Quote of the Day
"He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue."
-- Benjamin Franklin (born this day in 1706)
News of Note
Operation Iraqi FreedomBomb Blast in Iraq Kills 10 on Shiite HolidayPhantom Phoenix Denies Sanctuary to Al QaedaOperation Enduring FreedomAfghans Lead Anti-insurgent FightHomeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah HappeningsTeenage bomber kills 9 Pakistani Shi'itesFive Palestinians die in Gaza as Olmert vows "war"Gaza violence threatens peace talksEx-lawmaker charged in terror conspiracy (Gee, the U.N. and an ex-Congressman involved in aiding and abetting terrorism...who'd-a-thunk?)Bin Laden's son wants to be peace envoy (Talk about irony!)Tapes destroyed over CIA's objectionsTroops on Trial
Report: Marine Suspect Told Wife He Buried the BodyWounded WarriorsTask force wants brain injury studiesMirror Therapy Shows Promise in Amputee Treatment
Supporting Our HeroesPartnership Remembers Troops at Valentine's DayOther Military NewsNavy Chopper Crashes in Texas With 4 People Aboard; 1 RescuedIsrael tests missileGates denies NATO discontentWorldwide WackosIran defiant after Israeli missile testPolitics / GovernmentCanada puts U.S., Israel on torture watchlistJudge OKs Nevada At-Large Caucus SitesPOLITICAL WIRE: Nevada Paper Endorses RomneyGOP Candidates Swap Accusations of Dirty TricksCAMPAIGN CARLMajor Garrett's BOURBON ROOMRace heats upMcCain holds lead in South CarolinaVideo: Clinton plays flight attendantFull Coverage: Polls, graphs and profilesWhite House race looks past February 5Giuliani tries for Hail Mary in FloridaRepublicans ponder deadlocked conventionIn the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and OrderArizona Teen Uses Baseball Bat to Fight Off Burglar (Well done!)Drew Peterson's Attorney Claims Missing Wife Received Racy Text MessageWoman Sues County for Distributing Nude Photos She Sent to Husband in JailCops: High School Students Traded Nude Pics of Themselves Over Cell PhonesCops: Dad Arrested for Taping Packers Jersey to Son, 7Texas Teen in 911 Call: 'I'm Dying' -
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VIDEOPolice Arrest Second Man in Georgia Cop KillingsAustrian Court: Chimp Not Legally a PersonCar, Cell Phones of Tiger Attack Victims Searched FBI looks into Tejada testimonyO.J. returns home after Vegas hearingAdventures in Political CorrectenessD.C. High School Track Star Disqualified Over Muslim Uniform (Of all issues, THIS is where we decide NOT to accommodate religious views??)Media in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the WebWEBCAMS AROUND THE WORLD: Mt. McKinleyYouTube Video: Playing Around With Stolen TaserMom Finds Sexy Pics of Local Schoolkids on MySpaceScience / Medicine and Health / TechnologyTwo Dudes Make Cloning History'Please Don't Do That': Man Says Hospital Forced Rectal Exam (Yikes!)Doctors Refuse Mom's Request to Remove Disabled Daughter's WombFDA: Cold Medicines Too Risky for Young Kids -
VIDEOBird flu may be spread indirectly: WHOBisexuality in women is not a stage: studyBull's eye target for child leukemia found: studyScientists find 2,000 pound rodent - luckily it's a fossilGerman unions urge Nokia boycott over plant closureDell seen back to strong growthU.S. abortion rate falls, study findsOdditiesMan Comes Back to Life After Being 'Dead' for an HourArmy offers to pay as stray rocket hits house (Oops)Burglar finds corpse and calls policeOther News of Note
Cop: Diana's Refusal of Security May Have Led to DeathKenyan opposition says police kill sevenFox NewsFOXBusiness: Bernanke Backs Stimulus PlanPlane Lands Short of Runway at Heathrow -
PHOTOSBritney Spears: Pregnancy Test 'for My Friend'Katie Holmes Marathon Mystery SolvedBritish Airways Jet Crash Lands at Heathrow Airport, Injuring 8Eddie Murphy, Galpal to Stay 'Friends' After 'Symbolic' WeddingReutersMerrill takes $16 billion in writedownsStocks sink on factory activity, MerrillPaparazzi arrested after chasing SpearsDirectors' deal could split striking writersWealthy may be next in line in home crisisTurkey Armenians wary one year after editor's deathFour paparazzi arrested after chasing Britney SpearsRolling Stones sign Universal album dealMerrill posts worst quarter in its historyGM eyes labor cost cuts, increased revenueHousing, factory data stir recession fearsBernanke backs fiscal stimulus if quick VideoLehman to cut 1,300 mortgage jobsBanks buy crumbling CDOs to stem lossesCommodity currencies at risk as slowdown loomsShipwreck, treasure, insider trading -- an SEC taleWall Street extends slide -
VideoDollar dips on Bernanke testimonyAIG shares slide 6 percentOil falls below $90 on recession fearsAmbac shares plummet on potential Moody's cutGold recoils from record highsAmerican Eagle to launch children's brandTD Ameritrade raises profit forecastBlackRock's Q4 net beats forecastRetailers go green to cut costsDeals: M&A news, analysis and blogsAP World NewsWilliam flies solo for the first timeSelig given 3-year extensionMerrill Lynch posts steep 4Q lossNicholson says he's looking for loveTime Warner links web prices with usageBaghdatis ends Safin threat in AustraliaSelig hopes to decide discipline soonTeacher absences are hurting learningCENTCOM: News ReleasesUSJFCOMUSJFCOM readies for Noble Resolve 08 -
podcastMore about Noble ResolveCombined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa Mission Rehearsal Exercise prepares forces to help “Africans solve African problems” -
podcastCombined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa Mission Rehearsal Exercise commences -
podcast2007 -- The Year in Review -
photosMulti-National Force-IraqA New MRAP is Born: Armored Ambulance Newest Addition to FamilyUPDATE: Young Iraqi Girl Continues Recovery One Step at a TimeTask Force Marne Leaders’ Course Welcomes First Class of Iraqi SoldiersCoalition forces target al-Qaeda near Hamrin Lake, three terrorists killedCoalition forces capture criminal element network facilitator (Baghdad)Al-Qaeda operations in northern Iraq disrupted; two killed, 17 detainedU.S. Special Operations Forces train Iraqi Security Forces (Baghdad)Three IEDS found, destroyed in AdwaniyahSoldiers capture HVT south of BaghdadDefenseLinkFuture Marine Deployment To Support NATO AlliesDefense Officials Mull U.S. Military Aid to PakistanTroops, Civilian Employees Must Follow Rules for Political Activities
Aid Station Makes a DifferenceEngineers Teach Afghans To BuildLeaders’ Course Welcomes First Class of Iraqis Guard Medic Competes For Miss America TitleAirmen Keep Hospital Equipment RunningWeatherAfghanistanBost/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 YosuToday in History
1501 - Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna
1562 - Edict of St Germain recognizes the Huguenots in France
1595 - French king Henri IV declares war on Spain
1601 - France gains Bresse, Bugey, Valromey & Gex in treaty with Spain
1656 - Brandenburg & Sweden sign Treaty of Königsberg
1718 - Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53
1746 - Battle of Falkirk, Scotland-Prince Charles Edward Stuart defeated by Scots
1757 - Germany declares war on Prussia
1773 - Captain James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66º 33' S)
1775 - 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Poland
1779 - Captain Cook's last notation in ship's log
1821 - México permits Moses Austin & 300 US families to settle in Texas
1827 - Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander
1832 - Johannes van den Bosch appointed Governor-General of Dutch-Indies
1852 - British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
1861 - Flush toilet (with separate water tank and a pull chain) patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper
1862 - USS Lexington begins bombardment of Fort Henry, TN (thru Jan 22nd)
1863 - Skirmish near Newtown VA
1864 - General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridge TN
1874 - Armed Democrats seize Texas government, ending Radical Reconstruction
1885 - British beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan
1893 - Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
1895 - French President Casimir-Perier resigns; Félix Faure installed as President of France
1899 - US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
1911 - Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly
1912 - English explorer Robert Falcon Scott & his expedition reach the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there 1 month before
1913 - Raymond Poincaré elected President of France
1915 - Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine
1917 - US pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands
1920 - Paul Deschanel elected President of France
1928 - 1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented
1929 - Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre"
1944 - Corvette
Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean
1945 - Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation); Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation; Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary
1946 - United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting
1948 - Netherlands & Indonesia agree to a cease fire; Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in New York City NY
1950 - 11 men rob Brink's office in Boston of $1.2M cash & $1.5M securities
1951 - China refuses cease-fire in Korea
1954 - Jacques Cousteau's 1st network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS)
1955 - Submarine USS Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test voyage
1961 - Eisenhower allegedly orders the assassination of Congo's Lumumba
1962 - NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690 m
1963 - Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
1966 - Martin Luther King, Jr., opens campaign in Chicago; USAF B-52 carrying 4 unarmed hydrogen bombs crashes on Spanish coast at Palomares, killing 7
1968 - Soyuz 4 & 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
1973 - New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life; City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi
1976 - Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency
1980 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-3
1981 - Philippino President Marcos ends state of siege
1983 - Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians; Alabama Governor George C Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time
1984 - Supreme Court rules (5-4) private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws
1987 - President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
1988 - Leslie Manigay elected President of Haiti
1989 - Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded; Victoria Murden & Shirley Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)
1991 - Iraq fires 8 SCUD missiles on Israel - 1st US pilot shot down in Operation Desert Storm (Jeffrey Zahn)
1994 - 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage
1995 - 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)
1998 - President Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones
Birthdays1342 - Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy
1463 - Frederick III the Wise, elector of Saxony (1486-25), protector Luther
1504 - Pius V (Antonio Ghislieri), saint, pope (1566-72)
1612 - Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary General
1706 -
Benjamin Franklin, kite flyer/statesman/wit/inventor, Declaration of Independence signer1732 - Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, last king of Poland (1764-95)
1759 - Paul Cuffe, merchant/shipbuilder/Black nationalist
1806 - James Madison Randolph (Jefferson's grandson), 1st born in White House
1818 - Sir Antoine Dorion, joint premier of Canada (1858, 1863-64)
1828 - Lewis Addison Grant, Union Brevet Major General
1853 - Alva Vanderbilt Beaumont, women's rights advocate & activist
1863 - David Lloyd George, British PM (1916-22)
1880 - Mack Sennett, movie creator (Keystone Kops)
1886 - Glenn Luther Martin, aviator (Collier Trophy-1933)
1891 - Norman "Squab" Read, US aviator who lived to be 101
1899 - Al Capone, gangster (Chicago bootlegging)
1902 - Geoffrey W. Lloyd, British minister of Brandstoffen/Energy (1951-55)
1905 - Franz Schmid, ascended northside of Matterhorn (1931)
1910 - Edith S. Green (Representative-OR)
1911 - Luis W. Alvarez, US physicist (sub atomic, Nobel 1968)
1917 - Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran (MGR), Indian film star, politician
1918 - Joseph Walker Barr banker/politician
1922 - Luis Echeverría Alvarez, President of Mexico
1930 - Thomas P. Stafford, astronaut (Gemini 6, Gemini 9, Apollo 10); Bill Benyon, English large landowner/Conservative Lower house leader
1931 - James Earl Jones, actor (Darth Vader -
Star Wars); L. Douglas Wilder (Gov-VA)
1933 - Aga Khan, religious leader (Muslim)
1934 - Shari Lewis, ventriloquist/puppeteer (Lamb Chop)
1939 - Maury Povich, TV host (Current Affair, Maury)/Mr Connie Chung
1942 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), heavyweight champ boxer (1964-7 74-8)
1943 - Daniel Charles Brandenstein, astronaut (STS 8, 51-G, 32, 49)
1949 - Andy Kaufman, comedian/actor (Latka Gravas-Taxi)
1954 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., attorney (Natural Resources Defense Council)
Passings0395 - Theodosius I the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome, dies at 49
1119 - Boudouin VII, Hapkin count of Flanders
1661 - Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed
1874 - Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, die at 62
1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US President (1877-81), dies in Fremont OH at 70
1902 - Gideon Scheepers, South African Boer leader, executed
1908 - Ferdinand IV, ruler of Toscane, dies at 72
1910 - Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet)
1938 - William H. Pickering, astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79
1955 - Joannes A. Veraart, Dutch judge/MP, (Jews in Netherlands), dies at 68
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered at 36
1968 - Julis Deutsch, Austrian politician/General Spanish republican army, dies at 83
1977 - Gary Gilmore executed in Utah, 1st US execution since 1967
1990 - Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85)
1991 - Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V, King of Norway (1957)
1994 - Allan G. Odell, Ad executive (Burma Shave), dies at 90; Chung Il Kwon, PM of South Korea (1964-70)
1997 - Asfa Wossen (Amha Selassie), crown emperor of Ethiopia in exile; Clyde William Tombaugh discoverer (Pluto), dies at 90
Reported Missing in Action1966
Ramsey, Douglas K.,
Civilian (NV); released by PRG February, 1973 - alive as of 1998
1967Cogdell, William K.,
USAF (IN); T28D shot down - remains ID'd May, 1994
Krogman, Alva R.,
USAF (WY); O1F shot down, KIA, body not recovered
Wozniak, Frederick J.,
USAF (MI); RF3C disappeared on reconnaissance mission (backseater, w/Wright)
Wright, Gary G.,
USAF (CA); RF4C disappeared on reconnaissance mission (pilot, w/Wozniak)
1968Wilke, Robert F.,
USAF (WI); A1A crashed on rescue mission
1969Fickler, Edwin James,
USMC (WI); A6A presumed shot down on bombing mission (pilot, w/Kuhlman) - presumed KIA, body not recovered
Kuhlman, Robert John, Jr., USMC (IN); A6A presumed shot down on bombing mission (bombardier / navigator, w/Fickler) - presumed KIA, body not recovered
Smith, Victor A.,
USAF (MD); F4D shot down (systems operator)
1971Mirrer, Robert H.,
USAF (NJ); F4E shot down, believed KIA, body not recovered
Labels: Headlines, History
Pfc. Andrew Gordon, from Westerly, R.I., Company C, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, hands a soccer ball to a young boy during a visit to the Al Ashbal primary school in Khadra, Jan. 9. Photo by 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Public Affairs. 
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