Today is Wednesday, June 7, the 158th day of 2006. There are 207 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, June 7, the 158th day of 2006. There are 207 days left in the year. On this date in 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposes to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
In 1753, Britain's King George II gives his assent to an Act of Parliament establishing the British Museum. In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone first begins to explore the present-day Bluegrass State. In 1848, French postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin is born in Paris. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln is nominated for another term as president at his party's convention in Baltimore. In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City comes into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty are exchanged in Rome. In 1948, the Communists complete their takeover of Czechoslovakia with the resignation of President Eduard Benes. In 1967, author-critic Dorothy Parker, famed for her caustic wit, dies in New York. In 1972, the musical "Grease" opens on Broadway. In 1981, Israeli military planes destroy a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charge could have been used to make nuclear weapons. In 1998, in a crime that shocks the nation, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, is dragged to his death behind a pickup truck in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men are later sentenced to death for the crime; a third receives life in prison.)
June 7, 1981: Two young men are in critical condition in an Akron Hospital after being pulled from an asphalt tank at Sentco Paint Manufacturing Co. on Youngstown's West Side. They were overcome by fumes while cleaning the tank.
Davis International Inc. of Youngstown is chosen general contractor for Commuter Aircraft Corp.'s $54 million airplane assembly plant at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Auto wiring harness assembly operations employ about 5,000 workers at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors in the Mahoning Valley, but any of those jobs could go to Mexico, Packard officials say.
June 7, 1966: The Youngstown Board of Control awards a contract for the detailed design of the remodeling of Central Square to Glaus, Pyle and Schomer.
A 16-year-old North Side boy shot by police investigating a burglary has a good chance of recovering from partial paralysis caused by the bullet near his spine, Youngstown police say.
An extra session will be added for the 23rd annual horse show July 14-17 at the Canfield Fairgrounds to accommodate the large number of entries, says F.G. "Pete" Hyatt, chairman of the Mahoning Saddle and Bridle Club.
June 7, 1956: Warren Mayor William C. Burbank cancels all permits to display automobiles on Warren streets as prizes in lotteries. He also prohibits the selling of raffle tickets on streets.
Dan Modak, head football coach at Hubbard High school, is named director of Hubbard playgrounds for the summer.
The Air Force Reserve has no interest in taking over the Youngstown Municipal Airport and building a new civil air field for the city, says Maj. Gen. William E. Hall, deputy chief of staff for reserve forces.
Youngstown City Council approves an additional clothing allowance of $30 for city policemen for the purchase of summer uniforms, which consist of white shirts and gray trousers.
June 7, 1931: M.W. Mercer, 30, of Warren is shot and seriously wounded when he shoots it out with a bandit who attempted to rob the Sharon Line grocery store Mercer manages.
Local flyers are planning a special stunt-flying exhibition to mark the last stop of air mail planes on the Pittsburgh-Youngstown-Cleveland route.
The Rev. C.M. Meyers of Hubbard and John Danks, candidate for municipal judge, are the principal speakers at a "grand rally" of the Ku Klux Klan that attracted about 75 Klansmen to the Bender farm on Raccoon Road.