Glancing Backward 11/28

Published: November 28, 2009

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Today is Saturday, Nov. 28, the 332nd day of 2009. There are 33 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 28, 1909, Sergei Rachmaninoff's notoriously difficult Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 had its world premiere in New York, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony and Rachmaninoff himself at the piano.

Glancing Backward Locally:

25 years ago - 1984

Oak Hill Veneer Inc. in Troy will receive $98,000 in financing from the Pennsylvania Capital Loan Fund for start-up operations, which will create 34 new jobs, in the wood veneer manufacturing enterprise.

Banik Décor and Supply of Sayre got a contract to carpet two buses used by The Oak Ridge Boys.

Celebrating their 30th anniversary today are Mr. and Mrs. Albert Chilson Sr. of Towanda.

50 years ago - 1959

A ground-breaking ceremony for a $340,489-annex to the Wyalusing Valley High School was held, led by Emma Lent, secretary of the Wyalusing Valley Joint School Board.

The Towanda Business and Professional Women's Club initiated five new members: Mrs. Alice Wolfe, Mrs. Helen Swyers, Mrs. Jane Hall, Mrs. Winifred Stevens, and Miss Lois Root.

The Valley Economic Development Association received the go-ahead for construction of a new shoe factory in the Valley area.

75 years ago - 1934

The new Towanda Borough Hall furniture, obtained through local Gunlocke agents Barrett and King, has arrived. The furniture includes a long council table, a press table, a business table, and many chairs.

Book-menders at Towanda High School have rebound more than 900 volumes of books.

At Towanda High School, a clarinet quartet of John Haines, Frances Coates, Donald Reuter and Donald Chamberlain performed several pieces for the Rotary.

Elsewhere on this date:

In 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.

In 1859, American author Washington Irving died in present-day Tarrytown, N.Y., at age 76.

In 1979, an Air New Zealand DC-10 en route to the South Pole crashed into a mountain in Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.

In 2001, Enron Corp. collapsed after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backed out of an $8.4 billion deal to take it over.

Ten years ago: Hsing-Hsing, the popular giant panda that arrived in America in 1972 as a symbol of U.S.-China detente, was euthanized at Washington, D.C.'s National Zoo at age 28 because of his deteriorating health.

Five years ago: NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol was injured, his 14-year-old son Teddy among three people killed, in a charter plane crash outside Montrose, Colo. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for slaughtering members of the Iraqi security forces in Mosul, where dozens of bodies had been found.

One year ago: Indian forces fired grenades at the landmark Taj Mahal hotel, the last stand of suspected Muslim militants, just hours after elite commandos stormed a Jewish outreach center and found six hostages dead. (The 60-hour rampage in Mumbai ended the following day.)

Today's Birthdays: Recording executive Berry Gordy Jr. is 80. Former Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., is 73. Singer-songwriter Bruce Channel is 69. Singer Randy Newman is 66. CBS News correspondent Susan Spencer is 63.

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