Today is Thursday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2004
with 351 to follow.
Those born on this date include outlaw Cole Younger in 1844; Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis in 1906; nuclear physicist Edward Teller in 1908; drummer Gene Krupa in 1909; actor Lloyd Bridges in 1913; folk music scholar Alan Lomax in 1915; Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1918; civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1929; actress Margaret O'Brien in 1937 (age 67); actress Andrea Martin in 1947 (age 57); singer/actress Charo (Maria Martinez) in 1951 (age 53); and actors Mario Van Peebles in 1957 (age 47) and Chad Lowe in 1968 (age 36).
On this date in history:
In 1759, the British Museum opened.
In 1870, a cartoon by Thomas Nast appeared in Harper's weekly with a donkey symbolizing the Democratic Party for the first time. The symbol stuck.
In 1922, the Irish Free State was formed.
In 1943, the Pentagon, the world's largest building of its kind, was completed on the Virginia side of the Potomac River just outside Washington, D.C.
In 1967, the first Super Bowl was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10, to win the first NFL-AFL World Championship Game.
In 1973, President Nixon called a halt to American military offensives in Vietnam.
In 1986, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proposed a sweeping new arms control plan to eliminate all nuclear weapons by the year 2000 and rid "mankind of the fear of nuclear catastrophe."
In 1991, Aleksandr Bessmertnykh was confirmed as the new Soviet foreign minister.
In 1993, the U.S. Coast Guard announced it would beef up patrols off the coast of Haiti in hopes of halting an expected exodus of refugees headed for the United States.
Also in 1993, a Colorado judge blocked enforcement of a voter-approved state constitutional amendment banning laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination.
And in 1993, four-time Oscar-winning songwriter Sammy Cahn, who penned such hits as "Fly Me to the Moon" and "Three Coins in the Fountain," died of heart failure at age 79.
In 1997, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat reached an agreement on the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank city of Hebron.
In 1999, Serb forces killed 45 ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo.
In 2000, the notorious Serbian paramilitary leader known as Arkan (Zeljko Raznotovic) was shot to death in a hotel lobby in Belgrade.
In 2002, John Walker Lindh, a 20-year-old American seized with the Taliban in Afghanistan in December, was charged with conspiring to kill U.S. citizens and abetting terrorist groups.
In 2003, the White House budget chief predicted deficits in $200 billion to $300 billion range over next two years.
A thought for the day: John Milton wrote in "Paradise Lost":
"Here at last
"We shall be free;
"the Almighty hath not built
"Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
"Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
"To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."
(c) Copyright 2004 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
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Classic Quotes
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By Willa Cather (1873 - 1947) US novelist
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"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."
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"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."
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"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen."
My Antonia
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"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
O Pioneers! (1913)
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"She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awak for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation."
The Song of the Lark
Those born on this date include outlaw Cole Younger in 1844; Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis in 1906; nuclear physicist Edward Teller in 1908; drummer Gene Krupa in 1909; actor Lloyd Bridges in 1913; folk music scholar Alan Lomax in 1915; Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1918; civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1929; actress Margaret O'Brien in 1937 (age 67); actress Andrea Martin in 1947 (age 57); singer/actress Charo (Maria Martinez) in 1951 (age 53); and actors Mario Van Peebles in 1957 (age 47) and Chad Lowe in 1968 (age 36).
On this date in history:
In 1759, the British Museum opened.
In 1870, a cartoon by Thomas Nast appeared in Harper's weekly with a donkey symbolizing the Democratic Party for the first time. The symbol stuck.
In 1922, the Irish Free State was formed.
In 1943, the Pentagon, the world's largest building of its kind, was completed on the Virginia side of the Potomac River just outside Washington, D.C.
In 1967, the first Super Bowl was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10, to win the first NFL-AFL World Championship Game.
In 1973, President Nixon called a halt to American military offensives in Vietnam.
In 1986, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proposed a sweeping new arms control plan to eliminate all nuclear weapons by the year 2000 and rid "mankind of the fear of nuclear catastrophe."
In 1991, Aleksandr Bessmertnykh was confirmed as the new Soviet foreign minister.
In 1993, the U.S. Coast Guard announced it would beef up patrols off the coast of Haiti in hopes of halting an expected exodus of refugees headed for the United States.
Also in 1993, a Colorado judge blocked enforcement of a voter-approved state constitutional amendment banning laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination.
And in 1993, four-time Oscar-winning songwriter Sammy Cahn, who penned such hits as "Fly Me to the Moon" and "Three Coins in the Fountain," died of heart failure at age 79.
In 1997, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat reached an agreement on the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank city of Hebron.
In 1999, Serb forces killed 45 ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo.
In 2000, the notorious Serbian paramilitary leader known as Arkan (Zeljko Raznotovic) was shot to death in a hotel lobby in Belgrade.
In 2002, John Walker Lindh, a 20-year-old American seized with the Taliban in Afghanistan in December, was charged with conspiring to kill U.S. citizens and abetting terrorist groups.
In 2003, the White House budget chief predicted deficits in $200 billion to $300 billion range over next two years.
A thought for the day: John Milton wrote in "Paradise Lost":
"Here at last
"We shall be free;
"the Almighty hath not built
"Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
"Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
"To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."
(c) Copyright 2004 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
--------------------
Classic Quotes
--------------------
By Willa Cather (1873 - 1947) US novelist
--------------------
"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."
--------------------
"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."
--------------------
"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen."
My Antonia
--------------------
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
O Pioneers! (1913)
--------------------
"She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awak for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation."
The Song of the Lark
Charles Mims
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