Today is Tuesday, July 22, the 204th day of 2008. There are 162 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, July 22, the 204th day of 2008. There are 162 days left in the year. On this date in 1933, American aviator Wiley Post completes the first solo flight around the world as he returns to New York’s Floyd Bennett Field after traveling for 7 days, 183‚Ñ4 hours.

In 1587, an English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances is established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. In 1796, Cleveland is founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland. In 1937, the Senate rejects President Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court. In 1942, the Nazis begin transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp. In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton capture Palermo, Sicily, during World War II. In 1946, Jewish extremists blow up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90 people.

July 22, 1983: Winds estimated at 85 mph hit Salem and blow out a wall of the Ohio Bell service garage on East State Street.

An explosion at a Beaver Falls sewage treatment plant kills two employees at the plant and injures a half dozen others.

July 22, 1968: Sharon Steel Corp.’s sales and revenues for the busy first half of the year break all records for any six months in the company’s history and earnings are four times what they were a year earlier.

Staff Sgt. Ronald C. Ross, 29, of Girard is killed by shrapnel from a grenade while on a combat mission. He joined the Army in 1958, a few weeks after graduating from South High School in Youngstown.

Paul DeZeeuw, a South African tennis champion who graduated from Florida State University, ends a stint as the tennis pro at the Youngstown Country Club and will head home with the expiration of his five-year student visa.

July 22, 1958: Gov. C. William O’Neill assures the Youngstown district that a Lake-to-River highway will be built and says the first section is set for construction in the current fiscal year.

Vandals knock over several tombstones in the cemetery at the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church (Byzantine Rite) on S. Schenley Avenue in Youngstown.

Solly Hart, once Cleveland’s Public Enemy No. 1, is released from the Ohio Penitentiary after serving all but a day of his 20-year sentence for the 1937 murder of Roy “Happy” Marino, a Youngstown racketeer whose body was found with 18 bullet holes in a farm field near Rogers.

July 22, 1933: Five mill workers are in the South Side unit of the Youngstown Hospital from exhaustion and cramps caused by heat when the mercury jumps to 96 in the late afternoon and remains high late into the evening.

The fight by local civic leaders and Congressman John G. Cooper to get a branch of the Home Owners Loan Corp. in Youngstown is lost with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board choosing Akron as the site.