BIBLE VERSE

On This Day in:

1680 – The Pueblo Indians drove the Spanish out and took possession

of Santa Fe, NM.

1812 – 'Old Ironsides' (the USS Constitution) won a battle against the British frigate Guerriere east of Nova Scotia. It was a key naval victory for the U.S. Navy.

1831 – Nat Turner, a former slave, led a violent insurrection in Virginia. He was later executed.

1841 – A patent for venetian blinds was issued to John Hampton.

1848 – The discovery of gold in California was reported by the New York Herald.

1856 – Gail Borden received a patent for his process of condensing milk by vacuum.

1878 – The American Bar Association was formed by a group of lawyers, judges and law professors in Saratoga, NY.

1888 – The adding machine was patented by William Burroughs.

1909 – The first car race to be run on brick occurred at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

1917 – Team managers John McGraw and Christy Matthewson were arrested for breaking New York City's blue laws. The crime was their teams were playing baseball on Sunday.

1919 – Afghanistan gained independence from Britain.

1929 – 'Amos and Andy,' the radio comedy program, made its debut on NBC starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.

1934 – Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive power in Germany as Fuehrer.

1940 – The new Civil Aeronautics Administration awarded honorary license #1 to Orville Wright.

1942 – About 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France. They suffered about 50 percent casualties.

1960 – Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot, was convicted of espionage in Moscow.

1960 – Two dogs were launched in a satellite into Earth's orbit by the Soviet Union.

1962 – Homero Blancas shot a 55 at the Premier Invitational Golf Tournament held in Longview, TX. It was the lowest score in U.S.

competitive golf history.

1974 – During an anti-American protest in Nicosia, Cyprus, U.S.

Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet whie in the American embassy.

1981 – Two Libyan SU-22s were shot down by two U.S. Navy F-14 fighters in the Gulf of Sidra.

1991 – Soviet hard-liners announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power. Gorbachev returned to power two days later.

1993 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft. The fate of the spacecraft was unknown. The mission cost $980 million.

1994 – Ernesto Zedillo won the Mexican presidential election.

1996 – The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of

1996 was signed by U.S. President Clinton. The act made it easier to obtain and keep health insurance.

1998 – The first piece of the 351 foot bronze statue of Christopher Columbus arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1999 – Lorne Michaels received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1999 – In Belgrade, thousands of Serbs attended a rally to demand the resignation of Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic.

2004 – Google Inc. stock began selling on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The initial price was set at $85 and ended the day at

$100.34 with more than 22 million shares traded.

2016 – A federal judge ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions from the watchdog group Judicial Watch in writing about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

2020 – Apple Inc. became the first company to be valued at over

$2 trillion.

'Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.'

— Romans 6:8-11