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JANUARY, 2006

 JANUARY

2006

1 - New Year's Day

7 - Transatlantic Telephone Service began - 1927

11- Amelia Earhart Day

13 - Stephen Foster Memorial Day

16 -  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

17 - Benjamin Franklin's Birthday

17 - Prohibition - 1920

23 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first female medical doctor in US

27 - Thomas Crapper Day (father of flush toilet?)

27 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Check out this satellite view of the earth - it's awesome!!!

On January 17, 1920 at 12:01 am Prohibition (the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution which took away license to do business from the brewers, distillers, vintners, and the wholesale and retail sellers of alcoholic beverages) became official. 

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Check out these sites to be among the people who are in the know. Visit:  CNN Student News Check out:  USA Today The latest:  The New York Times Follow the market:  The Wall Street Journal For up-to-date news:  MSNBC Newspapers Around The World:  INDEKX - Newspapers and Magazines on the Internet		Take a look: Military English: E. L. Easton,      British Council Quotes, Jokes: Military Quotes, Jokes, Mottos Military Pen Pals:  USA Forces,  British Forces
Gentlemen, start your engines Lisbon - Dakar 2006   This year the Dakar Rally starts in Lisbon.  To find out more about this event, click on the photo.			Who is this man and why is he on a $100.00 bill?   Why, it's Benjamin Franklin - scientist, inventor, statesman, printer, philosopher, musician, and economist.   January 17 marks the 300-year anniversary (tercentenary) of his birth (Already?  It only seems like 290 years!)  HAPPY   300th  BIRTHDAY   BEN! Everything Ben Franklin  -  check it out Ben's Bio . . . Phili's Plan to Celebrate The "Electric" Ben Franklin Franklin's Philadelphia - take a tour of this famous city and don't forget Poor Richard's Almanack