BIBLE VERSE
On This Day in:
1832 – The first streetcar went into operation in New York City, NY. The vehicle was horse-drawn and had room for 30 people.
1935 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth after its new constitution was approved.
The Tydings-McDuffie Act planned for the Phillipines to be completely independent
by July 4, 1946.
1940 – During World War II, German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked.
1951 – The first telecast of a world lightweight title fight was seen coast to coast. Jimmy Carter beat Art Aragon in Los Angeles.
1956 – The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising.
1968 – Yale University announced it was going co-educational.
1969 – Apollo 12 blasted off for the moon from Cape Kennedy, FL.
1973 – Britain's Princess Anne married a commoner, Capt. Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. They divorced in 1992, and Princess Anne remarried.
1979 – U.S. President Carter froze all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks abroad in response to the taking of 63 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.
1983 – The British government announced that U.S.-made cruise missiles had arrived at the Greenham Common air base amid protests.
1988 – Israeli President Chaim Herzog formally asked Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to form a new government.
1989 – The U.S. Navy ordered an unprecedented 48-hour stand-down in the wake of a recent string of serious accidents.
1990 – Simon and Schuster announced it had dropped plans to publish Bret Easton Ellis novel 'American Psycho.'
1991 – After 13 years in exile Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returned to his homeland.
1994 – U.S. experts visited North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections.
1995 – The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while most government offices operated with skeleton crews.
2012 – The game Candy Crush Saga was released as a mobile app for smartphones.
Born on November 14th:
Boutros Boutros-Ghali – 1921 Egyptian politician and doplomat McLean Stevenson – 1929 Actor Yanni – 1954 Musician Condoleezza Rice – 1954 Former U.S. Secretary of State D.B. Sweeny – 1961 Actor Joseph “Run” Simmons – 1964 Rapper Curt Schilling – 1966 MLB pitcher
Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”
— 2 Peter 3:3-4 (ESV)
