BIBLE VERSE
On This Day in:
1774 – Britain passed the Coercive Act against Massachusetts.
1797 – Nathaniel Briggs patented a washing machine.
1834 – The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
1854 – The Crimean War began with Britain and France declaring war on Russia.
1864 – A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, IL. Five were killed and twenty were wounded.
1865 – Outdoor advertising legislation was enacted in New York.
The law banned “painting on stones, rocks and trees.”
1885 – The Salvation Army was officially organized in the U.S.
1898 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the U.S. to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen. This meant that they could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1905 – The U.S. took full control over Dominican revenues.
1910 – The first seaplane took off from water at Martinques, France. The pilot was Henri Fabre.
1911 – In New York, suffragists performed the political play “Pageant of Protest.”
1917 – During World War I the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was founded.
1921 – U.S. President Warren Harding named William Howard Taft as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1922 – Bradley A. Fiske patented a microfilm reading device.
1930 – Constantinople and Angora changed their names to Istanbul and Ankara respectively.
1933 – In Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses,
professions and schools.
1938 – In Italy, psychiatrists demonstrated the use of electricshock therapy for treatment of certain mental illnesses.
1939 – The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to Francisco Franco.
1941 – The Italian fleet was defeated by the British at the Battle of Matapan.
1942 – British naval forces raided the Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire.
1945 – Germany launched the last of the V-2 rockets against England.
1947 – The American Helicopter Society revealed a flying device that could be strapped to a person’s body.
1962 – The U.S. Air Force announced research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites.
1967 – Raymond Burr starred in a TV movie titled “Ironside.” The movie was later turned into a television series.
1968 – The U.S. lost its first F-111 aircraft in Vietnam when it vanished while on a combat mission. North Vietnam claimed that they had shot it down.
1974 – A streaker ran onto the set of “The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.”
1979 – A major accident occurred at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. A nuclear power reactor overheated and suffered a partial meltdown.
1981 – In Bangkok, Thailand, Indonesian terrorists hijacked an airplane. Four of the five terrorists were killed on March 31.
1986 – The U.S. Senate passed $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan contras.
1986 – More than 6,000 radio stations of all format varieties played “We are the World” simultaneously at 10:15 a.m. EST.
1990 – Jesse Owens received the Congressional Gold Medal from U.S. President George H.W. Bush.
1990 – In Britain, a joint Anglo-U.S. “sting” operation ended with the seizure of 40 capacitors, which can be used in the trigger mechanism of a nuclear weapon.
1991 – The U.S. embassy in Moscow was severely damaged by fire of unknown origin.
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
— Zechariah 7:9-10 (ESV)
