Glancing Backward, 3/8/10

Published: March 8, 2010

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Today is Monday, March 8, the 67th day of 2010. There are 298 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On March 8, 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and heavily damaged the USS Congress, both frigates, off Newport News, Va.

Glancing Backward Locally:

25 years ago - 1985

With a present active membership of 1,194, the Skiff-Bower Post 1536 VFW of Sayre ranks about 14th in the state and about 40th in the nation in membership.

The Towanda Public Library is holding a quarter-a-pound used book sale to raise funds for new children's books for the library.

Celebrating her birthday today is Mary McPherson, pump attendant of McPherson's garage in Rome.

50 years ago - 1960

A $500,000 facilities expansion program for the production and processing of single crystal germanium and silicon for use by the semiconductor industry was announced by the Chemical and Metallurgical Division of Sylvania Electric Products Inc.

Judges for the speaking contest to be held at the Mulberry Street School are David M. Turner, Mrs. Vernon Smith and Mrs. George Dayton Jr.

Carlyle J. Wood has joined the sales force of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in the Towanda area.

75 years ago - 1935

In his office in the municipal building, Chief of Police A.P. Watson has arranged an interesting display of the photographs of all of Towanda's police chiefs from the first one to the present.

After the Bradford County Volunteer Firemen's Association meeting held at the headquarters of Oscalua-Engine Co., a pancake supper was served, at which one fireman from Towanda ate 17 pancakes.

The Robert Packer Hospital reached an all-time record in the number of patients being cared for there, the number being 261.

Elsewhere on this date:

In 1702, England's Queen Anne acceded to the throne upon the death of King William III.

In 1874, the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore, died in Buffalo, N.Y., at age 74.

In 1930, the 27th president of the United States, William Howard Taft, died in Washington at age 72.

In 1988, 17 soldiers were killed when two Army helicopters from Fort Campbell, Ky., collided in mid-flight.

Ten years ago: President Bill Clinton submitted to Congress legislation to establish permanent normal trade relations with China. (The U.S. and China signed a trade pact in Nov. 2000.)

Five years ago: President George W. Bush said authoritarian rule in the Middle East had begun to ease, and he insisted anew that Syria had to end its nearly three-decade occupation of Lebanon.

One year ago: A pastor was gunned down during a Sunday sermon in a southwestern Illinois church; a judge later ruled the suspect in the shooting, Terry Sedlacek (SEHD'-lak), was mentally unfit to stand trial in the killing of the Rev. Fred Winters at the First Baptist Church of Maryville.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Lynn Redgrave is 67. Pop singer Peggy March is 62. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Jim Rice is 57. Singer Gary Numan is 52. NBC News anchor Lester Holt is 51. Actor Aidan Quinn is 51. Actor Boris Kodjoe is 37. Actor Freddie Prinze Jr. is 34. Actor James Van Der Beek is 33. Rock musician Andy Ross (OK Go) is 31.

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