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Glancing Backward 12-01-09
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share thisToday is Tuesday, December 1, the 335th day of 2009. There are 30 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
In 1955 Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, defies the law by refusing to give up her seat to a white man aboard a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. She is arrested, sparking a yearlong boycott of buses by blacks.
Glancing Backward Locally:
25 years ago - 1984
In the first week of The Daily Review's Christmas Coloring Contest, Keri Abbott and Melanie Dodge won the Junior and Senior Divisions, respectively.
At a mini camp at Delaware Valley High School, the Northeast Bradford Varsity Basketball Cheerleaders got a first place trophy.
Janice Williams was named the director of nursing for the northeast Pennsylvania region of the American Red Cross Blood Services.
50 years ago - 1959
A rush of deer hunters to the area increase in calls for the Commonwealth Telephone Company.
Tentative plans for a new location of Route 6 have worried some in Laceyville and Meshoppen, who are afraid they could lose their homes.
St. Pete's Episcopal Church in Tunkhannock has fire damage after seepage from an oil burner caught fire.
75 years ago - 1934
A heating stove was bought for the basement of the East Forks church, which should make the room more comfortable for meetings held in the winter.
A new gasoline called "Aerotype Esso" will be on sale at all Esso gas stations today.
One-hundred new children's books were added to the Ulster library shelves thanks to the generosity of Sayre residents Simon Glaser.
Elsewhere on this date:
1999 - Scientists announce for the first time they have virtually mapped an entire human chromosome, one of the chains of molecules that bear the genetic recipe for human life.
2000 - Vincente Fox is elected president of Mexico, ending the seven-decade political dynasty of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. The election marks the first peaceful transfer of power to an opposition party in Mexico's history.
2001 - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito's wife, Crown Princess Masako gives birth to a daughter, the couple's first child, and long-awaited royal heir.
2005 - Police firing tear gas clash with opposition supporters as Egypt holds the last round of its parliamentary elections.
2006 - Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese heed a call by Hezbollah and congregate in downtown Beirut to pressure the U.S.-supported government to resign.
2007 - Colombian government officials release a letter written by former presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt, and videos that are the first evidence in years that she and other rebel-held hostages including three U.S. military contractors may still be alive.
2008 - One of the highest tides in its history brings Venice, Italy, to a virtual halt, flooding its historic St. Mark's Square and rekindling a debate over a plan to build moveable flood barriers.
Today's Birthdays: Former Vietnamese President Le Duc Anh is 89; U.S. director Woody Allen is 74; U.S. singer/actress Bette Midler, is 64; Britishactor Jeremy Northam is 48.
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