Today is Wednesday, July 26, the 207th day of 2006. There are 158 days left in the year. On this date in 1856, playwright George Bernard Shaw is born in Dublin, Ireland.

Today is Wednesday, July 26, the 207th day of 2006. There are 158 days left in the year. On this date in 1856, playwright George Bernard Shaw is born in Dublin, Ireland.
In 1775, Benjamin Franklin becomes postmaster-general. In 1788, New York becomes the 11th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1945, Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's prime minister after his Conservatives are soundly defeated by the Labour Party. (Clement Attlee becomes the new prime minister.) In 1952, Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, dies in Buenos Aires at age 33. In 1952, King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser. In 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal. In 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks off New England, some 11 hours after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm; at least 51 people die. In 1971, Apollo 15 is launched from Cape Kennedy, Fla. In 1986, kidnappers in Lebanon release the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, an American hostage held for nearly 19 months. In 1986, American statesman W. Averell Harriman dies in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., at age 94.
July 26, 1981: A Youngstown State University football player says he has been thrown off the team and at least five others have been stripped of athletic scholarships following a university investigation of charges that 50 players caused some $20,000 in damage to a North Side dormitory.
An arson fire heavily damages the Wick Avenue building that houses the Mahoning Valley Association of Churches and four other tenants.
Trumpet virtuoso Doc Severinsen delights 15,000 people at a Youngstown Symphony Orchestra summer pops concert at Mill Creek Park.
July 26, 1966: Between 60 and 70 Youngstown sanitation department workers walk off the job, stopping the collection of garbage in the city and shutting down water department maintenance work as those employees honor a picket line set up by the sanitation workers.
Edward J. Levant, 49, manager of the Fisher Body Plant at GM Lordstown dies of an apparent heart attack at his home.
The Federal Aviation Agency will build a new $700,000 control tower at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Mahoning Valley communities don't need and cannot afford biological treatment facilities suggested by the federal government for cleaning Mahoning River pollution, Youngstown Mayor Anthony B. Flask tells the Ohio Water Pollution Control Board.
July 26, 1956: An estimated 300 elm trees will perish along Youngstown streets in 1956, victims of Dutch Elm disease, tree experts say.
A fire of undetermined origin heavily damages the log cabin in Perkins Park in Warren.
At least three Youngstowners are reported to be passengers on the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria that sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm in the fog off Nantucket Island, Mass. The ship's 1,634 passengers and crew were rescued in one of history's greatest sea epics before the ship sank.
An Air Force jet trainer crashes into a two-story apartment building in New Castle after the two crewmen bail out after the electrical system of the plane conked out. No one was injured, but six persons on the ground were treated for shock.
July 26, 1931: Two volunteer firemen are injured when a spectacular fire destroys the Girard plant of the Western Reserve Lumber Co. , causing damage estimated at $50,000.
After a four-day investigation, Columbiana County authorities abandon hope of solving the mystery of the murder of an unidentified three-year-old child whose charred bones were found in the ashes of a log pile fire in a picnic grove on the James McIntosh farm.
Youngstowners who are unable to witness the baseball games at Idora Park may soon be able to hear them on nightly broadcasts by local radio station WKBN.