BIBLE VERSE

On This Day in:

1673 – The first recorded wine auction took place in London.

1792 – U.S. President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act that created the U.S. Post Office.

1807 – Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was arrested in Alabama.

He was later tried and acquitted on charges of treason.

1809 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal government was greater than that of any individual state.

1815 – The USS Constitution, under Captain Charles Stewart fought the British ships Cyane and Levant. The Constitution captures both, but lost the Levant after encountering a British squadron. The Constitution and the Cyane returned to New York safely on May 15, 1815. The Cyane became the USS Cyane.

1839 – The U.S. Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.

1846 – The formal transfer of government between Texas and the United States took place. Texas had officially become a state on December 29,

1845.

1856 – The tintype camera was patented by Hamilton L. Smith.

1864 – The Knights of Pythias was founded in Washington, DC. A dozen members formed what became Lodge No. 1.

1872 – Luther Crowell received a patent for a machine that manufactured paper bags.

1872 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in New York City.

1872 – Silas Noble and J.P. Cooley patented the toothpick manufacturing machine.

1873 – The University of California got its first Medical School.

1878 – Thomas Alva Edison patented a music player (the phonograph).

1880 – The American Bell Company was incorporated.

1881 – Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.

1921 – The motion picture 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' was released starring Rudolph Valentino.

1931 – The U.S. Congress allowed California to build the Oakland Bay Bridge.

1933 – The U.S. House of Representatives completed congressional action on the amendment to repeal Prohibition.

1942 – U.S. President Roosevelt signed an executive order giving the military the authority to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans.

1942 – Approximately 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin.

1945 – During World War II, about 30,000 U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima.

1952 – Emmett L. Ashford became the first black umpire in organized baseball. He was authorized to be a substitute in the Southwestern International League.

1952 – 'The African Queen' opened at the Capitol Theatre in New York.

1958 – Racing jockey Eddie Arcaro got win number 4,000, as he rode the winner at Santa Anita race track in Southern California.

1962 – John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule. Glenn witnessed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter while in flight.

1965 – Ranger 8 crashed on the moon after sending back thousands of pictures of its surface.

1981 – The U.S. State Department call El Savador a 'textbook case' of a Communist plot.

1981 – Ford Motor Company announced its loss of $1.5 billion.

1985 – Mickey Mouse was welcomed to China as part of the 30th anniversary of Disneyland. The touring mouse played 30 cities in 30 days.

“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

— Romans 8:38-39 (ESV)