Today is Tuesday, July 18, the 199th day of 2006. There are 166 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, July 18, the 199th day of 2006. There are 166 days left in the year. On this date in 1947, President Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act, which places the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.
In A.D. 64, the Great Fire of Rome begins. In 1932, the United States and Canada sign a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway. In 1936, the Spanish Civil War begins. In 1940, the Democratic national convention in Chicago nominates President Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term in office. In 1969, a car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., plunges off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard; passenger Mary Jo Kopechne dies. In 1984, a gunman opens fire at a McDonald's fast food restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif., killing 21 people before being shot dead by police. In 1984, Walter F. Mondale wins the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco. In 1986, the world gets its first look at the remains of the Titanic as videotapes of the British luxury liner, which sank in 1912, are released by researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
July 18, 1981: Mahoning County Democratic ward captains unanimously endorse William E. Repasky, Democratic member of the Board of elections, to succeed County Recorder John M. Hudzik.
The Amerijet Aircraft Corp. signs a patent agreement with the inventors of a "revolutionary" wing that will be the mainstay of the company's eight-seat jet airplane.
A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh indicts John G. Dinger, sheriff of Jefferson County, Pa., for protecting a Youngstown man, Harry J. Barber, from arrest. Barber was wanted for the $8 million burglary of the Laguna Nigel branch of the United California Bank.
July 18, 1966: Six Austintown boys, ranging in age for 9 to 13, are turned over to juvenile authorities after they admitted cutting wires that control warning devices at the Route 18 crossing of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad.
The 150-year-old Harroff Home, more recently known as the Thornley Tea Room, at 5097 Mahoning Ave. is razed to make way for the Lake-to-River Highway, which will cross Mahoning Avenue at that site.
The Rev. Silas W. Wilkerson, 63, of Wichita, Kansas, collapses and dies after finishing a half-hour sermon in Phillips Memorial Baptist Church in Campbell.
July 18, 1956: Substantial funds will come to the Youngstown Board of Education for developing C.C. Choffin Vocational School as provided in Mr. Choffin's will, which was filed in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Two armed bandits take about $3,000 form a dice game at the Structural Iron Workers Hall, 651 Market St. The daring stick-up was hushed up at police headquarters.
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen will celebrate a Byzantine Rite Mass in English at St. Michael Church in Campbell. Sheen says the Byzantine Rite is the bridge between Rome and Moscow.
July 18, 1931: H.S. Warwick, assistant treasurer of the Beaver, Mahoning and Shenango Rivers Improvement Association, returns from Columbus, where he discussed the need for a tri-river canal with Gov. George White.
Federal narcotics officers and Youngstown police join forces t to smash a dope ring that has been supplying thousands of dollars worth of narcotics to addicts in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys. JA Youngstown woman, two Campbell men and a Youngstown man are the latest to be arrested.