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Glancing Backward, 12/11/09
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share thisToday is Friday, Dec. 11, the 345th day of 2009. There are 20 days left in the year. The Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, begins at sunset.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Dec. 11, 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
Glancing Backward Locally:
25 years ago - 1984
Several York Avenue property owners attended a Towanda Borough Council meeting to express concerns over a proposed PennDOT project to widen York Avenue, which they say might affect their properties and pocketbooks.
New Canton head coach Dave McWilliams and his Warriors basketball team got a 40-35 victory against the Mansfield Tigers.
The Pentacostal Church of God is looking for help from Towanda Mayor Dewitt Hild in creating a youth coffee house in Towanda.
50 years ago - 1959
The Troy Future Homemakers of America girls held a fudge sale and made $11.
The Towanda Motel received national recognition in the new 1960 edition of the Duncan Hines travel book "Lodging for a Night." It was one of the 5,200 lodging places in North American recommended by Duncan Hines.
Major Eugene C. Snedeker, son of County Commissioner and Mrs. John E. Snedeker of Troy, is Assisting Chief of Staff, G-2, for the Northern Area Command, with headquarters at Frankfort, Germany.
75 years ago - 1934
Towanda Borough Council held its first meeting in the new municipal building.
A meeting of the Bradford County Principals' Club will be held today in the Canton High School building.
Installation of the buzzer system at the Mills Hospital on South Main Street has been completed by Harden Brothers, a local electrical firm.
Elsewhere on this date:
In 1792, France's King Louis XVI went before the Convention to face charges of treason. (Louis was convicted, and executed the following month.)
In 1816, Indiana became the 19th state.
In 1882, Boston's renamed Bijou Theatre, the first American playhouse to be lighted exclusively by electricity, debuted with a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe."
In 1928, police in Buenos Aires announced they had thwarted an attempt on the life of President-elect Herbert Hoover.
In 1937, Italy announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
In 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. responded in kind.
In 1946, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, or UNICEF, was established.
Ten years ago: Agreeing with his wife, Hillary, President Bill Clinton told CBS Radio his 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military wasn't working, and he pledged to work with the Pentagon to find a way to fix it.
Five years ago: Doctors in Austria determined that Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko had been poisoned with dioxin, which caused the severe disfigurement and partial paralysis of his face.
One year ago: Former Nasdaq chairman Bernard Madoff was arrested, accused of running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that destroyed thousands of people's life savings and wrecked charities.
Today's Birthdays: Composer Elliott Carter is 101. Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant is 79. Actress Rita Moreno is 78. Former California state lawmaker Tom Hayden is 70. Pop singer David Gates (Bread) is 69. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., is 68. Actress Donna Mills is 67. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is 66.
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