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

 Today is Tuesday  January 6, 2004.
 This is the 6th day of the year, there are 360 days left.

 Happy Birthday to...
    Denis B Solovyov
    In 1882 Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn     48th U.S. Speaker of the House
    In 1882 Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn     50th U.S. Speaker of the House
    In 1882 Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn     52th U.S. Speaker of the House
    In 1805 Charles Jones Jenkins             38th Governor of Georgia
    In 1819 Robert Charles Wickliffe          16th Governor of Louisiana
    In 1857 William Eustis Russell             40th Governor of Massachusetts
    In 1853 Woodbridge N. Ferris               28th Governor of Michigan
    In 1886 H. Dennis Murphree                 42nd & 47th Governor of Missis
    In 1888 Thomas Lowry Bailey                48th Governor of Mississippi
    In 1801 Daniel Haines                      20th & 22nd Governor of New Je
    In 1908 Michael V. DiSalle                 60th Governor of Ohio
    In 1827 John C. Brown                      23rd Governor of Tennessee
    In 1730 Thomas Chittenden             1st & 3rd Governor of Vermont
    In 1746 Paul Brigham                        4th Governor of Vermont
    In 1948 Bob Wise                           33rd Governor of West Virginia
    In 1412 Joan of Arc, martyr
    In 1811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
    In 1823 Gustave Dor‚, illustrator (Inferno, Rime of Ancient Mariner)
    In 1854 Sherlock Holmes, according to Arthur Conan Doyle
    In 1871 Aleksandr Scriabin, Russian composer
    In 1878 Carl Sandburg, poet, biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
    In 1880 Tom Mix, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin)
    In 1882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957)
    In 1883 Khalil Gibran, Lebanese mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings)

 On this day...
    1st Quarter, Week 1, Day 6
    In 1912 New Mexico,        47th state in the Union    (FLAG)
    75 DAYS - Northern Hemisphere  its Spring
            Southern Hemisphere  its Autumn
    90 Days - Daylight Savings Time 
    01 DAYS - RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS
    08 DAYS - RUSSIAN ORTHODOX NEW YEAR
    27 Days - GroundHog Day
    28 DAYS - U.S. National League Football Super Bowl 
    39 Days - Valentine's Day
    70 Days - St. Patrick's Day
    17 Days - Next Sunrise for Barrow, Alaska - Most Northern U.S. Ci
    In 2004 44 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2004 - New Orleans, LA, USA 
    In 2004 394 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2005 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 779 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2006 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 1136 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2007 - New Orleans, LA, US
    Arizona becomes the 47th state.
    Feast of Epiphany  (Twelfth Night of Christmas in England)
    In 1663 Great earthquake in New England
    In 1838 first public demonstration of telegraph, by Samuel F. B. Morse
    In 1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
    In 1941 FDR names 4 freedoms (speech, religion; from want, from fear)
    In 1942 first around world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"
    In 1839  2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as 'The Big W
    In 1967  2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate,
             Phillipines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140.

 Thought for the day...
    In 1981 Wesley Powell                      74th Governor of New Hampshire
    In 1919 Theodore Roosevelt                 36th Governor of New York 
    In 1813 John Tyler                         13th Governor of Virginia
    In 2002 John W. Reynolds                   36th Governor of Wisconsin
    In 1919 Theodore Roosevelt       Died   26th US President
    In 1919 Theodore Roosevelt       Died   25th Vice President (US)
    Clean mind, clean body: take your pick.

 And remember...
    ITS TUESDAY
    Today's Date (Month\Day) will land on this day of week in 2009!
    U.S. National Alert Status is HIGH - ORANGE LEVEL      4TH
    In 2004, U.S. Currency State Quarter to be Released  Michigan
    In 2005, U.S. Currency State Quarter to be Released  California
    In 2006, U.S. Currency State Quarter to be Released  Nevada
    In 2007, U.S. Currency State Quarter to be Released  Montana
    In 2008, U.S. Currency State Quarter to be Released  Oklahoma
    All U.S. Space Shuttles Grounded.
    Atlantis    U.S. Space Shuttle may launch in Sept\Octo 2004!
    Endeavour   U.S. Space Shuttle launch time unknown!
    Discovery   U.S. Space Shuttle may launch in Nov. 2004!
    Jan 07 - Birthdate for   Pres. Millard Fillmore     (US)
    Jan 09 - Statehood Day for Connecticut
    Jan 09 - Birthdate for   Pres. Richard M Nixon      (US)
    Jan 17 - Death of President John Tyler
    Jan 17 - Death of President Rutherford B Hayes
    Jan 22 - Death of President Lyndon B Johnson
    Jan 26 - Statehood Day for Michigan
    Jan 29 - Statehood Day for Kansas
    Jan 29 - Birthdate for   Pres. William McKinley     (US)
    Jan 30 - Birthdate for   Pres. Franklin D Roosevelt (US)
    Feb 03 - Death of President Woodrow Wilson
    Feb 06 - Statehood Day for Massachusetts
    Feb 06 - Birthdate for   Pres. Ronald Reagan        (US)
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