Today is Tuesday, July 1, the 183rd day of 2008. There are 183 days left in the year. This is Canada

Today is Tuesday, July 1, the 183rd day of 2008. There are 183 days left in the year. This is Canada Day. On this date in 1946, the United States explodes a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

In 1867, Canada becomes a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act took effect. In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, U.S. forces, including Theodore Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders,” wage a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba. In 1948, New York International Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild begins operations. In 1948, the fare on New York City subways doubles from a nickel to 10 cents.

July 1, 1983: Youngstown police raid a Pyatt Street body shop and discover what they say is a chop-shop containing an estimated $50,0000 worth of stolen vehicles ready to be stripped.

The father of a convenience store clerk who was shot to death by a policeman answering a robbery call files a $2.5 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court.

About 35 demonstrators march in front of the Trumbull County administration building demanding that county commissioners rehire 19 laid-off sheriff’s deputies.

July 1, 1968: The city buys two parcels in the first urban renewal project downtown from Carlson Electric at 121 E. Boardman St., and Bazely and Junedal Markets at 24-26 E. Federal St. for a total of $169,500.

Four men, three of them escaped convicts captured after they fired on a squad car and sought refuge in a Girard home, had been plotting to assassinate 110 Pennsylvania policemen and two FBI agents, Youngstown police learn during questioning.

July 1, 1958: Three nationally notorious racketeers who operated in Youngstown or Trumbull County will figure in the U.S. Senate Rackets Committee’s hearings on the Mafia: Joe DiCarlo of Youngstown and Jack Licavoli and Frank Cammarata of Warren.

At least 40,000 to 50,000 Youngstown district workers in basic steel or steel fabrication get an annual cost-of-living increase. Some are companies are also giving the raise to their white collar workers, some aren’t.

July 1, 1933: James D. Shadbolt, 53, a veteran of the Spanish-American War who has admitted shooting Col. Vernon Roberts, chief surgeon at the military hospital in Dayton, says he intended to murder all government officials who had anything to do with his having been removed from government pension rolls.

Thousands of fishermen, from experts with jeweled casting rods to boys and girls with wooden poles, crowd Lake Newport for the first day of fishing.

Dr. J.O. Engleman is reinstated as president of Kent State College after one of the three trustees who voted to remove him, David Ladd Rockwell, is removed from the board by action of the Ohio Senate.