TODAY is Friday, January 6, the sixth day of 2006. There are 359 days left in the year.

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In 1540, King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriage lasted about six months.)

In 1942, the Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper arrived in New York after making the first round-the-world trip by a commercial airplane.

In 1993, jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie died in Englewood, New Jersey, at age 75.

THOUGH T FOR TODAY “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt