BIBLE VERSE
On This Day in:
1798 – The territory of Mississippi was organized.
1862 – Union General Ulysses S. Grant defeated Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh, TN.
1922 – U.S. Secretary of Interior leased Teapot Dome naval oil reserves in Wyoming.
1927 – The first long-distance TV transmission was sent from Washington, DC, to New York City. The audience saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.
1930 – The first columns were set for the Empire State Building.
1933 – Prohibition ended in the United States.
1940 – Booker T. Washington became the first black to be pictured on a U.S. postage stamp.
1943 – British and American armies linked up between Wadi Akarit and El Guettar in North Africa to form a solid line against the German army.
1945 – The Japanese battleship Yamato, the world’s largest battleship, was sunk during the battle for Okinawa. The fleet was headed for a suicide mission.
1948 – The musical “South Pacific” by Rogers and Hammerstein debuted on Broadway.
1948 – The United Nations’ World Health Organization began.
1953 – The Big Four met for the first time in 2 years to seek an end to their air conflicts.
1953 – IBM unveiled the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. It was IBM’s first commercially available scientific computer.
1957 – The last of New York City’s electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.
1963 – At the age of 23, Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament.
1963 – Yugoslavia proclaimed itself a Socialist republic.
1963 – Josip Broz Tito was proclaimed to be the leader of Yugoslavia for life.
1966 – The U.S. recovered a hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of Spain.
1967 – Israel reported that they had shot down six Syrian MIGs.
1969 – The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
1970 – John Wayne won his first and only Oscar for his role in “True Grit.” He had been in over 200 films.
1971 – U.S. President Nixon pledged to withdraw 100,000 more men from Vietnam by December.
1980 – The U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Iran and imposed economic sanctions in response to the taking of hostages on November 4, 1979.
1983 – Specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson made the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
1983 – The Chinese government canceled all remaining sports and cultural exchanges with the U.S. for 1983.
1985 – In Goteborg, Sweden, China swept all of the world table tennis titles except for men’s doubles.
1985 – In Sudan, Gen. Swar el-Dahab took over the Presidency while President Gaafar el-Nimeiry was visiting the U.S. and Egypt.
1985 – The Soviet Union announced a unilateral freeze on medium- range nuclear missiles.
1987 – In Oklahoma a 16-month-old baby was killed by a pit bull.
On the same day a 67-year-old man was killed by another pit bull in Dayton, OH.
1988 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to final terms of a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet troops began leaving on May 16, 1988.
1988 – In Fort Smith, AR, 13 white supremacists were acquitted on charges for plotting to overthrow the U.S. federal government.
1989 – A Soviet submarine carrying nuclear weapons sank in the Norwegian Sea.
“You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord. “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”
— Leviticus 19:16-18 (ESV)
