Today is Monday, July 24, the 205th day of 2006. There are 160 days left in the year. On this date in 1866, Tennessee becomes the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.

Today is Monday, July 24, the 205th day of 2006. There are 160 days left in the year. On this date in 1866, Tennessee becomes the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.
In 1862, the eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren, dies in Kinderhook, N.Y. In 1929, President Hoover proclaims the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounces war as an instrument of foreign policy. In 1937, the state of Alabama drops charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the "Scottsboro Case." In 1959, during a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard M. Nixon engages in a "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at a U.S. exhibition. In 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts -- two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon -- splashes down safely in the Pacific. In 1974, the Supreme Court unanimously rules that President Nixon has to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor. In 1975, an Apollo spacecraft splashes down in the Pacific, completing a mission which included the first-ever docking with a Soyuz capsule from the Soviet Union. In 1991, Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer dies in Miami at age 87. In 2002, nine coal miners are trapped in a flooded mine in western Pennsylvania; the story ends happily three days later with the rescue of all nine.
July 24, 1981: Youngstown's judges and the clerk of municipal court reject a proposal from Mayor George Vukovich that eight employees in the judicial branch be laid off under an overall plan to reduce spending.
An employee of David B. Williams, parking concessionaire and local businessman, testifies that Williams provided the figures for the daily reports and bank deposit slips for operating the parking lot at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Ford Motor Co. shows its first quarterly profit in a year and a half, earning $60 million during the second third months of 1981.
July 24, 1966: Youngstown's city swimming pools have been open every day of summer and more than 150,000 bathers turned out during the first four weeks of the season, encouraged by high temperatures and little rain.
A New York Central Railroad car with a jet airplane engine attached to its roof exceeds an estimated 100 mph in a test on a 17-mile stretch of track in Indiana.
Christine Sonoga, a 16-year-old Boardman High School student, has been conducting a one-person campaign to get local industries to fly American flags. Robert J. Renner, general manager of Hunter Steel Service, one of the first companies she contacted, was impressed enough to spend $300 for a flag pole and a flag.
July 24, 1956: The 38-year rule against employing married women as teachers in Youngstown city schools is suspended temporarily by the board of education on the recommendation of Supt. Paul C. Bunn.
A tentative 1957 budget of $8.7 million, and all-time record and $347,894 more than the 1956 appropriation, is adopted by the Youngstown Board of Education.
Stanton W. Simkins, director of secondary education of Doylestown, Pa., schools, will succeed Dr. Fred Essig as assistant superintendent of Youngstown schools.
July 24, 1931: Mahoning County Prosecutor Ray L. Thomas wins a sweeping victory as three special judges assigned by the Ohio Supreme Court, find him not guilty of blackmail and rule that he shall remain prosecutor. The judges also denounced former Youngstown traction commissioner Harry Engle and P.O. electric company interests for their improper relationship.
Hundreds of people jam the street at Phelps and W. Federal streets waiting to get into the new G.C. Murphy Co. store on opening day.
R.N. Graham, general manager of the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co., recommends against buying 15 new buses as authorized by city council, saying the buses are not needed and an maintenance costs for existing rolling stock remains low.
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