January 23rd - Today is the 23rd day of the year, with only 342 days remaining in 2006.

Women Doctors Day
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduated from the Hobart College Medical Institution of Geneva, New York. She was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
LAST QUARTER - Jan 22   3:14 p.m.
NEW MOON - Jan 29   2:15 p.m.
FIRST QUARTER - Feb 5   6:28 a.m.
FULL MOON - Feb 13   4:44 a.m.


WARNING SIGNS THAT YOU NEED A NEW DOCTOR
- The patient before you was a goat.
- Instead of anesthetic he has you watch PBS.
- He has an assistant named Igor.
- Whenever he leaves the room his nurse makes duck noises.
- Mike Wallace and a film crew are hanging out in his waiting room.
- You can beat him in a game of Operation.
- All his Medical books are from the Time-Life "Do-it-Yourself Series".
- Instead of rubber surgical gloves he wears oven mitts.
- He keeps accidentally referring to himself as "the defendant."
- He thinks Eastern Medicine was developed in Long Island.
- He keeps accidentally referring to your legs as "drumsticks."
- He introduces you to his anesthesiologist, "Doctor Jim Beam."
- He tries to color your X-Rays with crayons.


ACTING -
1898 Randolph Scott, Orange County VA, actor (Last of the Mohicans, Western Union) [D: 03/02/87]
1907 Dan Duryea, White Plains NY, actor (Pride of the Yankees) [D: 06/07/68]
1919 Ernie Kovacs, Trenton NJ, comedian (Ernie Kovacs' Show) [D: 01/13/62]
1943 Gil Gerard, Little Rock AR, actor (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
1944 Rutger Hauer, Breukelen Netherlands, actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman Weekend)
1950 Richard Dean Anderson, Minneapolis MN, actor (MacGyver, Stargate SG-1)
1964 Mariska Hargitay, LA CA, actress (Olivia-Law & Order: SVU)
1974 Tiffani Thiessen, Long Beach CA, actress (Valerie-Beverly Hills 90210)

HISTORIC -
1957 Princess Caroline (Louise Marguerite Grimaldi) of Monaco, Monaco

MUSIC -
1948 Anita Pointer, Oakland CA, rock vocalist (Pointer Sisters-She's So Shy)
1950 Danny Federici, Flemington NJ, keyboard (Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band)
1953 Robin Zander, Beloit WS, rocker vocalist/guitarist (Cheap Trick-Dream Police)

SCIENCE -
1918 Gertrude Belle Elion, NYC, biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel 1988) [D: 02/21/99]
1929 John Polanyi, Berlin Germany, Canadian chemist (Nobel 1986)
1930 William R. Pogue, Okemah OK, Col USAF/astronaut (Skylab 4)
1949 Robert D Cabana, Minneapolis MN, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 41, 53, 68, 88)

SPORTS -
1936 Jerry Kramer, Jordan MT, NFL offensive lineman (Packers), author (Instant Replay)
1964 Frank Winters, NFL center (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl XXXI)
1969 Brendan Frederick Shanahan, Mimico Toronto, NHL left wing, 3 Stanley Cups/Red Wings


1865 General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies.
1930 George Washington Birthplace National Monument VA established.
1933 20th amendment changes date of Presidential Inaugurations to 1/20.
1941 Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1962 Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea.
1973 President Nixon announces an accord has been reach to end the Vietnam War.
1978 Sweden becomes the first nation to ban aerosol sprays that are thought to damage earth's protective ozone layer.
1979 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1983 Björn Borg announces his retirement from tennis.
1984 Hulk Hogan wins the World Wrestling Federation Championship from the Iron Sheik, in New York's Madison Square Garden. Hulkamania is born.
1986 First induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley).
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Provincial Anniversary (Wellington) - New Zealand


MARRYING THE DOCTOR
"Do you remember that terribly pushy woman with the attitude problem who lived in the apartment above us?"

"Yes, what about her?"

"She's marrying a doctor she met when she went in for X-rays."

"Really ... I wonder what he saw in her?"


Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. - Erma Bombeck


PLASTIC SURGEON: Dr. Barbie, ASPS. (WordFoolery)

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