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TODAY'S ALMANAC- Thursday Jan 19, 2007
"The History, Days and Events that Shape Your Life"
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*------------ Thought of the Day ---------------*
In "As You Like It," William Shakespeare wrote:
"All the world's a stage,
"And all the men and women merely players.
"They have their exits and their entrances,
"And one man in his time plays many parts,
"His acts being seven ages."
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Today is Thursday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2007 with 346 to
follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury,
Jupiter, Pluto, Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars,
Uranus and Neptune.
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Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn are:
Scottish engineer James Watt, inventor of steam engine, in 1736;
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in 1807;
American short story writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe in 1809;
English metallurgist Henry Bessemer in 1813;
French post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne in 1839;
Ebony magazine founder John H. Johnson in 1918;
former U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar
in 1920 (age 86);
actress Jean Stapleton in 1923 (age 83);
actor Fritz Weaver in 1926 (age 80);
television newscaster Robert MacNeil in 1931 (age 75);
singer Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers in 1939 (age 67);
actress Shelley Fabares in 1942 (age 64):
Janis Joplin in 1943 and Dolly Parton in 1946 (age 60);
and singer/actors Michael Crawford in 1942 (age 64)
and Desi Arnez Jr. in 1953 (age 53).
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In 1861, Georgia seceded from the Union.
In 1938, the Spanish Nationalist air force bombed Barcelona
and Valencia, killing 700 civilians and wounding hundreds
more.
In 1975, China published a new constitution that adopted
the precepts and policies of Mao Zedong.
In 1977, President Gerald Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino,
who had been convicted of treason for her World War II
Japanese propaganda broadcasts as Tokyo Rose.
Also in 1993, as a TV crew filmed a graveside interview in
North Lauderdale, Fla, the father of a teen-age suicide
victim suddenly shot and killed his ex-wife, whom he blamed
for their daughter's death. The man was arrested the next
day in Texas.
In 1994, ice skater Tonya Harding's former husband, Jeff
Gillooly, was arrested and charged with conspiracy in the
attack two weeks earlier on Harding rival Nancy Kerrigan.
In 1995, Russian forces captured the presidential palace
in the rebel republic of Chechnya.
In 1997, two bombs exploded at a Tulsa, Okla., abortion
clinic that had been bombed two weeks earlier.
In 1999, NATO warned Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
that he must honor the 1998 cease-fire negotiated with
the rebels in Kosovo or face air strikes.
In 2001, President Bill Clinton announced he had made a
deal with the independent prosecutor that would prevent
him from being indicted after he left office.
In 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the Bush
administration might allow Saddam Hussein to seek safe
haven in another country as a way to avoid war.
In 2004, U.S. military authorities denied Afghan claims
that a U.S. helicopter attack killed 11 civilians,
including four children, saying instead that five Taliban
fighters were the only fatalities.
In 2005, the Southeast Asian tsunami death toll was raised
to 220,000, including more than 166,000 killed in Indonesia.
Also in 2005, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
voted 16-2 to approve the nomination of Condoleezza Rice
as secretary of State.
And, five suicide car bomb attacks killed 26 people in
and around Baghdad, targeting local and foreign security
forces.
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