BIBLE VERSE
On This Day in:
1096 – Peter the Hermit gathered his army in Cologne.
1204 – The Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople.
1606 – England adopted the original Union Jack as its flag.
1770 – The British Parliament repealed the Townsend Acts.
1782 – The British navy won its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off Dominica.
1799 – Phineas Pratt patented the comb cutting machine.
1811 – The first colonists arrived at Cape Disappointment, Washington.
1833 – Charles Gaylor patented the fireproof safe.
1861 – Fort Sumter was shelled by Confederacy, starting America's Civil War.
1864 – Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captured Fort Pillow, in Tennessee and slaughters the black Union troops there.
1877 – A catcher's mask was used in a baseball game for the first time by James Alexander Tyng.
1911 – Pierre Prier completed the first non-stop London-Paris flight in three hours and 56 minutes.
1916 – American cavalrymen and Mexican bandit troops clashed at Parrel, Mexico.
1927 – The British Cabinet came out in favor of women voting rights.
1934 – F. Scott Fitzgerald novel 'Tender Is the Night' was first published.
1938 – The first U.S. law requiring a medical test for a marriage license was enacted in New York.
1944 – The U.S. Twentieth Air Force was activated to begin the strategic bombing of Japan.
1945 – In New York, the organization of the first eye bank, the Eye Bank for Sight Restoration, was announced.
1945 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA.
He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S Truman became president.
1955 – The University of Michigan Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center announced that the polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was 'safe, effective and potent.'
1961 – Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth.
1963 – Police used dogs and cattle prods on peaceful civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, AL.
1981 – The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL, on its first test flight.
1982 – The British Navy began enforcing a blockade around the Falkland Islands.
1982 – Three CBS employees were shot to death in a New York City parking lot.
1983 – Harold Washington was elected the first black mayor of Chicago.
1984 – Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger made the first satellite repair in orbit by returning the Solar Max satellite to space.
1984 – Israeli troops stormed a bus that had been hijacked the previous evening by four Arab terrorists. All the passengers were rescued and 2 of the hijackers were killed.
1985 – U.S. Senator Jake Garn of Utah became the first senator to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral, FL.
1985 – In Spain, an explosion in a restaurant near a U.S. base killed 17 people.
1985 – Federal inspectors declared that four animals of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were not unicorns. They were goats with horns that had been surgically implanted.
1987 – Texaco filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy after it failed to settle a legal dispute with Pennzoil Co.
“And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.”
— 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 (ESV)
