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TODAY'S ALMANAC- Monday Feb 05, 2007
"The History, Days and Events that Shape Your Life"
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William D. Brown said, "Failure is an event,
never a person."
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Today is Monday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2007 with 329 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 today under the of Aquarius include:
former British Prime Minister Robert Peel, founder of
the London Police Force, in 1788;
evangelist Dwight Moody in 1837;
Scotsman John Dunlop, inventor of the pneumatic tire, in 1840;
outlaw Belle Starr in 1848;
U.S. statesman Adlai E. Stevenson in 1900;
actor John Carradine in 1906;
novelist William Burroughs in 1914;
comedian/actor Red Buttons in 1919;
author the Rev. Andrew Greeley in 1928 (age 79);
baseball home run king Henry Aaron in 1934 (age 73);
financial writer Jane Bryant Quinn in 1939 (age 68);
writer/comedian Christopher Guest and actress Barbara
Hershey, both in 1948 (age 59);
actresses Jennifer Jason Leigh in 1962 (age 45)
and Laura Linney in 1964 (age 43);
and singer Bobby Brown in 1969 (age 38).
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In 1631, British clergyman Roger Williams arrived in Salem,
Mass., seeking religious freedom. He founded the colony of
Rhode Island.
In 1971, Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edward
Mitchell walked on the moon for four hours.
In 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in a nationwide
address, said the United States was in "the worst economic
mess since the Great Depression" and called for sweeping
spending and tax cuts.
In 1986, world oil prices plunged toward $15 per barrel
from $30 three months earlier after OPEC failed to curb
production. Prices dropped to $9 by the summer of 1986.
In 1988, two U.S. grand juries in Florida announced
indictments of Panama military strongman Manuel Antonio
Noriega and 16 associates on drug smuggling and money
laundering charges.
In 1989, Radio Moscow announced the last Soviet soldier
had left Kabul, Afghanistan.
In 1990, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proposed the
Communist Party give up its monopoly on power in the
Soviet Union. Two days later, the party's Central
Committee agreed.
In 1991, U.S. President George H.W. Bush sent his top
military advisers to Saudi Arabia to decide whether a
ground assault was needed to liberate Iraqi-occupied
Kuwait.
In 1992, euthanasia advocate Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian
was freed on bond following his arrest in the assisted
suicides of two women.
In 1994, a mortar shell fell onto a crowded weekend
market in Sarajevo, Bosnia, killing 69 people and
injuring 200.
Also in 1994, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith
was convicted of the 1963 murder of Mississippi civil
rights leader Medgar Evers.
In 1996, a judge ordered U.S. President Bill Clinton
to testify in the Whitewater land dispute trial. He
later did so via videotape.
In 2003, making a case for U.N.-endorsed military
action in Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
accused the Saddam Hussein regime of deceiving U.N.
weapons inspectors and having ties with the al-Qaida
terrorist network.
In 2004, speaking out strongly against his war critics,
U.S. President George W. Bush said Iraq's nightmare was
over and the United States was safer because he made
the tough call to go to war.
In 2005, a Moroccan family of four was charged in Spain
in the March 11 Madrid train bombings that killed
191 people.
In 2006, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad added
more heat to his country's nuclear controversy by
telling the International Atomic Energy Agency that
Iran was halting all voluntary cooperation, reports
said.
Also in 2006, the far-flung, often violent Muslim
protest against Danish-published caricatures of the
Prophet Mohammed spread to Turkey, Indonesia, India,
Thailand and New Zealand.
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