BC-US--Defense Strategy,130
Today is Friday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2012. There are 360 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 6, 1912, New Mexico became the 47th state.
On this date:
In 1412, tradition holds that Joan of Arc was born this day in Domremy.
In 1540, England's King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriage lasted about six months.)
In 1759, George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married in New Kent County, Va.
In 1838, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail gave the first successful public demonstration of their telegraph, in Morristown, N.J.
In 1912, entertainer and philanthropist Danny Thomas was born in Deerfield, Mich.
In 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60.
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlined a goal of "Four Freedoms": Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.