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TODAY'S ALMANAC- Thursday Dec 21, 2006
"The History, Days and Events that Shape Your Life"
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talks when you wish him to listen."
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Today is Thursday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 2006 with 10
to follow. Winter begins at 7:22 p.m. EST. The moon is
waxing. 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:
British statesman Benjamin Disraeli in 1804;
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1879;
Austrian President Kurt Waldheim in 1918 (age 88);
former talk show host Phil Donahue in 1935 (age 71);
actress Jane Fonda in 1937 (age 69);
rock musician Frank Zappa in 1940;
Beach Boys guitarist Carl Wilson in 1946;
actor Samuel L. Jackson in 1948 (age 58);
former tennis star Chris Evert in 1954 (age 52);
comedian Ray Romano in 1957 (age 49);
track athlete Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1959;
and actors Kiefer Sutherland in 1966 (age 40)
and Andy Dick in 1965 (age 39).
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On this date in history:
In 1620, the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, Mass., following
a 63-day voyage from England aboard the Mayflower.
In 1913, the first crossword puzzle in an American newspaper
appeared in The New York Sunday World.
In 1937, Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,"
the first full-length animated feature film, opened in Los
Angeles.
In 1958, three months after a new French constitution was
approved, Charles de Gaulle was elected the first president
of the Fifth Republic by a sweeping majority of French voters.
In 1968, Apollo VIII, the first manned voyage to the moon,
was launched.
In 1975, the notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal led a
raid on a meeting of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna. German
and Arab terrorists stormed in with machine guns, killed
three people and took 63 others hostage, including 11 OPEC
ministers.
In 1987, in a case that highlighted racial tensions, three
young white men were convicted of manslaughter in an attack
on a black man in New York's predominantly white Howard
Beach section.
In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded and crashed in Lockerbie,
Scotland, killing everyone aboard and 11 people on the ground
for a total death toll of 270.
In 1989, Kentuckian Larry Mahoney was convicted on 27 counts
of manslaughter in a 1988 collision with church bus, the
nation's deadliest drunken-driving accident.
In 1990, a boat carrying about 100 U.S. sailors involved
in Operation Desert Shield capsized off the Israeli coast.
Twenty-one people died.
In 1991, 11 former Soviet republics declared an end to the
Soviet Union and forged a commonwealth that guaranteed
independence.
In 1992, 54 people were killed when a chartered jetliner
carrying 340 people on a holiday to southern Portugal
crashed in bad weather.
In 1993, Hungary's parliament endorsed the nomination of
Peter Boross as president, succeeding Jozsef Antall, who
died in office on Dec. 12.
In 1994, more than 40 people were injured when an
incendiary device exploded on a crowded subway in New
York's lower Manhattan. Police later arrested one of
the burn victims who reportedly was carrying a firebomb
that went off.
In 1995, a commuter train rammed the rear of a passenger
train in heavy fog near Cairo, Egypt, killing 75 people.
In 1997, a fire swept through Tokyo's Tsukji wholesale
fish market, destroying more than 100 shops and stores.
In 1998, the shaky coalition of Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu collapsed when Israel's parliament
voted 81-30 to dissolve the government.
In 2002, U.S. President George Bush set in motion the
first U.S. smallpox vaccination program in three
decades. Bush had voiced fears terrorists might use
the virus as a biological weapon.
In 2004, U.S. President George Bush's approval rating
slipped 6 percent to 49 percent, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup
poll said, making Bush the first incumbent president
to have an approval rating below 50 percent one month
after winning re-election.
In 2005, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a $445
million defense appropriations bill that included a
provision against torture and without a proposal for
oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge.
Also in 2005, the trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein resumed in Baghdad with graphic testimony of
government abductions, torture and executions.
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