BIBLE VERSE

On This Day in:

1348 – The first English order of knighthood was founded. It was the Order of the Garter.

1500 – Pedro Cabal claimed Brazil for Portugal.

1521 – The Comuneros were crushed by royalist troops in Spain.

1635 – The Boston Public Latin School was established. It was the first public school building in the United States.

1759 – The British seized Basse-Terre and Guadeloupe in the Antilies from France.

1789 – U.S. President George Washington moved into Franklin House, New York. It was the first executive mansion.

1789 – 'Courier De Boston' was published for the first time. It was the first Roman Catholic magazine in the U.S.

1861 – Arkansas troops seized Fort Smith.

1872 – Charlotte E. Ray became the African-American woman lawyer.

1895 – Russia, France, and Germany forced Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China.

1896 – The Vitascope system for projecting movies onto a screen was demonstrated in New York City.

1900 – The word 'hillbilly' was first used in print in an article in the 'New York Journal.' It was spelled 'Hill-Billie'.

1908 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt signed an act creating the U.S. Army Reserve.

1915 – The A.C.A. became the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA).

1920 – The Turkish Grand National Assembly had its first meeting in Ankara.

1921 – Charles Paddock set a record time in the 300-meter track event when he posted a time of 33.2 seconds.

1924 – The U.S. Senate passed the Soldiers Bonus Bill.

1945 – The Soviet Army fought its way into Berlin.

1948 – Johnny Longden became the first race jockey to ride 3,000 career winners.

1950 – Chaing evacuated Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao and the communists.

1951 – The Associated Press began use of the new service of teletype setting.

1954 – Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit his first majorleague home run on this day.

1964 – Ken Johnson (Houston Astros) threw the first no-hitter for a loss. The game was lost 1-0 to the Cincinnati Reds due to two errors.

1967 – The Soyuz 1 was launched by Russia.

1968 – The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged to form the United Methodist Church.

1971 – The Soyuz 10 was launched.

1981 – The Soviet Union conducted an underground nuclear test at their Semipaltinsk (Kazakhstan) test site.

1982 – The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that consumer prices declined the previous month (March). It was the first decline in almost 17 years.

1984 – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues had found the cause of AIDS. It was a retrovirus labled HTLV-III.

1985 – The Coca-Cola Company announced that it was changing its 99-year-old secret formula. New Coke was not successful, which resulted in the resumption of selling the original version.

1985 – The U.S. House rejected $14 million in aid to Nicaragua.

1988 – A U.S. federal law took effect that banned smoking on flights that were under two hours.

1988 – In Martinez, CA, a drain valve was left open at the Shell Marsh. More than 10,000 barrels of oil poured into the marsh adjoining Peyton Slough.

1988 – Kanellos Kanelopoulos set three world records for humanpowered flight when he stayed in the air for 74 miles and four

hours in his pedal-powered ‘Daedalus’.

“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.”

— Philippians 4:8