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Glancing Backward, 11/13/09
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share thisToday is Friday, Nov. 13, the 317th day of 2009. There are 48 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 13, 1909, 259 men and boys were killed when fire erupted inside a coal mine in Cherry, Ill. (Nearly as many miners survived the disaster).
Glancing Backward Locally:
25 years ago - 1984
Kelly Ramsdell of Bensalem, a Sayre High School graduate, was accepted into the Susquehanna University concert choir.
After bricks were seen falling off the Beirne Building, located at 622-624 S. Main St. in Towanda, a section of Elizabeth Street has been closed off.
In addition to the Lehigh Valley Shops in Sayre, the Lehigh Forming Co. of Easton is also considering the Bradford County Landfill in Burlington and the Gateway Industrial Park in Athens as sites for a garbage conversion plant.
50 years ago - 1959
The real estate of Canton's Collins Valve Inc. has been placed on sale, according to Plant Manager Tom Mears.
Towanda dentist Dr. George Lasco was elected president of the Valley Dental Society.
Attending the Syracuse-Penn State game from Camptown were Togle Marcucci, LaVerne Barto, James Chadwick, Ervin Bluhm, Roger Madigan and Duane Faye.
75 years ago - 1934
Well-known Towanda attorney Joseph W. Beaman was appointed historian of the Pennsylvania State American Legion organization.
The 387th company C.C.C. camp S-103 at Laquin has printed by mimeograph a new 10-page paper.
Work on the Dushore Park Project is underway, with people removing brush and beginning excavation for a swimming pool.
Elsewhere on this date:
In 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a friend, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
In 1927, the Holland Tunnel opened to the public, providing access between lower Manhattan and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River.
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
In 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public city and state buses.
In 1969, speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network TV news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints.
In 1971, the U.S. space probe Mariner 9 went into orbit around Mars.
In 1974, Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Okla., died in a car crash while on her way to meet a reporter.
In 1979, former California Gov. Ronald Reagan announced in New York his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
Ten years ago: The Navy recovered the cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 31 with the loss of all 217 people aboard.
Five years ago: Vice President Dick Cheney went to a hospital after experiencing shortness of breath; tests found nothing wrong.
One year ago: A wind-driven fire erupted in Southern California; the blaze destroyed more than 200 homes in Santa Barbara and neighboring Montecito.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Madeleine Sherwood is 87. Journalist-author Peter Arnett is 75. Producer-director Garry Marshall is 75. Actor Jimmy Hawkins is 68. Country singer-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard is 63. Actor Joe Mantegna is 62. Actress Sheila Frazier is 61. Actress Frances Conroy is 56. Musician Andrew Ranken (The Pogues) is 56. Actress Tracy Scoggins is 56.
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