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

 Today is Thursday  April 1, 2004.
 This is the 92nd day of the year, there are 274 days left.

 Happy Birthday to...
    In 1873 Bibb Graves                41st & 43rd Governor of Alabama
    In 1781 Thomas Stockton                   24th Governor of Delaware
    In 1884 George Allison Wilson             28th Governor of Iowa
    In 1823 Simon Bolivar Buckner             30th Governor of Kentucky
    In 1924 Brendan Thomas Byrne               64th Governor of New Jersey
    In 1781 Robert Lucas                       12th Governor of Ohio
    In 1815 Henry Bowen Anthony                35th Governor of Rhode Island
    In 1815 Edward Clark                        8th Governor of Texas
    In 1578 William Harvey, physician, discovered blood circulation
    In 1815 Otto von Bismarck, statesman
    In 1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, Novgorod Province Russia composer
    In 1875 Edgar Wallace, novelist, playwright, journalist
    In 1883 Lon Chaney, man of 1000 faces
    In 1920 Toshire Mifune
    In 1922 William Manchester, historian
    In 1928 George Grizzard, actor
    In 1928 Herbert Klein, newscaster
    In 1929 Jane Powell, Portland Ore
    In 1930 Grace Lee Whitney, Capt Kirk's Yeoman Rand
    In 1932 Debbie Reynolds, El Paso Tx
            Gordon Jump, WKRP
    In 1934 Don Hastings
    In 1939 Ali MacGraw, (Love Story, Goodbye Columbus), Pound Ridge NY
    In 1942 Samuel R Delany, sci-fi author (Dhalgren)
    In 1944 Carol White, England
    In 1945 Heather Young, Wash
    In 1947 David Eisenhower, Grandson of Pres Dwight
    In 1952 Annette O'Toole, Houston Texas

 On this day...
    1st Quarter, Week 13, Day 7
    3 Days - Daylight Savings Time 
    10 Days - Easter
    38 Days - 24 hour Sunlight for Barrow, Alaska - North U.S. City
    38 Days - Mother's Day
    55 Days - U.S. Memorial Day
    74 Days - U.S. American Flag Day
    75 Days - Father's Day
    81 DAYS - Northern Hemisphere  its Summer
            Southern Hemisphere  its Winter
    94 Days - U.S. Independence Day
    In 2004 308 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2005 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 693 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2006 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 1050 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2007 - New Orleans, LA, US
    In 1960 TIROS 1,    US WEATHER SATELLITE 
    April Fool's Day
    Feast of St Lasarus
    Saint Stupid's Day (a SF tradition since 1980)
    In 1753 Christmas Eve
    In 1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$"
    In 1789 House of Reps 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
    In 1850 SF County Govt established
    In 1853 Cincinnati became 1st US city to pay firefighters a regular salar
    In 1863 1st wartime conscription law in US went into effect
    In 1918 Royal Air Force established
    In 1933 Nazi Germany began persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish business
    In 1935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
    In 1939 US recognized Franco govt in Spain at end of Spanish civil war
    In 1941 Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay)
    In 1945 American forces launched invasion of Okinawa during WW II
    In 1946 strike by 400,000 mine workers
    In 1952 Big Bang theory proposed in PHYSICAL REVIEW by Alpher, Bethe & Ga
    In 1954 1st army helicopter battalion formed, Fort Bragg, NC
    In 1960 RCA (TV & Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched
    In 1963 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
    In 1964 USSR launches Zond 1 towards Venus
    In 1971 US/Canada ISIS II launched to study ionosphere
    In 1974 Pioneer Hall opens
    In 1979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of the Shah
    In 1984 Marvin Gaye shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA
    In 1873  Steamer 'Atlantic' sank off Nova Scotia drowning 481.
    In 1946  Tsunamis generated by a quake in the Aleutian Trench strike
             Hilo, Hawaii at 07:00 A.M. with waves over 50 feet high.

 Thought for the day...
    In 1865 John Milton                        5th Governor of Florida
    In 1839 Benjamin Pierce                    12th & 14th Governor of New Ha
    In 1826 William Kennedy                    11th Governor of New Jersey
    In 1924 Leon R. Taylor                     47th Governor of New Jersey
    In 1916 Charles Aurelius Smith             63rd Governor of South Carolin
    In 1923 Thomas Mitchell Campbell           25th Governor of Texas
    The average woman would rather be beautiful than smart
    because the average man can see better than he can think.

 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 
    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 04 - Death of President William Henry Harrison
    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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