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50 YEARS AGO: Feb. 1, 1969
W. Stanley Truby, president of Gable's Department Store for the past eight years, announced his retirement. He started employment with Gable's in 1922 and held many positions from sales, to manager of various departments to vice-president. Robert S. Powers, a grandson of the founder, William F. Gable, was named new president.
25 YEARS AGO: Feb. 1, 1994
The Tuckahoe District, Penn Woods Council, Boy Scouts of America, Sam Heverly chairman, was to hold a scouting show at the Logan Valley Mall called "Scouting is the Bridge to the Future." The Altoona Police Dept., Altoona Fire Dept., State Police, Norfolk Southern Operation Lifesaver and recycling efforts were also to take part.
10 YEARS AGO: Feb. 1, 2009
The Altoona City Water Authority was to use eminent domain to take a property on Chestnut Avenue at about Ninth Street to build a new facility to replace it's Greenwood and Sixth Avenue headquarters as soon as the title could be cleared, the property having been sold at a tax sale. Other adjacent properties were also to be purchased.
--Compiled by Tim Doyle
Today is Friday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2019. There are 333 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Feb. 1, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they'd been refused service.
On this date:
– In 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York. (However, since only three of the six justices were present, the court recessed until the next day.)
– In 1862, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," a poem by Julia Ward Howe, was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
– In 1942, during World War II, the Voice of America broadcast its first program to Europe, relaying it through the facilities of the British Broadcasting Corp. in London.
– In 1943, during World War II, one of America's most highly decorated military units, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost exclusively of Japanese-Americans, was authorized.
– In 1946, Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.
– In 1959, men in Switzerland rejected giving women the right to vote by a more than 2-1 referendum margin. (Swiss women gained the right to vote in 1971.)
– In 1968, during the Vietnam War, South Vietnam's police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in a scene captured by news photographers. Richard M. Nixon announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
– In 1979, Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.
– In 1982, "Late Night with David Letterman" premiered on NBC.