Today is Wednesday, July 30, the 212th day of 2008. There are 154 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, July 30, the 212th day of 2008. There are 154 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, during World War II, the battle cruiser USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered components for the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima, is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 316 out of some 1,200 men survive the sinking and shark-infested waters.

In 1619, the first representative assembly in America convenes in Jamestown, Va. In 1729, the city of Baltimore is founded. In 1792, the French national anthem “La Marseillaise,” by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, is first sung in Paris by troops arriving from Marseille. In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces try to take Petersburg, Va., by exploding a gunpowder-filled mine under Confederate defense lines; the attack fails. In 1908, the first round-the-world automobile race, which had begun in New York in February, ends in Paris with the drivers of the American car, a Thomas Flyer, declared the winners over teams from Germany and Italy.

July 30, 1983: The soaring economy is bringing fatter paychecks to a considerable segment of the Youngstown area’s 300,000-strong labor force, but the area lags behind the national growth rate of 8.7 percent.

William J. Flynn, 68, of Norwick Drive, nationally known cancer specialist and surgeon, dies following a stroke at his home. He was the first Ohioan elected to honorary life membership in the National Cancer Society.

The Youngstown State University Foundation paid out $1.3 million in the 1982-83 academic year in scholarships, grants-in-aid and other grants benefiting YSU and its students, William R. Roesti, foundation president, reports.

July 30, 1968: The Youngstown Education Association will meet with the Board of Education to discuss the board’s movement toward ending their bargaining agreement and holding an election between the YEA and the Youngstown Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO.

The Lake Milton Citizens Association organizes to oppose the city of Youngstown’s plan for a recreation area that would extend from the spillway to the site of Craig Beach Park and would mean the removal of some summer homes on leased land.

Attendance on opening day of the 150th annual Trumbull County Fair is 29,465. Helicopter rides resume as a concession by the Ohio Ag-Rotors Inc. of Austintown after being temporarily halted due to complaints of residents near the fairgrounds on Elm Road at Harding High School.

July 30, 1958: The city administration turns to the building codes to block live-talent burlesque shows at the Strand Theatre, but “girlie” movies apparently will continue. Health Commissioner Dr. Leonard A. Blum reports inadequate dressing rooms and no toilet facilities for performers.

Steve F. Yurcich, 30, an Ohio Edison linesman, is electrocuted while installing a new transformer on a pole at Zedaker Street and Midlothian Boulevard.

July 30, 1933: William Browne “Big Bill” Gilles, Youngstown Sheet Tube Co.’s new operating vice president, knows the steel industry from the bottom up and remembers what it was like to work 13 hours a night, every night, for a whole year. He started in the Chicago district when the slogan was, “A dollar a day is pretty good pay.”

Youngstown Police Prosecutor William B. Spagnola warns nine local stores that he will bring action against them unless they quit violating state laws regarding female labor and cut hours and increase pay above starvation wages.