News of NoteOperation Iraqi FreedomNew Jill Carroll Deadline SetBaghdad Car Bomb Kills 8Iraqi Election Results CertifiedVideo: Iraq UpdateShi'ites seen nominating Abdul Mahdi as Iraq PM2 Policemen, Iraqi Army Spokesman SlainHomeland Security / War on TerrorGaza Militants Release Kidnapped Egyptian DiplomatFBI: Puerto Rico Terror Attack Thwarted Indonesia Police Arrest Suspected MilitantOther Military NewsRumsfeld seeks stronger military ties with TunisiaNSA HearingsJudge Ponders NSA DeadlineCartooning MuhammadNATO, Mideast Partners Meet to Quell Cartoon ViolenceAhmadinejad rounds on West over cartoonsThousands Protest Against Prophet DrawingsPoliticsBrown: White House Fudging on Katrina TimelineBush Reassures Edgy GOPXX Winter Olympics
Commencement Fillled with PassionU.S. Slider Out 12 Skiers NixedCoveragePhoto Essay:
Opening CeremonyWinter Olympics kick off in ItalyCohen and Meissner exit Turin for secluded siteDanish curlers ready despite Islamic uproarFour more skiers suspended; athletes blame altitudeTop U.S. skeleton team slider gets banned from GamesAfter elections, U.S. left without member on IOC boardSecurity reviewed amid concerns of Islamic protestsRahlves skips second day of men's downhill trainingOdditiesStiletto workout: part of the heeling processKangaroo Has Lip Surgery After BiteOther News of Note
Khatami: Islamic World Ready for Change (This one is definitely worth reading)Kosovo Elects New PresidentBush Administration Announces Land SaleFox NewsRussia Clash Kills 19Md. Gov. Apologizes for Stem Cell-Nazi RemarkFBI: American Among Yemen EscapeesIRS Extends Filing Deadline for Hurricane VictimsEntwistle to Be Extradited -
Video: Entwistle Murder CaseEx-Official: White House Misused Pre-War IntelligenceSharon in Danger -
Doctors find digestive damageNew Scan Shows Sharon's Condition UnchangedDoctors Put Feeding Tube in Sharon's StomachToyota Hybrid Patents ProbeU.S. Trade Deficit Hits RecordFossett Reaches N. AmericaA Peek Into Egyptian TombSPORTS NEWS AND SCORESReuters: Top NewsSharon on verge of death: hospital sourcePictures Portfolio: Finbarr O'ReillyReuters wins World Press Photo awardVideo: O'Reilly talks about his picturesG8 calls for stable energy supplies -
VideoPope says science no threat to faithWireless to organize - and maybe save - livesIntel to ship quad-core server chip in '07Firms turn cyber sleuths with cell phone technologyMedical staff morale key in bird flu outbreak: expertWhole grains good for the diabetic heartFord says may review dealer networkGM sales chief says automaker needs all brandsQualcomm says Broadcom injunction move failsGenentech, Biogen get OK for new lymphoma drug useSony BMG chairman, CEO swap jobs to resolve riftWireless to organize - and maybe save - livesAcorda shares rise in market debutGE's stock glide downward surprises some investorsPfizer 2006 profit view disappointsUS stocks gain on Aon earnings and techs' reboundLionsgate pares losses after earnings missSalesforce shares off 9 pct on contract-loss talkUS yield curve inversion growsDollar may be building immunity to gapAP World NewsFriends, Family Eulogize Feminist FriedanPittsburgh Gets Boost From Super Bowl WinIran Rejects Call to Freeze Nuke ProgramHindu Religious Leader, 7 Others KilledWitness: Lay, Skilling Knew About WorriesJudge May Halt Project to Protect BirdFleur-De-Lis Anchors Jeweler's BusinessNATO Seeks Closer Ties With Middle EastPreval Faces Demanding Agenda in HaitiRebel Clashes Kill 19 in Southern RussiaMilitary.comBush Reveals Surveillance RationalePentagon Seeks 2.2 Percent Pay Increase Air Force, Army Ink Airlift, UAV DealDepartment of Defense
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StoryRumsfeld: Terrorists Continue to Kill, Continue to FailU.S., British Defense Chiefs Praise NATOWestern Anbar Province on the Right Track -
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StoryON THE GROUNDEmbedded Trainers Mentor Afghan Soldiers -
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StoryIN IRAQIraqi Soldiers Aid Flood Victims in Jemuria UlaAirmen to Supplement MP Unit at Tikrit BaseIraqi Soldiers Get Renovated Theater, ClinicsNavy Helo Unit Supports British Troops in Iraq Iraqis Bring Combat Experience to TrainingIN AFGHANISTANTroops Celebrate Super Bowl at FOB Orgun-EU.S. Army Doctors Aid Badly Burned Infant FACE OF DEFENSEDeployed Airman Sets Refueling Goal -
StoryAMERICA SUPPORTS YOUOperation Provides Mobile HomesWeb Site Links Troops, Supporters TOP NEWSIRAQInsurgents Nabbed After AttackBush Thanks Poles for SupportIraqis Aid CoalitionSoldiers Find Roadside BombsTerrorist Bombs Kill 5 IraqisCasey: Violence Not NormalFact Sheet: Progress and Work AheadReport: 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 ReconstructionMapsAFGHANISTANAfghans Evacuated for TreatmentANP Open Family Response Unit Afghan Workers Improve SchoolTaliban Detained; Cadets TrainCoalition Achieving GoalsAfghanistan UpdateMapsWAR ON TERRORISM
LA Skyscraper Was Terrorist TargetBush: Must Unite to Fight TerrorU.S. Soldier, 2 Marines KilledNATO Meetings Begin in ItalyRumsfeld Italy for NATO Meetings Wis., Neb. WMD Teams CertifiedFact Sheet: War on TerrorFact Sheet: Terror Plots DisruptedWaging and Winning the War on TerrorTerrorism TimelineTerrorism Knowledge BaseMILITARY NEWS
Senior NCOs Wrap Up ConferenceRecruiting Momentum Continues University Honors JCS ChairmanOfficials: Army Is Not Broken Rumsfeld Topic: Budget, QDRNational Guard, Reserve UpdateCASUALTIESOfficials Identify Marine Casualty -
StoryWeatherIraqAl 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 History660BC - Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno
0385 - Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona
0731 - St Gregory II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0824 - St Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1531 - Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of the Church in England
1543 - Battle at Wayna Daga Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Muslim army; Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
1573 - 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panamá)
1575 - King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
1720 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)
1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opened
1766 - Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
1768 - Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes
1790 - Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
1793 - Prussian troops occupy Venlo Netherlands
1794 - 1st session of US Senate open to the public
1808 - Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre PA
1809 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat
1811 - President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
1812 - Massachusetts Governor Gerry signs a redistricting bill-the 1st "gerrymander"
1814 - Norway's independence proclaimed
1852 - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
1854 - Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
1858 - 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France
1861 - US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state
1873 - Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I
1889 - Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890
1895 - Georgetown became part of Washington DC
1898 - Owen Smith of North Carolina, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
1907 - De Master's Dutch government resigns; Passenger ship
Larchmont sinks by Block Island - 322 die
1908 - Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1919 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected President of Germany
1922 - US intervention army leaves Honduras
1926 - Tokelau (Union) islands in south Pacific transfers to New Zealand
1928 - 2nd Winter Olympics games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland
1929 - Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome
1935 - 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath the fuselage, New York
1936 - Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
1941 - Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli; Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments
1942 - "Archie" comic book debuts
1943 - General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe; Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1944 - German troops re-conquer Aprilia Italy; U-424 sunk off Ireland
1945 - 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA; Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill & Stalin
1948 - John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland
1951 - Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
1953 - President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple; Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel
1958 - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs; Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant
1961 - Robert C. Weaver sworn in as Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency with then highest federal post held by a Black; Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1963 - CIA Domestic Operations Division created
1964 - Greeks & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus; Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
1968 - Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River, NY; Israeli-Jordan border fight; Madison Square Garden III closes; Madison Square Garden IV opens (New York NY)
1970 - Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
1971 - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
1974 - Titan-Centaur test launch fails
1975 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
1976 - Clifford Alexander, Jr., confirmed as 1st Black Secretary of the Army
1978 - China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens
1978 - EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus
1979 - Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
1981 - Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski
1984 - 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
1985 - Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord
1986 - Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country;
Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq1987 - Philippines constitution goes into effect
1988 - Anthony M. Kennedy appointed to the Supreme Court
1990 - Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa
1991 - UNPO, Unrepresented Nations & People Organization forms in Hague Netherlands
1992 - F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths)
1993 - Janet Reno selected by Clinton as US Attorney General
1994 - Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
1995 - Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
1998 - Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997" auctioned for $442,500
1999 - Pluto is once again the farthest planet from the sun in our solar system
Birthdays1535 - Gregory XIV [Niccolò Sfondrati], Roman Catholic pope (1590-91)
1776 - Joannis Capodistrias, Greek Governor of Troezen (1827-31)
1812 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Confederate Vice President; Benjamin Franklin Sands Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
1829 - William Anderson Pile, Union Brevet Major General
1833 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice
1840 - Sanuel Dana Greene, Union Naval Lieutenant Commander
1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, Light bulb inventor (held 1200 patents)
1898 - Leo Szilard, Hungarian physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist
1904 - Henry R. LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79); Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand PM (1960-72)
1906 - Denis Barnett. British air chief marshal
1920 - Farouk I Cairo, last King of Egypt (1936-52)
1921 - Lloyd Bentsen (Senator-TX) (1988 Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee)
1925 - Peter Berger, British Vice-Admiral
1932 - Dennis Skinner. MP
1938 - General Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian General/dictator (1983-1990)
1941 - Jeremy Mackenzie, General
1942 - James Couchman, MP
1944 - Michael G. Oxley (Representative-OH)
1950 - Earnest Jim Istook (Representative-OK)
1953 - Stephen D. Thorne, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut
1960 - Richard A. Mastracchio, astronaut
Passings0641 - Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium (610-641), dies at about 65
0731 - Gregory II Greek-Syrian Pope
0821 - Benedict of Aniane, saint
0824 - Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24)
0867 - Theodora the Saint, beauty queen/empress of Byzantine
1503 - Elizabeth of York, Consort of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday
1543 - Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal, dies in battle
1554 - Lady Jane Grey, deposed Queen of England, beheaded after 9 day rule at 17
1650 - René Descartes, philosopher ("I think therefore I am")
1868 - Léon Foucault, discoverer of 1st physical proof of Earth's rotation
1870 - Jacob M. de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-49), dies at 76
1899 - George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in a motor accident
1901 - Milan I, king of Serbia, dies at 56
1931 - Charles Algernon Parsons British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76
1940 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada (1935-40)
1941 - Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/Minister of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63
1945 - J.S.H. Lokerman Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme
1971 - Whitney Young., Jr., National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria
1973 - Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65
1977 - Louis J.M. Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74
Reported Missing in Action1965 Shumaker, Robert H.,
USN (CA); F8D shot down, released by DRV February, 1973 - retired as a Rear Admiral - alive and well as of 1998
1968Van Putten, Thomas,
US Army (MI); escaped April, 1969 - had a leg amputated as a result of injuries sustained in captivity - alive as of 1998
1969Kroske, Harold W., Jr.,
US Army SF (NJ); injured in ground fight and believed KIA, body not recovered
Zukowski, Robert J.,
USAF (IL); F105D shot down, remains returned 1993 and 1996 - ID'd October, 1996
1970Kieffer, William Lewis, Jr.,
USAF (MD); A1E shot down, KIA, body not recovered
Homes for Our Troops recently purchased this house in Woodbridge, Va., and has begun renovations to accommodate former Army Staff Sgt. Eugene Simpson's injuries. The sergeant's spine was severed by shrapnel when he was serving in Iraq. The renovation is expected to last four months. Photo by William D. Moss
John Gonsalves, Homes for Our Troops founder, and former Army Staff Sgt. Eugene Simpson review the floor plans and answer reporters' questions during the unveiling of a recently purchased home in Woodbridge, Va., Feb. 9. Photo by William D. Moss
Local media interview former Army Staff Sgt. Eugene Simpson, 28, in front of a recently purchased home in Woodbridge, Va., Feb. 9. Homes for Our Troops purchased the house and has begun renovations to accommodate Simpson's injuries. The sergeant's spine was severed by shrapnel when he was serving in Iraq. The renovation is expected to last four months. Photo by William D. Moss
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