BIBLE VERSE
On This Day in:
1801 – The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president.
1817 – The first gaslit streetlights appeared on the streets of Baltimore, MD.
1865 – Columbia, SC, burned. The Confederates were evacuating and the Union Forces were moving in.
1876 – Julius Wolff was credited with being the first to can sardines.
1878 – In San Francisco, CA, the first large city telephone exchange opened. It had only 18 phones.
1897 – The National Congress of Mothers was organized in Washington, DC, by Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst. It was the forerunner of the National PTA.
1913 – The Armory Show opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. The full-scale exhibition was of contemporary paintings and was organized by the Association of Painters and Sculptors.
1924 – Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the
100-yard freestyle. He did it with a time of 57-2/5 seconds in Miami, FL.
1933 – “Newsweek” was first published. The magazine was published weekly until 2020 when publication was suspended due to low sales In 2022, the hiatus ended and publication resumed.
1933 – Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead three years after Chic Young’s popular strip first debuted.
1934 – The first high school automobile driver’s education course was introduced in State College, PA.
1944 – During World War II, the Battle of Eniwetok Atoll began.
U.S. forces won the battle on February 22, 1944, pushing back the Japanese military forces.
1947 – The Voice of America began broadcasting to the Soviet Union.
1964 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that congressional districts within each state had to be approximately equal in population.
(Westberry v. Sanders)
1964 – Jerrie Mock became first woman to fly an airplane solo around the world.
1964 – The Ford Motor Company unveiled its new Mustang model, listed officially as a 1964 1/2 model issue.
1965 – Comedienne Joan Rivers made her first guest appearances on “ The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson” on NBC-TV.
1967 – 'The Joey Bishop Show' debuted on ABC-TV. It would run for five seasons.
1967 – The U.S. Supreme Court barred Muhammad Ali's request to be blocked from induction into the U.S. Army. He refused to fight as a conscientious objector.
1968 – The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Springfield, MA.
1969 – In Los Angeles, Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1969 – Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek was deposed.
1985 – U.S. Postage stamp prices were raised from 20 cents to 22 cents for first class mail.
1992 – In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison for several counts of sexual assault, murder and cannibalism in the deaths of several homosexual men. In November of 1994, he was beaten to death in prison.
1995 – Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder in the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings. He was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.
1996 – World chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue” in Philadelphia, PA.
1997 – Pepperdine University announced that Kenneth Starr was leaving the Whitewater probe to take a full-time job at the school.
Starr reversed the announcement four days later.
1998 – Randle Gene Hardin, history teacher at West Junior High School, was born in West Helena, Arkansas.
2005 – U.S. President George W. Bush named John Negroponte as the first national intelligence director.
“And he answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.’”
— Luke 10:27 (ESV)
