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Glancing Backward Locally 11-22-09
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share thisToday is Sunday, November 22, the 326th day of 2009. There are 39 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
In 1963 U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated as he rides in motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th president.
Glancing Backward Locally:
75 years ago - 1934
At the first day of SS Peter and Paul Country Fair, more than 480 people were served the chicken and spaghetti supper.
At the rural dramatics contest in the Orwell Grange Hall, Rome Christian Endeavor took first with a presentation of "The Blue Teapot."
Fifteen friends and neighbors met with Floyd Schrader on Tuesday in West Franklin to help him husk 200 bushels of corn.
Elsewhere on this date:
1995 - Boosting the Balkan peace accord, the U.N. Security Council suspends economic sanctions against Serbia and begins lifting the arms embargo against republics of the former Yugoslavia.
1996 - President Alberto Fujimori of Peru announces the purchase of 12 MiG-29 warplanes, but denies trying to start an arms race with Ecuador.
1997 - Gunmen kidnap five aid workers from the U.N. and European Union in Somalia. They are released unharmed three days later.
1998 - Albanians ratify their country's first post-Communist constitution in a referendum.
1999 - Abdelkader Hachani, a moderate leader of Algeria's banned Islamic Salvation Front, is fatally shot in Algiers.
2000 - Four Palestinians are killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli troops near a Jewish settlement.
2001 - The Turkish Parliament approves revisions to the country's 75-year-old civil code to recognize men and women as equal before the law.
2002 - Officials cancel the Miss World pageant in Nigeria and move it instead to London after news that the African nation will host the event sparks deadly riots.
2004 - Opposition supporters gather to protest alleged fraud in Ukraine's presidential runoff, which European monitors say was marred by official interference and suspiciously high turnout figures.
2005 - Conservative Angela Merkel takes power as Germany's first female chancellor and the country's first leader to grow up under communism in the Soviet-occupied East.
2006 - Nepal celebrates the end of a bloody 10-year communist insurgency by declaring a public holiday, and the international community hails the deal under which communist rebels will join an interim government.
2007 - A transport strike that has crippled France for nine days in open defiance of President Nicolas Sarkozy's reform agenda collapses as rail workers around the country vote "yes" to return to work.
2008 - Martine Aubry, the architect of France's 35-hour work week, wins the Socialist Party's leadership in an extremely tight race.
Today's Birthdays: U.S. actress Jamie Lee Curtis is 51; U.S. actress Mariel Hemingway is 48; German tennis professional and Wimbledon champion Boris Becker is 42
U.S. actress Scarlett Johansson is 25.
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