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TODAY'S ALMANAC- Wednesday Jan 10, 2007
"The History, Days and Events that Shape Your Life"
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William James said, "There is no worse lie than
a truth misunderstood by those who hear it."
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Today is Thursday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2007 with 354
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:
American statesman Alexander Hamilton, first secretary of
the U.S. Treasury, in 1757;
Ezra Cornell, founder of Western Union Telegraph company
and Cornell University, in 1807;
John MacDonald, first prime minister of Canada, in 1815;
psychologist and philosopher William James in 1842;
feminist lawyer Alice Paul in 1885;
South African novelist Alan Paton ("Cry the Beloved Country")
in 1903;
actor Rod Taylor in 1930 (age 77);
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien in 1934 (age 73);
and singers Naomi Judd in 1946 (age 61)
and Mary J. Blige in 1971 (age 36).
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On this date in history:
In 1785, the Continental Congress convened in New York City.
In 1861, Alabama seceded from the Union.
In 1935, U.S. aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman
to fly across the Pacific from Hawaii to California.
In 1964, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released a report
saying smoking cigarettes is a definite "health hazard."
In 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated a $10 million
award to the family of Oklahoma nuclear worker Karen
Silkwood, who died in 1974.
In 1990, martial law, imposed during the June 1989
Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, was lifted in
Beijing.
In 1991, the U.S. Congress authorized the use of military
force to oust Iraq from Kuwait.
In 1995, the U.S. State Department accused Russia of
breaking an international agreement by making major troop
movements into the rebel republic of Chechnya without
providing notification.
Also in 1995, hockey team owners and players reached an
agreement, salvaging the 1994-95 NHL season.
In 1996, the Japanese Diet elected Ryutaro Hashimoto, head
of the Liberal Democratic Party, as the new premier.
In 2000, the British government declared Chile's Augusto
Pinochet medically unfit to stand trial in Spain. The
ruling cleared the way for the former dictator to avoid
charges of crimes against humanity.
In 2001, the Federal Communications Commission approved
the merger of American Online and Time Warner Inc.,
creating the world's largest media conglomerate.
Also in 2001, a yearlong investigation by the U.S. Army
concluded that U.S. soldiers killed unarmed South Korean
civilians in July 1950 during the Korean War.
In 2002, Ford announced it planned to lay off 35,000
employees, drop four car models and close four plants.
Also in 2002, Taliban and al-Qaida fighters captured in
Afghanistan were flown to the U.S. Naval base at
Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
And more from 2002, the father who killed another father
after hockey practice in which their sons took part at a
Reading, Mass., rink, was convicted of involuntary
manslaughter.
In 2003, a few days before leaving office, Illinois Gov.
George Ryan spared the lives of 171 death row inmates.
In 2004, with help from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency,
Panama police arrested the suspected leader of one of
Colombia's most powerful drug cartels.
In 2005, U.S. President George Bush nominated federal
Judge Michael Chertoff to be the director of Homeland
Security.
Also in 2005, NASA scientists studying the tsunami-
inducing Indonesia earthquake of Dec. 26 calculated it
slightly changed Earth's shape and shifted the poles by
about an inch.
In 2006, China confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu
with the deaths of two more Chinese, bringing the
number of avian influenza deaths there to five.
And India reported as many as 172 deaths have been
blamed on a cold wave.
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