BIBLE VERSE
On This Day in:
1775 – During the American Revolution, U.S. forces captured Montreal.
1789 – Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, 'In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.'
1805 – Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, invented a recipe and called it the 'frankfurter.'
832 – The first streetcar went into operation in New York City, NY. The vehicle was horse-drawn and had room for 30 people.
1851 – Herman Melville's novel 'Moby Dick' was first published.
1881 – Charles J. Guiteau's trial began for the assassination of U.S.
President Garfield. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.
1889 – New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began an attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in less than 80 days. Bly succeeded by finishing the journey the following January in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began domestic radio service.
1927 – The Holland Tunnel opened to the public, providing access between New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River.
1940 – The Walt Disney movie 'Fantasia' had its world premiere at New York's Broadway Theater.
1942 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
1956 – The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation
on public buses.
1956 – The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising.
1968 – Yale University announced it was going co-educational.
1969 – During the Vietnam War, Major General Bruno Arthur Hochmuth, commander of the Third Marine Division, became the first general to be killed in Vietnam by enemy fire.
1971 – The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, Mars.
1972 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000
(1,003.16) level for the first time.
1972 – Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike.
1977 – The comic strip 'Li'l Abner' by Al Capp appeared in newspapers for the last time.
1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.
1984 – A libel suit against Time, Inc. by former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon went to trial in New York.
1986 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledged that the U.S. had sent 'defensive weapons and spare parts' to Iran. He denied that the shipments were sent to free hostages, but that they had been sent to improve relations.
1991 – Roger Clemens won his third Cy Young Award for the American League.
1994 – Sweden voted to join the European Union.
1995 – Greg Maddux (Atlanta Braves) became the first major league pitcher to win four consecutive Cy Young Awards.
1997 – Iraq expelled six U.N. arms inspectors that were U.S. citizens.
1998 – Monica Lewinsky signed a deal with St. Martin's Press for the North American rights to her story about her affair with U.S. President Bill Clinton.
“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.”
— Ephesians 2:1-3 (ESV)
