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TODAY'S ALMANAC -Monday, January 16, 2006
"The History, Days and Events that Shape Your Life"
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In the film "Tomorrow Never Dies," James Bond said,
"The distance between insanity and genius is
measured only by success."
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Today is Monday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2006 with 349 to go.
This is a U.S. federal holiday observed as Martin Luther King
Jr.'s birthday. 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 today under the of Capricorn include:
German philosopher Franz Brentano in 1838;
Andre Michelin, the French industrialist who first
mass-produced rubber automobile tires, in 1853;
Canadian poet Robert Service in 1874;
Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1901;
singer Ethel Merman in 1909;
baseball pitcher Jay "Dizzy" Dean in 1911;
singer Eartha Kitt in 1928 (age 78);
opera singer Marilyn Horne in 1934 (age 72);
race car driver A.J. Foyt in 1935 (age 71);
country singer Ronnie Milsap in 1946 (age 60);
director John Carpenter in 1948 (age 58);
choreographer, actress/director Debbie Allen in 1950 (age 56);
and actor David Chokachi ("Baywatch") in 1968 (age 38).
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On this date in history:
In 1883, the U.S. Congress passed a bill creating the civil
service.
In 1919, the United States went legally "dry" as prohibition
of alcoholic beverages took effect under the 18th amendment
to the Constitution. The amendment was repealed in 1933.
In 1925, Leon Trotsky was dismissed as chairman of the
Russian Revolution Military Council.
In 1942, screen star Carole Lombard, her mother and 20 other
people were killed in a plane crash near Las Vegas. Lombard
was the wife of actor Clark Gable.
In 1944, U.S. Army Gen. Dwight Eisenhower arrived in London
to assume command of the Supreme Headquarters Allied
Expeditionary Forces in Europe.
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan called for "peaceful
competition" with Moscow. He authorized research and
development on space-age weapons capable of destroying
incoming nuclear missiles, the program known as "Star Wars."
In 1986, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Libya would
train, arm and protect Arab guerrillas for Palestinian
"suicide and terrorist missions," his first explicit
endorsement of terrorism.
In 1987, China's No. 2 leader, Hu Yaobang, 71, was forced
to resign as Communist Party chief for failing to curb
student demonstrations for more democracy.
In 1990, Moscow rushed 11,000 more troops to Azerbaijan and
Armenia to reinforce soldiers trying to quell ethnic violence.
In 1991, the Persian Gulf War began with the allied bombing
of Baghdad.
In 1993, Windsor Castle was reopened just two months after
a fire swept through the British landmark.
In 1994, at a news conference in Geneva with President
Bill Clinton, Syrian President Hafez Assad indicated a
willingness to negotiate a peace treaty with Israel.
In 1997, a bomb exploded at an Atlanta building housing an
abortion clinic. An hour later, after investigators and others
had come to the scene, a second bomb went off, injuring six
people.
Also in 1997, Ennis Cosby, the son of entertainer Bill
Cosby, was shot to death while changing a tire on a freeway
exit ramp in Los Angeles.
In 1998, investigators for special counsel Kenneth Starr
questioned former White House intern Monica Lewinsky about
allegations that she had an affair with President Bill Clinton.
In 2000, British drugmaker Glaxo Wellcome agreed to buy
SmithKline Beecham for $76 billion, creating the world's
largest pharmaceutical company.
In 2001, President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo was shot to death, reportedly by one
of his bodyguards, who in turn was killed by other bodyguards.
In 2003, President George W. Bush called the Michigan
affirmative action program unconstitutional.
In 2004, NASA announced plans to cancel space shuttle
missions to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope,
an act that would condemn the Hubble to mechanical failure
in the next two years.
In 2005, President George W. Bush said his re-election was
a ratification of what he did in Iraq and there was no
reason to hold any administration official accountable.
Also in 2005, the mother of Army Spec. Charles Graner Jr.,
who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in Abu
Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, said her son had been sent
to prison "for something he was told to do."
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