Today is Feb. 26, 2000; the history is of Medford, Oregon, where the Mail Tribune looks back in time and finds this "Today in History" item from 1990: "Ron Weatherford, retired principal of Medford's Roosevelt School who spent 20-plus years involved with the Jackson County Community Concert Association, related anecdotes about the association during a fund-raising luncheon... "The pilot of a chartered plane carrying 100 Houston Symphony musicians refused to land in Medford because he thought the runway too short [a thought has has crossed my mind at times, JG] and landed in Klamath Falls instead. Five minutes before concert time, Van Cliburn was still at his motel talking on the telephone to his mother. A troupe of Soviet Georgian dancers mistakenly hurled three daggers into the gym floor at Hedrick Junior High School. Anna Moffo wanted to know in advance the name of everyone who would attend a reception following her concert..." Janos Gereben/SF [log in to unmask]