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Glancing Backward 11/7
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share thisToday is Saturday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2009. There are 54 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
Glancing Backward Locally:
25 years ago - 1984
Bradford County residents voted overwhelmingly to continue the use of electronic voting systems in the county.
At a mock election held at Monroe-Franklin Elementary School, the students cast 171 votes for President Ronald Reagan and 50 votes for Walter Mondale.
Victoria Barnes, Towanda High School student, was named a 1984 national award winner in leadership by the U.S. Achievement Academy.
50 years ago - 1959
During RCA Week at Armstrong's Music House in Towanda, Thomas Knolles of Wyalusing won an RCA Victor Stereo Portable Phonograph.
Rev. James Sutton was recently ordained in the LeRoy Baptist Church. He is the son of Towanda residents Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Sutton and a graduate of Binghamton Practical Bible School.
In New Albany, Karl Kelder was appointed acting postmaster after the retirement of Frank Murphy.
75 years ago - 1934
Barclay Township was the first district in Bradford County to report its election results, maintaining its reputation.
The Beech Flats Grange is asking people to send in postal cards stating how much milk was consumed in their family.
Seen about the borough: "Those who forgot that the state liquor store was closed on Election Day."
Elsewhere on this date:
In 1874, the Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
Ten years ago: Relatives of the victims of EgyptAir Flight 990 gathered in Newport, R.I., to bid them a wrenching farewell, a week after the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
Five years ago: France rolled out overwhelming military force to put down an explosion of anti-French violence in Ivory Coast, its former West African colony.
One year ago: In his first news conference since being elected president, Barack Obama called on Congress to extend unemployment benefits and pass a stimulus bill. The government reported the unemployment rate had soared to 6.5 percent in Oct. 2008, up from 6.1 percent just a month earlier.
Today's Birthdays: Evangelist Billy Graham is 91. Opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland is 83. Actor Barry Newman is 71. Singer Johnny Rivers is 67. Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is 66. Singer Nick Gilder is 58.
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