Holidays for Today: Ratification Day* Dress Up Your Pet Day* Take a Missionary to Lunch Day* National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day*
January is also National Mail Order Gardening Month!
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TODAY IN BIRTHDAYS:
1875 Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian doctor/humanitarian/organist (Nobel 1952)
1886 Hugh Lofting, English/American writer & illustrator (Dr Dolittle)
1890 Dr. Rolla Neil Harger, invented machine to test amount of alcohol in breath
1907 Derek Richter, British neurochemist (Aspects of learning & memory)
1919 Andy Rooney, Albany NY, CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes)
1941 [Dorothy] Faye Dunaway, Bascom FL, actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde)
1943 Shannon W Lucid, China (Baptist missionary parents there)/American, astronaut/biochemist (6 STS flights, 1 prolonged stay on Mir Spacestation)
1969 Justin Bateman, Rye NY, actor (Arrested Development, The Kingdom, Hancock, The Invention of Lying)
1986 Gary Brolsma, Saddlebrook NJ, internet celebrity (Numa Numa Dance)
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus
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HAPPENED THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1784 Ratification Day: Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris
1794 Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom VA, performs first successful Cesarean section operation on his wife.
1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line for T-Fords, reducing assembly time of a car from over 12 hours to 93 minutes.
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office when he travels from Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
1952 "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV.
1954 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1967 The Human Be-In, part of the counterculture of the 1960s, takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park with between 20,000 to 30,000 people attending, and launching the Summer of Love.
1972 "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV
1973 Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins. The Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.
2005 Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.
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