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January 23


Fixed Holidays And Events

This is an uneventful day.

Birthdays of Famous Individuals

1582 - John Barclay, Pont-a-Mousson, France, Poet, writer, satirist
1730 - Joseph Hewes, Princeton, NJ, Legislator, Signed Declaration of Independence
1737 - John Hancock, Braintree, MA, merchant, president of 2d Continental Congress, signed Declaration of Independence
1745 - William Jessop, Devonport, England, Civil engineer
1828 - Calvin Edward Pratt, Princeton, MA, Brigadier General of volunteers, USA
1828 - Saigo Takamori, Kagoshima, Japan, Led the Satsuma Rebellion
1832 - Edouard Manet, Paris, France, Painter
1833 - John Randolph Chambliss, Jr, Greensville, VA, Brigadier General, CSA
1857 - Andrija Mohorovicic, Voloska, Croatia, meteorologist, seismologist, Mohorovicic discontinuity (Moho layer)
1876 - Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Hamburg, Germany, Chemist, Nobel 1950
1887 - Dr. Miklos Kallay de Nagykallo, Nyiregyhaza, Austria-Hungary, Prime Minister of Hungary
1888 - Huddie William Ledbetter [Leadbelly], Mooringsport, LA, folk and blues musician
1893 - Frank Carlson, Concordia, KS, Governor of Kansas, US Representative, US Senator
1897 - Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Winnipeg, Canada, Captain (Canadian Army), airman, inventor, spymaster, code name:  Intrepid
1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose, Cuttack, British India, Revolutionary, led the Japanese controlled Indian National Army
1898 - Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, Riga, Russian Empire, Director, film theorist
1898 - George Randolph Scott [Randolph Scott], Orange County, VA, Actor
1907 - Dan Duryea, White Plains, NY, Actor
1907 - Hideki Yukawa, Kyoto, Japan, Physicist, Nobel 1949
1915 - Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucia, British Empire, Economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 1979
1918 - Gertrude Belle Elion, New York City, NY, Biochemist, pharmacologist, Nobel 1988, invented 6 major drugs including Allopurinol
1919 - Ernie Kovacs, Trenton, NJ, Comedian, actor
1920 - Walter Fredrick 'Fred' Morrison, Richfield, UT, Invented the Frisbee
1923 - Walter Michael Miller, Jr., New Smyrna Beach, FL, Science fiction author
1928 - Jeanne Moreau, Paris, France, Actress, singer, screenwriter
1929 - John Charles Polanyi, Berlin, Germany, Canadian chemist, Nobel 1986
1930 - Derek Alton Walcott, Castries, Saint Lucia, poet, playwright, writer, Nobel 1992
1930 - William Reid Pogue, Okemah, OK, Colonel (USAF), astronaut, Skylab 4
1936 - Robert Parris Moses, Harlem, NY, Education, civil rights activist
1940 - John Bright 'Johnny' Russell, Moorhead, MS, Country singer, songwriter, comedian
1943 - Gilbert C. 'Gil' Gerard, Little Rock, AR, Actor
1944 - Jerome E. 'Jerry' Lawson, Ft Lauderdale, FL, Singer, producer, arranger, The Persuasions
1944 - Rutger Oelsen Hauer, Breukelen, the Netherlands, Actor
1946 - Jose Arnoldo Aleman Lacayo, Managua, Nicaragua, President of Nicaragua
1947 - Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri, Yogyakarto, Indonesia, President of Indonesia
1948 - Anita Pointer, Oakland, CA, Singer, The Pointer Sisters
1949 - Robert Donald Cabana, Minneapolis, MN, Colonel (USMC), Astronaut, STS-41, 53, 65, 88
1950 - Daniel Paul 'Danny' Federici, Flemington, NJ, musician, Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band
1950 - William 'Bill' Cunningham, Memphis, TN, guitarist, keyboardist, the Box Tops
1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, Minneapolis, MN, Actor, producer, composer
1953 - Richard Gilliland, Fort Worth, TX, Actor
1953 - Robin Zander, Beloit, WI, singer, rhythm guitarist, Cheap Trick
1958 - Lorraine Michaels, Canterbury, England, Playboy Playmate, April 1981
1963 - Gail Ann O'Grady, Detroit, MI, Actress
1964 - Mariska Hargitay, Los Angeles, CA, Actress
1964 - Bharrat Jagdeo, Unity Village, Guyana, President of Guyana
1972 - Ewen Bremner, Edinburgh, Scotland, Actor
1974 - Tiffani-Amber Thiessen [Tiffani Thiessen], Long Beach, CA, Actress
1976 - Anthony James 'Tony' Lucca, Pontiac, MI, singer, songwriter, actor
1981 - Julia Jones, Boston, MA, Actress

Today in History

0393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor.
0971 - Song Dynasty troops defeat the Southern Han.
1368 - Zhu Yuanzhang becomes the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China.
1570 - Scotland descends into civil war after the assassination of regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray .
1579 - The Republic of the Seven United Provinces is created by the Union of Utrecht.
1656 - Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1719 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created.
1793 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time.
1845 - Congress established the first Tuesday after the first Monday as national election day.
1870 - In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Piegan Blackfoot in the Marias Massacre.
1879 - Anglo-Zulu War:  Co B, 24th Regiment of Foot defeats up to 4,000 Zulu's at Rorke's Drift
1899 - Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
1900 - Second Boer War:  Boer troops defeat a British attempt to relieve Ladysmith.
1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
1912 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
1937 - Stalin's Purges:  17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky.
1943 - World War II:  Australian and American forces defeat the Japanese army in Papua.
1943 - World War II:  Montgomery's 8th Army captures Tripoli.
1943 - World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal ends.
1945 - World War II:  The German Navy begins evacuating troops and civilians from East Prussia, Courland, and the Polish Corridor.
1950 - The Knesset passes a resolution which states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
1958 - Marcos Perez Jimenez is ousted from the Presidency of Venezuela.
1960 - The USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m.
1963 - Guinea-Bissau War of Independence:  The war officially begins when guerrillas attack the Portuguese troops in Tite.
1964 - The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1968 - North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo (AGER-2).
1973 - President Nixon announces that a Vietnam peace accord has been reached.
1991 - Gulf War:  Iraq dumps 400 million gallons of crude oil into the Persian Gulf
2003 - Pioneer 10's final communication with Earth is received.
2003 - North Korea announced that it would consider sanctions over its nuclear program to be an act of war.

Today's Quotation

Chess would be a whole lot more exciting if they allowed trash talking.
- Bob Kravitz

Today's Smile

In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. And the Earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

And Satan said, "It doesn't get any better than this."

And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. And God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit," and God saw that it was good.

And Satan said, "There goes the neighborhood."

And God said, "Let us make Man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle, and over all the Earth, and over every
creeping thing that crept upon the Earth." And so God created Man in his own image; male and female created he them. And God looked upon Man and Woman and saw that they were lean and fit.

And Satan said, "I know how I can get back in this game."

And God populated the earth with green and yellow vegetables of all kinds, so Man and Woman would live long and healthy lives.

And Satan created McDonald's. And McDonald's brought forth the 99-cent double cheeseburger.

And Satan said to Man, "You want fries with that?"

And Man said, "Supersize them." And Man gained 5 pounds.

And God created the healthful yogurt, that woman might keep her figure that man found so fair.

And Satan brought forth chocolate. And Woman gained 5 pounds.

God said, "Try my crispy fresh salad."

And Satan brought forth Ben and Jerry's.  And Woman gained 10 pounds.

And God said, "I have sent thee heart-healthy vegetables and olive oil with which to cook them."

And Satan brought forth chicken-fried steak so big it needed its own platter.

And Man gained 10 pounds and his bad cholesterol went through the roof.

And God brought forth running shoes and Man resolved to lose those extra pounds.

And Satan brought forth cable TV with remote control so Man would not have to toil to change channels between ESPN and ESPN2.

And Man gained another 20 pounds.

And God said, "You're running up the score, Devil." And God brought forth the potato, a vegetable naturally low in fat and brimming with nutrition.

And Satan peeled off the healthful skin and sliced the starchy center into chips and deep-fat fried them. And also created he sour cream dip.

And Man clutched his remote control and ate the potato chips swaddled in cholesterol. And Satan saw and said, "It is good." And Man went into cardiac arrest.

And God sighed and created quadruple bypass surgery.

And Satan created HMO's...

Today's Recipe

Biscuit Mix
The next few recipes all use this mix.

1 cup vegetable shortening
8 cups sifted flour
4 Tbsp double acting baking powder
4 tsp salt

Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.
Cut shortening into flour until mixture is the consistency of cornmeal.
Store in covered container in the refrigerator.
Makes 9 cups.

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Just because you can sing "Amazing Grace" to the melody of "Gilligan's Island" doesn't mean you should.