BIBLE VERSE

On This Day in:

1801 – A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The ball of cheese was later loaded on a horsedriven wagon and presented to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson at the White House.

1859 – Brooklyn and New York played baseball at Fashion Park Race Course on Long Island, NY. The game marked the first time that admission had been charged for to see a ball game. It cost

$.50 to get in and the players on the field did not receive a salary (until 1863).

1861 – The Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, VA.

1868 – Legislation that ordered U.S. tax stamps to be placed on all cigarette packs was passed.

1881 – Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops. (Montana)

1917 – The draft lottery in World War I went into operation.

1935 – NBC radio debuted 'G-men.' The show was later renamed 'Gangbusters.'

1942 – The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.

1944 – An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.

1944 – U.S. President Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of office at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

1947 – The National Football League (NFL) ruled that no professional team could sign a player who had college eligibility remaining.

1969 – Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.

1974 – Turkish forces invaded Cyprus.

1976 – America's Viking I robot spacecraft made a successful landing on Mars.

1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan pulled the U.S. out of comprehensive test ban negotiations indefinitely.

1985 – Treasure hunters began raising $400 million in coins and silver from the Spanish galleon 'Nuestra Senora de Atocha.' The ship sank in 1622 40 miles of the coast of Key West, FL.

1992 – Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, stepped down as president of Czechoslovakia.

1998 – Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.

2003 – In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night .

Born on July 20:

Veron Felton 1890 – Actress (Picnic, The Oklahoman) Sir Edmund Hillary 1919 – Explorer, first to climb Mt. Everest Ted Schroeder 1921 – Tennis player Lola Albright 1925 – Actress (The Tender Trap, The Impossible Years) Mike Ilitch 1929 – Founder of Little Caesar's Pizza franchises, owner of Detroit Red Wings Sally Ann Howes 1930 – Actress (Dead of Night, Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang) Butch (Fred) Baird 1936 – Golfer Diana Rigg 1938 – Actress (Medea, King Lear, The Avengers) Natalie Wood (Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin) 1938 – Actress (From Here to Eternity, West Side Story, Rebel Without a Cause)

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.”

— Genesis 1:1-31 (NIV)