BIBLE VERSE

On This Day in:

1519 – Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan left Spain to find a route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Magellan was killed during the trip, but one of his ships eventually made the journey.

1870 – The Papal States came under the control of Italian troops, leading to the unification of Italy.

1881 – Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the U.S.

President James A. Garfield had died the day before, shot and killed by Charles Guiteau,, an assassin who had been refused a position in the Garfield administration/

1884 – The Equal Rights Party was formed in San Francisco, CA.

1915 – The Allied Powers launched a defensive initiative to stop the German blockade of the Rhine River. The operation failed but the Germans were forced to abandon the blockade a few weeks later as supply lined were severed by the Russians.

1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA, started a daily radio newscast. It was one of the first in the U.S.

1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival premiered. The original premier was delayed in 1939 due to World War II.

1946 – WNBT-TV in New York became the first station to promote a motion picture. Scenes from “The Jolson Story” were shown.

1953 – The TV show “Letter to Loretta” premiered. The name was changed to “The Loretta Young Show” on February 14, 1954.

1953 – Jimmy Stewart debuted on the radio western “The Six Shooter” on NBC.

1955 – “You’ll Never Be Rich” premiered on CBS-TV. The name was changed less than two months later to “The Phil Silvers Show.”

1962 – James Meredith, a black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R.

Barnett. Meredith was later admitted after the federal government intervened on his behalf.

1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.Soviet expedition to the moon in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly.

1967 – The Saturn V rocket was successfully launched in an unmanned test run.

1967 – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) was launched. It went out of service on November 27, 2008.

1977 – The first of the “boat people” arrived in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new U.S. resettlement program and were admitted to the U.S. Ultimately, thousands of refugees would seek asylum in the U.S. under the policy.

1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the U.S., France, and Italy were going to send peacekeeping troops back to Beirut.

1984 – “The Cosby Show” premiered on NBC-TV. It quickly became the highest rated show on newtwork television and led to the development of NBC’s “Must See TV” programming block.

1988 – The United Nations opened it 43rd General Assembly in New York City.

1989 – F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as president of South Africa.

He was the last president elected under Apartheid.

1991 – U.N. weapons inspectors left for Iraq in a renewed search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

1992 – French voters approved the Maastricht Treaty.

1995 – AT& T announced that it would be splitting into three companies. The three companies were AT& T, Lucent Technologies, and NCR Corp.

1995 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted to drop the national speed limit. This allowed the states to decide their own speed limits.

2013 – Apple released the iPhone 5s. The release saw record sales with many customers waiting in line outside Apple Stores overnight to purchase the phones.

“And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

— Joshua 24:15 (ESV)