BIBLE VERSE

On This Day in:

1520 – Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict. The papacy demanded that he recant or face excommunication. Luther refused and was formally expelled from the church.1768 – The Royal Academy of Arts was founded in London by George III.

Joshua Reynolds was its first president.

1817 – Mississippi was admitted to the Union as the 20th American state.

1830 – Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, MA. Only seven of her works were published while she was alive.

1845 – British civil engineer Robert Thompson patented the first pneumatic tires.

1851 – American librarian Melvil Dewey was born. He created the 'Dewey Decimal Classification' system.

1869 – Women were granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory.

1898 – A treaty was signed in Paris that officially ended the Spanish-American War. Also, Cuba became independent of Spain.

1901 – The first Nobel prizes were awarded.

1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.

1931 – Jane Addams became a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, she was the first American woman to do so.

1939 – The National Football League's attendance exeeded 1 million in a season for the first time.

1941 – Japan invaded the Philippines.

1941 – The Royal Naval battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Battle of Malaya.

1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

1950 – Dr. Ralph J. Bunche was presented the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the first African-American to receive the award. Bunche was awarded the prize for his efforts in mediation between Israel and neighboring Arab states.

1953 – Hugh Hefner published the first 'Playboy' magazine with an investment of $7,600.

1958 – The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S. when 111 passengers flew from New York to Miami on a National Airlines Boeing 707.

1962 – Frank Gifford (New York Giants) was on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'

1964 – In Oslo, Norway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person to receive the award.

1980 – South Carolina Representative John W. Jenretter resigned to avoid being expelled from the U.S. House of Representatives following his conviction on charges to the FBI's Abscam investigation.

1982 – The Law of the Sea Convention was signed by 118 countries in Montego Bay, Jamaica. 23 nations and the U.S. were excluded.

1983 – Raul Alfonsin was inaugurated as Argentina's first civilian president after nearly eight years of military rule.

1984 – South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize.

1990 – The U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved Norplant, a long-acting contraceptive implant.

1992 – Oregon Senator Bob Packwood apologized for what he called 'unwelcome and offensive' actions toward women.

However, he refused to resign.

1993 – The crew of the space shuttle Endeavor deployed the repaired Hubble Space Telescope into Earth's orbit.

1994 – Advertising executive Thomas Mosser of North Caldwell, NJ, was killed by a mail bomb that was blamed on the Unabomber.

“And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.”

— Colossians 3:14-16 (ESV)