Glancing Backward, 1/14/12

Published: January 14, 2012

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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 called.

Glancing Backward Locally:

25 years ago - 1987

The Athens School Board is considering district-wide computerization and last night approved obtaining bids for various computer systems.

Trevor Beers of Ulster, age 14, won honors in two competitions in which he took part at the International Youth Convention of the Wesleyan Church held in Illinois. He won a first place in performing arts (gospel magic) with a superior rating and a second place in speech presentation in a teen-talent competition hosted during the convention.

Walter Quick, a junior art student at Troy High School and son of Mrs. Donna Quick of Gillett, has been selected to illustrate a cookbook of Pennsylvania farm products which will be sold at the February National Convention of Migrant Educators to be held in Philadelphia.

75 years ago - 1937

Two new directors, John W. Weller and Miss Myra Druckemiller, were elected at the fifth annual meeting of the Tioga Point Museum Association held yesterday.

Seen about the borough: A truck driver hunting the borough dump over for a missing pair of false teeth.

Chauncey Lent has been appointed mercantile appraiser for Bradford County, it was revealed yesterday by H.C. Carpenter, Republican committee chairman.

Elsewhere on this date:

Five years ago: President George W. Bush, facing opposition from both parties over his plan to send more troops to Iraq, said on CBS' "60 Minutes" that he had the authority to act no matter what Congress wanted. On "Fox News Sunday," Vice President Dick Cheney asserted that lawmakers' criticism would not influence Bush's plans, and he dismissed any effort to "run a war by committee." Actress Darlene Conley, feisty fashion mogul Sally Spectra on "The Bold and the Beautiful," died in Los Angeles at age 72.

One year ago: In an unprecedented popular uprising, Tunisian protesters enraged over soaring unemployment and corruption drove President Zine El Abdine Ben Ali (ZEEN ehl AH'-bih-deen behn-ah-LEE') from power after 23 years of iron-fisted rule. A funeral was held for U.S. District Judge John Roll, who was killed in the Tucson, Ariz., shooting rampage. The national Republican Party ousted chairman Michael Steele and chose Wisconsin party chief Reince Priebus (ryns PREE'-bus) to lead in the run-up to the 2012 presidential race. Mississippi Winn, a former domestic worker believed to be the oldest living African-American in the U.S. and the seventh oldest person in the world, died in Shreveport, La., at age 113.

Today's Birthdays: Blues singer Clarence Carter is 76. Singer Jack Jones is 74. Singer-songwriter Allen Toussaint is 74. Former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond is 72. Actress Faye Dunaway is 71. Actress Holland Taylor is 69. Actor Carl Weathers is 64. Singer-producer T-Bone Burnett is 64. Movie writer-director Lawrence Kasdan is 63. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd is 60. Rock singer Geoff Tate (Queensryche) is 53. Movie writer-director Steven Soderbergh is 49. Actor Mark Addy is 48. Fox News Channel anchorman Shepard Smith is 48. Rapper Slick Rick is 47. Actor Dan Schneider is 46. Actress Emily Watson is 45. Actor-comedian Tom Rhodes is 45. Rock musician Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne Band) is 45. Rapper-actor LL Cool J is 44.

Actor Jason Bateman is 43. Rock singer-musician Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) is 43. Actress Jordan Ladd is 37. Retro-soul singer-songwriter Marc Broussard is 30. Rock singer-musician Caleb Followill (Kings of Leon) is 30. Rock musician Joe Guese (The Click Five) is 29. Actor Jonathan Osser is 23.

Thought for Today: "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (1806-1873).

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