January 21st - Today is the 21st day of the year, with only 344 days remaining in 2006.

Concorde Commercial Flight Day
In 1976, the supersonic Concorde jet made its first commercial flight. A joint project of Great Britain and France, the prototype of the Concorde was shown in France on December 11, 1967, and made its first trial flight on January 9, 1969. The first commercial flight was from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal.


"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)
- Airplanes are nothing more than lots of parts flying in close formation.
- Always remember ... Your jet was made by the lowest bidder.
- An optimist invented an airplane; a pessimist a parachute.
- Are our jet engines too noisy? Don't worry. We'll turn them off.
- Basic airplane flying.. Keep the pointed end forward.
- Before pollution people used to get air sick only on airplanes.
- Concorde: Breakfast in London, Lunch in New York, Luggage in Bombay.
- Eagles may fly but weasels aren't sucked into jets.
- Fly Valuejet - Terrorists are afraid to fly with us.
- "She even flies her own jet," Tom leered.
- Texans believe that owning more than two Lear jets is pretentious.
- Veni, Vidi, SST...I came, I saw, I concorded.


ACTING -
1924/25 Benny Hill, Southampton England, comedian (Benny Hill Show) [D: 04/20/92]
1924 Telly [Aristotle] Savalas, Garden City NY, actor (Acapulco, Kojak) [D: 01/22/94]
1926 Steve Reeves, Glasgow MT, actor (Hercules, Hercules Unchained) [D: 05/05/2000]
1947 Jill Eikenberry, New Haven CT, actress (Ann Kelsey-L.A. Law )
1955 Robby Benson (Robin David Segal), Dallas TX, actor (Ice Castles, Beauty and the Beast)
1957 Geena (Virginia) Davis, Wareham MA, actress (Thelma and Louise, Commander in Chief)
1968 Charlotte Ross, Winnetka IL, actress (Days of Our Lives, NYPD Blues)

ARTISTIC -
1905 Christian Dior, Granville France, influential French fashion designer [D: 10/24/57]
1939 Wolfman Jack (Bob Smith), Brooklyn NY, DJ (Midnight Special) [D: 07/01/95]

HISTORIC -
1813 John C Fremont, Savannah GA, map maker/explorer (western US)/Governor (AZ) [D: 07/13/1890]
1824 Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Coleraine Ireland, Lieutenant-General 2nd Corps (ANV, Confederacy) [D: 05/10/1863]
1855 John M Browning, Ogden UT, 128 gun patents [D: 11/26/26]
1884 Roger Nash Baldwin, Wellesley MA, founder (American Civil Liberties Union) [D: 08/26/81]
1953 Paul Allen, Seattle WA, co-founder Microsoft Corp

MUSIC -
1941 Plácido Domingo, Madrid Spain, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Madame Butterfly)
1941 Richie Havens, Brooklyn NY, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun)
1942 Mac Davis, Lubbock TX, singer/actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)
1942 Edwin Starr, Nashville TN, soul music singer (War) [D: 04/03/2000]
1950 Billy Ocean (Leslie S Charles), Trinidad, singer (Suddenly, Caribbean Queen)
1976 Emma Bunton "Baby Spice", Finchley London, vocalist (Spice Girls)

SCIENCE -
1743 John Fitch, South Windsor CT, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton) [D: 07/02/1798]
1815 Horace Wells, Hartford VT, dentist (pioneered use of medical anesthesia) [D: 01/24/1848]
1912 Konrad Bloch, Neisse Germany, biochemist (studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964) [D: 10/15/2000]
1950 Joseph R Tanner, Danville IL, astronaut (STS 66, 82, sk 97)

SPORTS -
1884 Katie "Sandwina" Brumbach, Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter
1940 Jack Nicklaus, Columbus OH, regarded as the greatest golfer of all time


1677 First medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston.
1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced.
1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms.
1903 Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam.
1908 New York City passes a law, the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public only to be vetoed by the mayor.
1935 The Wilderness Society is founded.
1949 First inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman.
1954 The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States.
1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.
1984 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton.
1989 Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer.
1990 John McEnroe becomes the first ever expelled from the Australian Open for throwing a tantrum and swearing at an official.
1997 Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Errol Barrow Day - Barbados
Feast of our Lady of Altagracia - Dominican Republic


FRANKFURT AIRPORT
The German controllers at Frankfurt Airport were a short-tempered lot. They not only expected you to know your parking location but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (PanAm 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground and a British Airways 747 (radio call Speedbird 206) after landing:

Speedbird 206: "Good morning Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of the active."

Ground: "Guten morgan, taxi to your gate."

The British Airways 747 pulls onto the main taxiway and stops.

Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"

Speedbird 206: "Stand by, ground, I'm looking up the gate location now."

Ground (with typical German impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you never flown to Frankfurt before?"

Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, in 1944. But I didn't stop."


Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like you passport photo. - Al Gore


JET SET: High society. (WordFoolery)

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