Quote of the Day
"We have met the enemy and they are ours..."
-- Oliver Hazard Perry
News of Note
Operation Iraqi FreedomGates Mulls Alternate Plans to Bush 'Surge'U.S. sent pallets of cash to BaghdadSenate stalled but House pledges to act on IraqMaliki orders commanders launch crackdownDemocrats press Bush to change Iraq planUS Releases Friendly Fire TapeGates Hopeful of Early Iraq ExitOperation Enduring FreedomNATO allies face new Afghan troop callHomeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah HappeningsIsraeli Official: Foreigners Arming HezbollahPalestinian rivals arrive in Saudi for unity talks -
VideoUN OK's tribunal on Lebanon political killingsTroops on TrialWhat Was She Thinking?Shuttle spacemom charged with bizarre plot to kidnap, murder her romantic rival in love triangle -
VIDEOCriminal Affidavit (Fla. v. Nowak) (FindLaw pdf)Space community shocked by love-struck astronautOther Military NewsFear of bias keeps U.S. Muslims out of militaryDT:
Pentagon Sued Over MilBlogsWorldwide WackosU.S. urges North Korea to suspend nuclear enrichmentPolitics / GovernmentWar tax sought as Congress debates Bush budgetImmigration / Border ControlEx-Border Agent Assaulted in Prison (This is just nauseating...criminals go free; Border Patrol; agents go to jail)In the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and OrderLibby explains faulty recollectionsWoman Fakes Heart Attack to Scare IntruderDad Accused of Using Stun Gun on Infant SonWal-Mart faces historic sex bias caseMedia in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the WebGay Groups Not Snickering Over AdWhich Advertisers Won Big at the Super Bowl?Global Big Hack AttackScience / Medicine / TechnologyCouple Found Locked in 5,000 Year-Old HugBull Sharks Sink Boat Off Florida Coast (And my husband doesn't know why I'll never scuba dive in Florida...)FOX News Poll: Global Warming is Real (ARGH! Yes, 'warming' is real - it's the cause that's at issue!)
Overuse of skin numbing creams can cause death: FDASome newer birth control pills need ban: groupU.S. companies prepare for bird flu pandemicFDA approves new breast cancer testMother NatureToo Cold For a Swim -
PHOTOSDeep freeze grips Midwest, Northeast.
News from My Neck of the WoodsGIs Mom Ordered to Remove U.S. FlagOdditiesSex vs clothes: women come out of the closet."Too tired to walk," man steals police carOther News of NoteMore JFK Jr. Plane Crash Audio ReleasedFox NewsApple's Jobs: End Music Copy ProtectionChild's Septic Tank Death Ruled AccidentReuters: Top NewsGunmen kill seven in AcapulcoApple's Jobs calls on music industry to drop DRMDespite lawsuits, digital music downloads growSinger Keith Urban sues Keith Urban over Web siteBeyonce leads Soul Train Music Award nominationsBHP shares surge after buyback announcementCisco profit and outlook beat expectations"Hungry" Nike sees 53 pct sales growth over 5 yrsSeoul shares end rally, but POSCO hits recordAfter the Bell-Cisco up 5.5 pct on Q3 revenue forecastDon't count on foreign sizzle in U.S. debtPatience bears fruit for Pioneer's CareySuzuki to spend further $1.6 bln in India by 2010Cisco profit and outlook beat expectations"Hungry" Nike sees 53 pct sales growth over 5 yrsU.S. companies prepare for bird flu pandemicDirecTV and EchoStar face slower growth in 2007China c.bank to control money, credit growth: paperAP World NewsPrince's halftime imagery questionedFord hopes Taurus name will revive salesAP: Paul Hamm to return to gymnasticsNo marriage plans for Jim and JennyHeart surgery drug linked to death riskWithout pension, NASCAR stars forgotten1950s singer Frankie Laine dies at 93Aguilera, husband strip down on SundaysCisco Systems 2Q profit jumps 40 percentCharlize Theron sued by Swiss watchmakerDow ends up 5 after Bernanke speechSamsung to pay $90 million settlementWarrant issued for actor Daniel BaldwinDavid Beckham to hit every MLS marketHilton has ticket to Vienna's Opera BallMilitary.comOp-ed:
Wasting BillionsBlog:
How MilSpouses Make FriendsAdvisors:
Googled Yourself Lately?A Career Fair Like No OtherValentine's Day Looming? D'oh!Kit Up! Wants You!USJFCOMPresident meets with troops -
photosUSJFCOM symposium looks to further improve intelligence support for warfighter -
podcastLearn more about JTC-IDepartment of DefenseFox: Iraq Situation 'Winnable'Rear Adm. Mark I. Fox biographyTranscript: Conference Call (pdf)NEWS UPDATES
Pace: Support Among Federal Agencies Critical -
StoryStability & Security in Iraq Report (pdf)For Top News Visit DefenseLinkON THE GROUNDIraqi Troops Focus on Life-Saving Skills -
StoryIraqi Police Discover Large Weapons Cache -
StorySenior Air Force Leaders Address Deployments -
StoryCoalition, Iraqi Security Station Opens in Iraq -
StoryEngineers Help Clean Up Streets of Ghazaliya -
StoryReconstruction Teams Manage Projects in Iraq -
StoryIN IRAQReconstruction Teams Manage Projects in IraqAircrews Take Iraqi and U.S. Forces Into ActionDoctor Adapts to Life as Soldier in IraqAspen Road to Connect Southern Iraq with KuwaitU.S. and Iraqi Officials Work To Reopen FactoriesCorpsmen, Marines Save Lives in Al AnbarU.S. and Iraqi Officials Work To Reopen FactoriesCorps Sergeant Major Thanks Troops at Q-WestSoldier Earns Silver Star For Combat ActionsU.S. Soldiers Work With Iraqis To Stop Corruption BACKGROUNDIRAQRenewal In IraqIraq: Security, StabilityFact Sheet: Progress and Work AheadReport: Strategy for Victory in Iraq Iraq Daily UpdateThis Week in Iraq Multinational Force IraqState Dept. Weekly Iraq Report 'Boots on the Ground' Audio ArchiveWeekly Reconstruction Report (PDF) Iraq ReconstructionMapsAFGHANISTAN Afghanistan UpdateMapsWAR ON TERRORISMFact Sheet: Budget RequestFact Sheet: Terror Plots DisruptedWaging and Winning the War on TerrorTerrorism TimelineTerrorism Knowledge BaseCASUALTIESOfficials Identify Casualties -
StoryWeatherAfghanistanBost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharGermanyAnsbach Aschaffenburg Berlin Berlin-Tempelhof Berlin/Schonefeld BremerhavenDarmstadt Frankfurt Frankfurt/Main Freiburg/Breisgau GarmischGarmisch-Partenkirchen Geilenkirchen Gelnhausen Giessen KitzingenHanau Am Main Heidelberg Mainz Mannheim Nurnberg Stuttgart TrierWiesbaden WurzburgGitmoGuamAgana Agana Heights Agat Andersen AFB Asan BarrigadaIraqAl Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al KutAn Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall KayfJapanKadena Air Base Okinawa Tokyo YokohamaPhilippinesBaler Radar Site Catanduanes Radar Site ManilaSouth KoreaCheju Upper/Radar Chonju Chunchon Inch'on Kunsan Masan Mokp'oOsan Pusan Seoul Suwon Taegu Taejon Tonghae Radar Site Ulsan Yosu* If you're deployed, and want to see your location's weather listed here, please email me!Today in History0590 - Pelagius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1301 - Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st prince of Wales
1522 - Treaty of Brussels Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches
1550 - Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III
1569 - King Philip II forms inquistion in South America
1613 - Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia
1653 - Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendent of Finance of France
1668 - Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace"
1792 - Austria & Prussia sign anti-French covenant
1795 - 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states; Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
1812 8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid MO; this is the last of Midwest quakes (see 12/16)
1812 - Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords
1831 - Belgium adopts its Constitution
1862 - Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island, NC
1864 - Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, FL
1881 - Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal Boers beat superior British forces
1883 - Lieutenant-Colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger
1891 - Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
1900 - Labour Party forms in England; British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal
1904 - Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks)
1905 - Dominican Republic signs treaty turning over customs collection to US; Oklahoma admitted to statehood
1915 - 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes German armies surrounded a Russian army
1924 - Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with USSR
1928 - 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler)
1933 - Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators; Social-Democrat meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead
1935 - Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags
1936 - A flag is authorized for the Vice President
1940 - British railroads nationalized; Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio", premieres (New York NY)
1943 - Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)
1944 - Germans launch counter-offensive at Anzio, Italy
1945 - General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila; President Truman appoints Irwin C. Mollison judge of US Customs Court; US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer
1946 - Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill
1947 - Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine
1948 - Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff
1950 - Georges Bidault forms French government; Senator Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs; US & Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime
1958 - Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced
1959 - Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air); Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution
1960 - Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
1962 - Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298; President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
1964 - The Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for their 1st US tour; Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali
1965 - US begins regular bombing & strafing of North Vietnam; Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curaçao
1969 - Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO
1971 - Women win the right to vote in Switzerland
1973 - Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
1974 - Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day); Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters (I love that movie)
1976 - World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)
1977 - Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts
1978 - Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert
1979 - Neptune becomes farthest planet from the sun in our solar system (will remain that way for 20 years); Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumédienne in Algeria
1982 - Luis A. Monge elected President of Costa Rica
1983 - 1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole)
1984 - Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk (US)
1985 - "New York, New York" becomes the official anthem of New York, NY
1986 - Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France - Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti; Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos
1990 - Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
1990 - USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
1991 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president
1998 - 18th Winter Olympics games open at Nagano Japan
Birthdays
1478 - Sir Thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia)
1556 - Maria van Nassau, Dutch countess of Buren
1688 - Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange
1693 - Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40)
1740 - Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/General/MP
1812 - Charles Dickens, novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities)
1817 - Frederick Douglass, 1st high ranking Black in US government; Leroy Pope Walker US lawyer/Confederate minister of War (1861)
1834 - Dmitri I. Mendelejev, Russian chemist (devised Periodic Table)
1837 - Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, created Oxford Dictionary
1839 - Nicolaas G. Pierson, Dutch banker/Suriname premier (1897-1901)
1842 - Alexandre Ribit, premier (France)
1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, children's book author (Little House on Prairie)
1872 - Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister
1877 - Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs
1896 - Harold Hoffman, (Governor-New Jersey)
1899 - Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member
1906 - Henry P'u-i, last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo
1921 - Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk
1924 - Cathy Long (Representative-LA, 1985-86)
1926 - Konstantin Petrovich Feokistov, cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
1932 - Alfred M. Worden, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
1935 - Herb Kohl (Senator-Wisconsin)
1942 - Ton [ACHM] de Kok, Dutch MP (CDA)
1944 - Berend baron van Voorst tot Voorst, Dutch foreign state secretary (CDA); Berry [AH] Esselink Dutch MP (CDA)
1944 - Michael A. Andrews (Representative-TX)
1963 - Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut
Passings
0590 - Pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague
1609 - Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane
1857 - Félix PBOG Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65
1865 - John Henry Winder, US Confederate Brigadier-General/provost marshal, dies at 64
1878 - Pius IX "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85
1920 - Alexander Koltsjak Admiral/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed
1933 - Albert György Earl Apponyi Hung minister of Education, dies at 86
1937 - Elihu Root, US Minister of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91
1959 - Daniel F. Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84
1960 - Igor V. Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57
1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician/author/anti-Semite, dies at 67
1967 - Henry Morgenthau, US minister of Finance (devaluated dollar), dies at 74
1979 - Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor, drowns
1994 - Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch Social-Democrat minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74; Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA, dies at 84
Reported Missing in Action
1965
Dickson, Edward A., USNR (PA); A4E shot down, KIA, body not recovered
1966
Crayton, Render, USN (GA); A4E shot down, released by DRV February, 1973 (injured) - retired as a Captain - alive and well as of 1998
1968
The following US Army SF personnel reported MIA when NVA forces assaulted the Lang Vei camp:
Brande, Harve G. (CA); released by PRG March, 1973 - alive as of 1998
Hanna, Kenneth (CS)
Holt, James W. (AR)
Lindewald, Charles W., Jr. (IN)
McMurry, William G. (AZ); released by PRG March, 1973 - retired as a Master Sergeant - alive as of 1998
Moreland, James L. (CA)
Phillips, Daniel R. (PA)
Thompson, Dennis L. (OR); released by PRG March, 1973 - alive as of 1998
Also reported MIA this day in 1968:
Smith, Maynard Lee, USN (KS); drowned, remains recovered August, 1974
1969
Deleidi, Richard A., USMC (CA); F4J shot down, KIA, body not recovered
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