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TODAY'S ALMANAC-Monday Oct 9, 2006
"The History, Days and Events that Shape Your Life"
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*------------ Thought of the Day ---------------*
in "The Taming of the Shrew," William Shakespeare
wrote, "Do as adversaries do in law. Strive
mightily, but eat and drink as friends."
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This is Monday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2006 with 83 to
follow. This is Columbus Day. The moon is waning. The
morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are
Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Mars and Pluto.
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Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra include:
French composer Camille Saint-Saens in 1835;
Charles Rudolph Walgreen, drug store chain founder, in 1873;
American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson in 1890;
Civil War historian Bruce Catton in 1899;
convicted Watergate burglar and lecturer E. Howard Hunt Jr.
in 1918 (age 88);
singer/songwriters John Lennon in 1940
and Jackson Browne in 1948 (age 58);
writer/actor Robert Wuhl in 1951 (age 55);
and actors Scott Bakula in 1954 (age 52)
Zachery Ty Bryan ("Home Improvement") in 1981 (age 25).
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On this date in history:
In 1934, King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated by
a Croatian terrorist during a state visit to France.
In 1974, Oskar Schindler, the German businessman credited
with saving 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust, died at the age
of 66.
In 1975, Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet hydrogen
bomb, became the first Soviet citizen to win the Nobel
Peace Prize.
In 1983, James Watt, facing Senate condemnation for a
racially insensitive remark, resigned as U.S. President
Ronald Reagan's Interior secretary.
In 1986, the Senate convicted imprisoned U.S. District
Judge Harry Claiborne of tax cheating, making him the
fifth U.S. judge to be impeached and removed from office.
In 1989, the Soviet news agency Tass, under Mikhail
Gorbachev's policy of increasing openness in society,
reported a flying saucer visit to the Soviet Union.
In 1990, U.S. President George H.W. Bush, having vetoed
one budget continuing resolution and allowing the
government's spending authority to expire, signed a
second measure preventing a virtual government shutdown.
In 1992, NASA announced that the unmanned Pioneer
spacecraft was apparently lost after orbiting Venus
for 14 years.
In 1995, an Amtrak passenger train derailed in a remote
area of Arizona southwest of Phoenix, killing one person
and injuring about 100 others in apparent track sabotage.
In 1997, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned
after Communist members of Parliament withdrew their
support for his coalition government.
In 2001, the Pentagon reported the destruction of seven
terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and, claiming
control of the skies over Afghanistan, launched heavy
airstrikes against Taliban garrisons and troop encampments.
In 2002, the Washington-area sniper claimed a seventh
victim with the slaying of a man at a gas station near
Manassas, Va.
Also in 2002, as stock prices continued to fluctuate
wildly, the Dow Jones industrials closed at 7,286.27,
a 5-year low.
In 2003, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that
the U.S. budget deficit for the 2003 fiscal year would
be $374 billion, the largest ever in dollar terms.
In 2004, the death toll in the double bombings in the
central Pakistani city of Multan reached 40 with 100
others injured. The explosions caught a crowd of Sunni
Muslims leaving an anniversary gathering.
Also in 2004, John Howard, Australia's prime minister,
won a fourth term as his nation's leader. Meanwhile, in
Afghanistan's first democratic presidential election,
nearly all the candidates, concerned over reported
irregularities, boycotted the process even as voters
went to the polls.
In 2005, as the 7.6-magnitude earthquake death toll
soared near the reported 40,000 mark in Pakistan, a
massive relief effort was under way in Pakistan, India
and Afghanistan. India reported 650 dead and
Afghanistan four.
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