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Glancing Backward, 11/27/09
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share thisToday is Friday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2009. There are 34 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 27, 1909, author, poet and critic James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tenn.
Glancing Backward Locally:
25 years ago - 1984
Though Bradford-Sullivan Counties Junior Miss Lisa Kim of Towanda didn't return home form the state Junior Miss pageant with any awards, she said she had a great time with the 27 other contestants.
A granite monument paying tribute to Bradford County veterans of World War I, World War II, and Vietnam has been placed in the Veterans Memorial Park in Towanda.
Dr. Jean Rockwell Warner, a Towanda High School graduate, recently authored a book called "Word Processing for Colleges."
50 years ago - 1959
The Waverly Auxiliary made Thanksgiving favors for the adult patients at Robert Packer Hospital and Brownie Troop 16 of Athens made favors for the pediatric patients.
Tonight, the Canton High School Senior Ball will be held with a theme of "Aloha" and musical performance by the Esquires of Corning.
Ronald Green, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Green of Dushore, recently became a member of the King's College glee club.
75 years ago - 1934
At its dinner session, the Waverly Board of Trade held its annual election and elected William C. Farley as president, succeeding Earl J. Payne.
The Davidson brothers, proprietors of the Porter Drug Store in Towanda, gave a new American Flag to the Bradford County Children's Home.
Advertisement for America Stores Co.: Turkeys, 29-cents per pound.
Elsewhere on this date:
In 1701, astronomer Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale, was born in Uppsala, Sweden.
In 1901, the U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad began regularly serving New York's Pennsylvania Station.
In 1939, the play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.
In 1942, during World War II, the French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of German troops.
In 1953, playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65.
In 1970, Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.
Ten years ago: Northern Ireland's biggest party, the Ulster Unionists, cleared the way for the speedy formation of an unprecedented Protestant-Catholic administration.
Five years ago: After 40 years in North Korea and less than one month in a U.S. military jail near Tokyo, U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins became a free man. The Ukraine parliament declared the recently held presidential election invalid.
One year ago: Indian commandoes fought to wrest control of two luxury hotels and a Jewish center from militants, a day after a chain of attacks across Mumbai. Iraq's parliament approved a pact requiring all U.S. troops to be out of the country by Jan. 1, 2012.
Today's Birthdays: Actor James Avery is 61. Producer-director Kathryn Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker") is 58. TV host Bill Nye ("Bill Nye, the Science Guy") is 54. Actor William Fichtner is 53. Caroline Kennedy is 52.
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