Today is Saturday, June 24, the 175th day of 2006. There are 190 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, June 24, the 175th day of 2006. There are 190 days left in the year. On this date in 1948, Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the Western allies to organize the massive Berlin Airlift.
In 1314, the forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeat the English in the Battle of Bannockburn. In 1509, Henry VIII is crowned king of England. In 1647, Margaret Brent, a niece of Lord Baltimore, is ejected from the Maryland Assembly after demanding a place and vote in that governing body. In 1793, the first republican constitution in France is adopted. In 1908, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, dies in Princeton, N.J., at age 71.
June 24, 1981: Actress-singer Debby Boone, in Ohio to star in the Kenley Players production of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," is hospitalized after a three-car accident on Interstate 71 near Lodi.
Ohio Secretary of State Anthony Celebrezze finds there was likely a violation of state law in the registration and voting of some people in the Beaver Township special election on liquor sales in December 1979.
A sharp rise in housing costs pushes the nation's annual inflation rate to 8.4 percent in May.
June 24, 1966: Two teenage Beloit girls are killed when their homemade motorscooter goes through a stop sign and is struck by a car in Route 165 at Cortney Road in Smith Township. Dead are April Speece, 17, and Cynthia McElroy, 16.
All 16 Struthers police officers at a meeting with Safety-Service Director John C. Kochis to discuss the issue of sick leave walk out of the meeting after Kochis accuses them of "acting like hoodlums" during a discussion of sick leave for an officer who was injured while working off the job.
June 24, 1956: Municipal Judge Frank R. Franko issues subpoenas for Police Chief Paul Cress and a "lounging" police sergeant who "spends most of his time in Florida" to appear as technical experts in a traffic case. This is the latest round in a feud between Franko and Judge Forrest J. Cavalier over the assignment of Franko's bailiff, Ray Casanta.
Even before formal action is taken, a proposal for a racetrack in Beaver Township, near the Route 7 interchange of the Ohio Turnpike, has stirred up opposition.
A foot-weary, sweat-drenched posse is ready to give up in the Portage County search for Alfred Wilson, Trumbull County's triple slayer.
June 24, 1931: Atty. Clyde Osborne, close friend of former Youngstown Traction Commissioner Harry Engle, testifies of his conferences with Atty. J.P. Huxley, of counsel for the Pennsylvania-Ohio Power and Light Co., in order to seek a settlement to "quiet Engle" about payments made by the company.
Mildred Stinaff, Akron aviatrix and former holder of the women's record for loop flying, is killed in the crash of a transport plane over the Akron Municipal Airport. She was attempting to qualify for a license as a transport pilot.
President Hoover approves increases in tariffs on dried eggs, hemp cordage and small bells for bicycles; then decreases tariffs on bent-wood furniture, olive oil and pipe organs and parts.