Today is Tuesday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2006. There are 173 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2006. There are 173 days left in the year. On this date in 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J.
In 1533, Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII. In 1767, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, is born in Braintree, Mass. In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps is formally re-established by a congressional act that also creates the U.S. Marine Band. In 1864, Confederate forces led by Gen. Jubal Early begin an abortive invasion of Washington, D.C., turning back the next day. In 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt becomes the first chief executive to travel through the Panama Canal. In 1955, the U.S. Air Force Academy is dedicated at its temporary quarters, Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado. In 1977, the Medal of Freedom is awarded posthumously to the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. In 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab makes a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia. In 1980, American hostage Richard I. Queen, freed by Iran after eight months of captivity because of poor health, leaves Tehran for Switzerland. In 1995, the United States normalizes relations with Vietnam. In 1996, an Air Force F-16 jet trying to make an emergency landing slams into a house in Pensacola, Fla., setting the home on fire, killing a 4-year-old boy and badly burning his mother. (The pilot ejects safely.) In 2001, the Democratic-led Senate votes to bar coal mining and oil and gas drilling on pristine federally protected land in the West, dealing a fresh blow to President Bush's energy production plans. In 2005, a top al-Qaida lieutenant and three other terror suspects escape from a U.S. military jail in Afghanistan. (The identity of Omar al-Farouq isn't acknowledged until November 2005.)
July 11, 1981: General Motors and its Packard Electric Division announce two Mahoning Valley projects and one in Mexico designed to further the conversion of Warren to "high technology operations."
The president of the union representing Mahoning County sheriff's deputies says that additional layoffs announced by Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. could spark a strike.
Six- and seven-year-old tap dancers from the Linda Diamond Academy of Dance win first place at the National Talent Finals of Showcase U.S.A. in Indianapolis.
July 11, 1966: The William M. Cafaro Co. plans to begin construction soon on a two-story, 1-million-square foot enclosed shopping mall across from Boardman High School.
Gary Thompson, 14, of Canfield races to victory in his shiny blue coaster car at the sixth Youngstown Soap Box Derby in East Midlothian Boulevard. Jeff Stiver of Hubbard was the runner-up.
The U.S. Air Force Reserve's 910th Troop Carrier Wing at Youngstown Municipal Airport has been alerted that it might have to help airlift servicemen who have been stranded by the airline strike.
July 11, 1956: A John A. Hartford Foundation grant of $79,200 has been made to the Youngstown Hospital Association to broaden the research program begun in 1954 to develop a test that would be effective in screening the mass population for cancer.
Norman "Nick" Johnson, prominent for 30 years in Youngstown athletics, is appointed athletic supervisor of city parks at an annual salary of $5,000.
After traveling to Detroit, Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan is given assurances by General Motors that plans for construction of a Chevrolet assembly plant at Lordstown are moving forward on schedule.
Two Salem students, John R. Buta, 18, and George C. Dahms, 20, are among 11 winners of scholarship awards presented by the E.W. Bliss Co.
July 11, 1931: G.E. Roudebush, 39, one of three assistant superintendents of Columbus schools is selected by a committee of the Youngstown Board of Education to succeed Youngstown Superintendent John J. Richeson.
A Cleveland gangster is murdered near Masury and his pal has been seriously wounded in what appears to be a double-crossing of liquor hijackers.
James Hill of Indianola Ave. reports that his hopes for a fine crop of potatoes this fall have been dashed during the last week as the plants, hit by a blight, turned from a healthy green to a sickly brown.