Today is Friday, July 11, the 193rd day of 2008. There are 173 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Friday, July 11, the 193rd day of 2008. There are 173 days left in the year. On this date in 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J.

In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps is formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band. In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first incumbent chief executive to travel through the Panama Canal. In 1952, the Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominates Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president. In 1978, 216 people are immediately killed when a tanker truck overfilled with propylene gas explodes on a coastal highway south of Tarragona, Spain. In 1988, nine people are killed when five Palestinian gunmen attacked hundreds of tourists aboard a Greek cruise ship, the City of Poros, which was steaming toward a marina in suburban Athens. In 1995, the United States normalizes relations with Vietnam. In 2003, President Bush put responsibility squarely on the CIA for his disputed claim that Iraq had tried to acquire nuclear material from Africa and the World Trade Organization rules that heavy duties on steel imports imposed by the United States violated global trade rules.

July 11, 1983: Sadie Hoagland, director of the Federal Plaza, says Youngstown’s July 4th fireworks will be displayed July 22. The holiday fireworks were cancelled after Sheriff James a. Traficant Jr. closed the B. J. Alan Co. on July 3.

Teamsters Union President Jackie Presser says the destructive deregulation of the trucking industry has caused companies to close, causing a loss of 300,000 members from the 1.7 million Teamster membership.

July 11, 1968: A building permit is issued for the Southern Park Mall, a $15 million shopping center in Boardman Center that will be build by developer Edward J. DeBartolo and will include four merchandising giants, Strouss-Hirshberg, J.C. Penney, F.W. Woolworth’s and Sears.

A 24-year-old Ohio National Guardsman from Cleveland Heights is court-martialed and sentenced to 21 days at hard labor for refusing to bear arms during civil disturbances in Youngstown in April.

July 11, 1958: More than two inches of rain causes flooding throughout the Youngstown area, damaging house foundations, disrupting telephone service and damaging the wheat crop.

Defending champion Robert Ross Jr. of Springfield and medalist Jack Nicklaus of Columbus capture their opening-round matches in the Ohio Amateur Golf tournament on a soggy Tippecanoe Country Club course.

July 11, 1933: Youngstown City Council passes an ordinance adding 98 Allied Council employees to the city payroll at an average salary of $62.50 a month.

Sheet & Tube Common stock is selling at 36, up 41‚Ñ2 points, while Republic Common is at 221‚Ñ2, up a point and a half.

The village of Canfield is seeking $57,000 in aid from the federal administrator of public works for a proposed waterworks system, Mayor Robert A. Manchester says.