BIBLE VERSE
On This Day in:
1540 – Afghan chief Sher Khan defeated Mongul Emperor Humayun at Kanauj.
1630 – Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi saw the belts on Jupiter's surface.
1681 – Louis XIV sent an expedition to aid James II in Ireland. As a result, England declares war on France.
1756 – Britain declared war on France, beginning the French and Indian War.
1792 – The New York Stock Exchange was founded at 70 Wall Street by 24 brokers.
1875 – The first Kentucky Derby was run at Louisville, KY.
1877 – The first telephone switchboard burglar alarm was installed by Edwin T. Holmes.
1881 – Frederick Douglass was appointed recorder of deeds for Washington, DC.
1926 – The U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires was damaged by bombs that were believed set by sympathizers.
1939 – The first fashion to be shown on television was broadcast in New York from the Ritz-Carleton Hotel.
1940 – Germany occupied Brussels, Belgium and began the invasion of France.
1946 – U.S. President Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
1948 – The Soviet Union recognized the new state of Israel.
1954 – The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled for school integration in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling declared that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal.
1956 – The first synthetic mica (synthamica) was offered for sale in Caldwell Township, NJ.
1973 – The U.S. Senate Watergate Committee began its hearings.
1975 – NBC TV bought the rights to show 'Gone With the Wind.'
The one time rights cost NBC $5,000,000.
1980 – Rioting erupted in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie.
Eight people were killed in the rioting.
1985 – Bobby Ewing died on the season finale of 'Dallas' on CBSTV. He returned the following season.
1987 – Eric ‘Sleepy’ Floyd of the Golden State Warriors set a playoff record for points in a single quarter with 29.
1987 – An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors. Iraq and the United States called the attack a mistake.
1990 – Kelsey Grammer was sentenced to 30 days in jail for DWI.
1996 – U.S. President Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in. Megan's Law was named for 7-year-old Megan Kanka, who was raped and killed in 1994.
1997 – Rebel leader Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire.
1997 – Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin were married in London.
1998 – New York Yankees pitcher David Wells became the 13th player in modern major league baseball history to throw a perfect game.
1999 – Eric Ford, a tabloid photographer, was sentenced to 6 months at a halfway house, 3 years probation and 150 hours of community service. The sentence stemmed from a charge that Ford had eavesdropped on a call between Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and then sold a recording of the conversation.
1999 – Alex Trebek received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2000 – Thomas E. Blanton Jr. and David Luker surrendered to police in Birmingham, AL. The two former Ku Klux Klan members were arrested on charges from the bombing of a church in 1963 that killed four young black girls.
“Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.”
— 1 Timothy 6:6-8 (ESV)
