2 - The Prince George Citizen - Friday, April 23,1999 Good Morning COUNTDOWN TO 2000 Entering the millennium by looking at the past During this year's countdown to the year 2000, we're celebrating 2000 major events of the past 2000 years, and the birthdays of 2000 of the world’s top achievers. Here are today’s birthdays: 589 - J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851 born in London, England; died there Dec. 19, 1851; Romantic landscape painter, watercolorist; specialized in studies of light, colour, and atmosphere, especially with sun and water. 590 - James Buchanan 1791-1868 born at Cove Gap, near Mercers-burg, Pennsylvania; died near Lancaster June 1, 1868; 1857-61 served as 15th US President; a moderate Democrat, he failed to find a compromise between North and the South before the coming Civil War, and was replaced by Abraham Lincoln. 591 - Max Planck 1858-1947 born at Kiel, Schleswig, Germany; died in Gottingen Oct.4, 1947; theoretical physicist; won the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics for his quantum theory of matter. 592 - Sergei Prokofiev 1891-1953 born at Sontsovka, Ukraine; died in Moscow March 5, 1953; composer of symphonies, concerti, and music for film, opera and ballets; best known for his symphonic fairy tale Peter and the Wolf, and his ballet, Romeo and Juliet. 593 - Shirley Temple Black 1928- bom in Santa Monica, California; child star, singer, dancer, and a box-office attraction at age 7; best known films include Little Miss Marker, Curly Top, Heidi, The Little Colonel, Poor Little Rich Girl, Wee Willie Winkie, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; later US delegate to the United Nations. 594 - Roy Orbison 1936-1988 born in Vernon, Texas; died in Hendersonville, Tennessee Dec. 6,1988; country and rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter; blessed by a surging falsetto voice and three-octave range; 1956 Johnny Cash told him to sign up with Sun Records in Memphis; had 22 songs in the Top 100 charts, including Only the Lonely, Running Scared, Oh, Pretty Woman, Crying, Dream Baby, It’s Over; 1958 wrote Claudette for the Everly Brothers; 1966 lost his wife in a motorcycle accident; 1969 lost two of his three children in a house fire; 1988 collaborated on an album, The Traveling Wilburys, and the hit single, Handle With Care, with Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Tom Petty. Here are today’s events: 634 - 303 AD Nicomedia, Roman Empire: Saint George arrested, tortured and put to death for his Christian beliefs; he was a soldier and rose to a high rank under Emperor Diocletian; Crusaders from the 1300s brought back to England the story of Saint George, who,.armed with his faith, used his magic sword to kill a fire-breathing dragon just in the nick of time to save the king’s daughter from being sacrificed to the beast; George was named Patron Saint of England in 1350, and English soldiers carried the red cross on a white background as a badge; and it remains a part of the Union Jack. 635 - 1014 Dublin, Ireland: Munster King Brian Boru C940-1014 beats the Danes at the Good Friday Battle of Clontarf, but is killed by Brodir, one of the Viking chieftains, who saw him praying in his tent; he had sacked and plundered Dublin in 1011 and seized control of all Ireland. 636 - 1348 London, England: King Edward III establishes the Order of the Garter, as a noble fraternity or Chapter consisting of the King, the Prince of Wales and 24 Knights Companion. Legend has it that the Countess of Salisbury lost one of her garters at a ball; the king bent down and picked it up, and while the lady blushed and the dancers laughed, tied it around his own leg, with the remark, “Honi soit qui mal y pense. Shame to him who evil thinks. I shall turn it into the most honoured garter ever worn”. The Order is the highest English Order of Chivalry. 637 - 1500 Brazil: Portugese navigator Pedro Cabral lands in Brazil, the Terra da Vera Cruz, after leaving Lisbon March 9 en route for India, and claims the land for King Emmanuel of Portugal; on this day in 1501, he and his 6 ships return to Lisbon via Calcutta India 638 - 1896 New York City: Edison Vitascope system of projecting movies onto a screen is demonstrated in Koster & Bial’s Music Hall; based on Thomas Armat’s Phantoscope, first publicly demonstrated in Atlanta in Sept. 1895 at the Cotton States Exposition, then acquired by Edison on the condition it be advertised as a new Edison invention named the Vitascope; The Edison Company developed its own projector known as the Projecto-scope or Projecting Kinetoscope in Nov. 1896. Visit the Countdown 2000 archive at www.canada.com/2000. 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Risk of these effects increases with numbers higher than the “good” range. TRS: Total reduced sulphur. Produces a rotten egg smell at levels in the “fair” or “poor” categories and can cause respiratory effects at “very poor" levels. S02: Sulphur dioxide. Can damage vegetation at “fair” levels and levels in the “poor" range can cause discomfort from taste and odor. Respiratory health effects can occur at ‘"very poor” levels. Air quality complaints can be registered anonymously by calling 565-4487. City Focus Citizen photo by Dave Milne Mayor Colin Kinsley listens to Sharon Wollbaum, president of the Prince George Deaf Childrens Society through an ear horn and tube used by the hard of hearing in the 1800s. Gathered to witness the mayor signing a proclamation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Month in May are: Karen Wong, president of the PG. Interpreters Association; Katherine Hazelwood, president of the northern B.C. branch of the Western Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Gregory Warren, vice-president of the Northern Interior Assn. of the Deaf; Victor parent, president of the Northern Interior Assn. of the Deaf; Lister Chen, School District 57 teacher of the deaf, and Floyd Belsham, president of the PG. Hard of Hearing Association. Dciirysitk FIVE STAR SERVICE i< if if if if S!sSS I LUBE, OIL $^99 "Where People Mmke the Difference” MORTHLAN VI 1^e 562*5254 11 PLYMOUTH - CHRYSLER I# DLN TTU 1 'Applicable to most Chrysler Canada vehicles. Taxes extra. Ask (or details. 2.5-million-year-old ancestor used tools PEOPLE WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 2.5 million years ago, human-like creatures were using stone tools to filet meat beside an African lake — a discovery researchers said provides a new human ancestor and also the earliest known use of tools to cut food. The researchers named the new hominid species “garhi,” which means surprise in the local language near Bouri, in Ethiopia’s Afar desert. The new species is descended from the one that produced the famous Lucy skeleton in East Africa. It is a candidate for earliest human ancestor, the researchers said in an article in today’s issue of the journal Science. “It is in the right place, at the right time, to be the ancestor of early (humans), however defined,” reported the team led by Berhane Asfaw of Rift Valley Research Service in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Tim White of the University of California at Berkeley. The new species “could turn out to be the link” between the genus Homo, which includes modern humans — Homo sapiens — and its predecessor, Australopithecus, White said in a telephone interview. Pucker power SARNIA, Ont. (CP) — A kiss is just a kiss — unless you come to this southwestern Ontario city. Here it’s a world record. The Guinness Book of World Records has confirmed The Big Kiss, held Feb. 13, set a world record for the most couples kissing simultaneously—1,453. A letter from Guinness confirming the record was received by fax, said Adelle Richards, spokeswoman for the radio station that sponsored the contest. Richards offered congratulations to all who offered their lips for the cause. Maybe the city should consider installing a sign welcoming travellers to “Sarnia, the Kissing Capital of the World,” Richards said She said Sarnia’s had to wait for Guinness to receive the results of similar contests held in four other cities. Diaper started sparking LONDON (Reuters) — When Jill Furlough went to check on her sleeping 11-month-old baby Joshua, she was horrified to see green sparks fly out of his nappy. “I had no idea what was happening and thought he was going to burst into flames,” Furlough, 31, was quoted saying by the Express newspaper. 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