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Glancing Backward 11/14/2009
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share thisToday is Saturday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2009. There are 47 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 14, 1851, Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale" was first published in the United States.
Glancing Backward Locally:
75 years ago - 1934
A very delightful birthday party was held at the home of Edith Courtney in Sylvania.
C.C.C. Camp No. 35-103 of Laquin will conduct a dance in the American Legion Hall in Towanda.
Otto J. Trowbridge of Camptown broke the ground record with a score of 22 out of a possible 25 targets at the Canter Skeet Field at Tuscarora Lake.
50 years ago - 1959
Smorgasbord today at the Wyalusing Hotel.
The Shakespeare Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Robert Lent at 2 o'clock Monday.
One gallon of homogenized pastuerized milk - 77 cents in your container. Two quarts - 39 cents. For economy, come to the Fox Chase Farms Milk Station.
25 years ago - 1984
Gary Sturmens and Debbie Vawton of New Jersey performed for Towanda elementary and middle school students.
The youth of the Federated Church in East Smithfield put on a dinner Sunday after church for the senior citizens of the church.
John Mullaly of Sayre has been promoted to Senior Engineer in Combat Talon II Systems Engineering at the IBM Federal Systems Division facility in Owego.
Elsewhere on this date:
In 1940, during World War II, German planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry.
In 1943, Leonard Bernstein, the 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, made his debut with the orchestra as he filled in for the ailing Bruno Walter during a nationally broadcast concert.
In 1969, Apollo 12 blasted off for the moon.
Ten years ago: Democrat Bill Bradley took center court at New York's Madison Square Garden for a $1.5 million presidential campaign fundraiser that featured his old Knicks teammates and former basketball rivals.
Five years ago: Mahmoud Abbas, the temporary successor to Yasser Arafat, escaped unharmed when militants firing assault rifles burst into a mourning tent for the deceased Palestinian leader in Gaza, killing two security guards.
One year ago: A lunar probe from India made a planned crash-landing onto the surface of the moon. Space shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven blasted into the night sky, bound for the international space station. Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, the cardiac surgeon who performed the first U.S. heart transplant in 1967, died in Ann Arbor, Mich. at age 90.
Today's Birthdays: Former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is 87. Actress Kathleen Hughes is 81. Former NASA astronaut Fred Haise is 76. Jazz musician Ellis Marsalis is 75. Composer Wendy Carlos is 70. Writer P.J. O'Rourke is 62. Zydeco singer-musician Buckwheat Zydeco is 62. Britain's Prince Charles is 61.
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