BIBLE VERSE

On This Day in:

1571 – Spanish troops occupied Manila.

1628 – The Massachusetts colony was founded by Englishmen.

1644 – 200 members of the Peking imperial family/court committed suicide.

1687 – French explorer La Salle was murdered by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the Gulf of Mexico.

1702 – Upon the death of William III of Orange, Anne Stuart, the sister of Mary, succeeds to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.

1748 – The English Naturalization Act passed granting Jews right to colonize in the U.S.

1822 – The city of Boston, MA, was incorporated.

1831 – The first bank robbery in America was reported. The City Bank of New York City lost $245,000 in the robbery.

1865 – The Battle of Bentonville took place. The Confederates retreated from Greenville, NC.

1895 – The Los Angeles Railway was established to provide streetcar service.

1900 – U.S. President McKinley asserted that there was a need for free trade with Puerto Rico.

1903 – The U.S. Senate ratified the Cuban treaty, gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.

1915 – Pluto was photographed for the first time. However, it was not known at the time.

1917 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Adamson Act that made the eight-hour workday for railroads constitutional.

1918 – The U.S. Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time.

1918 – A German seaplane was shot down for the first time by an American pilot.

1920 – The U.S. Senate rejected the Versailles Treaty for the second time maintaining an isolation policy.

1931 – The state of Nevada legalized gambling.

1945 – About 800 people were killed as Japanese kamikaze planes attacked the U.S. carrier Franklin off Japan.

1945 – Adolf Hitler issued his 'Nero Decree' which ordered the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands as German forces were retreating.

1947 – Chiang Kai-Shek's government forces took control of Yenan, the former headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party.

1948 – Lee Savold knocked out Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds of the first round of their prize fight at Madison Square Gardens.

1949 – The Soviet People's Council signed the constitution of the German Democratic Republic, and declared that the North Atlantic Treaty was merely a war weapon.

1953 – The Academy Awards aired on television for the first time.

1954 – Viewers saw the first televised prize fight shown in color when Joey Giardello knocked out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1963 – In Costa Rica, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and six Latin American presidents pledged to fight Communism.

1965 – Rembrandt's 'Titus' sold for $7,770,000.

1976 – Buckingham Palace announced the separation of Princess Margaret and her husband, the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years of marriage.

1977 – France performed a nuclear test at Muruora Island.

1977 – The last episode of 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' aired.

1981 – During a test of the space shuttle Columbia two workers were injured and one was killed.

1985 – The U.S. Senate voted to authorize production of the MX missile.

1987 – Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned from the PTL due to a scandal involving Jessica Hahn.

“How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.”

— Hebrews 9:14 (ESV)