BIBLE VERSE

On This Day in:

1457 – Johannes Gutenberg’s Bible became the first printed book.

1622 – Indians attacked a group of colonist in the James River area of Virginia. 347 residents were killed.

1630 – The first legislation to prohibit gambling was enacted. It was in Boston, MA.

1638 – Anne Hutchinson, a religious dissident, was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1733 – Joseph Priestly invented carbonated water (seltzer).

1765 – The Stamp Act was passed. 1775 – Edmund Burke presented his 13 articles to the English parliament.

1790 – Thomas Jefferson became the first U.S. Secretary of State.

1794 – The U.S. Congress banned U.S. vessels from supplying slaves to other countries.

1822 – New York Horticultural Society was founded.

1841 – Englishman Orlando Jones patented cornstarch.

1871 – William Holden of North Carolina became the first governor to be removed by impeachment.

1872 – Illinois became the first state to require sexual equality in employment.

1873 – Slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico.

1882 – The U.S. Congress outlawed polygamy.

1894 – The first playoff competition for the Stanley Cup began.

Montreal played Ottawa.

1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie to an invited audience in Paris.

1903 – Niagara Falls ran out of water due to a drought.

1903 – In Columbia, the region near Galera De Zamba was devastated by a volcanic eruption.

1904 – The first color photograph was published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.

1906 – France lost the first ever rugby game ever played against Britain.

1907 – Russians troops completed the evacuation of Manchuria in the face of advancing Japanese forces.

1907 – In Paris, it was reported that male cab drivers dressed as women to attract riders.

1919 – The first international airline service was inaugurated on a weekly schedule between Paris and Brussels.

1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill legalizing the sale and possession of beer and wine containing up to 3.2% alcohol.

1934 – The first Masters golf championship began in Augusta, GA.

1935 – In New York, blood tests were authorized as evidence in court cases.

1935 – Persia was renamed Iran.

1946 – The first U.S. built rocket to leave the earth's atmosphere reached a height of 50-miles.

1947 – The Greek government imposed martial law in Laconia and southern Greece.

1948 – The United States announced a land reform plan for Korea.

1954 – The first shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan.

1960 – A.L. Schawlow & C.H. Townes obtained a patent for the laser. It was the first patent for any laser.

1965 – U.S. confirmed that its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong.

1972 – The U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment. It was not ratified by the states.

1974 – The Viet Cong proposed a new truce with the U.S. and South Vietnam. The truce included general elections.

1977 – Indira Ghandi resigned as the prime minister of India.

1978 – Karl Wallenda, of the Flying Wallendas, fell to his death while walking a cable strung between to hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1979 – The National Hockey League (NHL) voted to accept 4 WHA teams, the Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers.

1980 – People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was founded by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco.

“Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.”

— Jeremiah 31:13 (ESV)