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TODAY'S ALMANAC- Wednesday Dec 20, 2006
"The History, Days and Events that Shape Your Life"
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Bertrand Russell said, "To conquer fear is
the beginning of wisdom."
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Today is Wednesday, Dec. 20, the 354th day of 2006 with 11
to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Mercury,
Mars, Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are
Venus, Uranus and Neptune.
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Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius are:
author and decorator Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl) in 1865;
industrialist Harvey Firestone in 1868;
philosopher Susanne K. Langer in 1895;
actress Irene Dunne in 1898;
nuclear physicist Robert Van de Graaff in 1901;
movie director George Roy Hill ("Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid," "The Sting") in 1921;
actor John Hillerman in 1932 (age 74);
psychic Uri Geller in 1946 (age 60);
and actress Jenny Agutter in 1952 (age 54).
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On this date in history:
In 1803, the United States formally took over territory
acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase.
In 1812, Sacagawea, the young Indian woman who guided the
Lewis and Clark Expedition, died.
In 1864, Union Gen. William T. Sherman completed his "march
to the sea" across the South and arrived in Savannah, Ga.
In 1946 the first Indochina war began with Vietnamese troops
under Ho Chi Minh clashing with the French at Hanoi.
In 1956, the Montgomery, Ala., public bus boycott officially
ended but not until it had given a major boost to the civil
rights struggle in the South. The boycott had been called
in reaction to the Dec. 1, 1955, arrest of Rosa Parks, an
African-American woman, for refusing to give up her bus
seat to a white man.
In 1987, nearly 1,600 people died in the Philippines when
a passenger ferry was struck by an oil tanker and sank.
It was the century's worst peacetime maritime disaster.
In 1989, the United States invaded Panama to oust Manuel
Noriega and install the duly elected civilian government.
Twenty-three U.S. troops were killed.
In 1990, Eduard Shevardnadze abruptly resigned as Soviet
foreign minister, warning against a dictatorship of
hard-liners.
In 1991, Philippines prosecutors filed nine counts of
graft against former first lady Imelda Marcos, charging
she used bogus front companies to bilk millions of
dollars from the nation.
In 1993, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's governing
Socialist Party claimed victory in parliamentary elections
held the day before.
In 1994, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced
that the warring parties in Bosnia had agreed to a
4-month cease-fire starting Dec. 23.
In 1995, 160 people were killed when an American
Airlines 757 crashed into a mountain shortly before it
was scheduled to land in Cali, Colombia.
Also in 1995, Buckingham Palace confirmed that Queen
Elizabeth II had sent letters to her son, Prince Charles,
and his estranged wife, Princess Diana, urging them to
seek a divorce as quickly as possible.
Further in 1995, NATO assumed peacekeeping duties in
Bosnia from the United Nations.
In 1996, guerrillas in Peru took an estimated 380
hostages at the Japanese ambassador's residence.
In 1998, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared that the
4-night U.S.-British bombing campaign of his country was
a victory for Iraq over the "enemies of God and humanity."
Also in 1998, a Houston woman gave birth to seven more
babies after delivering the first infant 12 days earlier.
They were the only known set of octuplets to be born
alive in the United States. The smallest baby died a
week later.
In 1999, Macau reverted to Chinese rule.
In 2001, Argentine President Fernando de la Rua
resigned amid mass protest demonstrations but chaos
continued in his troubled country.
In 2002, U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., resigned as
Senate majority leader amid an intense furor growing
from remarks that seemed to praise the 1948
segregationist presidential candidacy of Sen. Strom
Thurmond, R-S.C.
In 2003, a New York Times/CBS News poll says most
Americans would support a constitutional amendment
banning same-sex marriages.
In 2004, a published report said experts were
estimating that Medicare will exhaust its hospital-care
trust fund by 2019.
Also in 2004, the United Nations said sub-Saharan
Africa, ravaged this year by drought, civil strife and
swarms of crop-devouring locusts, faced a worsening
food crisis.
In 2005, a 3-day transit strike idled New York City's
6,300 subway cars and 4,600 buses and hampered the 7
million people who ride on the system every week day.
Also in 2005, a judge in Harrisburg, Pa., ruled the
concept of "intelligent design" cannot be taught in
Pennsylvania public high school science classes.
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