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

 Today is Wednesday  April 7, 2004.
 This is the 98th day of the year, there are 268 days left.

 Happy Birthday to...
    In 1786 William King                  13th Vice President (US)
    In 1938 Edmund G. Brown, Jr.              34th Governor of California
    In 1742 Gunning Bedford                    2nd Governor of Delaware
    In 1825 John Henry Gear                   11th Governor of Iowa
    In 1907 John Burroughs                     18th Governor of New Mexico 
    In 1805 Francis Wilkinson Pickens          41st Governor of South Carolin
    In 1862 William Haselden Ellerbe           58th Governor of South Carolin
    In 1506 St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan
    In 1770 William Wordsworth, English poet laureate (The Prelude)
    In 1775 Francis C Lowell, founder of 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
    In 1786 William Rufus DeVane King (D), 13th VP (1853)
    In 1859 Walter Camp, father of American football
    In 1860 W K Kellogg, a real corn flake
    In 1869 David Grandison Fairchild, American botanist, explorer
    In 1889 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Desolaci¢n, Tenderness) (Nobel '4
    In 1897 Walter Winchell, columnist
    In 1908 Percy Faith, musician
    In 1915 Billie Holiday, blues singer
    In 1920 Ravi Shankar, sitar player
    In 1928 James Garner, actor (Maverick, Rockford Files)
    In 1931 Daniel Ellsberg
    In 1932 Mark Russell, satirist
    In 1933 Wayne Rogers, actor (Trapper John of TV's M*A*S*H)
    In 1938 Edmund (Jerry) Brown Jr (D-gov-Cal), Linda Ronstadt's boyfriend
    In 1939 David Frost, TV personality
    In 1939 Francis Ford Coppola, film maker (Cotton Club)
    In 1949 John Oates
    In 1951 Janis Ian, trials & tribulations of being 17
    In 1954 Tony Dorsett, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)

 On this day...
    2nd Quarter, Week 1, Day 6
    4 Days - Easter
    32 Days - 24 hour Sunlight for Barrow, Alaska - North U.S. City 
    32 Days - Mother's Day
    49 Days - U.S. Memorial Day
    68 Days - U.S. American Flag Day
    69 Days - Father's Day
    75 DAYS - Northern Hemisphere  its Summer
            Southern Hemisphere  its Winter
    88 Days - U.S. Independence Day
    204 Days - Standard Daylight Time
    In 2004 302 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2005 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 687 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2006 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 1044 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2007 - New Orleans, LA, US
    In   30 Scholars' reckon Jesus was crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem
    In 1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, S Africa
    In 1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
    In 1798 Mississippi Territory organized
    In 1862 Grant defeats Confederates at Shiloh Tenn
    In 1927 Using phone lines TV was sent from Wash DC to NYC
    In 1931 SF Seals Stadium opens
    In 1933 Prohibition ends, Utah 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
    In 1939 Italy annexes Albania
    In 1948 UN establishes World Health Org
    In 1953 1st jet transatlantic non-stop flight (west to east)
    In 1959 NASA selects 1st astronauts
    In 1959 Radar 1st bounced off sun, Stanford Calif
    In 1966 US recovers lost H-bomb (whoops!)
    In 1977 Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
    In 1979 Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
    In 1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
    In 1982 Penguins 1-Isles 8 - Preliminary- Isles hold 1-0 lead
    In 1983 Caps 4-Isles 2 - Patrick Div Semi Finals- series tied 1-1
    In 1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
    In 1985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
    In 1926  Lightning started forest fire burns 900 acres, kills 2,
             destroys 6 million barrels of stored oil. (San Luis Obispo, Ca.)

 Thought for the day...
    In 1866 Matthew Harvey                     15th Governor of New Hampshire
    In 1867 Joseph Albree Gilmore              31st Governor of New Hampshire
    In 1876 Charles Smith Olden                26th Governor of New Jersey 
    In 1930 Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo        4th Governor of New Mexico  
    In 1844 Morgan Lewis                        4th Governor of New York
    In 1891 Daniel Gould Fowle                 45th Governor of North Carolin
    In 1966 Fred George Aandahl                23rd Governor of North Dakota
    In 1840 Patrick Noble                      29th Governor of South Carolin
    In 1864 Robert Francis Withers Allston     39th Governor of South Carolin
    In 1895 James Lawson Kemper                42nd Governor of Virginia
    Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

 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!
    Apr 12 - Death of President Franklin D Roosevelt
    Apr 13 - Birthdate for   Pres. Thomas Jefferson     (US)
    Apr 15 - Death of President Abraham Lincoln
    Apr 22 - Death of President Richard M Nixon  
    Apr 23 - Birthdate for   Pres. James Buchanan       (US)
    Apr 27 - Birthdate for   Pres. Ulysses S Grant      (US)
    Apr 28 - Statehood Day for Maryland
    Apr 28 - Birthdate for   Pres. James Monroe         (US)
    Apr 30 - Statehood Day for Louisiana
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