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From: "Pamela-Jean Hoach" <>
Subject: Re: [FOLKLORE] Today in History - Jan. 31st.
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:53:50 -0800


Thanks sis
I love you more then more!!
Peege..who is a very PROUD 44~!!


> And today is Peege's my sisters Birthday!
> Happy Birthday Peege love you MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Richiele
>
> <<
> Today is Monday, January 31st, the 31st day of 2000.
> There are 335 days left in the year.
>
>
> Today's Highlight in History:
> On January 31st, 1950, President Truman announced he had ordered
> development of the hydrogen bomb.
>
> On this date:
> In 1606, Guy Fawkes, convicted for his part in the "Gunpowder Plot"
> against the English Parliament and King James the First, was executed.
>
> In 1797, composer Franz Schubert was born in Vienna, Austria.
>
> In 1865, General Robert E. Lee was named General-in-Chief of all the
> Confederate armies.
>
> In 1917, Germany served notice it was beginning a policy of
> unrestricted submarine warfare.
>
> In 1934, President Roosevelt devalued the dollar in relation to gold.
>
> In 1944, during World War Two, US forces began invading Kwajalein
> Atoll and other parts of the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
>
> In 1949, the first TV daytime soap opera, "These Are My Children," was
> broadcast from the NBC station in Chicago.
>
> In 1958, the United States entered the Space Age with its first
> successful launch of a satellite into orbit, "Explorer One."
>
> In 1971, astronauts Alan B. Shepard Junior, Edgar D. Mitchell and
> Stuart A. Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon.
>
> In 1987, discount airline pioneer People Express flew its last flights
> before merging into Continental Airlines.
>
> Ten years ago: In his first State of the Union address, President Bush
> proposed a significant cut in US and Soviet combat troops. McDonald's
> Corporation opened its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow.
>
> Five years ago: President Clinton scrapped a $40 billion rescue plan
> for Mexico, announcing instead that he would act unilaterally to
> provide Mexico with $20 billion from a fund normally used to defend
> the US dollar. Legendary Broadway producer-director George Abbott died
> in Miami Beach, Florida, at age 107.
>
> One year ago: The Denver Broncos repeated as NFL champions, defeating
> the Atlanta Falcons 34-to-19 in Super Bowl 33. Researchers from the
> University of Alabama at Birmingham presented what they called
> convincing proof that the AIDS virus originated in chimpanzees and
> spread to people in Africa.
>
> Today's Birthdays:
> Actor John Agar is 79.
> Author Norman Mailer is 77.
> Actress Jean Simmons is 71.
> Baseball Hall-of-Famer Ernie Banks is 69.
> Composer Philip Glass is 63.
> Actress Suzanne Pleshette is 63.
> Actor Stuart Margolin is 60.
> House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (Democrat, Missouri) is 59.
> Baseball Hall-of-Famer Nolan Ryan is 53.
> Singer Phil Collins is 49.
> Singer-musician KC (KC and the Sunshine Band) is 49.
> Rock singer Johnny Rotten is 44.
> Actress Kelly Lynch is 41.
> Actor Anthony LaPaglia is 41.
> Singer-musician Lloyd Cole is 39.
> Actor John Dye is 37.
> Rock musician Al Jaworski (Jesus Jones) is 34.
> Actress Minnie Driver is 29.
> Actress Portia de Rossi is 27.
> Singer Justin Timberlake ('N Sync) is 19.
>
> Thought for Today:
>
>
> Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them."
> -- Booth Tarkington, American author-dramatist (1869-1946).
>
>
> (Copyright 2000 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
> >>
>
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