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

 Today is Thursday  June 24, 2004.
 This is the 176th day of the year, there are 190 days left.

 Happy Birthday to...
    In 1811 John Archibald Campbell       29th U.S.S.C. JUSTICE  
    In 1827 John Gately Downey                 7th Governor of California
    In 1804 John Cummins Edwards                9th Governor of Missouri
    In 1826 Theodore F. Randolph               29th Governor of New Jersey
    In 1877 Richard Charles Dillon              8th Governor of New Mexico 
    In 1945 George Pataki                      57th Governor of New York
    In 1893 Douglas James McKay                25th Governor of Oregon
    In 1864 Duncan Clinch Heyward              60th Governor of South Carolin
    In 1927 James Burrows Edwards              83rd Governor of South Carolin
    In 1839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift and Co.
    In 1842 Ambrose Bierce, satirist
    In 1895 Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26)
    In 1915 Fred Hoyle, cosmologist, proposed steady-state universe theory
    In 1916 John Ciardi, poet, critic, translator of Dante
    In 1932 David McTaggart, cofounder of Greenpeace

 On this day...
    2nd Quarter, Week 12, Day 7
    10 Days - U.S. Independence Day
    71 Days - U.S. Labor Day
    79 Days - U.S. Patriot Day
    90 DAYS - Northern Hemisphere  its Autumn
            Southern Hemisphere  its Spring
    126 Days - Standard Daylight Time
    In 2004 224 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2005 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 609 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2006 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 966 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2007 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 1314 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2008
    Moscow, Russia - Sunrise/Set  4:46 AM 10:18 PM
    Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe (quarter day in England)
    St. Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada
    In 1314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
    In 1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI
    In 1497 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
    In 1509 Henry VIII becomes King of England
    In 1817 First coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.
    In 1930 First radar detection of aircraft, at Anacostia, DC.
    In 1949 Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board.
    In 1949 Hopalong Cassidy becomes first network western.
    In 1963 First demonstration of home video recorder, BBC Studios, London.
    In 1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down in defeat.
    In 1982 Soyuz T-6 lifts 3 cosmonauts (1 French) to Salyut 7 space station
    In 1986 US Senate approves "tax reform" - taxes went up.
    In 1881  200 drowned when train runs off a bridge into a river
             near Cuautla, Mexico.
    In 1897  Hail smashed skylights, pierced streetcar roofs, & shattered
             slate roofs, injuring 26 in Topeka, Kansas.
    In 1915  Steamer 'Eastland' capsized at Chicago's Clark Street dock,
             drowning 812, including 22 entire families.
    In 1966  Bombay to New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc on
             approach to Geneva, Switzerland. All 117 aboard die.
    In 1975  Eastern Airlines 727 crashed at the edge of Kennedy Airport,
             New York, killing 113. Worst U.S. single airplane disaster.

 Thought for the day...
    In 1934 Charles Spalding Thomas           11th Governor of Colorado 
    In 1928 Frank Robert Gooding               7th Governor of Idaho
    In 1908 Grover Cleveland                   31st Governor of New York
    In 1817 Thomas McKean                       2nd Governor of Pennsylvania
    In 1951 Theo Cobb              Oklahoma Highway Trooper Killed on Duty   
    In 1908 Grover Cleveland         Died   22nd & 24th US President
    Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

 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 
    ** NOTE ** U.S. Mint released "TEXAS" State Quarter Jun 1st!
    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!
    Jun 25 - Statehood Day for Virginia
    Jun 28 - Death of President James Madison
    Jul 03 - Statehood Day for Idaho
    Jul 04 - Birthdate for   Pres. Calvin Coolidge      (US) 30
    Jul 04 - Death of President John Adams
    Jul 04 - Death of President Thomas Jefferson
    Jul 04 - Death of President James Monroe
    Jul 06 - Birthdate for   Pres. George W Bush
    Jul 09 - Death of President Zachary Taylor
    Jul 10 - Statehood Day for Wyoming
    Jul 11 - Birthdate for   Pres. John Q Adams         (US) 06
    Jul 14 - Birthdate for   Pres. Gerald R Ford        (US) 38 
    Jul 23 - Death of President Ulysses S Grant
    Jul 24 - Death of President Martin Van Buren
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