BIBLE VERSE

On This Day in:

1700 – 8,000 Swedish troops under King Charles XII defeated an army of at least 50,000 Russians at the Battle of Narva. King Charles XII died on this day.

1782 – The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.

1803 – Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to France.

1804 – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial accused of political bias. He was later acquitted.

1838 – Three days after the French occupation of Vera Cruz Mexico declared war on France.

1853 – During the Crimean War, the Russian fleet attacked and destroyed the Turkish fleet at the battle of Sinope.

1858 – John Landis Mason received a patent for the first pepper shaker with a screw-on cap.

1875 – A.J. Ehrichson patented the oat-crushing machine.

1897 – Thomas Edison's own motion picture projector had its first commercial exhibition.

1906 – George Parker Bidder, President of the Marine Biological Association (UK) released a glass bottle with a message into the North Sea. The bottle spent 108 years and 38 days at sea before it was found on the shores of Germany in 2015.

1928 – General Mills stock debuted on the New York Stock Exhchange.

1936 – London's famed Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire.

The structure had been constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851.

1939 – The Russo-Finnish War began when 20 divisions of Soviet troops invaded Finland.

1940 – Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married.

1949 – Chinese Communists captured Chungking.

1954 – In Sylacauga, AL, Elizabeth Hodges was injured when a meteorite crashed through the roof of her house. The rock weighed 8Ω-pounds.

1956 – CBS replayed the program 'Douglas Edward and the News' three hours after it was received on the West Coast. It was the world's first broadcast via videotape.

1962 – U Thant of Burma was elected secretary-general of the United Nations, succeeding the late Dag Hammarskjold.

1966 – The former British colony of Barbados became independent.

1971 – ABC-TV aired 'Brian's Song.' The movie was about Chicago Bears' Brian Picolo and his friendship with Gale Sayers.

1981 – The U.S. and the Soviet Union opened negotiations in Geneva that were aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe.

1982 – The motion picture 'Ghandi' had its world premiere in New Delhi.

1986 – 'Time' magazine published an interview with U.S.

President Reagan. In the article, Reagan described fired national security staffer Oliver North as a 'national hero.'

1988 – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. took over RJR Nabisco Inc. with a bid of $24.53 billion.

1989 – PLO leader Yasser Arafat was refused a visa to enter the United States in order to address the U.N. General Assebly in New York City.

1993 – U.S. President Clinton signed into law the Brady Bill. The bill required a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers.

1995 – President Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland.

1998 – The Deutsche Bank AG announced that it would acquire Bankers Trust Corp. for $10.1 billion creating the world's largest financial institution.

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

— James 2:1-4 (ESV)