Glancing Backward, 1/22/10

Published: January 22, 2010

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Today is Friday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2010. There are 343 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Jan. 22, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." (By April, however, America also was at war.)

Glancing Backward Locally:

25 years ago - 1985

Alfred Durand of Durell was re-elected president of the Bradford County Library System. Dorothy Lehman of Standing Stone will serve as vice president.

Past Towanda School Board President Joe Lagermasini was presented with a special pewter plaque in recognition of his three years as board president.

VFW Post 384, New Albany, received the award of a Golden Anniversary Citation.

50 years ago - 1960

Roscoe Burgess of Forksville is establishing a wood chip plant on the site of the former water tower on the Marsh Road near Dushore.

Heidi Smith's foreign doll collection is on display at the Towanda Public Library.

Bradford County students who will graduate from Mansfield State Teachers College at midyear commencement are Richard James Mitchell of Troy, Jack L. Mason of Sayre, Jeanne Anita Soloman of Athens and Russell LaVerne Sager of Sayre.

75 years ago - 1935

Towanda's City Basketball League opened its season in the county seat's "Madison Square Garden" with the remodeled S.C.I. building jammed full for the occasion.

Miners of the Ralstone workings of Feeney and Rudinsky have been on strike for several days. The issue is believed to be over wages.

Manley B. Chamberlain was appointed constable of Ridgebury Township to fill the vacancy caused by the death of A.H. Dean.

Elsewhere on this date:

In 1498, during his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, explorer Christopher Columbus arrived at the present-day Caribbean island of St. Vincent.

In 1561, English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon was born in London.

In 1901, Britain's Queen Victoria died at age 81.

In 1905 (New Style calendar), thousands of demonstrating Russian workers were fired on by Imperial army troops in St. Petersburg on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."

In 1922, Pope Benedict XV died; he was succeeded by Pius XI.

In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy.

Ten years ago: Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers met privately with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno as they appealed for help in removing the boy from his Florida relatives and reuniting him with his father in Cuba.

Five years ago: The Iraqi government pledged to do everything in its power to protect voters from insurgent attacks during upcoming elections, as militants announced they'd killed 15 captive Iraqi National Guardsmen for cooperating with the Americans. Friends and family bade farewell to ten people killed when a mudslide damaged more than two dozen homes in La Conchita, Calif.

One year ago: President Barack Obama ordered the Guantanamo Bay prison camp closed within a year and banned harsh interrogation of terror suspects.

Today's Birthdays: Former Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) is 82. Actress Piper Laurie is 78. Actor Seymour Cassel is 75. Author Joseph Wambaugh is 73. Actor John Hurt is 70. Singer Steve Perry is 61. Country singer-musician Teddy Gentry (Alabama) is 58. Movie director Jim Jarmusch is 57.

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