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

 Today is Wednesday  September 1, 2004.
 This is the 245th day of the year, there are 121 days left.

 Happy Birthday to...
    In 1739 John Rutledge                  2nd U.S.S.C. CHIEF JUSTICE
    In 1739 John Rutledge                  3rd U.S.S.C. JUSTICE  
    In 1827 Elisha Baxter                     13th Governor of Arkansas
    In 1892 Leverett Saltonstall               58th Governor of Massachusetts
    In 1799 John A. Quitman                    10th & 16th Governor of Missis
    In 1891 J. Hugo Aronson                    14th Governor of Montana
    In 1796 Nathaniel Springer Berry           30th Governor of New Hampshire
    In 1785 Philip Allen                       36th Governor of Rhode Island
    In 1807 William Warner Hoppin              38th Governor of Rhode Island
    In 1933 Ann Richards                       46th Governor of Texas
    In 1877 Arthur Griswold Crane              20th Governor of Wyoming
    In 1854 Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer
    In 1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist, Ah-ee-ah-ee-ah!
    In 1935 Seiji Ozawa, conductor

 On this day...
    3rd Quarter, Week 9, Day 6
    5 Days - U.S. Labor Day
    10 Days - U.S. Patriot Day
    21 DAYS - Northern Hemisphere  its Autumn
            Southern Hemisphere  its Spring
    48 DAYS - U.S. Major League Baseball World Series Begins
    56 Days - Standard Daylight Time
    60 DAYS - HALLOWEEN
    88 DAYS - THANKSGIVING
    115 DAYS - CHRISTMAS
    In 2004 155 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2005 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 540 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2006 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 897 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2007 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 1245 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2008
    In 2083 6000 Days until Mardi Gras 2100
    Moscow, Russia - Sunrise/Set  6:35 AM 8:23 PM 
    Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA - Sunrise/Set  6:56 AM 7:51 PM
    In 1772 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in California
    In 1859 Carrington & Hodgson make first observation of a solar flare.
    In 1807 Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire.
    In 1849 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey.
    In 1878 1st woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston).
    In 1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan become 8th and 9th Canadian provinces.
    In 1939 Germany invades Poland, starting World War II.
    In 1939 PHYSICAL REVIEW publishes first paper to deal with "black
holes"
    In 1969 Moammar Gadhafi deposes Libya's King Idris
    In 1977 First TRS-80 Model I computer is sold.
    In 1979 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
    In 1983 A Korean Boeing 747, carrying 269 passengers, strays into Soviet
            air space and is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter.
    In 1985 SS Titanic, sunk in 1912, is found by French & American scientist
    In 1666  Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80 percent of
             London is destroyed, including last vestiges of bubonic plague.
    In 1923  Earthquake centered under Sagami Bay, Japan shifts entire area
             to S.W. w/horizontal displacement of 15 feet.
    In 1957  Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400.
    In 1973  74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35. (Copenhagen, Denmark

 Thought for the day...
    In 1894 Nathaniel Prentice Banks      25th U.S. Speaker of the House
    In 1941 George Cooper Pardee              21st Governor of California
    In 1926 John Hunn                         42nd Governor of Delaware
    In 1894 Samuel Jordan Kirkwood       5th & 9th Governor of Iowa
    In 1894 Nathaniel Prentice Banks           26th Governor of Massachusetts
    In 1828 John Taylor Gilman                  2nd & 7th Governor of New Ham
    In 1954 Burnet Rhett Maybank               71st Governor of South Carolin
    Do not clog intellect`s sluices
    with knowledge of questionable uses.

 And remember...
    ITS WEDNESDAY
    Today's Date (Month\Day) will land on this day of week in 2010! 
    U.S. National Alert Status is ELEVATED - YELLOW LEVEL  3RD 
    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!
    Sep 09 - Statehood Day for California
    Sep 14 - Death of President William McKinley
    Sep 15 - Birthdate for   Pres. William H Taft       (US) 27 
    Oct 01 - Birthdate for   Pres. Jimmy Carter         (US) 39
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