Today's Buzz: Sunday, Jan. 20

Posted January 20, 2008, 8:33 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Sunday, January 19, 2008. There are 346 days left in the year and there are 289 days until Election Day.

What's Going On Today?:
NFL Conference Championships:

• San Diego at New England
• New York Giants at Green Bay

Today's Top Stories: GB News Brew

• McCain Scores Big in South Carolina (NY Times)
• Clinton Wins Nevada Caucus, Obama Wins More Delegates (NY Times)
• Romney Wins Nevada GOP Contest (NY Times)
• Actress Suzanne Pleshette Dies In Los Angeles at 70 (AP)
• Bush Calls for Quick, Temporary Tax Relief To Spur Economy (CNN)

Happy Birthday!
Growing Bolder would like to wish a very happy birthday to members Randy White and Kimberly Whetsel. Click on their names to send her your birthday wishes!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Country singer Slim Whitman is 84. Actress Patricia Neal is 82. Comedian Arte Johnson is 79. Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin is 78. Actress Dorothy Provine is 71. Singer Eric Stewart is 63. Movie director David Lynch is 62. Actor Daniel Benzali is 58. Rock musician Paul Stanley (KISS) is 56. Rock musician Ian Hill (Judas Priest) is 56. Comedian Bill Maher is 52. Actor Lorenzo Lamas is 50. Actor James Denton ("Desperate Housewives") is 45.

On This Day:

In 1841, the island of Hong Kong was ceded by China to Great Britain. (It returned to Chinese control in July 1997.)

In 1887, the U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.

In 1942, Nazi officials held the notorious Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their "final solution" that called for exterminating Jews.

In 1945, President Roosevelt was sworn into office for an unprecedented fourth term.

In 1954, "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial," a play by Herman Wouk based on part of his novel "The Caine Mutiny," opened on Broadway.

In 1981, Iran released 52 Americans it had held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

In 1986, the United States observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1986, Britain and France announced plans to build the Channel Tunnel.

In 1998, a jury was selected in Amarillo, Texas, to hear a multi-million-dollar lawsuit filed by Texas cattlemen against talk show host Oprah Winfrey over comments made on her program concerning beef safety. (Winfrey won the case.)

Thought for the Day:
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. "
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