Today is Saturday, Jan. 3, the third day of 2015. There are 362 days left in the year. It is 36 with drizzle & fog. Internet service restored after an 18 hour outage. On this date: In 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X; In 1777, Gen. George Washingtons army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey; In 1911, the first postal savings banks were opened by the U.S. Post Office. (The banks were abolished in 1966.); In 1938, the March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who himself had been afflicted with the crippling disease; In 1959, Alaska became the 49th state as President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation; In 1967, Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died in a Dallas hospital; In 1990, ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vaticans diplomatic mission; In 2005 President George W. Bush tapped his father, former President George H.W. Bush, and former President Bill Clinton to help raise tsunami relief funds; In 2010 The U.S. closed its embassy in Yemen, citing ongoing threats by the al-Qaida branch linked to the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a U.S. airliner headed to Detroit; Britain also shuttered its embassy; and In 2014 The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled again that the National Security Agency could keep collecting every Americans telephone records every day. Today: Actor Dabney Coleman is 83. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Bobby Hull is 76. Musician Stephen Stills is 70. Rock musician John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) is 69. Actress Victoria Principal is 65. Actor-director Mel Gibson is 59. NFL quarterback Eli Manning is 34. The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong wont. — Henry Ward Beecher. Have a good day.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 14:43:26 +0000
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