Today is Sunday, July 6, the 188th day of 2008. There are 178 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, July 6, the 188th day of 2008. There are 178 days left in the year. On this date in 1928, the first all-talking feature, “The Lights of New York,” has its gala premiere in New York.

In 1535, Sir Thomas More is executed in England for high treason. In 1917, during World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi capture the port of Aqaba from the Turks. In 1933, the first All-Star baseball game is played, at Chicago’s Comiskey Park; the American League defeats the National League, 4-2. In 1944, 168 people die in a fire that breaks out in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn. In 1957, Althea Gibson becomes the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2. In 1967, war erupts as Nigeria sends troops into the secessionist state of Biafra. (The Biafran War, which lasted two and a-half years and resulted in a Nigerian victory, claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.) In 1988, 167 North Sea oil workers are killed when a series of explosions and fires destroy a drilling platform. In 1988, medical waste and other debris begin washing up on New York City-area seashores, forcing the closing of several popular beaches.

July 6, 1983: Mahoning County Commissioners approve $42,425 for wage increases for deputies and civilian workers in the sheriff’s department, which will allow a deputy’s pay to be increased from $14,494 to $16,088.

The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad announces that it will lay off another 75 office and operating employees, on top of previous sharp cuts, as it delays paying some current bills because of deregulation in the industry and the steel recession.

July 6, 1968: Clinton Clark, an 18-year-old junior police cadet whose alertness led to the capture of four wanted Pennsylvania criminals, three of them jailbreakers, receives a $1,660 scholarship from the American Television and Electronic School during a meeting of the Youngstown Rotary Club.

George E. Stosky, 17, of Idlywild NE, Warren, is the state winner in the senior division of the 1968 Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild model car competition. He will represent Ohio in the national competition in Detroit. John J. Mohan, 15, of Niles receives an honorable mention in the junior division.

July 6, 1958: The smallest complete blood exchange transfusion ever done at St. Elizabeth Hospital is performed on William E. Adair, when he was only three days old and weighed only 1 pound, 14 ounces. The procedure was performed by Youngstown pediatrician Dr. Kurt Wegner.

Nine women complete training as medical technicians at Youngstown Hospital Association’s School of Medical Technology, which is affiliate with Youngstown University and Kent State University. The graduates are Nancy Kimpton, Norma Barchie, Judy Ruby, Adaline Brandt, Lahni Stanier, Lorene Oswald, Sandra Natale, Delores Goldman and Mary Catherine Yurich.

July 6, 1933: The Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey combined circus arrives in Youngstown and pitches its tent on the Westlake circus grounds on W. Madison Avenue.

The Rev. W.E. Hammaker, chairman of the citizens relief committee, tells Youngstown Mayor Mark E. Moore that he fears a serious situation with regard to poor relief in the last quarter of the year unless the economic recovery continues at the present rate.