BIBLE VERSE

On This Day in:

1693 – A charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.

1802 – Simon Willard patented the banjo clock.

1861 – The Confederate States of America was formed.

1861 – A Cheyenne delegation and some Arapaho leaders accepted a new settlement (Treaty of Fort Wise) with the U.S. Federal government. The deal ceded most of their land but secured a 600square mile reservation and annuity payments.

1896 – The Western Conference was formed by representatives of Midwestern universities. The group changed its name to the Big

10 Conference.

1904 – The Russo-Japanese War began with Japan attacking Russian forces in Manchuria.

1910 – William D. Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America.

1918 – During World War I, 'The Stars and Stripes' was published under orders from General John J. Pershing for the United States Army forces in France. It was published from February 8, 1918 to June 13, 1919.

1922 – The White House began using radio after U.S. President Harding had it installed.

1927 – The original version of 'Getting Gertie’s Garter' opened at the Hippodrome Theatre in New York City.

1936 – The first National Football League draft was held. Jay Berwanger was the first to be selected. He went to the Philadelphia Eagles.

1952 – Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the British throne. Her father, George VI, had died on February 6.

1963 – The Kennedy administration prohibited travel to Cuba and made financial and commercial transactions with Cuba illegal for U.S. citizens.

1963 – Lamar Hunt, owner of the American Football League franchise in Dallas, TX, moved the operation to Kansas City. The new team was named the Chiefs.

1969 – The last issue of the 'Saturday Evening Post' was published. It was revived in 1971 as a quarterly publication and later a

6 times a year.

1971 – The Nasdaq stock-market index debuted.

1973 – U.S. Senate leaders named seven members of a select committee to investigate the Watergate scandal.

1974 – The three-man crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth after 84 days.

1978 – The U.S. Senate deliberations were broadcast on radio for the first time. The subject was the Panama Canal treaties.

1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced a plan to re-introduce draft registration.

1985 – 'The Dukes of Hazzard' ended its 6-1/2 year run on CBS television.

1993 – General Motors sued NBC, alleging that 'Dateline NBC' had rigged two car-truck crashes to show that some GM pickups were prone to fires after certain types of crashes. The suit was settled the following day by NBC.

2002 – The exhibit 'Places of Their Own' opened at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The works displayed were by Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo and Emily Carr.

Born on February 8th:

William Tecumsen Sherman 1820 – Union General during U.S. Civil War Jules Verne 1828 – Author “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” Jack Lemmon 1925 – Actor (“Grumpy Old Men”) Jack Larson 1928 – Actor ('Adventures of Superman') James Dean 1931 – Actor (“Rebel Without a Cause”) John Williams 1932 – Composer, conductor Ted Koppel 1940 – Broadcast journalist Nick Nolte 1941 – Actor (“48 Hours”) Robert Klein 1942 – Actor, Comedian

“If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.”

— 1 John 4:20-21 (ESV)