compensation cases.
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