Glancing Backward 3/13/2010

Published: March 13, 2010

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Today is Saturday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2010. There are 293 days left in the year. A reminder: Daylight-Saving Time begins Sunday at 2 a.m. local time. Clocks go forward one hour.

Today's Highlight in History:

On March 13, 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel.

Glancing Backward Locally:

25 years ago - 1985

Five players were selected to the St. Agnes fifth and sixth grade basketball tournament all-star team: Danny Darrow, Mike Schultz, Dave Abrams, Sean Belles and Jeff Smith.

The Willow Street Business Office of the Athens Area School District will be acquiring a Radio Shack (Tandy) Model 1200 computer for the use of an accounting program for the district.

Claws Refuse Inc. of Wysox has indicated it is studying the feasibility of a small-scale refuse conversion plant that burns household garbage to produce energy locally.

75 years ago - 1935

Celebrating his birthday today is G. Edward Leljedal of Kingsbury Avenue, one of the county seat's most successful fishermen.

Eddie Lyons, Sayre boxer who was popular with the fans at the tournament put on in the Towanda community hall last winter, will fight again at En-Joie pavilion in Endicott tonight, his third battle there.

Ulster residents Mrs. B.P. Walborn and Mrs. Elmer Lent attended a cheese demonstration at East Smithfield recently.

Elsewhere on this date:

In 1884, Congress officially adopted Eastern Standard Time for the District of Columbia.

In 1901, the 23rd president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, died in Indianapolis at age 67.

In 1925, the Tennessee General Assembly approved a bill prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. (Gov. Austin Peay signed the measure on March 21.)

In 1933, banks began to re-open after a "holiday" declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1969, the Apollo 9 astronauts splashed down, ending a mission that included the successful testing of the Lunar Module.

In 1988, yielding to student protests, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University in Washington D.C., a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired, chose I. King Jordan to become the school's first deaf president.

In 1996, a gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.

Ten years ago: A quarter century after the end of the Vietnam War, U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen arrived in Hanoi to push the pace of reconciliation.

Five years ago: Pope John Paul II was released from the hospital and returned to his Vatican apartment overlooking St. Peter's Square.

One year ago: President Barack Obama met with former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, chairman of his Economic Recovery Advisory Board; the president then went before reporters to say his administration was working to create a "post-bubble" model for solid economic growth once the recession ended.

Today's Birthdays: Actor William H. Macy is 60. Actress Dana Delany is 54. Actor Christopher Collet is 42. Actress Tracy Wells is 39. Rapper Khujo (Goodie Mob, The Lumberjacks) is 38. Singer Glenn Lewis is 35. Actor Danny Masterson is 34. Actor Emile Hirsch is 25. Singers Nicole and Natalie Albino (Nina Sky) are 24.

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