Today's Buzz: Monday, Jan. 21

Posted January 21, 2008, 6:47 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Monday, January 21, 2008. This is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. There are 345 days left in the year and there are 288 days until Election Day.

Today's Top Stories: GB News Brew

• Historians Fear MLK Legacy is Being Lost (AP)
  
• Perfect Patriots v. Killer Giants in Super Bowl (Washington Post)
• GOP Field Readies for True Test in Florida (Washington Post)
• New Studies, Different Outcomes On Caffeine, Pregnancy (USA Today)
• "Cloverfield" Sets Box Office Record (Entertainment Weekly)

A Look Ahead:
Tomorrow is the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The controversial ruling that made abortion legal is still hotly debated today.

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Actor Paul Scofield is 86. Actress Ann Wedgeworth is 73. Blues singer-musician Snooks Eaglin is 72. Golfer Jack Nicklaus is 68. Opera singer Placido Domingo is 67. Singer Richie Havens is 67. Singer Mac Davis is 66. Actress Jill Eikenberry is 61. Country musician Jim Ibbotson (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 61. Singer-songwriter Billy Ocean is 58. Actor Robby Benson is 52. Actress Geena Davis is 52. Basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon is 45.

On This Day:

In 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis the XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.

In 1908, New York City's Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance prohibiting women from smoking in public. (However, the measure was vetoed by Mayor George B. McClellan Jr. two weeks later).

In 1915, the first Kiwanis Club was founded, in Detroit.

In 1954, the first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Conn. (However, the Nautilus did not make its first nuclear-powered run until nearly a year later).

In 1968, the Battle of Khe Sahn began during the Vietnam War as North Vietnamese forces attacked a U.S. Marine base; the Americans were able to hold their position until the siege was lifted 2 1/2 months later.

In 1968, an American B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed in Greenland, killing one crew member and scattering radioactive material.

In 1976, the supersonic Concorde jet was put into service by Britain and France.

Ten years ago: President Bill Clinton angrily denied reports he had had an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and then tried to get her to lie about it.

Five years ago: The Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had surpassed blacks as America's largest minority group.

Thought for the Day:
"Whether seventy or seventeen, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events and the childlike appetite for what's next and the joy and the game of life." General Douglas McArthur


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