BIBLE VERSE
On this Day:
1718 – Hundreds of colonists from France arrived in Louisiana.
Some settled in present-day New Orleans.
1814 – The U.S. Library of Congress was destroyed by British forces.
1840 – Joseph Gibbons received a patent for the seeding machine.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb swam from Dover, England, to Calais, France making him the first person to swim the English Channel. The feat took about 22 hours.
1902 – 'Al-Hoda' began publication in New York City making it the first Arabic daily newspaper in the U.S.
1916 – The National Park Service was established as part of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
1920 – Ethelda Bleibtrey won the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition in Antwerp, Belgium. She was the first woman to win an Olympic competition for the U.S.
1920 – The first airplane to fly from New York to Alaska arrived in Nome.
1921 – The U.S. signed a peace treaty with Germany.
1939 – The movie 'Wizard of Oz' opened around the U.S.
1940 – Arno Rudolphi and Ann Hayward were married while suspended in parachutes at the World’s Fair in New York City.
1941 – Soviet and British troops invaded Iran. This was in reaction to the Shah's refusal to reduce the number of German residents.
1941 – Allied forces invaded Iran during a four-day campaign.
1941 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill appropriating funds for construction of the Pentagon.
1944 – Paris, France, was liberated by Allied forces ending four years of German occupation.
1944 – Romania declared war on Germany.
1946 – Ben Hogan won the PGA in Portland, OR. It was his first major golf title.
1949 – NBC Radio debuted 'Father Knows Best.' The show went to TV in 1954.
1950 – U.S. President Truman ordered the seizure of U.S. railroads to avert a strike.
1972 – In Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) was introduced.
1978 – The Turin shroud believed to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ went on display for the first time in 45 years.
1981 – The U.S. Voyager 2 sent back pictures and data about Saturn. The craft came within 63,000 miles of the planet.
1983 – The U.S. and the Soviet Union signed a $10 billion grain pact.
1987 – Saudi Arabia denounced the 'group of terrorists' that ran the Iranian government.
1988 – Iran and Iraq began talks in Geneva after ending their eight years of war.
1990 – Military action was authorized by the United Nations to enforce the trade embargo that had been placed on Iraq after their invasion of Kuwait.
1991 – Byelorussia declared independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – It was reported by researchers that cigarette smoking significantly increased the risk of developing cataracts.
1993 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 3,652.09, an all-time high.
1995 – Harry Wu, human rights activist, returned to the United States. He said the spying case against him in China was 'all lies.'
1997 – The tobacco industry agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of Florida.
“We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments”
— Psalm 78:4-7 (ESV)
