GOOD MORNING - TODAY IS SATURDAY, January 03, the 3rd day of 2015 with 362 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 7:14 and sunset is @ 4:22. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are stars are Jupiter, Mercury & Saturn. The evening stars are Mars, Neptune, Uranus & Venus. ON THIS DAY IN: 1521 - Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X. 1777 - General George Washingtons army routed the British, led by Lord Cornwallis, in the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey. 1833 - Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. 1868 - The Meiji Restoration reestablished the authority of Japans emperor (after 700 years) and brought the fall of the military rulers known as shoguns. 1888 - The drinking straw was patented by Marvin Stone of Washington, D.C. 1903 - South Dakotas Wind Cave National Park was established. 1924 - Two years after British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt, he uncovers the greatest treasure of the tomb -- a stone sarcophagus containing a solid gold coffin with the mummy of Tutankhamen. 1938 - The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was organized. 1947 - U.S. Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time; these were the opening ceremonies of the 80th Congress. 1959 - President Dwight Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state. 1961 - The United States broke diplomatic relations with Cuba. 1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban prime minister Fidel Castro. 1990 - Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces. 1993 - President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a historic nuclear missile-reduction treaty in Moscow. 2004 - Spirit, the first of the two Mars Exploration Rover missions, landed.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 11:45:43 +0000
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