Today is Sunday, July 23, the 204th day of 2006. There are 161 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Sunday, July 23, the 204th day of 2006. There are 161 days left in the year. On this date in 1886, New York saloonkeeper Steve Brodie claims to have made a daredevil plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River.
In 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, dies in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63. In 1892, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is born. In 1904, by some accounts, the ice cream cone is invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. In 1914, Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute leads to World War I. In 1945, French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, goes on trial, charged with treason. (He is condemned to death, but his sentence is commuted.) In 1951, Henri Petain dies in prison. In 1952, Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrow King Farouk I. In 1967, rioting that claims some 43 lives erupts in Detroit. In 1977, a jury in Washington convicts 12 Hanafi Muslims of charges stemming from the hostage siege at three buildings the previous March. In 1986, Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. (The couple divorces in 1996.)
July 23, 1981: A two-day walkout by Mahoning County deputies ends when the FOP, Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. and county commissioners agree to rehire 11 deputies who were laid off earlier in the year.
Housing costs, boosted by record home-loan rates, send the nation's inflation rate up in June at an annual rate of 8.8 percent.
U.S. Steel agrees to transfer its lease of key McDonald Mills operations directly to McDonald Steel, affirming the fledgling steel company's ability to finance steel operations.
The deficit of $482,524 at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren will be absorbed on a 50-50 basis by parishes in Trumbull County and the Youngstown Diocese.
July 23, 1966: Kaiser Refractories will build a $2 million addition to its Columbiana plant to produce a variety of products for the basic steel industry's new basic oxygen furnaces.
Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., says he will open a public inquiry into drug prices under Medicare and federally funded health programs. He alleges that some people are being charged 400 times too much for their prescriptions.
A 23-year-old Warren man is charged in the $26,500 robbery of the Second National Bank branch in Lordstown. The bandit surrendered to Trumbull Sheriff Robert Barnett.
July 23, 1956: Jim McGunigal, pro at the Henry Stambaugh Golf Course, is honored by the Youngstown District Amateur Golf Association as "Man of the Year."
The Quaker City American Legion Band of Salem retains its state title in competition at the 38th annual state convention of the American Legion in Cleveland.
The Sharon Steel Corp. will construct a modern $6 million furnace at its Roemer Works in Farrell, doubling production of stainless and high-alloy steel.
July 23, 1931: Charred bones, thought to be those of a small child, are found on the McIntosh farm on the Lincoln Highway northeast of East Liverpool. Columbiana County Sheriff W.J. Barlow says the bones were found in a brush fire that had smoldered for nearly a week.
The lower deck of the Mahoning Avenue viaduct leading from Mahoning Avenue down to Mill Creek Park and to Salt Springs Road is closed for repairs and will remain closed for about a month.
Vera Aurora Ragaini, 23, former Youngstown girl whose talent and superb piano technique carried her to fame in New York City, will be the featured artist on the NBC network, playing a Brahms-Chopin program. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ermengildo Ragaini of West Avenue.
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