Good morning, it’s Sunday, January 6, the sixth day of 2008. There are 360 days left in the year. The forecast calls for a slight chance of rain this morning and then a partly sunny sky and highs in the upper 70s this afternoon.

George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married on this day in 1759.

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The sun breaks through the fog to start the morning near the city of Gatesville. The photo was taken by Fred Daschofsky and was selected for the 2008 News 10 Weather Authority Calendar.Click here for information about the 2008 News 10 Weather Authority Calendar.

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Today's Highlight in History:
On January 6, 1941, President Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlined a goal of "Four Freedoms" for the world: Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.

On This Date:
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 1838, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail gave the first successful public demonstration of their telegraph, in Morristown, New Jersey.
In 1912, New Mexico became the 47th state.
In 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, New York, at age 60.
In 1942, the Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper arrived in New York more than a month after leaving California and following a westward route.
In 1945, George Herbert Walker Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, New York.
In 1967, U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Deckhouse Five, an offensive in the Mekong River delta.
In 1982, truck driver William G. Bonin was convicted in Los Angeles of 10 of the "Freeway Killer" slayings of young men and boys. (Bonin was later convicted of four other killings; he was executed in 1996.)
In 1987, the U.S. Senate voted 88-4 to establish an eleven-member panel to hold public hearings on the Iran-Contra affair.

Ten years ago:
In a new bid to expand health insurance, President Clinton unveiled a proposal to offer Medicare coverage to hundreds of thousands of uninsured Americans between the ages of 55 to 64.

Five years ago:
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused U.N. inspectors of engaging in "intelligence work" instead of searching for suspected nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in his country. Thousands of Marines, sailors and soldiers headed for the Persian Gulf region, shipping out from California, Georgia and Maryland as the buildup for a war with Iraq accelerated sharply.

One year ago:
At a Baptist church in Fort Worth, Texas, the Denver Broncos filed past the open casket of Darrent Williams, the promising cornerback who had been gunned down in a drive-by shooting on New Year's Day. A large avalanche pushed two cars off the heavily traveled road at Berthoud Pass in Colorado, but no deaths resulted.

Today's Birthdays:
Pollster Louis Harris is 87. Bluegrass performer Earl Scruggs is 84. Author E.L. Doctorow is 77. Actress Bonnie Franklin is 64. Musician Joey, the CowPolka King (Riders in the Sky) is 59. Rock singer-musician Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) is 57. Singer Jett Williams is 55. Rock musician Malcolm Young (AC-DC) is 55. Movie director Anthony Minghella is 54. Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson is 53. Golfer Nancy Lopez is 51. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kathy Sledge is 49. TV chef Nigella Lawson is 48. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) is 48. Movie director John Singleton is 40. TV personality Julie Chen (CBS' "The Early Show") is 38. Actor
Danny Pintauro ("Who's the Boss?") is 32. Actress Rinko Kikuchi is 27. Rock singer Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) is 22.

Thought for Today:
"Reason has never failed men. Only force and oppression have made the wrecks of the world." -- William Allen White, American writer (1868-1944).

(Source: Associated Press)

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