Quote of the Day
Minds of men fashioned a crate of thunder
Sent it high into the blue
Hands of men blasted the world asunder,
How they live God only knew!
Souls of men dreaming of skies to conquer
Gave us wings ever to soar,
With scouts before and bombers galore,
Nothing can stop the US Air Force!
-- From the U.S. Air Force Anthem
News of NoteSharon Rushed Back Into SurgeryIsraeli Politics, Mideast Peace Process in FluxRobertson: Stroke Was God's WrathIran President: I Hope Sharon DiesTimeline: Ariel SharonVideo:
Sharon in ICUOperation Iraqi FreedomFour U.S. Troops Killed in Separate Iraq Attacks11 U.S. Troops Killed in One Day in IraqOperation Enduring FreedomAfghan Blast Kills 10 During Envoy's VisitAfghan President Takes Landmark Turkey TripHomeland Security / War on TerrorPadilla Appears in CourtItalians Freed in Yemen4-Year-Old on No-Fly ListMan nabbed with 'suicide bomber' in journalU.S. seeks secrecy in trial over Hamas cash Troops on TrialU.S. Navy Takes Sailor Into CustodyRecruit-Death Charge DroppedSailor Is Suspect in Japan Beating DeathPoliticsGingrich Pushes for GOP Action in Abramoff FlapClinton Fundraising Group Fined for Hollywood GalaScandal triggers House leadership fightNot everyone gives up lobbyist-linked cash Supreme CourtDems Seek to Stall Alito VoteTough questions expected for AlitoAlito to be Grilled on NSA WiretapsOdditiesBaby, you can park my car..No buts about it: Man acquitted of mooning chargesBorn in Year of the Dog? There's a job for you in China Chained ankles, lost key, send artist on 12-hour desert hop Other News of NoteMaverick politician Galloway joins 'Big Brother'Fox NewsW.Va. Miners Left Notes Mecca Hotel Collapse Kills 20Governor Orders DNA Tests 12 Years After ExecutionIBM to Change Pension PlanFlorida's High Court Strikes Down School VouchersCharges in Missionary KillingStations Nix 'Book of Daniel'Hilton Faces Slander SuitStocks to Watch, Jan. 6SPORTS NEWS AND SCORESReuters: Top NewsSharon back in surgery to stop bleeding in brainNote shows W.Virginia miner faced death with graceTurkish family mourns third child dead from bird fluMotorola adds Google to phones, forges Kodak pactIBM to freeze $48 billion pension plan in 2008A&P third-quarter net loss narrowsStock futures point slightly higher; data eyedDiabetes drug warning seen minor setback for GlaxoMourning turns to anger in Iraqi Shi'ite cityIndonesia landslides toll at 120, more rain expectedExpo-Yahoo, Google to square off at CES on FridayBush reaches beyond inner circle on Iraq policySchwarzenegger proposes huge spending in key speechSouth Korea panel to issue final word on stem cell fraudHumans display their stupid side to wildlifeScientists in uphill battle to fight bird fluStroke experts agree Sharon's outlook is grimAP World NewsAP: Former Syrian VP Says Assad Should GoShootout Kills 13 Inmates in HondurasLast Survivor of China's Gang of Four DiesChina to Offer Two Pandas to Rival TaiwanWinter Storm Wallops Quake-Scarred KashmirRock Slide Kills Three American HikersHaiti Business Leader Calls Protest StrikeIran Rebuffs IAEA Chief ElBaradeiPalestinian Militant Freed After RampageGerman Rescuers Find Body of Last VictimThe Seattle TimesBush summons ex-Cabinet members for adviceMine-safety agency no stranger to criticismHow graft is wearing away the GalapagosStudy: Katrina evacuees having trouble copingWal-Mart site had racially offensive linksRevised regulations on fishing delayedChina protest leader gets 3 years in prisonFind: Early Maya had the write stuffObituary Famed singer's death blamed on hurricaneBush seeks funding for language studiesChicago Sun-Times
Miner: 'It wasn't bad. I just went to sleep' Ex-cop gets 24 years for swiping cocaine A 2-cent tip: Postage rates going up Sunday City launches campaign to provide disaster instruction Legal fight set after gas stations deny gouging after Katrina Nearly every U.S. chicken flock to get tested for bird flu Teens fishing find human head in Fla. Grain worker nearly drowning in soybeans is rescued Impostor receives $18,000 in guitars, equipment Boston Globe: WorldArcheologists find earliest example of Mayan glyphsOlmert has stood with Sharon through changesMilitary.comArmy, Air Force Brass to Begin TalksArmy Bowl Game Features High School's BestIraqis Making Connection to the Outside World OnlineDestroyer Skipper RelievedRussian, not Coast Guard, Icebreaker Will Clear Path in AntarcticaOsprey Contract AwardedCENTCOM: News ReleasesSECURITY BERM UNDER CONSTRUCTIONMALE IRAQI DETAINEE DIESSUICIDE BOMB EXPLODES IN RAMADI UPDATESUICIDE BOMB EXPLODES IN RAMADIWEAPONS SEIZED, 11 SUSPECTS DETAINEDDepartment of DefensePresident Meets With Former Secretaries -
Story RemarksBush Announces Pentagon Appointments VideoBush Kicks Off National Foreign Language InitiativePace: Bombs Reflect Terrorists' Desperation -
Story VideoJoint Chairman Encourages Military ServiceTroops Nab Terror Suspects, Find Weapons -
StoryON THE GROUNDU.S., Iraqi Crews Share Airspace, Mission -
StoryEngineers Complete Eastern Afghan Road -
StoryU.S. Paratroopers Complete Operation Pizmah -
Story IN IRAQChief of Naval Ops Visits Seabees, Corpsmen Busy Tuesdays for 3rd COSCOM MotorpoolFood Service Marines Boost Morale One Plate at a Time Bulldogs Clamp Down on InsurgencyIN SOUTHWEST ASIA Good Eats 24/7 Means Happy Troops FACE OF DEFENSEArmy Biathlete Makes Winter Olympics Team -
StoryAMERICA SUPPORTS YOUAnheuser-Busch Extends Tribute -
StoryTOP NEWSIRAQRoadside Bomb Kills 5 U.S. TroopsIraqis Undeterred by BombingCapable Police Vital to Security Casey: '05 Was 'Monumental' Year Police Open New Station in Tal AfarAzady Police Station ExpandsNinawa Province Gets Water Wells Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq Iraq Daily UpdateThis Week in Iraq (pdf)Multinational Force IraqEye on Iraq Update (pdf)State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (pdf)'Boots on the Ground' Audio ArchiveIraq ReconstructionMapsAFGHANISTANArmy Establishes Justice SystemAfghanistan Daily UpdateMapsWAR ON TERRORISM
Bush: 2006 to Build on Progress Cheney: U.S. Resolve Will Continue Aircraft Fly Missions Jan. 4USS Ronald Reagan DeploysFact Sheet: War on TerrorFact Sheet: Terror Plots DisruptedWaging and Winning the War on TerrorTerrorism TimelineTerrorism Knowledge BaseMILITARY NEWSTraining Builds Patients' Skills Pace: Troop Morale High National Guard, Reserve UpdateWeatherIraqAl Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall KayfAfghanistanBost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharGitmoToday in History1066 - King Harald of England crowned
1099 - Henry V crowned German king
1227 - Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre
1352 - French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star
1453 - Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria
1496 - Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi
1497 - Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)
1535 - City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
1540 - King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1579 - Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras
1622 - Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide
1639 - Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1663 - Great earthquake in New England
1681 - 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
1690 - Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army draws to Glasgow
1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis
1773 - Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
1781 - Battle of Jersey (Island in the UK)
1784 - Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
1832 - New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
1838 - Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
1839 - 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind"
1842 - 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
1857 - Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania
1861 - New York City NY mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N & S; Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
1873 - US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal
1893 - Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
1896 - Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
1898 - 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
1900 - Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured
1907 - Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
1912 - New Mexico becomes 47th US state
1914 - Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1922 - Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
1927 - US marines sent to Nicaragua
1929 - Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
1930 - 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
1936 - Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)
1938 - Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in the Bronx
1941 - FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear)
1942 - 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"); Bob Feller enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
1945 - Future President George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY
1950 - Britain recognizes Communist government of China
1957 - Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
1958 - Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar
1964 - Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
1967 - 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140
1967 - "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV
1968 - Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon; Dr. N.E. Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation
1971 - Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate; Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
1972 - Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR
1973 - "Schoolhouse Rock" premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
1978 - 1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp); US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary
1980 - Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India
1986 - British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns; STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31 seconds because of liquid oxygen valve problem
1987 - 100th US Congress convenes; Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
1991 - Jorge Serrano Elías elected President of Guatemala
1993 - Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones; Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a
1994 - Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard
1998 - Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Birthdays1367 - Richard II Bordeaux, King of England (1377-99)
1412 - Joan of Arc, martyr
1587 - Gaspar de Guzmán, Count of Olivares, Premier of Spain (1621-43)
1602 - Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader
1745 - Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, aeronaut (1st pioneer balloonist/brother of Joseph-Michel/co-inventor of calorimeter, hydraulic ram, process for producing vellum)
1776 - Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel
1799 - Jedediah Strong Smith, US fur trader/explorer
1800 - Willem A. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician
1807 - Joseph Holt, Union Brevet Major General
1811 - Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator
1827 - John Calvin Brown, Confederate Major General; John Wesley Frazer, Confederate Brigadier General
1854 - Sherlock Holmes Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)
1882 - Samuel Rayburn (Representative-TX), Speaker of the House (1940-57)
1896 - Freerk Siemon Wolters, notary/resistance fighter
1897 - Péter Veres, literary/Hungarian minister of defense
1911 - Eduardo Frei Montalva, President of Chile (1964-70)
1913 - Edward Gierek, party leader (Polish CP)
1914 - Danny Thomas, comedian (Danny Thomas Show)
1915 - Don Edwards (Representative-CA, 1963-1992)
1925 - John Z. DeLorean, former automaker (DeLorean)
1931 - Gerard van Muiden, Dutch MP (CDA)
1936 - Julio María Sanguinetti Cairolo, President of Uruguay (1985-90, 1995-2000)
1940 - Ed Zschau (Representative-CA, 1983-1987)
1948 - Guy Spencer Gardner, Lieutenant-Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS-27, STS-35); Robert E. (Bob) Wise, Jr. (Representative-WV, 1983-2001, WV Governor, 2001- )
1955 - Rowan Atkinson, British comedian/actor (Mr Bean, Blackadder, Never Say Never Again)
1957 - C. Michael Foale, astronaut (STS 45, 56, 63, 84/86)
1963 - Philippe Perrin, Lieutenant-Colonel FAF/astronaut
1968 - John Singleton, director/screenwriter (Boyz in the Hood)
Passings1425 - Jan of Bavaria, liege of Holland/bishop/duke
1448 - Christopher III, King of Denmark/Norway/Sweden
1693 - Mehmed IV sultan (Turkey), dies at 51
1694 - Francesco Morosini Italian army General
1702 - Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of Benjamin Franklin
1785 - Haym Salomon dies in Philadelphia, PA at 44, helped finance the revolution
1799 - W.G. Frederik, prince of Orange/General, dies at 25
1884 - Gregor Mendel Augustine, monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61
1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1901-09), dies at his home in Oyster Bay NY at 60
1929 - Nicolas Nikolayevitch, grand-duke of Russia, dies at 72
1958 - Josephine, princess of Belgium/nun, dies at 85
1985 - Robert H.W. Welch, Jr., US founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85
1993 - Elisabeth arch duch of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein, dies at 70; Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54
1994 - "Iron" Adriaan van Es Dutch undersecretary of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80; Morty the Moose (Northern Exposure), dies at 6; Virginia Kelley Clinton Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70
1995 - Edward Sutcliffe judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77; Joe Slovo, Latvian/South African attorney/Secretary-General (SACR), dies at 68
1996 - Henry Lennox d'Aubigny Hopkinson, diplomat/politician, dies at 94; Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise musician, dies at 80
1997 - Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist
Reported Missing in Action1967
Mullen, Richard D.,
USN (IL); F8E shot down, released by DRV - retired as a Captain - alive and well as of 1998
1971Miller, Carlton P., Jr.,
USNR (MA); F4J went overboard afer a landing incident (RIO) - Killed, body not recovered
1973
Lindahl, John C.,
USN (KS); A7B crashed into the water shortly after takeoff, body not recovered
A father and his two wives are the parents of these 12 kids!
George says that no, these are not all that man's children - but they are all George's special friends.
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