February 13th - Today is the 44th day of the year, with only 321 days remaining in 2006.

February Flowers - Violet, Primrose
February Birthstone - Amethyst (Sincerity)

Family Birthdays
One of the advantages of compiling these daily e-zines, is occasionally I have the option to create new "special days." Families are special and today is a very special day for two members of my family. Happy Birthday to my Mom and one of my sisters!!


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
FULL MOON - Feb 13   4:44 a.m.
LAST QUARTER - Feb 21   7:17 a.m.
NEW MOON - Feb 28   0:32 a.m.
FIRST QUARTER - Mar 6   8:15 p.m.


From the Home Office in Wahoo, Nebraska, it's the Top Ten List for October 7, 1999
TOP TEN TIPS FOR LIVING 100 YEARS
10. Break it up into a couple of manageable fifty-year chunks.
9. Get at least 23 hours of sleep a night.
8. Have motivational goal such as outliving that punk Hugh Downs.
7. Daily exercise such as walking to the adult book shop.
6. For the love of God, don't name your kids "Lyle" and "Erik."
5. If Chuck Knoblauch is at bat, wear a helmet.
4. Stay the hell away from the Hindenberg.
3. Keep telling yourself: "Willard Scott birthday greeting...Willard Scott birthday greeting..."
2. Forget that New Age crap -- sweat the small stuff.
1. Avoid dying.
©MMV, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.


ACTING -
1933 Kim Novak [Marilyn], Chicago IL, actress (Vertigo, Of Human Bondage)
1934 George Segal, Great Neck NY, actor/banjo player (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick & Jane)
1942 Carol Lynley, NYC, actress (The Poseidon Adventure, Return to Peyton Place)
1944 Bo Svenson, Götenburg Sweden, actor (North Dallas 40, Walking Tall)
1944 Stockard Channing, NYC, actress (Grease, The West Wing)
1944 Jerry Springer, Hampstead England, talk show host (Jerry Springer Show)
1956 Richard Eden, Toronto Canada, actor (Brick-Santa Barbara, Solar Crisis, Robocop)
1964 Penelope Ann Miller, LA CA, actress (Awakenings, Chaplin)

HISTORIC -
1872 L.L. (Leon Leonwood) Bean, Greenwood ME, founder outdoor items outlet [D: 02/05/67]
1875 Kanouse quintuplets, Watertown WI, first US quintuplets, total weight 10 pounds, two ounces
1885 Elizabeth "Bess" Truman, Independence MO, 1st lady (1945-53) [D: 10/18/82]

MUSIC -
1919 Tennessee Ernie Ford, Bristol TN, country singer/actor (Sixteen Tons) [D: 10/16/91]
1930 Dotty McGuire, Middletown OH, singer (McGuire Sisters)
1942 Peter Tork, Washington DC, singer/actor (The Monkees-Daydream Believer)
1950 Peter Gabriel, Surrey England, rock vocalist (Genesis-In Your Eyes)
1966 Freedom Williams, Brooklyn NY, rock vocalist (C&C Music Factory-Everybody Dance Now)

SCIENCE -
1910 William B Shockley, London England, US physicist (Nobel 1956 - semiconductors and co-discovery of the transistor) [D: 08/12/89]
1923 Chuck Yeager, Myra WV, test pilot (first to break sound barrier-1947)
1942 Donald E Williams, Lafayette IN, Captain USN/astronaut (STS 51D, STS 34)


1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun.
1689 William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1861 Abraham Lincoln declared President.
1866 The first daylight robbery in United States history during peacetime takes place in Liberty, Missouri. This is considered to be the first robbery committed by Jesse James and his gang, although James's role is disputed.
1924 King Tut's tomb opened.
1935 A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1943 Women's Marine Corps created.
1971 Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2
1979 Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm.
1984 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets first heart and liver transplant.
1997 Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
2000 The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Makka Bucha - Thailand
Navam Full Moon Poya Day - Sri Lanka
Taeborum - South Korea
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Magha Puja - Buddhism
Tu B'Shevat / New Year of Trees - Judaism


HAPPY BIRTHDAY
It's your Birthday!!!
That wonderful time of year when
the cake comes down the chimney
and you blow out all the candles
on your eggs and everyone sings
Valentine Carols to you while
you open your pumpkins!
What the hell!
You're old,
You're confused;
You don't know
the difference!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

P.S. If anyone sets off firecrackers or begins to sing "Auld Lang Syne," remember; it's still your birthday!


A diplomat is man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age. - Robert Frost


FAMILY REUNION: Sibling revelry. (WordFoolery)

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