Today is Thursday, July 13, the 194th day of 2006. There are 171 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, July 13, the 194th day of 2006. There are 171 days left in the year. On this date in 1793, French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat is stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday.
In 1878, the Treaty of Berlin amends the terms of the Treaty of San Stefano, which had ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. In 1886, Father Edward Joseph Flanagan, the founder of Boys Town, is born in Roscommon, Ireland. In 1960, John F. Kennedy wins the Democratic presidential nomination at his party's convention in Los Angeles. In 1967, race-related rioting breaks out in Newark, N.J. In 1977, a blackout lasting 25 hours hits the New York City area. In 1978, Lee Iacocca is fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II. In 1979, a 45-hour siege by Palestinian guerrillas begins at the Egyptian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. In 1985, "Live Aid," an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, takes place to raise money for Africa's starving people. In 1996, after battering the Carolina coast, the weakened remnants of Hurricane Bertha move north, spawning tornadoes and dumping rain from Maryland to Massachusetts. In 2001, a judge in San Jose, Calif., sentences Andrew Burnett, the man who'd tossed a fluffy little dog to its death in a bout of road rage, to the maximum three years behind bars. In 2005, a suicide car bomb explodes next to U.S. troops handing out candy and toys in Iraq, killing more than two dozen people, including 18 children and teenagers and an American soldier.
July 13, 1981: John M. Hudzik, 56, Mahoning County recorder since 1977 and a former president of city council, dies of a heart attack in his sleep at his home. Viola C. Rodgers Vaughan, administrator in the recorder's office, is named acting recorder by the Mahoning County commissioners.
Joseph M. Houser, son of Atty. and Mrs. William G. Houser, receives his doctor of law degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
Iranian firing squads execute 23 people charged with rebellion, bringing to at least 195 the number of people put to death for political offenses in the three weeks since President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was ousted from office.
July 13, 1966: Five public welfare programs in Mahoning County cost a total of $5.5 million in 1965, including $425,000 for administration, according to a report by the Ohio Department of Public Welfare. Aid for the Aged was $2.4 million; Aid for Dependent Children was $1.2 million and general relief was $1.3 million.
Donald Haines, Trumbull County school bus coordinator, tells the Brookfield Board of Education that it cannot transport students across state lines to Sacred Heart School in Sharon. It could lose state funding if it does.
Starring on the stage of the Kenley Players in Warren is John Forsythe in "Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?"
July 13, 1956: A large crowd braves rain showers in Wampum, Pa., to attend ground-breaking for Portland-Medusa Cement Co.'s new $12 million plant. William Davis, Pennsylvania secretary of commerce, is the speaker.
Youngstown will participate in an "active war game" by evacuating the 2,200 residents of Westlake Terrace and all radio and television stations will be blacked out for a period of time as the city becomes the target of two simulated 20-kiloton atomic bombs in the national "Operation Alert" exercises.
Youngstown housewives are paying record prices for potatoes because of a shortage attributed to bad weather. Ten pounds of potatoes are selling for between 98 cents and $1.15. A year earlier, 15 pounds cost 69 cents.
July 13, 1931: Mahoning County Prosecutor Ray L. Thomas takes the stand to defend himself on a charge of blackmailing former Traction Commissioner Harry Engle.
Helen Wolosyn is Queen of the South Side and will ride at the head of the South Side parade.
Harry Fritz, slugging first baseman from Beaver Falls, puts Brier Hill in sole possession of first place in the "AA" loop by cracking out two home runs to beat the East Side Civics, 6-5, before a crowd upwards of 8,000 fans at Victory Field.