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Glancing Backward 12-14-09
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share thisToday is Monday, Dec. 14, the 348th day of 2008. There are 17 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
In 1799, George Washington, the first president of the United States, dies at his Mount Vernon, Virginia, home at age 67.
Glancing Backward Locally:
25 years ago - 1984
A painting by Towanda's Maggi Frawley of a Broadway poster done using an original painting and hand-quilted technique will be displayed in the lobby of the "Producer's Circle" in midtown Manhattan.
Stray Haven's 17th annual Christmas party attracted around 600 visitors.
Athens Brownies and Cadettes made foil-covered ornaments for the Athens Borough tree, provided by the Athens Chamber of Commerce.
50 years ago - 1959
At the annual tree-lighting ceremony at the Sylvania North Towanda plant, the Sylvania Men's Chorus, under the direction of Mrs. Florence Place, will present a half-hour of Christmas music.
Under the direction of Dr. William C. Beck, a surgeon's glove tester has been developed at the Robert Packer Hospital for use in the operating room.
At the Towanda Valley High School, guidance director Miss Gladys Pipher took a group of girls interested in nursing to the Binghamton City Hospital for an open tea.
75 years ago - 1934
Celebrating his birthday today is Richard Hileman, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hileman of Dushore and star forward on Harrington's basketball team.
Seen About the Borough: The Christmas lights along Main Street at last.
Mr. and Mrs. George Rogers Sr. are returning to their home in Litchfield after living in Nichols for several years. George Rogers Jr. and his family, who have been living in their home, have moved to a home recently purchased at Osborne Hill.
Elsewhere on this date:
2001 - Israeli troops raid four Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank, killing eight Palestinians and arresting dozens of suspected militants.
2002 - A ferry carrying 200 passengers capsizes near the coastal town of Robersport in northwest Liberia. At least 50 people died, and more than 100 others are missing.
2003 - Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf escapes an assassination attempt when a powerful bomb explodes on a bridge in Rawalpindi less than a minute after his motorcade crosses it.
2004 - Hundreds of Belgrade university students and other Serbs demonstrate in the capital to protest the election of Ramush Haradinaj, Kosovo's new prime minister - a former ethnic Albanian rebel leader whom Serbs accuse of war crimes.
2005 - Top European Parliament officials propose to set up an inquiry committee to establish whether U.S. intelligence agents held terror suspects in secret prisons in Europe.
2006 - The Israeli Supreme Court upholds Israel's policy of targeted killings of Palestinian militants, allowing the army to maintain a practice that has drawn widespread international condemnation.
2007 - A bus collides with a train in northern India, killing at least 16 people, including nine children on their way to school.
2008 - Voters in Turkmenistan cast ballots in a parliamentary election, the first since the death of dictator Saparmurat Niyazov in late 2006.
Today's Birthdays: Patty Duke, U.S. actress, is 63
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