January 14th - Today is the 14th day of the year, with only 351 days remaining in 2006.

Assembly Line Birthday
Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line for automobiles in 1913. Later that year, he introduced the first continuous assembly line (December 1, 1913).


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
FULL MOON - Jan 14   9:47 a.m.
LAST QUARTER - Jan 22   3:14 p.m.
NEW MOON - Jan 29   2:15 p.m.
FIRST QUARTER - Feb 5   6:28 a.m.


TAGLINES (http://taglinesgalore.com)
- After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.
- Anything once assembled, will fall apart.
- Christmas would be nicer if elves assembled ALL the toys.
- Components that must not and cannot be assembled improperly will be.
- I am Number Five of Borg. Prepare to be disassembled!
- Maybe someone should have labeled the future: Some Assembly Required!
- Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.
- So simple a child can assemble it. [Child NOT included..]
- Some assembly required ... like the WHOLE thing!
- Tagline MADE IN USA (Assembled in Mexico).
- You'll love it Dad! It's fully assembled!


ACTING -
1906 William Bendix, NY NY, actor (The Life of Riley, Lifeboat) [D: 12/14/64]
1919 Andy Rooney, Albany NY, CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes)
1924 Guy Williams (Armando Joseph Catalano), NYC, actor (Zorro, John Robinson-Lost in Space) [D: 05/0789]
1941 (Dorothy) Faye Dunaway, Bascom FL, actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde) Hollywood Walk of Fame
1948 Carl Weathers, New Orleans LA, actor/AFL linebacker (Apollo-Rocky, Action Jackson)
1969 Jason Kent Bateman, Rye NY, actor (Little House on the Prairie, Arrested Development/Golden Globe Award 2005)

ARTISTIC -
1874 Thornton Waldo Burgess, Sandwich MA, author (Peter Cottontail) [D: 06/05/65]
1886 Hugh Lofting, Berkshire England, writer/illustrator (Dr Dolittle) [D: 09/26/47]
1892 Harold "Hal" Roach, Elmira NY, producer (Of Mice and Men, Kids Incorporated) [D: 11/02/92]
1915 Mark Goodson, Sacramento CA, game show producer (Family Feud, The Price is Right) [D: 12/18/92]
1963 Steven Soderbergh, Atlanta GA, director (Traffic, Ocean's Eleven, Erin Brockovich)

HISTORIC -
1730 William Whipple Jr., merchant/judge/patriot (Declaration of Independence signer) [D: 11/28/1785]
1741 Benedict Arnold, Norwich CT, US General turned traitor (Revolutionary War) [D: 06/14/1801]
1791 Calvin Phillips, Bridgewater MA, shortest known adult male (0.67m; 2'2.5") [D: 04/1812]
1998 Humair septuplets, Abha Saudi Arabia, second surviving set of septuplets

MUSIC -
1938 Jack Jones (John Allan Jones), Hollywood CA, singer (Wives And Lovers) 2x Grammy winner
1938 Allen Toussaint, New Orleans LA, song writer (Working in the Coalmine)
1968 L L Cool J (James Todd Smith), St Albans NY, rapper (Bigger & Deffer)

SCIENCE -
1875 Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist (Nobel 1952) [D: 09/04/65]
1943 Shannon W Lucid, Shanghai China, astronaut (longest duration stay in space by a woman)


1639 The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, was adopted in Connecticut.
1784 Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris.
1794 Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom VA, performs first successful Cesarean section operation on his wife.
1799 Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets.
1864 General Sherman begins his march to the South.
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).
1951 The National Football League has its first Pro Bowl Game (Los Angeles, California).
1952 "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV.
1954 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation.
1960 US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant.
1974 World Football League founded.
1987 Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day - Sri Lanka
New Year (Orthodox) - Bosnia-Herzegovina
Old New Year's Day - Macedonia
Ratification Day - United States of America
Serbian Orthodox New Year - Yugoslavia
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Maghi - Sikhism


TOY ASSEMBLY
The proud father brought home a backyard swing set for his children and immediately started to assemble it with all the neighborhood children anxiously waiting to play on it. After several hours of reading the directions, attempting to fit bolt A into slot B, etc., he finally gave up and called upon an old handyman working in a neighboring yard.

The old-timer came over, threw the directions away, and in a short while had the set completely assembled.

It's beyond me," said the father, "how you got it together without even reading instructions."

"To tell the truth," replied the old-timer, "I can't read, and when you can't read, you've got to think."


"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." - Henry Ford


HAND-CRAFTED - Assembly machines operated without gloves. (Internet Source)

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