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TODAY'S ALMANAC- Thursday Jan 11, 2007
"The History, Days and Events that Shape Your Life"
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It was Otto von Bismarck who said, "Laws are
like sausages, it is better not to see them
being made."
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Today is Friday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2007 with 353 to
follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Venus, Mercury,
Uranus and Neptune.
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Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn are:
British statesman Edmund Burke in 1729;
American patriot John Hancock in 1737;
painter John Singer Sargent in 1856;
novelist Jack London in 1876;
World War II Nazi leader Hermann Goering in 1893;
western singer/actor Tex Ritter in 1905;
champion heavyweight boxer Joe Frazier in 1944 (age 63);
radio personalities Rush Limbaugh in 1951 (age 56)
and Howard Stern in 1954 (age 53);
actress Kirstie Alley in 1951 (age 56);
and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos in 1964 (age 43).
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On this date in history:
In 1828, boundary disputes were settled between the United
States and Mexico.
In 1932, Ophelia Wyatt Caraway, a Democrat from Arkansas,
became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
In 1943, the U.S. wartime Office of Price Administration
said standard frankfurters would be replaced during World
War II by "Victory Sausages" consisting of a mixture of
meat and soy meal.
In 1971, a U.S. grand jury indicted the Rev. Philip
Berrigan and five other people, including a nun and two
priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap presidential
adviser Henry Kissinger.
In 1976, the U.N. Security Council voted 11-1 to seat the
Palestine Liberation Organization for its debate on the
Middle East. The United States cast the only dissenting
vote.
In 1987, Britain's 22-year-old Prince Edward caused a stir
by resigning from his Royal Marines training course.
In 1990, Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani named
eight soldiers, including chief of the military academy,
as suspects in the November 1989 slayings of six Jesuit
priests.
In 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton asked Attorney
General Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel
to investigate the Whitewater land deal affair that
involved him and the first lady.
In 1995, U.S. President Bill Clinton and congressional
leaders agreed on a bailout package that would give
Mexico as much as $40 billion in loan guarantees. After
Congress filed to vote quickly on the deal, Clinton
invoked his emergency authority to lend Mexico $20 billion.
In 2001, scientists in Oregon announced the birth of
the first genetically engineered primate. The rhesus
monkey had a jellyfish gene that caused jellyfish to
glow; however, the monkey did not glow.
In 2003, as losses mounted, Steve Case, founder of
America Online, announced he was resigning as AOL
chairman.
Also in 2003, Maurice Gibb, 53, one of three singing
brothers who made up the Bee Gees, died of complications
from an intestinal blockage.
In 2004, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill,
in a harshly critical new book, likened U.S. President
George Bush in a Cabinet meeting to a "blind man in a
roomful of deaf people."
In 2005, The Southern California death toll from rain,
flood and mudslides rose to 19.
Also in 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that an
alien can be deported to a country without the advance
consent of that country's government.
And, aftershocks continued to hit northwestern
Indonesia and the Indian Ocean basin more than two
weeks after a giant earthquake struck the area.
In 2006, around 350 people were crushed to death by
a stampeding crowd at the entrance to Jamarat Bridge
in Mina, Saudi Arabia, during an annual pilgrimage
to Mecca.
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