2010
Doug Johnson, after keeping statistics on butterflies for 12 years on his 25-acre property near Columbus, reported there were higher numbers and more varieties than in recent years despite a recent drought.
1995
Reaction varied from cheers to boos around Columbus restaurants and other public places when the swift murder acquittal of O.J. Simpson in Los Angeles was announced on television.
1970
Area farmers began picking corn a little early because stalks weakened by southern corn leaf blight were breaking over too far for pickers to reach.
