BIBLE VERSE
On This Day in:
1541 – The city of Santiago, Chile was founded.
1554 – Lady Jane Grey was beheaded after being charged with treason. She had claimed the throne of England for only nine days.
1733 – Savannah, GA, was founded by English colonist James Oglethorpe.
1870 – In the Utah Territory, women gained the right to vote.
1878 – Frederick W. Thayer patented the baseball catcher’s mask.
1879 – The first artificial ice rink opened in North America. It was at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY.
1880 – The National Croquet League was organized in Philadelphia, PA.
1892 – In the U.S., President Lincoln's birthday was declared to be a national holiday.
1907 – A collision of the steamer Larchmont and a schooler resulted in the death of more than 300 people. The incident occurred off New England's Block Island.
1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.
1912 – China's boy emperor Hsuan T'ung announced that he was abdicating, ending the Manchu Ch'ing dynasty. Subsequently, the Republic of China was established.
1915 – The cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C.
1918 – All theatres in New York City were shut down in an effort to conserve coal.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge made the first presidential political speech on radio.
1924 – 'The Eveready Hour' became radio’s first sponsored network program. The National Carbon Company was the first sponsor of a network show.
1940 – Mutual Radio presented the first broadcast of the radio play 'The Adventures of Superman.'
1968 – 'Soul on Ice' by Eldridge Cleaver was published for the first time.
1971 – James Cash (J.C.) Penney died at the age of 95. The company closed for business for one-half day as a memorial to the company's founder.
1973 – The State of Ohio went metric, becoming the first in the U.S. to post metric distance signs.
1973 – American prisoners of war were released for the first time during the Vietnam conflict.
1993 – In Liverpool, England, a 2-year-old boy, James Bulger, was lured away from his mother at a shopping mall and beaten to death. Two ten-year-old boys were responsible.
1998 – A U.S. federal judge declared that the presidential line-item veto was unconstitutional.
1999 – U.S. President Clinton was acquitted by the U.S. Senate on two impeachment articles. The charges were perjury and obstruction of justice.
2001 – The space probe NEAR landed on the asteroid Eros. It was the first time that any craft had landed on a small space rock.
2002 – Kenneth Lay, former Enron CEO, exercised his constitutional rights and refused to testify to the U.S. Congress about the collapse of Enron.
2002 – The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic began at the U.N. tribunal in The Hague. Milosevic was accused of war crimes during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
2002 – Pakistan charged three men in connection with the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi.
2002 – Princess Stephanie of Monaco and Franco Knie won a defamation-of-character lawsuit against the Swiss magazine 'Facts.' The case involved a photomontage created by the magazine.
2004 – Mattel announced that 'Barbie' and 'Ken' were breaking up. The dolls had “met” on the set of their first television commercial together in 1961.
“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
— 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (ESV)
