On this date in NEPA
75 years ago, January clearance sale at Samter’s: fur coats, $63; children’s snowsuits, $3.95 to $8.95; men’s Bostonian shoes, $5.95 a pair; and men’s overcoats, $21.75.
50 years ago, a Pittston woman suffered a possible skull facture in a car crash. The car, being driven on Main Street in Avoca, struck a utility pole and house and traveled 444 feet until hitting another pole in Duryea.
25 years ago, 21 Scranton police officers stormed O’Toole’s, a popular Hill Section bar, after getting a tip that two fugitives were inside. The pair were arrested – one for a Moosic bank robbery, the other for a parole violation that involved jumping out a district justice’s window in Pittston. Both were armed.
10 years ago, 33-1/3 Record Manufacturing Corp. announced it would open a facility in the former Haddon Craftsmen building in Dunmore. Today is Tuesday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2012. There are 356 days left in the year.
In 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published “Common Sense,” which argued for American independence from British rule.
In 1860, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Mass., collapsed and caught fire, killing up to 145 people.
In 1861, Florida became the third state to secede from the Union.
In 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
In 1920, the League of Nations was established as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect.
In 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London.