Today is Thursday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2009. there are 42 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.

Glancing Backward Locally:

At a recognition dinner for the Troy football team, six members received special recognition: Joe Bulkley, Terry Spalding, Tim Parker, Tom Watson, and Tim Schoonover.

Tom Frazer of Laceyville earned a spot in the cross country national championship meet in December.

Anna Marie Zettlemoyer, a Towanda artist, talked to the Towanda Rotary Club about the philosophy of art.

At the 12th annual meeting of the Valley Economic Development Association, Ernest Peterson of Sayre was named president.

A store-to-store solicitation will be held by the Retail Merchants Division of the Towanda Country Club to raise funds for this year’s Christmas Promotion program.

After taking in 24 new members, the North Rome Pilgrim Holiness Church increased its membership to 65.

The K.C. Kellogg Coach Line, which goes between Waverly and Towanda, received a new bus, specially built at Dimon Body Works in Rome.

Rev. Levi W. Lunn, rector of Waverly’s Grace Episcopal Church, was mistakenly sent a funeral wreath, despite the fact that he’s alive and well.

Starting today, patrolmen are to prosecute people who don’t have lights on horse-drawn carriages and bikes after dark.

Elsewhere on this date:

In 1600, King Charles I of England was born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

Ten years ago: Hundreds of anti-American protesters battled riot police and set stores and banks ablaze as President Bill Clinton rode through Athens in a tight security cocoon and proclaimed a “profound and enduring friendship” with Greece.

Five years ago: in one of the worst brawls in U.S. sports history, Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson of the Indiana Pacers charged into the stands and fought with Detroit Pistons fans, forcing officials to end the Pacers’ 97-82 win with 45.9 seconds left.

One year ago: Al-Qaida’s No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, slurred Barack Obama as a black American who does the bidding of whites in a new Web message intended to dent the president-elect’s popularity among Arabs and Muslims.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Alan Young is 90. Talk show host Larry King is 76. Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch is 74. Talk show host Dick Cavett is 73. Broadcasting and sports mogul Ted Turner is 71. Singer Pete Moore (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) is 70. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, is 70.