Today in history

Today is Sunday, July 30, the 211th day of 2006. There are 154 days left in the year.
On this date in 1945, during World War II, the battle cruiser USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered components for the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima, is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 316 out of 1,196 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters.
In 1729, the city of Baltimore is founded. In 1792, the French national anthem "La Marseillaise," by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, is first sung in Paris. In 1844, the New York Yacht Club is founded. In 1942, President Roosevelt signs a bill creating a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service" -- WAVES for short. In 1965, President Johnson signs into law the Medicare bill, which went into effect the following year.
In 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit; although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. In 1996, a federal law enforcement source says security guard Richard Jewell has become a focus of the investigation into the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park. (Jewell was later cleared as a suspect, and Eric Rudolph eventually pleaded guilty.) The U.S. Olympic softball team defeats China 3-1 to win the gold medal.
In 2001, Robert Mueller, President Bush's choice to head the FBI, promises the Senate Judiciary Committee that if confirmed, he would move forcefully to fix problems at the agency. Typhoon Toraji churns through Taiwan, killing some 200 people. In 2005, President Bush is pronounced "fit for duty" after a checkup that showed that the 59-year-old commander in chief, an avid mountain bike rider, had lost eight pounds since his last physical exam in December 2004. Wim Duisenberg, the former European Central Bank chief who'd helped create the euro currency, dies in Faucon, France, at age 70.
July 30, 1981: Wesley Davis of Eau Claire, Wisc., is hired at an annual salary of $25,000 to serve as executive director of Trumbull County's new Visitors and Convention Bureau.
Youngstown Mayor George Vukovich says Floyd G. Browne & amp; Associates of Canton has been paid $4 million since 1974 as the city's engineering consultant on sewer systems, but no one on the Board of Control can say what the terms of the agreement are.
With U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams, R-19th as catcher, the Republicans beat the Democrats, 6-4, in the annual Congressional Classic baseball game in Washington, D.C.
July 30, 1966: Three curious Youngstown policemen investigating the presence of two well-groomed teenage couples in a dark East End alley discover an unlicensed second-floor dance hall dive that is believed to have been supplying beer and sex to minors from prominent families. Eleven juveniles, most from Canfield and Poland, are arrested.
Teenagers looking for money and intent on vandalism wreck the interior of a home at 302 N. Center St. owned by Susan Dohun, a 73-year-old widow who was away on vacation.
Leetonia kicks-off its Centennial celebration with an antique car show at the high school stadium.
July 30, 1956: Youngstown and other industrial cities along the Mahoning River could easily have had their worst floods in history in 1956 had it not been for the chain of reservoirs that are holding back a record rainfall. Meander Reservoir, Lake Milton and the Berlin Reservoir are all at record levels for the season.
The old Krehl mansion, a relic of the gingerbread era of architecture, at N. State St. and W. Broadway in Girard, is being razed to make way for the Baglier Ford Agency.
Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife, the Empress, inspect electrolytic tinning equipment that was designed and installed by Wean Engineering Co. of Warren at the Kudamatsu Works of Toyo Kohanb Co. Ltd. Rapid strides have been made in modernizing Japan's steel industry.
July 30, 1931: State Rep. George P. Lewis accepts the chairmanship of the campaign of James E. Jones for Youngstown mayor.
Sweet corn in Kansas City is selling for as low as 1 cent a dozen after huge quantities were ripened suddenly by hot weather.
A branch of the St. Vincent de Paul Conference is established at St. Joseph's parish in Youngstown after leaders from Cleveland tell a group in the school auditorium about the work of the organization. Fred S. Handel is appointed president and 17 men are enrolled as charter members.
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