Today is Sunday, July 27, the 209th day of 2008. There are 157 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Sunday, July 27, the 209th day of 2008. There are 157 days left in the year. On this date in 1789, President Washington signs a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs, forerunner of the Department of State.

In 1866, Cyrus W. Field finishes laying out the first successful underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe. (A previous cable in 1858 burns out after only a few weeks of use.) In 1953, the Korean War armistice is signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting. In 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon is nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 to adopt the first of three articles of impeachment against President Nixon, charging he had personally engaged in a course of conduct designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case. In 1980, on day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran dies at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60. In 1996, terror strikes the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park, killing one person and injuring 111. (Anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph later pleads guilty to the bombing.)

July 27, 1983:Youngstown officials are gambling that their refusal to give the federal government a long-term lease on space in the City Hall Annex will boost the chance of getting a new federal building downtown.

Cliff Stout, a seven-year veteran from Youngstown State University, will be the starting quarterback, not Terry Bradshaw, when the Pittsburgh Steelers face the New Orleans Saints in the annual Hall of Fame game in Canton.

July 27, 1968: Fire sweeps through the Raber Feed and Supply Co. in Alliance, causing at least $150,000 in damage.

U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Vigorito of Pennsylvania says he has asked Vice President Hubert Humphrey to consider him as a vice presidential running mate should Humphrey get the Democratic presidential nomination.

A group of residents of Goleta Avenue and nearby streets on Youngstown’s North Side issue a statement deploring an arson fire at a home on Goleta purchased by a Negro family and “welcoming all persons into our neighborhood.”

July 27, 1958: Judge Forrest J. Cavalier releases S. Joseph “Sandy” Naples from Mahoning County Jail after Naples served three months of a six-month sentence on a numbers conviction. Cavalier cited evidence of Naples’ stomach ulcers and testimony of Dr. David A. Belinky in making his decision for early release.

The Chrysler Corp. is continuing to look at Ohio, including the Youngstown district, for an expansion site. Chrysler’s Briggs stamping plant in Youngstown was mothballed when the company opened its stamping plant at Twinsburg.

July 27, 1933: William S. Knud-sen, president of the Chevrolet Motor Car Co., announces a 15 percent increase in the hourly wage rate for 40,000 workers in 20 Chevrolet and Pontiac automobile plants.

Two pickpockets are arrested at Idora Park after one picnicker who was determined not to be a victim attached a chain to the wallet in his pocket.

A Waco biplane piloted by stunt flyer Hugh Robbins of Cleveland crashes at Warren Airway field, injuring Robbins and three passengers, Dr. Paul Mutschmann, C.H Haaf and Roy G. Lyon. Robbins was practicing dives to demonstrate the plane’s ability to Dr. Mutschmann, a perspective buyer.