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From: "Mary" <>
Subject: [FOLKLORE] Today in History - Dec. 6th
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 07:19:39 -0500


Today is Wednesday, December sixth, the 341st day of 2000.
There are 25 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:
On December sixth, 1889, Jefferson Davis, the first and only
president of the Confederate States of America, died in New
Orleans.

On this date:
In 1790, Congress moved from New York to Philadelphia.

In 1884, Army engineers completed construction of the
Washington Monument.

In 1923, a presidential address was broadcast on radio for
the first time as President Coolidge spoke to a joint
session of Congress.

In 1947, Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated
by President Truman.

In 1957, America's first attempt at putting a satellite into
orbit blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

In 1957, AFL-CIO members voted to expel the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters. (The Teamsters were readmitted in
1987.)

In 1969, a concert by The Rolling Stones at the Altamont
Speedway in Livermore, California, was marred by the deaths
of four people, including one who was stabbed by a Hell's
Angel.

In 1973, House minority leader Gerald R. Ford was sworn in
as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew.

In 1989, 14 women were shot to death at at the University of
Montreal's school of engineering by a man who then took his
own life.

In 1989, Egon Krenz resigned as leader of East Germany.

Ten years ago: Iraq announced that it would release all its
hostages, saying foreigners could begin leaving in two days.

Five years ago: President Clinton vetoed a seven-year
Republican budget-balancing plan. The House ethics committee
sent a highly critical letter to House Speaker Newt
Gingrich, saying he had committed three ethics violations.
New York Times columnist James Reston died in Washington at
age 86.

One year ago: The Supreme Court, reconsidering its landmark
Miranda ruling, agreed to decide whether police still must
warn criminal suspects that they have a "right to remain
silent."
SabreTech, an aircraft maintenance company, was convicted of
mishandling the oxygen canisters blamed for the cargo hold
fire that caused the 1996 ValuJet crash in the Everglades
that killed 110 people.

Today's Birthdays:
Jazz musician Dave Brubeck is 80.
Country singer Helen Cornelius is 59.
Singer Len Barry is 58.
Actor James Naughton is 55.
Senator Don Nickles (Republican, Oklahoma) is 52.
Actress JoBeth Williams is 47.
Actor Tom Hulce is 47.
Actor Kin Shriner is 47.
Talk show host Wil Shriner is 47.
Actor Miles Chapin is 46.
Rock musician Rick Buckler (The Jam) is 45.
Comedian Steven Wright is 45.
Country singer Bill Lloyd (Foster and Lloyd) is 45.
Singer Tish Hinojosa is 45.
Rock musician Peter Buck (R.E.M.) is 44.
Actress Janine Turner is 38.
Rock musician Ben Watt (Everything But The Girl) is 38.
Rock musician Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg (Ace of Base) is 30.



"In dreams begins responsibility."

-- William Butler Yeats, Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet
(1865-1939).


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