BIBLE VERSE
On This Day in:
1776 – Members of the Continental Congress began adding their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.
1791 – Samuel Briggs and his son Samuel Briggs, Jr. received a joint patent for their nail-making machine. They were the first father-son pair to receive a patent.
1824 – In New York City, Fifth Avenue was opened.
1858 – In Boston and New York City the first mailboxes were installed along streets.
1861 – The United States Congress passed the first income tax.
The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South.
The tax was never enacted.
1887 – Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire.
1892 – Charles A. Wheeler patented the first escalator.
1921 – Eight White Sox players were acquitted of throwing the
1919 World Series.
1926 – John Barrymore and Mary Astor starred in the first showing of the Vitaphone System. The system was the combining of picture and sound for movies.
1938 – Bright yellow baseballs were used in a major league baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals. It was hoped that the balls would be easier to see.
1939 – Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program.
1939 – U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns.
1943 – The U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, sank after being attacked by a Japanese destroyer. The boat was under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy.
1945 – The Allied conference at Potsdam was concluded.
1964 – The Pentagon reported the first of two North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1983 – U.S. House of Representatives approved a law that designated the third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The law was signed by President Reagon on November 2.
1987 – “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was re-released. The film was 50 years old at the time of its re-release.
1990 – Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.
1995 – China ordered the expulsion of two U.S. Air Force officers.
The two were said to have been caught spying on military sights.
Born on August 2nd:
Carroll O’Connor 1924 – Actor, “All in the Family” Peter O’Toole 1932 – Actor, “The Lion in Winter” Garth Hudson 1937 – Musician (The Band) Wes Craven 1939 – Director, “A Nightmare on Elm Street” Doris Kenner-Jackson 1941 – Singer (The Shirelles) Kathy Lennon 1942 – Musician (The Lennon Sisters) Max Wright 1943 – American politician and activits Joanna Cassidy 1945 – Actress, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” Lance Ito 1950 – Federal Judge, O.J. Simpson murder trial Andy Fairweather-Low 1950 – Musician (Amen Corner) Andrew Gold 1951 – Musician, Record Producer Mojo Nixon 1957 – Musician, Actor Victoria Jackson 1959 – Actress, Comdienne, “Saturday Night Live” cast Apollonia 1961 – Singer (Appolonia 6) Mary-Louise Parker 1964 – American Actress John Stanier 1968 – Musician (Helmet) Zelma Davis 1970 – Musician (C+C Music Factory) Edward Furlong 1977 – Actor, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” Charlie XCX (Charlotte Emma Aitchison) 1992 – Singer, Dancer
“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
— Romans 5:3-5 (ESV)
