TODAY  Version 3.6   11/14/93       Copyright 1986, 1993  By Patrick Kincaid

 Today is Thursday  July 29, 2004.
 This is the 211st day of the year, there are 155 days left.

 Happy Birthday to...
    In 1911 Foster Furcolo                     63rd Governor of Massachusetts
    In 1915 Francis Williams Sargent           67th Governor of Massachusetts
    In 1827 John S. Pillsbury .                 8th Governor of Minnesota
    In 1956 Ronnie Musgrove                    61st Governor of Mississippi
    In 1794 Thomas Corwin                      15th Governor of Ohio
    In 1869 Booth Tarkington, American novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons).
    In 1883 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce), Italian dictator.
    In 1905 Clara Bow, silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid).
    In 1905 Dag Hammarskj”ld, 2nd UN sec-gen (1953-61) (Nobel 1961).
    In 1907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's 'King of Torts'

 On this day...
    3rd Quarter, Week 4, Day 7
    36 Days - U.S. Labor Day
    44 Days - U.S. Patriot Day
    55 DAYS - Northern Hemisphere  its Autumn
            Southern Hemisphere  its Spring
    82 DAYS - U.S. Major League Baseball World Series Begins
    91 Days - Standard Daylight Time
    In 2004 189 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2005 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 574 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2006 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 931 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2007 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 1279 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2008
    In 1985 CHALLENGER, US SPACE SHUTTLE    LAUNCHED
    Moscow, Russia - Sunrise/Set  5:30 AM 9:41 PM
    Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA - Sunrise/Set  6:29 AM 8:31 PM 
    Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
    In 1858 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
    In 1914 1st transcontinental phone link.  Between NYC and San Francisco.
    In 1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight: New York to San Francisco
    In 1957 International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
    In 1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings.
    In 1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 is launched
    In 1715  10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by hurricane
    In 1947  Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, killing 10 women and
             injuring 30 in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
    In 1967  U.S.S. Forrestal explodes killing 134. $100 million damage.
    In 1967  Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas, Venezuela causing severe d
    In 1968  Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption.

 Thought for the day...
    In 1892 Charles Henry Hardin               23rd Governor of Missouri 
    In 1960 Robert Perkins Bass                56th Governor of New Hampshire
    In 1908 Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham        24th Governor of Texas
    Faith will not die while seed catalogs are printed.

 And remember...
    ITS THURSDAY
    Today's Date (Month\Day) will land on this day of week in 2010! 
    U.S. National Alert Status is ELEVATED - YELLOW LEVEL  3RD 
    In 2004, U.S. Currency State Quarter to be Released  Iowa
    In 2005, U.S. Currency State Quarter to be Released  Kansas
    In 2006, U.S. Currency State Quarter to be Released  North Dakota
    In 2007, U.S. Currency State Quarter to be Released  Wyoming
    In 2008, U.S. Currency State Quarter to be Released  Alaska
    All U.S. Space Shuttles Grounded.
    Atlantis    U.S. Space Shuttle launch time unknown!
    Endeavour   U.S. Space Shuttle launch time unknown!
    Discovery   U.S. Space Shuttle may launch in March\April 2005!
    Jul 31 - Death of President Andrew Johnson
    Aug 01 - Statehood Day for Colorado
    Aug 02 - Death of President Warren G Harding
    Aug 10 - Statehood Day for Missouri
    Aug 10 - Birthdate for   Pres. Herbert Hoover       (US) 31
    Aug 19 - Birthdate For   Pres. William J Clinton    (US) 42
    Aug 20 - Birthdate for   Pres. Benjamin Harrison    (US) 23
    Aug 21 - Statehood Day for Hawaii
    Aug 27 - Birthdate for   Pres. Lyndon B Johnson     (US) 36
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