Today is Tuesday, July 6, the 187th day of 2010. There are 178 days left in the year.

Today is Tuesday, July 6, the 187th day of 2010. There are 178 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1809: French troops arrest Pope Pius VII, who had excommunicated Emperor Napoleon I; the pope is confined for about five years.

1885: French scientist Louis Pasteur tests an anti-rabies vaccine on nine-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog; the boy does not develop rabies.

1917: During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi capture the port of Aqaba from the Turks.

1944: An estimated 168 people die in a fire that breaks out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn.

1957: Althea Gibson becomes the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title as she defeats fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.

1988: A series of explosions and fire kill 167 North Sea oil workers and destroy a drilling platform.

2000: Venus Williams beats her younger sister Serena 6-2, 7-6 (3) to reach the Wimbledon final; their singles match is the first between sisters in a Grand Slam semifinal.

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1985: Youngstown Postmaster Patrick V. Kelly is named Toledo’s new postmaster and sectional manager.

The Youngstown school district will fight a total tax abatement that is being sought by Mosure & Syrakis Co. on a downtown office building for the engineering firm.

1970: Mayor Jack C. Hunter says the wages of city employees, including safety forces, will not be renegotiated because of the city’s lack of funds.

Sixty-one graduates of the St. Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing receive degrees at the 57th commencement held at St. Columba Cathedral.

1960: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown leaves Washington for Los Angeles where, as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, he will be in charge of arrangements for congressmen attending the Democratic National Convention.

1935: Mahoning County and the State of Ohio are passing the buck, each trying to blame the other, for responsibility in the release of Merton W. Goodrich, Detroit child murderer, from Lima State Hospital.

Mahoning County and its subdivisions, including cities, townships and schools, have received $443,000 from the sales tax instituted by the state.