Glancing Backward
Glancing Backward, 2/8/12
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 8, the 39th day of 2012. There are 327 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 8, 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder (read more)
Glancing Backward, 2/7/12
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2012. There are 328 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 7, 1812, author Charles Dickens, widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Landport, Portsm (read more)
Glancing Backward, 2/6/12
Today is Monday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2012. There are 329 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 6, 1952, Britain's King George VI died at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England; he was succeeded as monarch by his daughter, (read more)
Glancing Backward, 2/5/12
Today is Sunday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2012. There are 330 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices; critics accused Roosev (read more)
Glancing Backward, 2/4/12
Today is Saturday, Feb. 4, the 35th day of 2012. There are 331 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 4, 1962, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital was founded in Memphis, Tenn., by entertainer Danny Thomas. Glan (read more)
Glancing Backward, 2/3/12
Today is Friday, Feb. 3, the 34th day of 2012. There are 332 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 3, 1959, rock-and-roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a small plane crash nea (read more)
Glancing Backward, 2/2/12
Today is Thursday, Feb. 2, the 33rd day of 2012. There are 333 days left in the year. This is Groundhog Day. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 2, 1912, Frederick R. Law parachuted from the torch of the Statue of Liberty in a stunt filmed by Pa (read more)
Glancing Backward, 2/1/12
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2012. There are 334 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 1, 1862, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," a poem by Julia Ward Howe, was published in the Atlantic Monthly. Glancing Ba (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/31/12
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2012. There are 335 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 31, 1961, NASA launched Ham the Chimp aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral; Ham was recovered safely from t (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/30/12
Today is Monday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2012. There are 336 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 30, 1962, two members of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid coll (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/29/12
Today is Sunday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2012. There are 337 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published in the New York Evening Mirror. Glancing B (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/28/12
Today is Saturday, Jan. 28, the 28th day of 2012. There are 338 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew membe (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/27/12
Today is Friday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2012. There are 339 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 27, 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/26/12
Today is Thursday, Jan. 26, the 26th day of 2012. There are 340 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 26, 1942, the first American Expeditionary Force to go to Europe during World War II arrived in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/25/12
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2012. There are 341 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 25, 1949, the first Emmy Awards, honoring local Los Angeles TV programs and talent, were presented at the Hol (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/24/12
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2012. There are 342 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 24, 1942, the Roberts Commission, which had looked into America's lack of preparedness for Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/23/12
Today is Monday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2012. There are 343 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On Jan. 23, 1962, Jackie Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. Tony Bennett recorded "I Le (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/22/12
Today is Sunday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2012. There are 344 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 22, 1912, the Florida Keys Over-Sea Railroad, which connected the Keys with the mainland, went into service; aboard the firs (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/21/12
Today is Saturday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2012. There are 345 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 21, 1908, New York City's Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance prohibiting women from smoking in public. ( (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/20/12
Today is Friday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2012. There are 346 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 20, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first chief executive to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 instea (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/19/12
Today is Thursday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2012. There are 347 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 19, 1862, Union forces won a victory over the Confederates in the Civil War Battle of Mill Springs in southeastern Kentuck (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/18/12
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of 2012. There are 348 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 18, 1862, the 10th president of the United States, John Tyler, died in Richmond, Va., at age 71, shortly before he could (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/17/12
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 17, the 17th day of 2012. There are 349 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 17, 1962, ten former winners of rigged TV quiz shows, including Charles Van Doren, pleaded guilty in New York to perjury, a (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/16/12
Today is Monday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2012. There are 350 days left in the year. This is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 16, 1912, a day before reaching the South Pole, British explorer R (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/15/12
Today is Sunday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2012. There are 351 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 15, 1862, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Abraham Lincoln's choice of Edwin M. Stanton to be secretary of war (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/14/12
Today is Saturday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2012. There are 352 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 14, 1952, NBC's "Today" show premiered, with Dave Garroway as the host, or "communicator," as he was calle (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/13/12
Today is Friday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2012. There are 353 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 13, 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River after taking (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/12/12
Today is Thursday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2012. There are 354 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 12, 1912, textile workers at the Everett Mill in Lawrence, Mass., (most of them immigrant women) walked off the job to pro (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/11/12
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2012. There are 355 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 11, 1942, Japan declared war against the Netherlands, the same day that Imperial Japanese forces invaded the Dutch East I (read more)
Glancing Backward, 1/10/12
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2012. There are 356 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 10, 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published his influential pamphlet, "Common Sense," which argued for American independen (read more)