Today is Thursday, June 29, the 180th day of 2006. There are 185 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, June 29, the 180th day of 2006. There are 185 days left in the year. On this date in 1972, the Supreme Court rules the death penalty, as it is being meted out, could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment." (The ruling prompts states to revise their capital punishment laws.)
In 1946, British authorities arrest more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to stamp out alleged terrorism. In 1949, the government of South Africa enacts a ban against racially mixed marriages. In 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission votes against reinstating Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer's access to classified information. In 1967, Jerusalem is reunified as Israel removes barricades separating the Old City from the Israeli sector. In 1970, the United States ends a two-month military offensive into Cambodia. In 1995, the shuttle Atlantis and the space station Mir dock in orbit.
June 29, 1981: Female mud wrestling and harness racing are the top attractions of the day at the Trumbull County Fair.
Youngstown's five-year improvement plan for two neighborhoods is already more than two years old, but many of the projects are still on the drawing board.
Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent E. Gilmartin said he will prosecute George Malizia, 51, for an alleged voting irregularity in the December 1979 liquor sale election in Beaver Township.
June 29, 1966: Youngstown hospitals anticipate no serious problems as they move into the new Medicare era and benefits become available to some 31,000 persons over 65 in Mahoning County.
A special school committee is named by the Mayor's Human Relations Commission to investigate human relations within the Youngstown school system.
Mahoning County's oldest resident, Pearl "Granny" Bynum of 423 Chicago Ave., dies at the age of 107. She was born on a plantation in Alabama and witnessed the Civil War at the beginning of her life and the modern fight for civil rights at the end.
June 29, 1956: Trumbull County schools, which educate the children of Air Force families at the Youngstown Air Base, will receive a windfall of $249,682 in school construction and maintenance funds.
Mayor Frank X. Kryzan again vetoes legislation passed by Youngstown City Council to reimburse city policemen for the expense of buying summer uniforms. Council had cut the individual allowances to $20 so that the total was less than $5,000. By city charter, council can override the mayor's veto of an expenditure less than $5,000; but council has adjourned for the summer.
The 1956 Mahoning Valley High School building Fund drive launched by the Youngstown Catholic Diocese exceeds its $600,000 goal by $13,543.
June 29, 1931: A petition by downtown merchants asks Youngstown City Council to prohibit buses and interurban coaches from using Central Square as a loading terminal.
The new Telegram building opens in Telegram Square following a brief dedicatory ceremony during which Russell McKay, president of the chamber of Commerce, spoke.
An unidentified man dies in a ride over Niagara Falls. Police belief that rum runners sabotaged his boat so that it would get caught in the current and taken over the falls. They believe the man was an informer.