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Today is Saturday, Oct. 4, the 278th day of 2008 with 88 to follow. | October 04, 2008 12:01:13 AM IST
The moon is waxing. The morning star is Saturn. The evening stars are Mars, Venus, Neptune, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus. Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States, in 1822; Frederic Remington, painter of the American West, in 1861; journalist/author Damon Runyan in 1884; pioneer movie comedian Buster Keaton in 1895; actors Charlton Heston in 1924, Clifton Davis in 1945 (age 63), Susan Sarandon in 1946 (age 62), Armand Assante in 1949 (age 59) and Liev Schreiber in 1967 (age 41); authors Jackie Collins and Anne Rice, both in 1941 (age 67); and actresses Alicia Silverstone in 1976 (age 32) and Rachel Leigh Cook in 1979 (age 29). (UPI)
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