Good morning, it’s Wednesday, January 9, the ninth day of 2008. There are 357 days left in the year. It will be around 40 degrees as you start the day, but by afternoon look for highs in the mid 60s under a sunny sky.

Forty years ago today, in 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.

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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 9, 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, was born in Yorba Linda, California.

On This Date:
In 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1793, Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia and Woodbury, New Jersey.
In 1861, Mississippi seceded from the Union.
In 1908, French philosopher and feminist Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris.
In 1945, during World War II, American forces began landing at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines.
In 1958, President Eisenhower, in his State of the Union address to Congress, warned of the threat of Communist imperialism
In 1964, anti-U.S. rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and several U.S. soldiers.
In 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.
In 1972, reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking by telephone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, said a purported biography of him by Clifford Irving was a fake.
In 1997, a Comair commuter plane crashed 18 miles short of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing all 29 people on board.

Ten years ago:
Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam visited the Maze Prison to make a face-to-face appeal for peace to Protestant militants. The Barry Switzer era with the Dallas Cowboys ended with the announcement of the coach's resignation.

Five years ago:
U.N. weapons inspectors said there was no "smoking gun" to prove Iraq had nuclear, chemical or biological weapons but they demanded that Baghdad provide private access to scientists and fresh evidence to back its claim that it had destroyed its weapons of mass destruction. Thousands of Venezuelan bank workers stayed home to support a nationwide strike seeking new presidential elections.

One year ago:
U.S. forces staged airstrikes against suspected al-Qaeda fighters in Somalia in the first offensive there since 18 American soldiers were killed in 1993. Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, which went on sale the following June. Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Junior were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Carlo Ponti, the Italian movie producer who discovered --and married -- actress Sophia Loren, died in Geneva at age 94.

Today's Birthdays:
Author Judith Krantz is 80. Football Hall-of-Famer Bart Starr is 74. Sportscaster Dick Enberg is 73. Actress K. Callan is 72. Folk singer Joan Baez is 67. Actress Susannah York is 67. Rock musician Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) is 64. Singer David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter) is 58. Singer Crystal Gayle is 57. Actor J.K. Simmons is 53. Rock musician Eric Erlandson is 45. Actress Joely Richardson is 43. Rock musician Carl Bell (Fuel) is 41. Rock singer Steve Harwell (Smash Mouth) is 41. Rock singer-musician Dave Matthews is 41. Actress-director Joey Lauren
Adams is 40. Singer A.J. McLean (Backstreet Boys) is 30. Rock-soul singer Paolo Nutini is 21.

Thought for Today:
"Those who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing." -- Hindu proverb.

(Source: Associated Press)

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