Happy New Year!
DateTime:9/27/2009 11:20:23 AM

Good morning people of the year 2009.  January is the month of Coffee Gourmets, Clean Up Your Computer Month (oh noes, not the pr0n!), Hot Tea, Jump Out Of Bed Month, Oatmeal Month and Mail Order Gardening Month. Today is Z Day. Just to see what it's like. Someone water the dogs for me. Thanks. Hope you all had a fabulous New Year's Eve!

On this day in history...

• 0001 - Origin of Christian Era.
  
• 0404 - Last gladiator competition in Rome.
  
• 1610 - German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1, 1610.
  
• 1622 - Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25).
  
• 1847 - Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment.
  
• 1928 - 1st US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio.
  
• 1934 - Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison.
  
• 1980 - Chrysler UK renamed Talbot.
  
• 1994 - Microsoft CEO Bill Gates  marries Melinda French .
  
• 1995 - Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980).
  
• 1996 - After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin.
  
• 2002 - PADmod  for Quake 3 first announced.