January 29th - Today is the 29th day of the year, with only 336 days remaining in 2006.

Chinese New Year 2006 - Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Because of cyclical lunar dating, the first day of the year can fall anywhere between late January and the middle of February. On the Chinese calendar, 2006 is Lunar Year 4703-4704. On the Western calendar, the start of the New Year falls on January 29, 2006 — The Year of the Dog.

If you were born in 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, or 2006 - you were born under the sign of the dog. Like the dog, you are honest and faithful to those you love, although you also can be somewhat eccentric and very stubborn at times! For dogs in 2006, any recent setbacks or obstacles can be overcome so look forward to a year in which to really shine, either personally or professionally.


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
NEW MOON - Jan 29   2:15 p.m.
FIRST QUARTER - Feb 5   6:28 a.m.
FULL MOON - Feb 13   4:44 a.m.
LAST QUARTER - Feb 21   7:17 a.m.


CHINESE PROVERBS
- A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.
- An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.
- Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.
- Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
- Disease can be cured; fate is incurable.
- Forget the favors given; remember those received.
- He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
- I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- If you suspect a man, don't employ him; if you employ a man, don't suspect him.
- Misfortune is not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.
- People who are late are often happier than those who have to wait for them.
- Poor by condition, rich by ambition.


ACTING -
1880 W C Fields (William Claude Dukenfield), Darby PA, actor (My Little Chickadee, Bank Dick) [D: 12/25/46]
1913 Victor Mature, Louisville KY, actor (One Million BC, The Robe, Samson & Delilah) [D: 08/04/99]
1918 John Forsythe (John Lincoln Freund), Penns Grove NJ, actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty)
1942 Katharine Ross, LA CA, actress (Graduate, Francesca-Colbys)
1945 Tom Selleck, Detroit MI, actor (Magnum PI, Richard-Friends)
1948 Marc Singer, Vancouver Canada, actor (V, Beastmaster)
1950 Ann Jillian (Ann Jura Nauseda), Cambridge MA, actress (It's a Living, Jennifer Slept Here)
1954 Oprah Winfrey, Kosciusko MS, actress/TV host (Color Purple, Oprah)
1968 Edward Burns, Queens NY, actor (The Brothers McMullen, Saving Private Ryan)
1970 Heather Graham, Milwaukee WI, actress (Diggstown, Boogie Nights, Felicity-The Spy Who Shagged Me)
1975 Sara Gilbert, Santa Monica CA, actress (Jane Figler-ER, Paula Schaeffer-24)

ARTISTIC -
1737 Thomas Paine, Norfolk England, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason) [D: 06/08/1809]
1867 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Valencia Spain, writer (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse) [D: 01/28/28]

HISTORIC -
1843 William McKinley, Niles OH, 25th President of US [D: 09/1401]
1874 John Davison Rockefeller Jr, Cleveland OH, philanthropist [D: 05/11/60]
1908 Adam Clayton Powell Jr, New Haven CT, Rep-D-NY 1945-70 [D: 04/04/72]

MUSIC -
1948 Bill Kirchen, Ann Arbor MI, singer/guitarist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)

SCIENCE -
1901 Allen B DuMont, inventor (perfected commercial practical cathode ray tube) [D: 11/14/65]
1947 Linda B. Buck, Seattle WA, biologist, 2004 Nobel for olfactory receptors

SPORTS -
1960 Greg Louganis, El Cajon CA, Olympic diving champion


1834 President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute.
1845 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror).
1886 Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1900 The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
1929 The Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.
1936 First players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson.
1953 First movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres.
1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released.
1966 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming.
1979 President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years.
1988 United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36 hours 54 minutes 15 seconds.
1989 Episcopal church appoints first female bishop.
1990 Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
ADMISSION DAY ** Jan. 29, 1861 - Kansas (34th State)
Chinese New Year - China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand
Lunar New Year's Day - China
Martyrs Memorial Day - Nepal
Tet Nguyen Dan - Vietnam


SOAP AND WATER
A minister was asked to dinner by one of his parishioners who he knew as being an unkempt housekeeper. When he sat down at the table, he noticed that the dishes were the dirtiest that he had ever seen in his life.

"Were these dishes ever washed?" he asked his hostess, running his fingers over the grit and grime.

She replied, "They're as clean as soap and water could get them."

He felt a bit apprehensive, but blessed the food anyway and started eating. It was really delicious and he said so, despite the dirty dishes. When dinner was over, the hostess took the dishes outside and yelled, "Here Soap! Here Water!"


Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard. - Spike Milligan


CHINESE NEW YEAR: Chinfest. (WordFoolery)

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