Glancing Backward 3/10/2010

Published: March 10, 2010

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Today is Wednesday, March 10, the 69th day of 2010. There are 296 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On March 10, 1876, the first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's telephone took place in Boston as his assistant heard Bell say, "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

Glancing Backward Locally:

50 years ago - 1960

Kathleen Dougherty, a senior at St. Agnes High School and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wood of Pine Street, won the annual speaking contest sponsored by the Towanda branch of the American Association of University Women.

The 1960 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow in Troy High School is Beverly Dillon.

Musical talent from Troy High School prepared by Mrs. John Deemy, music supervisor, provided the program for the Elmira Area Hammond Organ Society recently.

Elsewhere on this date:

In 1496, Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere as he left Hispaniola for Spain.

In 1880, the Salvation Army arrived in the United States from England.

In 1948, the body of the anti-Communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, was found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague.

In 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ray later repudiated that plea, maintaining his innocence until his death.)

In 1985, Konstantin U. Chernenko, who was the Soviet Union's leader for just 13 months, died at age 73.

Ten years ago: Pope John Paul II approved sainthood for Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia socialite who had taken a vow of poverty and devoted her fortune to helping poor blacks and American Indians. (Drexel, who died in 1955, was canonized in Oct. 2000.)

Five years ago: Lebanon's president reappointed staunchly pro-Syrian politician Omar Karami as prime minister. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in Mosul, Iraq, killing at least 47 people. Former President Bill Clinton underwent surgery in New York to remove scar tissue and fluid from his chest.

One year ago: A gunman, 28-year-old Michael McLendon, killed 10 people, including his mother, four other relatives and the wife and child of a local sheriff's deputy across two rural Alabama counties before committing suicide. In his first major speech on education, President Barack Obama called for tying teachers' pay to student performance and expanding innovative charter schools.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Chuck Norris is 70. Pop/jazz singer Jeanie Bryson is 52. Actress Sharon Stone is 52. Rock musician Gail Greenwood is 50. Magician Lance Burton is 50. Music producer Rick Rubin is 47. Britain's Prince Edward is 46. Actress Paget Brewster is 41. Rapper-producer Timbaland is 38. Singer Robin Thicke is 33. Country singer Carrie Underwood is 27.

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