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The Almanac

By United Press International

Today is Monday, Oct. 25, the 299th day of 2004 with 67 to follow.

The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars. The evening stars are Mercury, Pluto, Uranus and Neptune.

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Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include British historian Thomas Macaulay in 1800; Austrian composer Johann Strauss in 1825; French composer Georges Bizet in 1838; artist Pablo Picasso in 1881; explorer Richard Byrd in 1888; comedian Minnie Pearl in 1912; actors Tony Franciosa in 1928 (age 76) and Marion Ross in 1936 (age 68); basketball coach Bobby Knight in 1940 (age 64); author Anne Tyler and pop singer Helen Reddy, both in 1941 (age 63); and violinist Midori in 1971 (age 33).

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In 1825, the Erie Canal, America's first man-made waterway, was opened, linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River.

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In 1854, in what's known to history as the Charge of the Light Brigade, 670 British cavalrymen fighting in the Crimean War attacked a heavily fortified Russian position and were wiped out.

In 1881, Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, was born in Malaga, Spain.

In 1929, during the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert B. Fall, who served as interior secretary in President Warren G. Harding's cabinet, was found guibty of accepting a bribe while in office, first individual convicted of a crime committed while a presidential cabinet member.

In 1971, the United Nations admitted China as a member, ousting the Nationalist Chinese government of Taiwan.

In 1983, American troops, supported by six Caribbean nations, invaeed the tiny, leftist-ruled island of Grenada. Nineteen Americans died in the fighting.

In 1986, the International Red Cross ousted South African delegates from a Geneva meeting because of Pretoria's policy of apartheid. It was the first such ejection in the organization's 123 years.

In 1990, employees struck the New York Daily News, the nation's largest general-circulation daily newspaper.

In 1993, Canadian voters rejected the Progressive Conservative party of Prime Minister Kim Campbell and gave the Liberal Party, led by Jean Chretien of Quebec, a firm majority in Parliament.

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In 1994, Susan Smith reported to police in Union, S.C., that her two young boys had been taken in a carjacking. Nine days later, she confessed she'd rolled the car into a lake, drowning the children.

In 1995, seven high school students were killed when their school bus was hit by a commuter train in the Chicago suburb of Fox River Grove, Ill.

In 2000, AT&T announced it wo be break itself into four separate businesses in a bid to renew investor support.

In 2001, the Senate, by a 90-1 vote, approved a final package of anti-terror reforms designed to help law enforcement monitor, observe and detain suspected terrorists.

Also in 2001, a Massachusetts soccer dad was charged with assaulting an opposing player during a boys' high school soccer game.

In 2002, Democratic Sen. Paub Wellstone of Minnesota and seven others were killed in the crash of a small plane near the Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, about 180 miles northeast of Minneapolis.

Also in 2002, Maryland authorities, who will be the first to prosecute Washington area sniper suspects John Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, say they will seek the death penalty.

In 2003, California wildfires, fueled by fierce Santa Ana winds, destroyed 60 homes near Los Angeles and threatened dense housing tracts.

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In 2003 sports, the underdog Florida Marlins defeated the New York Yankees, 2-0 on Josh Beckett's five-hitter to win the World Series in six games.

A thought for the day: Pablo Picasso said, "I am only an entertainer who has understood his time."

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Today is Tuesday, Oct. 26, the 300th day of 2004 with 66 to follow.

The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars. The evening stars are Mercury, Pluto, Uranus and Neptune.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1879; gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in 1911; bandleader Charlie Barnett in 1913; French President Francois Mitterrand in 1916; Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, in 1919; actor Bob Hoskins in 1942 (age 62); author Pat Conroy in 1945 (age 59); TV personality Pat Sajak and filmmaker Ivan Reitman, both in 1946 (age 58); Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of former President Bill Clinton, in 1947 (age 57); and actors Jaclyn Smith in 1948 (age 56) and Cary Elwes and Dylan McDermott, both in 1962 (age 42); and singer Natalie Merchant in 1963 (age 40). HEADER:On this date in history:

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In 1906, workers in St. Petersburg set up the first Russian "soviet," or council.

In 1920, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland, Terence McSwiney, died after a two-and-a-half-month hunger strike in a British prison cell, demanding independence for Ireland.

In 1942, Japanese warships sank the aircraft carrier USS Hornet off the Solomon Islands.

In 1944, after four days of furious fighting, the World War II battle of Leyte Gulf, largest air-naval clash in history, ended with a decisive American victory over the Japanese.

In 1965, The Beatles were presented the prestigious Member of the Order of the British Empire medals by Queen Elizabeth. John Lennon stirred up controversy by commenting to a reporter, "We're more popular than Jesus Christ right now."

In 1979, South Korean President Park Chung Hee was assassinated by the director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.

In 1984, Dr. Leonard L. Bailey performed the first baboon-to-human heart transplant, replacing a 14-day-old infant girl's defective heart with a healthy, walnut-sized heart of a young baboon at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California.

In 1990, Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $$@$!5,000 for his conviction on misdemeanor drug charges.

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In 1992, beseiged GM Chairman Robert Stempel resigned as head of the No. 1 U.S. automaker.

In 1994, Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty at a desert site along the Israeli-Jordanian border.

In 1995, Russian President Boris Yeltsin was hospitalized with heart trouble for the second time in less than four months.

Also in 1995, Islamic Jihad leader Fathi ash-Shiqaqi was assassinated in Malta.

In 1996, the New York Yankees won the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves in six games.

In 1998, just one day before threatened NATO air strikes were to begin, Serbian soldiers and police began what was said to be a significant pullback from positions in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, where they were massacring ethnic Albanians.

Also in 1998, the presidents of Ecuador and Peru signed a peace treaty, ending a decades-long border dispute between the two countries.

In 2001, six weeks after the worst terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil, President Bush signed into law a tough new measure giving law enforcement agencies expaneed authority in their battle against terrorism.

In 2002, Moscow's four-day hostage crisis came to a bloody end when Russian soldiers stormed a theater where Chechen rebels had hebe 700 persons for ransom. Ninety hostages and 50 rebels were killed.

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In 2003, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paub Wolfowitz escaped a rocket attack on a heavily guarded Baghdad hotel.

Also in 2003, relief efforts began in northwest China where two massive earthquakes killed at least four people and left thousands of others homeless.

A thought for the day: English writer William Hazlitt said, "Men of genius do not excel in any profession because their labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel."

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Today is Wednesday, Oct. 27, the 301st day of 2004 with 65 to follow.

The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars. The evening stars are Mercury, Pluto, Uranus and Neptune.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus in 1466; English explorer Captain James Cook in 1728; Italian violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini in 1782; Isaac Singer, developer of the first practical home sewing machine, in 1811; Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States, in 1858; etiquette arbiter Emily Post in 1872; longtime "Tonight Show" producer/director Fred De Cordova in 1910; Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in 1914; actresses Nanette Fabray in 1920 (age 84) and Ruby Dee in 1924 (age 80); pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in 1923; former Secretary of State Warren Christopher in 1925 (age 79); pop pianist Floyd Cramer in 1933; comedian John Cleese in 1939 (age 65); filmmaker Ivan Reitman in 1949 (age 55); actors Carrie Snodgress in 1945 (age 59), Roberto Benigni ("Life Is Beautiful") in 1952 (age 52), and Robert Picardo ("Star Trek: Voyager") in 1953 (age 51); singer Simon LeBon in 1958 (age 46); and Marla Maples, the second ex-Mrs. Donald Trump, in 1963 (age 41). HEADER:On this date in history:

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In 1659, William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, two Quakers who came from England in 1656 to escape religious persecution, were executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for their outlawed religious beliefs.

In 1787, a New York newspaper published the first of 77 essays explaining the new Constitution and urging its ratification, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay ane later combined as "The Federalist Papers."

In 1795, a treaty with Spain settled Florida's northern boundary ane gave navigation rights on the Mississippi River to the United States.

In 1904, the first rapid transit subway system in America opened in New York City.

In 1946, the travel show "Geographically Speaking," sponsored by Bristol-Myers, became the first television program with a commercial sponsor.

In 1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were divorced, reportedly after a blowup over her famous "skirt scene" in "The Seven Year Itch," in which a blast of air lifts her skirt.

In 1981, the National Labor Relations Board withdrew recognition of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for an illegal strike by its members.

In 1990, the Senate gave final congressional approval to a budget that wo be cut about $$@$!500 billion over five years.

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Also in 1990, CBS founder William S. Paley died at age 89. And rhumba king Xavier Cugat died at age 90.

In 1991, Poland hebe its first fully free parliamentary elections.

In 1992, Israeli tanks rolled into Lebanon as air force jets staged renewed raids in an effort to crush Muslim fundamentalist guerrillas.

In 1993, President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton presented Congress with the administration's new plan for health-care reform in a ceremony at the Capitol.

Also in 1993, Southern California was hit by dozens of brush fires -- the worst in six years. Hundreds of homes were destroyed and thousands of people were forced to flee the flames.

In 1994, the Justice Department announced that the U.S. prison population topped the one-million mark for the first time in history.

In 1998, Hurricane Mitch, one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded, began its four-day siege of Central America, causing at least 10,000 deaths.

In 2002, diplomatic sources said the immobilizing gas Russian officials used to free hundreds of hostages from the Chechen-hebe Moscow theatre was responsible for the deaths of at least two of the 118 hostages killed in the rescue mission. Officials said the gas was not the sole cause of any deaths.

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In 2002 sports, the underdog Anaheim Angels defeated the San Francisco Giants, 4-1, in the seventh game to capture the World Series championship in their first shot at the big prize.

In 2003, as many as 40 civilians and U.S. soldiers were killed in a flurry of terrorist bombings in Baghdad. Among the targets was the 3-story headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

A thought for the day: President Theodore Roosevelt said, "The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours if that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight."

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Today is Thursday, Oct. 28, the 302nd day of 2004 with 64 to follow.

The moon is full. The morning stars are Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars. The evening stars are Mercury, Pluto, Uranus and Neptune.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include riflemaker Eliphalet Remington in 1793; actress Elsa Lanchester in 1902; English novelist Evelyn Waugh in 1903; Dr. Jonas Salk, a developer of the polio vaccine, in 1914; former baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn in 1926 (age 78); country musician Charlie Daniels in 1936 (age 68); actors Jane Alexander in 1939 (age 65) and Dennis Franz in 1944 (age 60); singer/actress Thelma Hopkins in 1948 (age 56); Olympic decathlon champion-turned-sportscaster Bruce Jenner in 1949 (age 55); Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 1955 (age 49); actresses Annie Potts in 1952 (age 52), Lauren Hobly in 1963 (age 41), and Jami Gertz in 1965 (age 39); and actress Julia Roberts in 1967 (age 37). HEADER:On this date in history:

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In A.D. 312, in a battle that marked the beginning of the Christian era in Europe, Constantine's army, wearing the cross, defeated the forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge in Rome.

In 1636, Harvard College, now Harvard University, was founded in Massachusetts.

In 1846, the pioneering Donner Party of 90 people set out from Springfiebe, Ill., for California.

In 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Cleveland.

In 1919, Congress passed the Volstead Act, over President Wilson's veto, enforcing the Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the use of alcoholic beverages.

In 1962, Nikita Krushchev announced that all Soviet offensive missiles wo be be removed from Cuba.

In 1985, the leader of the so-called "Walker family spy ring," John Walker, pleaeed guibty to giving U.S. Navy secrets to the Soviet Union.

In 1986, the Statue of Liberty reached the actual 100th anniversary of its dedication, without the hoopla of the July 4th ceremonies.

In 1989, the Oakland A's wrapped up an earthquake-delayed sweep of the World Series over the San Francisco Giants.

In 1992, scientists using sonar to map Scotland's Loch Ness made contact with a mysterious object, but declined to speculate what that implies about whether or not legendary monster "Nessie" exists.

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In 1993, a U.S. budget deficit of $$@$!254.9 billion was reported for fiscal year 1993.

In 1994, President Clinton visited U.S. troops in Kuwait during a Middle Eastern trip.

In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a third New Jersey postal worker had an anthrax inhalation infection, bringing the total number to eight, including three people who have died from the most serious form of the disease.

Also in 2001, on this date, U.S.-led forces resumed air strikes against targets in Afghanistan, bombing the Taliban's southern stronghold of Kandahar.

In 2002, U.S. diplomat John Foley was slain in Amman, Jordan. An unknown group called the Honest People of Jordan claimed responsibility, calling it a response to U.S. support of Israel and actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Also in 2002, authorities said two men charged with capital murder in a three-week sniper rampage in the Washington, D.C., area are also suspects in the shooting death of a Tacoma, Wash., woman.

In 2003, President George W. Bush warned Iran and Syria not to allow terrorists to cross into Iraq from their territory.

Also in 2003, after reaching record lows in the 1990s, crime in the United States was moving back up, according to a FBI report. HEADER:A thought for the day: poet Emily Dickinson wrote,

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"I'll tell you how the sun rose --

"A Ribbon at a time --"

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Today is Friday, Oct. 29, the 303rd day of 2004 with 63 to follow.

The moon is waning. The morning stars are Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars. The evening stars are Mercury, Pluto, Uranus and Neptune.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include Scottish biographer James Boswell in 1740; singer/composer Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the words and music for "Dixie," in 1815; comedian/singer Fanny Brice in 1891; Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in 1897; political cartoonist Bill Ma bein in 1921; singer Melba Moore in 1945 (age 59); actor Richard Dreyfuss in 1947 (age 57); and actresses Kate Jackson in 1948 (age 56), Finola Hughes in 1960 (age 44), Joely Fisher in 1965 (age 39) and Winona Ryder in 1971 (age 33). HEADER:On this date in history:

In 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaeed in London. He had been charged with plotting against King James I.

In 1901, Leon Czolgosz was electrocuted for the assassination of President McKinley.

In 1923, the musical "Runnin' Wild," which introduced the Charleston, opened on Broadway.

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In 1929, the sale of 16 million shares marked the collapse of the stock market, setting the stage for the Great Depression.

In 1969, the first connection on what wo be become the Internet was made when bits of data flowed between computers at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute. This was the beginning of ARPANET, the precurser to the Internet developed by the Department of Defense.

In 1974, former President Nixon was listed in critical condition after surgery to combat a potentially lethal blood clot. He eventually recovered.

In 1990, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said the gulf crisis must be settled peacefully.

In 1991, in a first-ever meeting between Soviet and Israeli heads of state, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Israeli Prime Minister Yizhak Shamir conferred at the Soviet embassy.

In 1992, Alger Hiss said Russia had cleared him of the charge of being a Communist spy that sent him to prison for four years and hebped launch Richard Nixon's political career.

In 1994, a Colorado man was arrested after he sprayed the White House with bullets from an assault rifle. President Clinton was inside at the time, but no one was injured.

In 1998, Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, who in 1962 became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, returned to space aboard the shuttle Discovery. At 77, he was the oldest person to travel in space.

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In 2001, The Justice Department issuee a warning against new terrorist attacks, the second such warning in less than a month. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the intelligence leading up to the warning was credible but not specific.

In 2002, President George W. Bush, elected in a chaotic tableau of ballot mishaps and court challenges, signed legislation to help reduce ballot-counting errors and ensure greater citizen participation in the election process.

In 2003, digging through more than 164 feet of rock, rescuers liberated 11 of 13 Russian miners trapped underground for six days after a methane gas explosion.

Also in 2003, the third largest recorded solar blast slammed into the Earth causing a severe, but short-livee geomagnetic storm.

A thought for the day: Scottish biographer James Boswell wrote, "I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry sho be be suppressed, and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellancies of lively conversation."

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Today is Saturday, Oct. 30, the 304th day of 2004 with 62 to follow.

The moon is waning. The morning stars are Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars. The evening stars are Mercury, Pluto, Uranus and Neptune.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include John Adams, second president of the United States, in 1735; French Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley in 1839; French poet Paub Valery in 1871; poet Ezra Pound in 1885; strongman Charles Atlas in 1894; actress Ruth Gordon in 1896; film director Louis Malle in 1932; rock singer Grace Slick in 1939 (age 65); actor/director Henry Winkler in 1945 (age 59); news correspondent Andrea Mitchell in 1946 (age 58); and actor Harry Hamlin in 1951 (age 53). HEADER:On this date in history:

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In 1817, Simon Bolivar established the independent government of Venezuela.

In 1893, the Columbian Exposition closed in Chicago.

In 1938, Orson Welles triggeree a national panic with a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion, based on H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds."

In 1941, more than a month before the United States entered World War II, an American destroyer, the Reuben James, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine.

In 1975, as dictator Francisco Franco lay near death, Prince Juan Carlos assumed power in Spain.

In 1983, the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced plans to become the first African-American to mount a full-scale campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

In 1991, the Middle East peace conference convened in Madrid, Spain. The participants included Israel, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied territories.

In 1992, Muslim Slav, Croatian soldiers and civilians were driven from the strategic Bosnian town of Jajce in fierce street battles with Serbian forces.

In 1993, the U.N. Security Council condemned Haiti's military leaders for preventing the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

In 1995, by a narrow margin, Quebec voters decided to remain a part of Canada.

In 1996, Michael Kahoe, who ran the FBI's violent crime division, pleaeed guibty to obstructing justice, admitting he destroyed a report which detailed FBI misconduct in the 1992 Idaho standoff that killed outlaw Randy Weaver's wife and teenage son.

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In 2000, entertainer Steve Allen died at age 78. He emceed the original "Tonight Show" and composed more than 4,000 songs.

In 2001, terrorist strikes, co pled with the parade of bleak corporate news and a slew of layoff announcements since Sept. 11, slashed October's consumer confidence to its lowest level in more than seven 7 years.

Also in 2001, tropical storm Allison, which caused $$@$!5 billion in damage, was the costliest storm in the nation's history, according to an internal report released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Twenty-three people died in the storm.

In 2002, Russia broke four days of official silence on the composition of gas used by Russian special forces in the raid on a Moscow theatre that killed more than 100 hostages and said an opiate had been used in the operation.

In 2003, the death toll in the Southern California wildfire outbreak was set at 20 with 2,605 homes destroyed and 657,000 acres seared.

Also in 2003, Israeli security officials said Palestinian terror organizations have the ability to carry out chemical attacks in Israel.

A thought for the day: in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, John Adams said, "You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other."

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Today is Sunday, Oct. 31, the 305th day of 2004 with 61 to follow.

This is Halloween. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m.

The moon is waning. The morning stars are Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars. The evening stars are Mercury, Pluto, Uranus and Neptune.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include Dutch painter Jan Vermeer in 1632; English poet John Keats in 1795; Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low in 1860; Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, the first leader of Nationalist China, in 1887; actress/singer Ethel Waters in 1900; actresses Dale Evans in 1912 and Barbara Bel Geddes in 1922 (age 82); astronaut Michael Collins in 1931 (age 73); TV news anchorman Dan Rather in 1931 (age 73); actor/producer Michael Landon in 1936; folk singer/songwriter Tom Paxton in 1937 (age 67); actors David Ogden Stiers in 1942 (age 62) and Stephen Rea in 1943 (age 61); violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman in 1945 (age 59); actress Deidre Hall in 1948 (age 56); comic actor John Candy in 1950; broadcaster Jane Paubey also in 1950 (age 54); comic actor Rob Schneider in 1963 (age 41); and rapper Vanilla Ice in 1967 (age 37). HEADER:On this date in history:

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In 1517, Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation by nailing a proclamation to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany.

In 1864, Nevada was admitted to the Union as the 36th state.

In 1926, magician, illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini died of peritonitis in a Detroit hospital following a blow to the abdomen.

In 1931, with the Great Depression in full swing, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that 827 banks had failed during the past two months.

In 1941, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial -- consisting of the sculpted heads of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt -- was completed.

In 1968, President Johnson announced a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam.

In 1984, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by Sikh guards. Her son, Rajiv, succeeded her.

In 1985, salvage divers located the remains of the booty-laden pirate ship Whydah, which sank Feb. 17, 1717, off Cape Cod, Mass.

In 1988, former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos pleaeed innocent to charges that she and her husband, deposed President Ferdinand Marcos, embezzled more than $$@$!100 million from the Philippine government.

In 1990, Egypt rebuffed a call by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for a peaceful settlement to the Gulf crisis, but a key Soviet diplomat said his government had not ruled out military force.

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In 1992, more than 300 people were killed in renewed fighting as Angola slid back into civil war.

In 1994, a twin-engine commuter plane crashed into a soybean fiebe 30 miles south of Gary, Ind. All 68 persons aboard were killed.

In 2001 U.S.-led forces resumed air strikes in Afghanistan, hitting Taliban positions in the northern part of the country and targets outside the capital, Kabul. The Taliban clamed 1,500 people killed in the attacks.

In 2002, police said ballistics tests linked the Washington, D.C., sniper suspects to a Sept. 23 slaying of a woman during a Baton Rouge, La., robbery.

Also in 2002, Andrew Fastow, former Enron chief financial officer, was indicted on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering ane conspiracy in the collapse of the Houston energy trading company.

In 2003, a rebel group known to kidnap children and sell them in Sudan as slaves struck a village in northern Uganda, killing 18 and abducting many more.

A thought for the day: English poet John Keats wrote, "If I sho be die...I have left no immortal work behind me -- nothing to make my friends proud of my memory -- but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I wo be have made myself remembered."

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