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

 Today is Monday  April 5, 2004.
 This is the 96th day of the year, there are 270 days left.

 Happy Birthday to...
    In 1816 Samuel Freeman Miller         32nd U.S.S.C. JUSTICE
    In 1901 Chester Bliss Bowles              62nd Governor of Connecticut
    In 1726 Benjamin Harrison                   4th Governor of Virginia
    In 1588 Thomas Hobbes, 1588, philosopher
    In 1649 Elihu Yale, philanthropist founded Yale
    In 1725 Casanova
    In 1827 Joseph Lister, English physician, founder of aseptic surgery
    In 1837 Algernon Swinburne, English poet (Atalanta in Calydon)
    In 1856 Booker T Washington, pioneering educator
    In 1901 Chester Bowles, ambassador, writer
    In 1908 Bette Davis, Lowell Mass, famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel)
    In 1908 Mary Hemingway writer
            Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic conductor
    In 1916 Gregory Peck, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird)
    In 1920 Arthur Halley, author (Hotel, Airport)
    In 1922 Gale Storm, Bloomington Texas, actress
    In 1923 Nguyen Van Thieu, president of South Vietnam
    In 1940 Aliza Kashi
    In 1946 Jane Asher, former Paul McCartney girlfriend
    In 1950 Agnetha Faltskog Stockholm (ABBA)
    In 1954 Michael W Butler, creator of this TODAY program

 On this day...
    2nd Quarter, Week 1, Day 4
    6 Days - Easter
    34 Days - 24 hour Sunlight for Barrow, Alaska - North U.S. City
    34 Days - Mother's Day
    51 Days - U.S. Memorial Day
    70 Days - U.S. American Flag Day
    71 Days - Father's Day
    77 DAYS - Northern Hemisphere  its Summer
            Southern Hemisphere  its Winter
    90 Days - U.S. Independence Day
    In 2004 304 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2005 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 689 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2006 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 1046 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2007 - New Orleans, LA, US
    In 1991 ATLANTIS,   US SPACE SHUTTLE    LAUNCHED
    Feast of St Vincent Ferrer, confessor
    In 1242 Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights
    In 1614 Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
    In 1614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
    In 1621 Mayflower leaves on return trip to England
    In 1762 British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
    In 1792 George Washington casts 1st Presidential veto ever
    In 1881 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
    In 1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
    In 1894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
    In 1915 Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson for heavyweight crown
    In 1941 in SF, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
    In 1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
    In 1967 ATS II launched but failed to reach orbit
    In 1973 Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter
    In 1974 World Trade Center opens in NY
    In 1975 Soyuz 18A aborted lift-off
    In 1983 Sixth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 1 is launched
    In 1815  Eruption of the Tambora volcano (Sumbawa, Java) ejects some 36 c
             miles of volcanic material, greatest in history.
    In 1936  Tupelo, Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado. 216 die
    In 1949  60 year old St. Anthony's Hospital burns, killing 77,
             including a nun & 12 newborns. (Effingham, Illinois)

 Thought for the day...
    In 1982 Abe Fortas                     85th U.S.S.C. JUSTICE  
    In 1873 Andrew Barry Moore                16th Governor of Alabama
    In 1975 John A. Burns                      2nd Governors of Hawaii
    In 1909 William Amos Poynter               13th Governor of Nebraska
    In 1926 Washington Ellsworth Lindsey        3rd Governor of New Mexico 
    Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall.

 And remember...
    ITS MONDAY
    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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