BIBLE VERSE

On This Day in:

1297 – Scotsman William Wallace defeated the English forces of Sir Hugh de Cressingham at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

1609 – Explorer Henry Hudson sailed into New York harbor and discovered Manhattan Island and the Hudson River.

1695 – Imperial troops under Eugene of Savoy defeated the Turks at the Battle of Zenta.

1709 – An Anglo-Dutch-Austrian force defeated the French in the Battle of Malplaquet.

1714 – Spanish and French troops broke into Barcelona and ended Catalonia's sovereignty after 13 months of seige.

1776 – A Peace Conference was held between British General Howe and three representatives of the Continental Congress. The conference failed and the American war for independence continued for seven years.

1777 – American forces, under General George Washington, were forced to retreat at the Battle of Brandywine Creek by British forces under William Howe. The Stars and Stripes (American flag) were carried for the first time in the battle.

1789 – Alexander Hamilton was appointed by U.S. President George Washington to be the first secretary of the treasury.

1855 – The siege of Sevastopol ended when French, British and Piedmontese troops captured the main naval base of the Russian Black fleet in the Crimean War.

1877 – The first comic-character timepiece was patented by the Waterbury Clock Company.

1904 – The U.S. battleship Connecticut was launched in New York.

1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave orders to attack any German or Italian vessels found in U.S. defensive waters. The U.S. had not officially entered World War II at this time.

1941 – In Arlington, VA, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Pentagon took place.

1952 – Dr. Charles Hufnagel successfully replaced a diseased aorta valve with an artificial valve made of plastic.

1954 – The Miss America beauty pageant made its network TV debut on ABC. Lee Ann Meriwether, was the winner.

1959 – The U.S. Congress passed a bill authorizing the creation of food stamps.

1965 – The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) arrived in South Vietnam and was stationed at An Khe.

1967 – The Carol Burnett Show premiered on CBS.

1974 – 'Little House On The Prairie' made its television debut.

1974 – The St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets set a National League record when they played 25 innings. It was the second longest game in professional baseball history.

1977 – The Atari 2600 was released. It was originally sold as the Atari VCS. The system was discontinued on January 1, 1992.

1985 – Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) achieved hit number 4,192 to break the record held by Ty Cobb.

1985 – A U.S. satellite passed through the tail of the Giacobini-Zinner comet. It was the first on-the-spot sampling of a comet.

1990 – U.S. President Bush vowed 'Saddam Hussein will fail' while addressing Congress on the Persian Gulf crisis. In the speech Bush spoke of an objective of a new world order – 'freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace'.

1991 – Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced that thousands of troops would be drawn out of Cuba.

1998 – Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sent a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others.

Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

— Matthew 6:1-4 (ESV)