BIBLE VERSE
On This Day in:
1649 – England's King Charles I was beheaded.
1790 – The first purpose-built lifeboat was launched on the River Tyne.
1798 – The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives took place.
Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor.
1844 – Richard Theodore Greener became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University.
1847 – The town of Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco.
1862 – The U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship, the 'Monitor', was launched.
1889 – Rudolph, crown prince of Austria, and his 17-year-old mistress, Baroness Marie Vetsera, were found shot in his hunting lodge at Mayerling, near Vienna.
1894 – C.B. King received a patent for the pneumatic hammer.
1900 – The British fighting the Boers in South Africa ask for a larger army.
1910 – Work began on the first board-track automobile speedway. The track was built in Playa del Ray, CA.
1911 – The first airplane rescue at sea was made by the destroyer 'Terry.' Pilot James McCurdy was forced to land in the ocean about 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
1933 – 'The Lone Ranger' was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955.
1933 – Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor.
1948 – Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.
1950 – NBC-TV debuted 'Robert Montgomery Presents.' The show lasted for seven seasons.
1958 – Yves Saint Laurent, at age 22, held his first major fashion show in Paris.
1958 – The first two-way moving sidewalk was put in service at Love Field in Dallas, TX. The length of the walkway through the airport was
1,435 feet.
1960 – The women’s singles U.S. figure skating championship was won by Carol Heiss.
1962 – Two members of the 'Flying Wallendas' high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, MI.
1964 – January 30 – The U.S. launched Ranger 6. The unmanned spacecraft carried television cameras and was intentionally crash-landed on the moon. The cameras did not return any pictures to Earth.
1968 – The Tet Offensive began as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
1972 – In Northern Ireland, British soldiers shot and killed thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers. The day is known as 'Bloody Sunday.'
1979 – The civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return. He had been living in exile in France.
1994 – Peter Leko became the world's youngest-ever grand master in chess.
1995 – The U.N. Security Council authorized the deployment of a 6,000member U.N. peace-keeping contingent to assume security responsibilities in Haiti from U.S. forces.
1995 – Researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health announced that clinical trials had demonstrated the effectiveness of the first preventative treatment for sickle cell anemia.
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.”
— Job 38:1-3 (ESV)
