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Glancing Backward Locally, 11/20/09
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share thisToday is Friday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2009. There are 41 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 20, 1947, Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey.
Glancing Backward Locally:
25 years ago - 1984
Eric Roberts, a sixth grader at Wyalusing Elementary School and son of Mr. and Mrs. James Roberts, won honorable mention in a nationwide essay contest with his essay, "A Law Banning Nuclear Waste."
Christopher Clair, who is home from Shape, Belgium, to visit his grandmother, Troy resident Shirley Bristol, is celebrating his 3rd birthday today.
Canton Area School District employees received a "thank you apple" from the GFWC-Pennsylvania Federation of Women's Clubs and Village Improvement Association of Canton for National Education Week.
50 years ago - 1959
More than 1,000 items were brought in for Memorial Hospital's harvest food collection.
A new Cub Scout pack - Pack 42 - has been organized in Rome, and children are now invited to sign-up.
The SRU FFA members and parents served a banquet to the Eastern Milk Producers.
75 years ago - 1934
Despite the fact that winter is soon approaching, it has been reported that dandelions were seen blooming in Waverly.
At a Bradford County dramatics tournament, the play "The Florist Shop" by the Standing Stone Friendship Club won first place.
After buying the old post office building in Alba, Mrs. Minnie Fuller plans to move in after some repairs are made.
Elsewhere on this date:
In 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
In 1910, revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I. Madero.
In 1925, Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass.
In 1929, the radio program "The Rise of the Goldbergs" debuted on the NBC Blue Network.
In 1945, 22 out of 24 indicted Nazi officials went on trial (one in absentia) before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
In 1959, the United Nations issued its Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
In 1967, the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock at the Commerce Department ticked past 200 million.
In 1969, the Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phaseout. A group of American Indian activists began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
Ten years ago: A day after violent anti-American protests in Greece, President Bill Clinton sought to heal old wounds by acknowledging the United States had failed its "obligation to support democracy" when it backed Greek's harsh military junta during the Cold War.
Five years ago: Republicans whisked a $388 billion spending bill through the House.
One year ago: Sen. Ted Stevens, the chamber's longest-serving Republican, delivered his swan song address following his failed re-election bid; he was saluted by his colleagues as a staunch friend and teacher.
Today's Birthdays: Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., is 92. Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer is 86. Actress-comedian Kaye Ballard is 84. Actress Estelle Parsons is 82. TV personality Richard Dawson is 77. Comedian Dick Smothers is 71. Singer Norman Greenbaum is 67. Vice President Joe Biden is 67. Actress Veronica Hamel is 66. Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff is 63.
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