Glancing Backward, 2/1/12

Published: February 1, 2012

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Today is Wednesday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2012. There are 334 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Feb. 1, 1862, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," a poem by Julia Ward Howe, was published in the Atlantic Monthly.

Glancing Backward Locally:

50 years ago - 1962

Celebrating her birthday today is Myra Druckenmiller of Sayre, well-known youth probation worker for the Valley.

The Western Bradford 4-H Square Dance teams will appear on the March of Dimes telethon Feb. 4.

Two girls were designated as recipients of the Wyalusing DAR Good Citizen awards: Pat Learn of Wyalusing Valley High School and Edith Gamble of Northeast Bradford High School.

75 years ago - 1937

Basketball fans attending the weekly City League games tonight on the SCI court are promised plenty of action, the feature of which is expected to be the encounter between North Penn Power and Wysox, who are now tied for the leadership.

H. Sattler, local show merchant, recently donated 80 pairs of shoes and arctics for the flood sufferers.

Sayre, South Waverly and Athens are now using dial telephones. The cut-over was made at 11 p.m. Saturday after months of work in installing new equipment. There was considerable confusion and "wrong numbers" Sunday, but this will be eliminated as soon as people become accustomed to the new way of putting in a call.

Elsewhere on this date:

In 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York. (However, since only three of the six justices were present, the court recessed until the next day.)

In 1922, in one of Hollywood's most enduring mysteries, movie director William Desmond Taylor was shot to death in his Los Angeles home; the killing has never been solved.

In 1942, the Voice of America broadcast its first program to Europe through the facilities of the British Broadcasting Corp. in London.

In 1943, one of America's most highly decorated military units, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost exclusively of Japanese-Americans, was authorized.

In 1946, Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.

In 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service.

In 1962, the Ken Kesey novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was first published by Viking Press.

In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.

In 1982, "Late Night with David Letterman" premiered on NBC.

In 1991, 34 people were killed when an arriving USAir jetliner crashed atop a commuter plane on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport.

In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members.

Today's Birthdays: Gospel singer George Beverly Shea is 103. Actor Stuart Whitman is 84. Singer Don Everly is 75. Actor Garrett Morris is 75. Singer Ray Sawyer (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) is 75. Actor Sherman Hemsley is 74. Bluegrass singer Del McCoury is 73. Jazz musician Joe Sample is 73. TV personality-singer Joy Philbin is 71. Comedian Terry Jones is 70. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., is 68. Opera singer Carol Neblett is 66. Rock musician Mike Campbell (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 62. Blues singer-musician Sonny Landreth is 61. Actor-writer-producer Bill Mumy is 58. Rock singer Exene Cervenka is 56. Actor Linus Roache is 48. Princess Stephanie of Monaco is 47. Country musician Dwayne Dupuy (Ricochet) is 47. Actress Sherilyn Fenn is 47. Lisa Marie Presley is 44. Comedian-actor Pauly Shore is 44. Actor Brian Krause is 43. Jazz musician Joshua Redman is 43. Rock musician Patrick Wilson (Weezer) is 43. Actor Michael C. Hall is 41. Rock musician Ron Welty is 41. Rapper Big Boi (Outkast) is 37. Country singer Julie Roberts is 33. Actor Jarrett Lennon is 30. TV personality Lauren Conrad is 26.

Thought for Today: "Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other." - William Faulkner, American novelist and poet (1897-1962).

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