Today is Thursday, July 27, the 208th day of 2006. There are 157 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, July 27, the 208th day of 2006. There are 157 days left in the year. On this date in 1789, Congress establishes the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the Department of State.
In 1794, French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre is overthrown and placed under arrest; he is executed the following day. In 1866, Cyrus W. Field finally succeeds, after two failures, in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe. In 1953, the Korean War armistice is signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting. In 1960, Vice President Nixon is nominated for president at the Republican national convention in Chicago. In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 to recommend President Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case. In 1976, Air Force veteran Ray Brennan becomes the first person to die of so-called "Legionnaire's Disease" following an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. In 1980, on day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran dies at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60. In 1995, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington by President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam. In 2003, comedian Bob Hope dies in Toluca Lake, Calif., at age 100.
July 27, 1981: Two alleged members of a gambling operation at the Lordstown General Motors plant are arraigned in Newton Falls Municipal Court.
A delegation of a dozen school board members, educators, businessmen and labor leaders from the Youngstown area tells a state education funding subcommittee that unless adequate state financing is provided, the public school system will face increasing difficulties.
The Rev. Francis Snock, pastor of St. Matthias Church, speaks on fraternalism and its impact on members at the 49th Jednota Day meeting of the First Catholic Slovak Union of the tri-county area at Shady Run Picnic Grove.
July 27, 1966: About 280 Youngstown street and water department employees join 90 garbage collectors in a strike against the city, and their leaders challenge Mayor A.B. Flask to fire them.
Valley Mould and Iron Co., which has plants in Hubbard, Cleveland and Chicago, is deciding whether to build a new plant to produce larger moulds, says President William C.H. Ramage.
Some $167 million has been spent to improve and control the Eastern Ohio water resources and any regulation forcing further huge expenditures to improve the water quality of the Mahoning River would prove an impossible burden, says Kenneth M. Lloyd, Youngstown water expert.
July 27, 1956: Anthony DeGeorge, a veteran Youngstown steelworker, says he was in the theater watching a movie aboard the Andrea Doria when the ship collided with another in the Atlantic Ocean. DeGeorge was in the first lifeboat to reach the liner Ile de France that steamed to the site of the crash and began taking on passengers. All passengers were evacuated before the Andrea Doria sank 11 hours after the collision.
Youngstown officials tell an Air Force negotiating team that Youngstown should get at least $2,500 a month for Municipal Airport facilities used by the jet base. The present rental fee is $625.
The Internal Revenue Service seizes a brick and stone home owned by racketeer Frank Cammarata at 631 Belvedere Ave. N.E. in Warren to satisfy $12,586 in delinquent taxes.
July 27, 1931: Trumbull County Prosecutor Burrell has indicated he will seek the death penalty against Louis Vitullo, Youngstown pool room operator and petty racketeer, in the murder of Betty Palko, his mistress.
Sister Mary Hortense, superintendent of St. Elizabeth Hospital for six years, is named superior of the Sisters of Holy Humility of Mary at Mount Marie Academy in Canton. Sister DeLellis is named hospital administrator.
L.P. Furculow, piloting Goodyear balloon No. 7 in the Detroit News Balloon Race, drifts over Youngstown in the morning and lands on the I.E. Swisher farm five miles southwest of New Castle, Pa. The winner of the race will apparently be either the pilot who landed 9 miles south of Pittsburgh, or the one who landed near Marietta, Ohio, both about 220 miles from Detroit.