January 15th - Today is the 15th day of the year, with only 350 days remaining in 2006.

Basketball Day
Basketball's official rules were first published in 1892.


"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.


From the Home Office in Wahoo, Nebraska, it's the Top Ten List for April 28, 1995
TOP TEN WAYS TO MAKE BASKETBALL MORE EXCITING
10. Technical foul equals loss of possession and pants
9. Ball dangerously over inflated with hydrogen
8. If a fan throws something from the stands and it goes in the basket, it counts for his team
7. Players ride around the court on angry llamas
6. Three words: Giant flyin' rats (shot of flyin' rat)
5. Shot worth 10 points if you bounce it off an opponent's head
4. Players must constantly shout name of shoe company they have an endorsement deal with
3. Michael Jordan still gets to use a baseball bat
2. Get a couple of new play-by-play guys for Marv Albert (vt Mujibur and Sirajul)
1. Make a foul shot, win a car!
©MMV, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.


ACTING -
1913 Lloyd Bridges, San Leandro CA, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane) [D: 03/10/98]
1937 Margaret O'Brien, San Diego CA, actress (Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St Louis)
1947 Andrea Martin, Portland ME, actress/comedienne (Wag The Dog, Club Paradise, SCTV)
1957 Mario Van Peebles, Mexico City Mexico, actor/director (Heartbreak Ridge, New Jack City)
1958 Julian Sands, Yorkshire England, actor (Oxford Blues, The Killing Fields)
1984 Victor Rasuk, Harlem NY, actor (Tony-Lords of Dogtown)

ARTISTIC -
1899 Goodman Ace, Kansas City Mo, radio/TV actor/writer/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman) [D: 03/25/82]

HISTORIC -
1716 Philip Livingston, NYC, signer of the Declaration of Independence [D: 06/12/1778]
1754 Colonel Richard "Humanity Dick" Martin, Galway Ireland, founder SPCA [D: 1834]
1906 Aristotle Onassis, now Izmir, Turkey, Greek shipping magnate [D: 03/15/75]
1929 Reverand Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Atlanta GA, dreamer (Nobel 1964) [D: 04/04/68]

MUSIC -
1909 Gene Krupa, Chicago IL, Benny Goodman's drummer (Sing Sing Sing) [D: 10/16/73]
1948 Ronnie Van Zant, Jacksonville FL, lead vocal/songwriter (Leonard Skynyrd-Free Bird) [D: 10/20/77]
1967 Lisa Lisa (Velez), rock vocalist (& Cult Jam-Can You Feel the Beat)

SCIENCE -
1877 Lewis M Terman, Johnson Co IN, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test) [D: 12/21/56]
1908 Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project) [D: 09/09/2003]

SPORTS -
1841 Lord Frederick Stanley, presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup [D: 06/14/08]
1891 Ray Chapman, Beaver Dam KY, AL shortstop, only Major League Baseball player killed in a game [D: 08/17/20]
1943 Mike Marshall, Adrian MI, Major League Baseball pitcher (1974 Cy Young Award)


1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church.
1780 Continental Congress establishes Court of Appeals.
1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis.
1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly.
1934 Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut).
1964 Teamsters negotiate first national labor contract.
1973 President Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam.
1974 Expert panel reports 18½-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures.
1974 "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC.
1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford.
1990 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds.
1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist.
1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
AtiAtihan Festival - Philippines
Fiesta del Niño Perdido en Huancavelica - Peru
John Chilembwe Day - Malawi
World Religions Day - Sri Lanka


ACADEMIC WONDER
"He's great on the court," a sportswriter said of a college basketball playerin a interview with his coach. "But how's his scholastic work?"

"Why, he makes straight A's," replied the coach.

"Wonderful!" said the sportswriter.

"Yes," agreed the coach, "but his B's are a little crooked."


Basketball legend Michael Jordan has turned 40 years old. You can tell Jordan is getting older because the new Air Jordan's are slippers. - Conan O'Brien


COURTSHIP: Where you play basketball at sea. (Internet Source)

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