BIBLE VERSE

On This Day in:

44 B.C. – Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated by high ranking Roman Senators. The day is known as the 'Ides of March.'

1341 – During the Hundred Years War, an alliance was signed between Roman Emperor Louis IV and France's Philip VI.

1493 – Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first New World voyage.

1778 – In command of two frigates, the Frenchman la Perouse sailed east from Botany Bay for the last lap of his voyage around the world.

1781 – During the American Revolution, the Battle of Guilford Courthouse took place in North Carolina. British General Cornwallis' 1,900 soldiers defeated an American force of 4,400.

1820 – Maine was admitted as the 23rd state of the Union.

1862 – General John Hunt Morgan began four days of raids near the city of Gallatin, TN.

1864 – Red River Campaign began as the Union forces reach Alexandria, LA.

1875 – The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, John McCloskey, was named the first American cardinal.

1877 – The first cricket test between Australia and England was played in Melbourne. Australia won by 45 runs.

1892 – New York State unveiled the new automatic ballot voting machine.

1892 – Jesse W. Reno patented the Reno Inclined Elevator. It was the first escalator.

1902 – In Boston, MA, 10,000 freight handlers went back to work after a weeklong strike.

1904 – Three hundred Russians were killed as the Japanese shelled Port Arthur in Korea.

1907 – In Finland, women won their first seats in the Finnish Parliament.

They took their seats on May 23.

1910 – Otto Kahn offered $500,000 for a family portrait by Dutch artist Frans Hals. Kahn had outbid J.P. Morgan for the work.

1913 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson held the first open presidential news conference.

1916 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent 12,000 troops, under General Pershing, over the border of Mexico to pursue bandit Pancho Villa.

The mission failed.

1917 – Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicated himself and his son. His brother Grand Duke succeeded as czar.

1919 – The American Legion was founded in Paris.

1922 – Fuad I assumed the title of king of Egypt after the country gained nominal independence from Britain.

1935 – Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda banned four Berlin newspapers.

1937 – In Chicago, IL, the first blood bank to preserve blood for transfusion by refrigeration was established at the Cook County Hospital.

1938 – Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.

1939 – German forces occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and part of Czechoslovakia.

1944 – Cassino, Italy, was destroyed by Allied bombing.

1946 – British Premier Attlee offered India full independence after agreement on a constitution.

1949 – Clothes rationing in Great Britain ended nearly four years after the end of World War II.

1951 – General de Lattre demanded that Paris send him more troops for the fight in Vietnam.

1951 – The Persian parliament voted to nationalize the oil industry.

“Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.”

— Romans 10:9-10 (ESV)