Today is Tuesday, July 25, the 206th day of 2006. There are 159 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, July 25, the 206th day of 2006. There are 159 days left in the year. On this date in 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria collides with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast late at night and begins sinking; at least 51 people die as a result of the impact. (The Andrea Doria sinks the following day, some 11 hours after the crash.)
In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant is named General of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank. In 1868, Congress passes an act creating the Wyoming Territory.
In 1943, Benito Mussolini is dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest. (However, Mussolini is later rescued by the Nazis, and re-asserts his authority.) In 1946, the United States detonates an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device. In 1952, Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
In 1963, the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain initial a treaty in Moscow prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space or underwater. In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the first "test tube baby," is born in Oldham, England; she'd been conceived through the technique of in-vitro fertilization. In 1986, movie director Vincente Minnelli, known for such musicals as "Gigi," "An American in Paris" and "Meet Me in St. Louis," dies in Los Angeles. In 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein sign a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of war. In 2000, a New York-bound Air France Concorde crashes outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground; it is the first-ever crash of the supersonic jet.
July 25, 1981: Residents of three western Mahoning County townships concerned over the lack of police protection from the Sheriff's Department are discussing establishing their own police departments. A meeting will be held in Ellsworth Township.
The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission says that a $50,000 budget cut by Mayor George Vukovich means that the city's seven swimming pools and 43 playgrounds will have to close Aug. 9, five days earlier than planned.
A golfer angered by missing a 1-foot putt was electrocuted after he attempted to retrieve the putter he hurled into a tree on an Anderson, Ind., golf course.
July 25 1966: The Federal Aviation Agency will install a $500,000 air surveillance radar system at Youngstown Municipal Airport to improve safety and air service reliability.
Republic Steel Corp.'s new facilities, including its $10 million stretch reducing pipe mill at Youngstown and new basic oxygen steelmaking furnaces in Warren, are credited in part by Thomas J. Patton, Republic chairman, with improving second quarter earnings. Republic earned $27 million on revenues of $367 million.
Three Youngstown men and a 16-year-old boy are being held in Erie County Jail after being arrested outside a music store that had been burglarized.
July 25 1956: More than 10,000 unused bug slips and a number containing bet numbers are seized in a raid by Campbell police on what was described as a "big house" at 12 Adams St.
A 70-year-old Youngstown mother sees her daughter for the first time in 42 years, and then dies seven hours later. Mrs. Theresa Knebel collapsed at her home, where her daughter, Anna, had arrived after a long trip from Yugoslavia.
The Youngstown Civil Service Commission rules that all civil service employees must quit their outside jobs. The action is expected to affect many firemen and policemen.
July 25, 1931: A day after being acquitted by a three judge panel of blackmail, Mahoning County Prosecutor Ray Thomas resumes his investigation of former Youngstown Traffic Commissioner Harry Engle and electricity company corruption.
Twenty-five residents and a nun die in a fire at the Little Sisters of the Poor home for the aged in Pittsburgh, and 217 people are injured.
Howard O. Jones, acting president of Hiram College, is named assistant general secretary of the Youngstown YMCA in charge of all educational activities.