GOOD MORNING - TODAY IS TUESDAY, January 06, the 6th day of 2015 with 359 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 7:13 and sunset is @ 4:25. The moon is waning. The morning stars are stars are Jupiter, Mercury & Saturn. The evening stars are Mars, Neptune, Uranus & Venus. ON THIS DAY IN: 1540 - Englands King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves -- which lasted 6 months. 1759 - George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married. 1838 - Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in Morristown, New Jersey. 1912 - New Mexico became the 47th state. 1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his Four Freedoms speech outlining four goals: freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear. 1942 - The Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper arrived in New York after making the first round-the-world trip by a commercial airplane. 1945 - The Battle of the Bulge, or Ardennes offensive, ended. 1946 - Ho Chi Minh won in the Vietnamese elections. 1967 - United States and South Vietnamese forces launched a major offensive in Mekong Delta. 1975 - Wheel of Fortune game show premiered on TV. 1987 - Astronomers reported sighting a new galaxy 12 billion light years away.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 12:29:23 +0000
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