Glancing Backward, 11/01/09
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share thisToday is Sunday, Nov. 1, the 305th day of 2009. There are 60 days left in the year. This is All Saints Day.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 1, 1765, the Stamp Act went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
Glancing Backward Locally:
25 years ago - 1984
"Tom Brookens Day" was held in Mansfield to honor former Mansfield University infielder Tom Brookens, who is now a third baseman with the Detroit Tigers.
A celebration for the working woman was held at the Troy Vets Club, bringing out more than 140 business and professional women.
The Troy High School received approval to form a chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America.
75 years ago - 1934
Small games season opens today, prompting more than a half-million hunters to take to the woods in Pennsylvania.
In East Smithfield, Mrs. Mary E. Kennedy purchased the property known as the Gustin House.
At the Towanda Halloween parade, the group that drew some of the most laughter was a representation of the five Dionne quintuplets born in Canada a few months ago. The children were represented by five local school faculty members - Miss Helen Edwards, Miss Florence Brown, Miss Alice McAuliff, Miss Naomi Young and Miss Rachel Spear - who were riding in express wagons and being pulled by high school boys, dressed all in white, representing orderlies.
Elsewhere on this date:
In 1512, Michelangelo finished painting the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel.
In 1870, the U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.
In 1936, in a speech in Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini described the alliance between his country and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Rome and Berlin.
In 1949, an Eastern Airlines DC-4 collided with a Lockheed P-38 fighter plane near Washington National Airport, killing all 55 people aboard the DC-4 and seriously injuring the pilot of the P-38.
In 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, D.C., to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. The attempt failed, and one of the pair was killed, along with a White House police officer.
In 1952, the United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, code named "Ivy Mike," at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
In 1954, Algerian nationalists began their successful rebellion against French rule.
Ten years ago: Coast Guard crews searching for clues in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, which claimed 217 lives, found the first large piece of wreckage off the New England coast.
Five years ago: American contract worker Roy Hallums was one of several people kidnapped during an armed assault on the Baghdad compound where he lived.
One year ago: Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain plunged through the final weekend of their marathon race for the White House; McCain poked fun at his campaign's financial shortcomings and his reputation as a political maverick in an appearance on NBC's "Saturday Night Live."
Today's Birthdays: Newspaper columnist James J. Kilpatrick is 89. Actress Betsy Palmer is 83. Golfer Gary Player is 74. Country singer Bill Anderson is 72. Actress Barbara Bosson is 70. Actor Robert Foxworth is 68. Actress Marcia Wallace is 67. Magazine publisher Larry Flynt is 67. Country singer-humorist Kinky Friedman is 65.
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