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Subject: Re: [FOLKLORE] Today in History - Jan 7th
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 15:41:17 EST
TODAY is my Pauli's 39th Birthday!!
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Today is Friday, January seventh, the seventh day of 2000.
There are 359 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
One year ago, on January seventh, 1999, for the second time in
history, an impeached American president went on trial before the
Senate. President Clinton faced charges of perjury and obstruction of
justice; he was acquitted.
On this date:
In 1610, the astronomer Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's
moons.
In 1800, the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore,
was born in Summerhill, New York.
In 1894, one of the earliest motion picture experiments took place at
the Thomas Edison studio in West Orange, New Jersey, as comedian Fred
Ott was filmed sneezing.
In 1927, commercial transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated
between New York and London.
In 1942, the World War Two siege of Bataan began.
In 1953, President Truman announced in his State of the Union address
that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb.
In 1959, the United States recognized Fidel Castro's new government in
Cuba.
In 1972, Lewis F. Powell Junior and William H. Rehnquist were sworn in
as the 99th and 100th members of the US Supreme Court.
In 1979, Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom
Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.
In 1989, Emperor Hirohito of Japan died in Tokyo at age 87; he was
succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Akihito.
Ten years ago: The president of El Salvador, Alfredo Cristiani, said
in a nationally broadcast address that military men had carried out
the massacre of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter
the previous November.
Five years ago: Major General Viktor Vorobyov, a senior commander
leading Russian troops in their advance on the secessionist capital of
Chechnya, was killed by a mortar shell.
Today's Birthdays:
Author William Peter Blatty is 72.
Country singer Jack Greene is 70.
Pop musician Paul Revere is 58.
Magazine publisher Jann Wenner is 54.
Singer Kenny Loggins is 52.
Singer-songwriter Marshall Chapman is 51.
Actor Sammo Hung ("Martial Law") is 48.
"Today" show co-host Katie Couric is 43.
Country singer David Lee Murphy is 41.
Rock musician Kathy Valentine (The Go-Go's) is 41.
Actor David Marciano is 40.
Actor Nicolas Cage is 36.
Actor Doug E. Doug ("Cosby") is 30.
Country singer-musician John Rich (Lonestar) is 26.
Actor Dustin Diamond ("Saved by the Bell: The New Class") is 23.
Thought for Today:
"Whether women are better than men I cannot say -- but I can say they
are certainly no worse."
-- Golda Meir, Israeli prime minister (1898-1978).
(Copyright 2000 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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