January 8th - Today is the 8th day of the year, with only 357 days remaining in 2006.

The King's Birthday (ELVIS)
On the birthday of Elvis Presley (1935), the King of Rock and Roll, we honor rock 'n roll music and musicians. Elvis was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
FIRST QUARTER - Jan 6   6:56 p.m.
FULL MOON - Jan 14   9:47 a.m.
LAST QUARTER - Jan 22   3:14 p.m.
NEW MOON - Jan 29   2:15 p.m.


TOP TEN THINGS OVERHEARD AT GRACELAND ON ELVIS' 60TH BIRTHDAY
From the Home Office in Wahoo, Nebraska, it's the Top Ten List for January 9, 1995
10. It's incredible -- he's actually gained weight since he died!
9. Did that recipe call for eight or nine cups of lard?
8. I'm sorry, Mr. Jackson, the monkey will have to wait outside the gate.
7. I hear Elvis' ghost just signed an endorsement deal with Zima.
6. Put that gun away -- this ain't the White House.
5. Amazing! His bedroom still smells like peanut butter!
4. My name is Mario Cuomo, and I'll be your Graceland tour guide.
3. It could've been worse. She could have married Tito.
2. If Elvis were alive, he'd be perfect for playing 'Would you like to eat that in here?'
1. I'm not an Elvis impersonator, dammit -- I'm Roseanne!
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ACTING -
1923 Larry Storch, NYC, comedian (F Troop, Larry Storch Show)
1926 Soupy Sales (Milton Hines), Franklinton NC, comedian (Soupy Sales Show)
1928 Sander Vanocur, Cleveland OH, news anchor (NBC Weekend News)
1933 Charles Osgood, NYC, radio/TV commentator (The Osgood Show)
1938 Bob Eubanks, Flint MI, TV host (Newlywed Game, commentator-Rose Parade)
1942 Yvette Mimieux, Hollywood CA, actress (Time Machine, Where the Boys Are)
1941 Graham Chapman, England, comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus) [D: 10/04/89]
1982 Gaby Hoffman, Pittsburg PA, actress (Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, Now & Then)

HISTORIC -
1821 George Longstreet, Edgefield District SC, Confederate general [D: 01/02/04]
1836 Fannie Jackson Coppin, Washington DC, pioneer and educator, first US Black woman college grad [D: 01/21/13]
1867 Emily Greene Balch, Boston MA, sociologist/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1946) [D: 01/09/61]
1909 Evelyn Wood, Reading Dynamics system for speed reading. [D: 08/26/95]

MUSIC -
1931 Bill Graham (Wolfgang Grajonca), Berlin Germany, concert promoter (Fillmore) [D: 10/25/91]
1935 Elvis Aaron Presley, Tupelo MS, rocker (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog) [D: 08/16/77]
1937 Dame Shirley Bassey, Cardiff Wales, singer (Goldfinger, Moonraker)
1940 Little Anthony (Gourdine), Brooklyn NY, rocker (& Imperials-Tears on my Pillow)
1946 Robby Krieger, LA CA, guitarist/songwriter (Doors-Light My Fire, Love Her Madly)
1947 David Bowie (Jones), Brixton London, singer/actor (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust)

SCIENCE -
1891 Walther Bothe, Oranienburg Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954) [D: 02/08/57]
1902 Carl R[ansom] Rogers, US, psychologist (Client-Centered Therapy) [D: 02/04/87]
1942 Stephen Hawking, Oxford English, physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)

SPORTS -
1934 Jacques Anquetil, Normandy, Tour de France bicycle racer (5-time winner) [D: 11/18/87]


1790 George Washington delivers first "State of the Union" address
1815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
1838 First telegraph message sent using dots and dashes, New Jersey
1870 US mint at Carson City NV begins issuing coins
1918 President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WWI
1925 First all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas
1954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio and records his first two songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"
1962 Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, first pro appearance, he came in 50th
1966 Who and the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC
1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed
1986 Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his first year
1992 US President George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap during Japanese tour
1996 For first time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Arafa - Afghanistan
Commonwealth Day - Northern Marianas
Jackson Day - United States of America
World Literary Day - International


NASA'S GALILEO PROBE FINDS NO EVIDENCE FOR ELVIS ON EARTH
The Galileo science team today announced that the spacecraft's instruments failed to find any new traces of Elvis Presley during its flyby of Earth last December 8th.

"It's a tough background subtraction problem," explained Dr. Edward B. Rock of Caltech. "We know the planet contains several thousand Elvis imitators. You have to distinguish the real thing from many objects of similar appearance."

The method used involved interdisciplinary comparison from several of Galileo's sensors. "For example, an Elvis imitator would have a very similar appearance to Elvis in the SSI [Solid State Imaging] and NIMS [Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer] data," said Dr. Graham Finale. "But no imitator has Elvis's magnetism." Researchers combined data from Galileo's sensitive magnetometer, mounted on a 36-foot (11 meter) boom, with optical, infrared, and ultraviolet measurements. They are capable of identifying a single genuine Elvis among all the other features of Earth's landscape. This is a very sensitive technique -- a feat equivalent to standing in St. Joseph, Missouri and distinguishing a jellybean in a bowl of amphetamines in Memphis.

Galileo investigators were cautious about ruling out the possible existence of Elvis. "We can only set an upper limit," said Dr. Rock. "And we're guessing to some extent at the profile we're looking for. If Elvis has lost weight, for instance, he'd have a different infrared signature." According to the science team, there are 0.21 plus or minus 0.17 Elvises on Earth, a number described as "consistent with zero."

Though speculation has been published in some journals that evidence for Elvis might exist on other planets and moons in our solar system, most scientists agree that Earth is the most likely place to find him. "If, as the new results suggest, there's no Elvis on Earth," said Dr. Torrance California, "this lends weight to the supposition that he really is dead."


While he was talking at Baylor University, President Bush said, "Times are kind of tough." He also pointed out that Bill Gates is kind of rich, that water is kind of wet, and that Elvis is kind of dead. - Andy Waits


ELVIS YEAR: The peak year of something's popularity. "Barney the dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993." (Internet Source)

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