BIBLE VERSE
On This Day in:
1778 – The United States gained official recognition from France as the two nations signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance in Paris.
1788 – Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S.
Constitution.
1815 – The state of New Jersey issued the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1843 – 'The Virginia Minstrels' opened at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City. It was the first minstrel show in America.
1899 – The U.S. Senate ratified a peace treaty between the U.S. and Spain.
1900 – The Holland Senate ratified the 1899 peace conference decree that created in international arbitration court at The Hague.
1900 – U.S. President McKinley appointed W.H. Taft as commissioner to report on the Philippines.
1911 – The first old-age home for pioneers opened in Prescott, AZ.
1926 – The National Football League adopted a rule that made players ineligible for competition until their college class graduated.
1932 – Dog sled racing happened for the first time in Olympic competition.
1933 – The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment moved the start of presidential, vice-presidential and congressional terms from March to January.
1937 – K. Elizabeth Ohi became the first Japanese woman lawyer when she received her degree from John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL.
1950 – NBC radio debuted 'Dangerous Assignment'.
1952 – Britain's King George VI died. His daughter, Elizabeth II, succeeded him.
1956 – St. Patrick Center opened in Kankakee, IL. It was the first circular school building in the United States.
1959 – The U.S., for the first time, successfully test-fired a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral.
1971 – NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.
1972 – Over 500,000 pieces of irate mail arrived at the mail room of CBS-TV, when word leaked out that an edited-for-TV version of the X-rated movie, 'The Demand,' would be shown.
1973 – Construction began on the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1985 – The French mineral water company, Perrier, debuted its first new product in 123 years. The new items were water with a twist of lemon, lime or orange.
1987 – President Ronald Reagan turned 76 years old this day and became the oldest U.S. President in history.
1998 – Washington National Airport was renamed for U.S.
President Ronald Reagan with the signing of a bill by U.S.
President Clinton.
1999 – King Hussein of Jordan transferred full political power to his oldest son the Crown Prince Abdullah.
1999 – Excerpts of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky's videotaped testimony were shown at President Clinton's impeachment trial.
1999 – Heavy fighting resumed along the common border between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
2000 – Russia's acting President Vladimir Putin announced that Russian forces had captured Grozny, Chechnya. The capital city had been under the control of Chechen rebels.
2000 – In Finland, Foreign Minister Tarja Halonen became the first woman to be elected president.
2000 – U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton formally declared that she was a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from the state of New York.
2001 – Ariel Sharon was elected Israeli prime minister.
2002 – A federal judge ordered John Walker Lindh to be held without bail pending trial. Lindh was known as the 'American Taliban.'
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”
— John 20:22-23 (ESV)
