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Glancing Backward 12-7-09
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share thisToday is Monday, Dec. 7, the 341st day of 2009. There are 24 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Dec. 7, 1941, Imperial Japanese warplanes attacked the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, as well as other American and British bases in the Pacific; the pre-emptive raids prompted the United States to enter World War II.
Glancing Backward Locally:
25 years ago - 1984
Downtown shoppers have been given free parking for the holiday season by the Towanda Borough Council, acting on a request by the Retail Merchants Association.
The first place winners of the Friends of the Bradford County Library are: fourth grade, Eddie Zelezen of St. Agnes School; fifth grade, William Allen of Audriella Lynch; sixth grade, Sarah Husted of Troy Middle School; seventh grade, Star Wizelman of Towanda Middle School.
After an election of officers, Beverly Mott was named president of the Sayre Fire Department Ambulance Corp.
50 years ago - 1959
Two-thousand children, the biggest crowd ever, went to the Lehigh Valley Washington Street Station to meet Santa.
All the senior homemaking girls at Towanda High School were given the Betty Crocker test, designed to pique girls' interest in homemaking and to inform them about problems that can occur as homemakers.
Celebrating his birthday today is H. Austin Snyder, superintendent of the Sayre Area Joint School System.
75 years ago - 1934
Thousands of people visited the new Robert Packer Hospital unit.
The Warren Center Creamery, which was owned and operated by Crowley Milk Company, has closed.
Several members of the Canton senior play cast and their friends were entertained by Miss Mary Ellen Stone at Twin Thee Farms.
Elsewhere on this date:
In 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1796, electors chose John Adams to be the second president of the United States.
Ten years ago: NASA scientists all but gave up hope of contacting the Mars Polar Lander, last heard from four days earlier as it began its descent toward the Red Planet.
Five years ago: Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.
One year ago: President-elect Barack Obama introduced retired Gen. Eric Shinseki as his choice to head the Veterans Affairs Department.
Today's Birthdays: Actor Eli Wallach is 94. Linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky is 81. Bluegrass singer Bobby Osborne is 78. Actress Ellen Burstyn is 77. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., is 72. Broadcast journalist Carole Simpson is 69.
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