Today is Friday, June 23, the 174th day of 2006. There are 191 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Friday, June 23, the 174th day of 2006. There are 191 days left in the year. On this date in 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected president of Egypt.
In 1836, Congress approves the Deposit Act, which contains a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states. In 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for his "Type-Writer." In 1892, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominates former President Cleveland on the first ballot. In 1931, aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. In 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Authority is established. In 1947, the Senate joins the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. In 1967, President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin hold the first of two meetings in Glassboro, N.J. In 1969, Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief U.S. justice by the man he is succeeding, Earl Warren. In 1972, President Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman discuss a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation leads to Nixon's resignation in 1974.)
June 23, 1981: A tornado devastates the Lakeside Park on Bedell Road on the east shore of Berlin Reservoir, leaving a half-mile long path of damage and causing an estimated loss of $500,000.
Campbell City Council discusses providing minibus service to Lincoln Knolls Plaza through a contract with the Western Reserve Transit Authority.
The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to kill the Mohegan Indian Tribe's claim of ownership to 2,500 acres of land in Montville, Conn.
June 23, 1966: A dispute over who was to purchase the food for a wiener roast ends with the death of Clifford Walters, 17, of Howland Township, who was struck with a baseball bat. A 15-year-old neighbor is being held in the Trumbull County Jail.
Marine Corpsman Richard F. Roach, 19, of East Liverpool, is reported killed in action in Vietnam, the city's first serviceman to die in Vietnam.
William C. Mills, his wife, Irene, and their daughter, Connie Jean, 14, drown while wading in the Shenango River near the Wasser Bridge in Greenville.
June 23, 1956: A Trumbull County sheriff's posse of 150 men tries to track suspected murderer Alfred "Wilddog" Wilson through a heavily wooded area of Windham. Meanwhile, Wilson's common-law wife and their three children are being kept in protective custody in a county jail cell.
Late model stock car racing returns to Canfield with 40 cars in the 100-mile race that was postponed from Memorial Day weekend. Among the outstanding entries are Ernie Derr of Keokuk, Iowa, driving a 1956 Dodge convertible; Herschel White of Indianapolis in a 1956 Oldsmobile convertible, and Mike Klapak of Warren and Dick Linder of Pittsburgh, both driving 1956 Plymouth Furys.
June 23, 1931: Two Youngstown youths, Ralph D. Gefsky and Alfred S. Tavolario, are among nine graduates of the state school for the deaf at Columbus.
The Youngstown Board of Education awards the general contract for an addition to Scienceville High School to Felix Pesa on a bid of $41,974. The board asks the contractor to hire only men who live in the city and that all major materials be bought from city businesses.