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Local history
50 years ago, 1973
Parochial school students Eric Singel, Paul Balestino, Gary Lego, Daniel Lynam, David Minori, Joseph Lach and Willia Seidel received American Legion Americanism Awards in ceremonies at St. Mary's Memorial Hall.
25 years ago, 1998
Altoona City Council approved an agreement with American Premier Underwriters of Cincinnati, which absorbed the Penn Central Railroad. The firm was assigned all liability related to dumping at the Easterly Sewage Plant in exchange for $135,000.
10 years ago, 2013
Tyrone Hospital, with Stephen Gildea as CEO, was holding an open house for its new Fitness and Wellness Center, a $1.5 million facility. ProCare Physical Therapy was the rehab provider.
World history
Today's Highlight in History
On May 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow. (The U.S. withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)
On this date
– In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the Montana Territory.
– In 1865, Confederate forces west of the Mississippi surrendered in New Orleans.
– In 1938, the House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress.
– In 1940, Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of some 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.
– In 1954, explosions rocked the aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Rhode Island, killing 103 sailors. (The initial blast was blamed on leaking catapult fluid ignited by the flames of a jet.)
– In 1971, Don McLean recorded his song "American Pie" at The Record Plant in New York City (it was released the following November by United Artists Records).