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 TODAY  Version 3.6   11/14/93       Copyright 1986, 1993  By Patrick Kincaid

 Today is Thursday  September 23, 2004.
 This is the 267th day of the year, there are 99 days left.

 Happy Birthday to...
    In 1899 Thomas Campbell Clark          77th U.S.S.C. JUSTICE
    In 1853 Emmet O'Neal                      37th Governor of Alabama
    In 1863 George Washington Hays            31st Governor of Arkansas
    In 1884 Eugene Talmadge            64th & 66th Governor of Georgia
    In 1745 John Sevier                   1st & 3rd Governor of Tennessee
    In 1790 William Trousdale                  15th Governor of Tennessee
    In 1841 Joseph Draper Sayers               23rd Governor of Texas
    In   63 Octavian (Augustus C‘sar), 1st Roman emperor
    In  484 Euripides, ancient Greek playwright (Trojan Women) (or 480 BC)
    In 1713 Ferdinand VI, king of Spain (1746-59)
    In 1800 William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers)
    In 1852 William Stewart Halsted, established 1st surgical school in US
    In 1880 John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO (Nobel 1949)
    In 1898 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Madame Curie, Forbidden Planet)
    In 1920 Mickey Rooney, actor
    In 1926 John Coltrane, saxophonist
    In 1930 Ray Charles

 On this day...
    3rd Quarter, Week 12, Day 7
    26 DAYS - U.S. Major League Baseball World Series Begins
    34 Days - Standard Daylight Time
    38 DAYS - HALLOWEEN
    66 DAYS - THANKSGIVING
    89 DAYS - Northern Hemisphere  its Winter
            Southern Hemisphere  its Summer
    93 DAYS - CHRISTMAS
    In 2004 133 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2005 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 518 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2006 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 875 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2007 - New Orleans, LA, USA
    In 2004 1223 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2008
    Moscow, Russia - Sunrise/Set  7:17 AM 7:25 PM 
    Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA - Sunrise/Set  7:13 AM 7:19 PM
    In 1780 John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point.
    In 1779 Naval engagement between 'Bonhomme Richard' and 'HMS Serepis'.
    In 1846 Johann Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
    In 1912 First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released.
    In 1932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia formed, (National Day)
    In 1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
    In 1952 First closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event.
    In 1973 Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049 - 1, is calculated.
    The first day of Fall.

 Thought for the day...
    In 1874 Harris Flanagin                    9th Governor of Arkansas
    In 1973 Fuller Warren                     29th Governor of Florida
    Real love stories have no endings.

 And remember...
    ITS THURSDAY
    Today's Date (Month\Day) will land on this day of week in 2010! 
    U.S. National Alert Status is ELEVATED - YELLOW LEVEL  3RD 
    All U.S. Space Shuttles Grounded.
    Atlantis    U.S. Space Shuttle launch time unknown!
    Endeavour   U.S. Space Shuttle launch time unknown!
    Discovery   U.S. Space Shuttle may launch in March\April 2005!
    Oct 01 - Birthdate for   Pres. Jimmy Carter         (US) 39
    Oct 04 - Birthdate for   Pres. Rutherford B Hayes   (US) 19
    Oct 05 - Birthdate for   Pres. Chester A Arthur     (US) 21
    Oct 08 - Death of President Franklin Pierce
    Oct 14 - Birthdate for   Pres. Dwight D Eisenhower  (US) 34
    Oct 19 - Birthdate for   Pres. John Adams,          (US) 02
    Oct 20 - Death of President Herbert Hoover
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