Thought for Today

 History:  445 BC: Said by some to be the day Ezra read the law in Nehemiah 9:1 1517: Martin Luther sends 95 theses to Archbishop of Mainz 1541: Michelangelo completes "The Last Judgement" in the Sistine Chapel 1846: Donner Party is unable to cross the pass and sets up camp for the winter 1888: John Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tire 1917: Last cavalry charge--4th Australian Light Horse at Battle of Beersheba in Palestine 1918: 21,000 die in US in one week due to Spanish flu 1941: Mount Rushmore completed 1950: Earl Lloyd is first Black to play in the NBA 1962: "Whatever Happened tp Baby Jane" premiers 1968: LBJ orders halt to bombing of North Viet Nam 1984: Indira Gandhi assassinated 1992: Catholic Church apologizes for mistreating Galileo 359 years ago 1994: Venus Williams makes her professional debut [age14] 2002: Grand jury indicts Andrew Fastow, Enron CFO. 2010: "The Walking Dead" premiers This date was especially bad for airplanes. All of these cr...

History: 1618: Walter Raleigh beheaded 1787: Mozart's "Don Giovanni" premiers 1929: Black Tuesday--stock market crashes 1945: First ballpoint pen goes on sale 1956: Maria Callas makes her Metropolitan Opera debut 1956: First Huntley-Brinkley Report 1966: Betty Friedan founds National Organization of women 1998: John Glenn is oldest person in space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery 2012: Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey killing 110 2015: China ends one-child policy 2019: 1.5 million without power in California to avoid sparking wildfires---all electric? Born: Joseph Goebbels [Nazi], Bill Mauldin [WWII cartoonist], Carl Djerassi [father of the contraceptive pill], Bob Ross [painter], Richard Dreyfuss, Kate Jackson, Winona Ryder, Travis Henry [Vol],  Died: Walter Raleigh, Nathan Bedford Forrest, George McClellan, Joseph Pulitzer, Louis B Mayer [MGM], Woody Herman,  Thought:  The last church to receive a letter from Christ is Laodicea. We are all familiar with this l...

  History: 312: Constantine wins battle at Milvian Bridge 1492: Columbus sight Cuba 1636: Harvard founded 1726: Jonathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels" 1793: Eli Whitney files patent for cotton gin 1831: Michael Faraday demonstrates his electric generator 1858: RH Macy opens his first store--6th Avenue NYC 1867: Maimonides College founded as first Jewish college in the US 1886: Statue of Liberty dedicated 1919: Volstead Act becomes effective [prohibition] over Wilson veto 1954: Hemingway wins Nobel for Literature 1965: Gateway Arch completed 2021: Facebook announces name change to Meta Born: Erasmus, Eliphalet Remington [gun maker], Auguste Escofflier [king of chefs],  Edith Head [8 Oscars for costume design], Jonas Salk, Bowie Kuhn, Charlie Daniels, Annie Potts, Bill Gates, Julia Roberts, Brad Paisley, Joaquin Phoenix,  Died: John Wallis [created sign for infinite], John Locke, Abigail Adams, Morey Amsterdam, Ted Hughes [poet], Red Auerbach, Porter Wagoner, James M...

 History: 312: Date said to be when Constantine received his vision of the cross 1682: Philadelphia founded by William Penn 1775: Continental Navy formed 1787: Federalist Papers appear in NY newspapers under the pseudonym "Publius". Reading them now. 1838: Mormons ordered to leave Missouri or be exterminated 1904: First section of NYC subway opens 1938: Dupont announces new synthetic will be called nylon 1947: "You Bet Your Life" premiers on radio with Groucho Marx 1955: "Rebel Without a Cause" premiers 1962: American spy plane shot down over Cuba 2018: 11 killed and 6 injured by gunman at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh Born: James Cook [explorer], Isaac Singer [sewing machine], Theodore Roosevelt, Emily Post, Dylan Thomas [poet], Ralph Kiner [baseball HOF], Roy Lichtenstein [comic book artist], Ruby Dee, HR Haldeman, Sylvia Plath [poet], John Cleese, John Gotti, Lee Greenwood, Terry Anderson [hostage], Patty Sheehan, Marla Maples,  Died: Ivan the Gr...

History: 1858: Rotary washing machine patented by Hamilton Smith 1861: Pony Express ends after 19 months 1864: Union troops kill Bloody Bill Anderson in Missouri  1881: Gunfight at the OK Corral 1901: First recorded use of a getaway car--Paris 1931: Eugene O'Neill's "Morning Becomes Electra" premiers 1940: Maiden flight of P-51b Mustang 1950: Mother Teresa founds Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta 1962: Russia offers to remove Cuban missiles if US closes bases in Turkey--rejected 1968: George Foreman wins Olympic Gold 1970: Doonesbury comic debuts 1972: Edwin Land introduces the Polaroid camera 1973: Nixon releases first White House tapes 1984: "The Terminator" released 2001: Patriot Act becomes law 2020: Melbourne end 3-month Covid lockdown Born: CW Post [cereal], Mahalia Jackson, Jackie Coogan, Bob Hoskins, Jaclyn Smith [Charlie's Angels], Hillary Clinton, Pat Conroy, Keith Urban,  Died: Alfred the Great, Elizabeth Cady Stanton [women's rights], H...

  History:  1621: Governor Bradford forbids sports on Christmas Day [Plymouth] 1854: Charge of the Light Brigade 1938: Archbishop of Dubuque calls "Swing Music" the primrose path to hell 1941: 16, 000 Jews massacred in Odessa 1955: First microwave oven sold 1960: First electric wrist watch sold 1962: John Steinbeck wins Nobel for Literature 1978: Movie "Halloween" premiers 1986: Bill Buckner misses the grounder and Yankees win Game 6 2021: Elon Musk makes $25 billion in one day Born: George Bizet, Pablo Picasso, Jack Kent Cooke, Minnie Pearl, Klaus Barbie [Nazi butcher], Tony Franciosa, Marion Ross [Happy Days], Bobby Knight, James Carville, Dave Cowans, Mike Eruzione [Miracle on Ice], Katy Perry,Xander Schauffele,  Died: Geoffrey Chaucer, Bat Masterson, Roger Miller, Vincent Price, Bobby Riggs, Payne Stewart, Richard Harris,  Thought: The church at Pergamum had a difficult place to serve--where Satan's throne is. The first city to erect a temple to worship Caes...

History: 1492: 24 Jews are burned at the stake in Mecklenberg Germany 1818: Felix Mendelssohn performs his first public concert--age 9  1861: First transcontinental telegram--San Francisco to Washington DC 1901: Anna Taylor is first women to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel 1924: Willem Einthoven wins Nobel for the electrocardiogram 1929: Black Thursday as stock market crash begins 1931: Geroge Washington Bridge dedicated--NYC 1938: US forbids child labor in factories 1939: Nylon stockings go on sale 1944: David McCampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes 1948: Bernard Baruch coins term "Cold War" 1962: Soviet ships approach the US blockade of Cuba 1987: Bork's Supreme Court nomination rejected by the Senate 1989: Jim Bakker sentenced to 45 years in prison 1996: Last game at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium 2012: Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica Born: Domitian, Antonie von Leeuwenhoek [first to see bacteria and protozoa], Belva Ann Lockwood [first woman to argue be...

 History: 1746: Princeton chartered 1836: Sam Houston elected President of Texas 1907: Ringling Brothers buys Barnum & Bailey 1966: Bobby Orr scores first goal 1981: US debt tops $1 trillion 2012: Taylor Swift releases "Red" album 2019: Northern Ireland legalizes same-sex marriage and abortion Born: Magnus Huss [coined "alcoholism"], Franz Liszt, Sarah Bernhardt, Curly Howard [Three Stooges], Jimmie Foxx, Joan Fontaine, Timothy Leary, Christopher Lloyd, Annette Funicello, Catherine Deneuve, Lynette Fromme [tried to kill Gerald Ford], Jeff Goldblum, Brian Boitano, Toby Mac, Brad Stevens [Celtics],  Died: Paul Cezanne, Pretty Boy Floyd, Arnold Toynbee [historian], Cleavon Little, Red Barber, Soupy Sales,  Thought: Rereading the letters to the churches in Revelation 2-3. As I have prayed for our church and the class I am privileged to lead, I am led back to these letters to consider the things Jesus praised and the things He admonished. In our church's study of...

  History: 335: Constantine rules Jews may not buy and circumcise Christian slaves 1512: Martin Luther joins the faculty at the University of Wittenberg 1520: Magellan becomes first European to sail into the Pacific 1797: USS Constitution launched 1824: Portland cement patented 1854: Florence Nightingale and nurses sent to Crimean War 1958: First woman seated in British House of Lords 1959: Guggenheim Museum opens in NYC --Frank Lloyd Wright 1964: "My Fair Lady" premiers 1975: Coast Guard Academy allows women to enroll 2007: Rob Bironas scores record 26 points without a TD as Titans beat the Texans 2020: Pope Francis backs same-sex civil unions 2021: Alec Baldwin shoots co-worker during filming in New Mexico Born: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Nobel, George Siemens, Whitey Ford, Steve Cropper, Judith Sheindlin [Judge Judy], Benjamin Netanyahu, Carrie Fisher, Kim Kardashian, Kane Brown, Mark Thrailkill [best son ever] Died: Horatio Nelson, Jack Kerouac, John Scopes, Jim Garr...

  History: 1097: First Crusaders arrive in Antioch 1803: Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase 1944: MacArthur returns to the Philippines 1955: "Return of the King" published--Tolkien 1968: Dick Fosbury--flop--wins high jump in Mexico City 1973: Saturday Night Massacre--Richardson and Ruckelshaus resign after refusing to fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox 1975: Supreme Court says teachers can spank students after warning 1977: Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd are killed in plane crash 2020: Justice Department sues Google for monopoly Born: Christopher Wren, Bela Lugosi, James Chadwick [neutron], Grandpa Jones, Mickey Mantle, Jerry Orbach, Kamala Harris, Snoop Dogg,  Died: Grace Darling [daughter of lighthouse operator who saved several following shipwreck], Eugene Debs [socialist union leader], Anne Sullivan [Helen Keller], Herbert Hoover, Burt Lancaster, Jane Wyatt, Muammar Gaddafi, Oscar de la Renta,  Thought: On Tuesday, Jan and I visited White Sands National Park. Am...

History: 1512: Martin Luther becomes doctor of theology 1596: 26 martyrs of Japan crucified in Nagasaki 1781: Cornwallis surrenders to Washington at Yorktown 1901: Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March" premiers 1917: Love Field Dallas opened 1943: Streptomycin isolated--first antibiotic remedy for TB 1944: Navy allows black women to join the WAVES 1953: "Fahrenheit 451" published in US 1971: Last "Look" magazine published 1977: Concorde's first landing in NY 1990: "Dances with Wolves" premiers 2003: Mother Teresa beatified Born: Auguste Lumiere [made first movie], Hal Wallis [producer], Robert Reed [Brady Bunch], Dave Guard [Kingston Trio], Peter Max, Jeannie C Riley, John Lithgow, Evander Holyfield, Amy Carter, Louis Oosthuizen Died: 1216: King John [Magna Carta], Jonathan Swift,  George Pullman [train cars], Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Arden, Alberto Pirelli [tires], Martha Raye, Mr. Blackwell, Tom Bosley,  Thought:  Still in New...

 History: 1009: Church of Holy Sepulchre destroyed 1648: First labor organization in North America forms--Boston Shoemakers 1767: Mason-Dixon line agreed upon 1776: "Cocktail" coined--a glass of those cock tails order in bar decorated with feathers 1867: US takes possession of Alaska 1910: "Howards End" published 1922: BBC founded 1924: Notre Dame Backfield called the "Four Horsemen" 1954: Texas Instruments announces transistor radio 1961: "West Side Story" released 1962: Watson and Crick win Nobel for determining the structure of DNA 1967: Disney releases "Jungle Book" 1968: Bob Beamon jumps 29 feet 2.5 inches in Mexico City 1977: Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive home runs in World Series 2009: Tom Brady throws 5 touchdown passes in second quarter against the Titans Born: Matthew Henry [commentary], Charles Scribner [publisher], Pierre Trudeau, Jesse Helms, Chuck Berry, George C Scott, Keith Jackson, Chuck Swindoll, Inger Stevens, Pet...

  History: 79: Vesuvius erupts burying Pompeii and Herculaneum  1831: Felix Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto premiers 1904: Bank of Italy [America] opens in san Francisco 1919: RCA created as subsidiary of GE 1920: Chicago Bears [Decatur Staleys] play their first NFL game 1931: Al Capone convicted on tax evasion 1933: Einstein arrives in U as refugee 1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington premiers 1957: Albert Camus wins Nobel in Literature 1957: Movie "Jailhouse Rock" premiers in Memphis 1963: Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your hand" 1968: "Bullitt" released 1975: UN passes resolution saying Zionism is a form of racism 1979: Mother Teresa wins Nobel Peace Prize 1989: Earthquake cancels 3rd game of World Series in San Francisco 2019: Pew Research says only 16% of US adults call themselves born-again Born: Spring Byington [December Bride], [Jerry Siegel [co-creator of Superman], Arthur Miller, Rita Hayworth, Jimmy Breslin, Evel Knievel, Jim Seals [Seals ...

  History: 1815: Napoleon begins exile on St Helena 1860" Grace Bedell [age 11] writes letter to Lincoln suggesting he grow a beard 1878: Edison Electric Light  Co. incorporated 1894: Alfred Dreyfus arrested for espionage 1933: 20th Amendment becomes effective--Presidential term begins in January,  not March 1937: Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not" published 1939: LaGuardia airport opens 1940: Charlie Chaplin's "Great Dictator" premiers 1951: "I Love Lucy" premiers 1952: EB White publishes "Charlotte's Web" 1954: Hurricane Hazel hits NC 1966: Department of Transportation created 1968: Al Oerter wins fourth consecutive Olympic Gold in the discus 1977: Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" hits #1 and stays there for 10 weeks 2018: Sears files for bankruptcy Born: Virgil, Friedrich Nietzche, John Kenneth Galbraith [economist], Mario Puzo [The Godfather], Lee Iacocca, Penny Marshall, Jim Palmer, Richard Carpenter [The ...

  History: 1066: Battle of Hastings 1322: Robert the Bruce defeats Edward II giving Scotland independence 1834: Henry Blair is first Black to receive a patent in US--corn planter 1892: Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1926: Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne released 1939: BMI founded 1947: Chuck Yeager makes first supersonic flight 1962: U-2 planes discover missle sites in Cuba 1964: Martin Luther King win Nobel Peace Prize 1976: Milton Friedman wins Nobel in Economics 1979: Gretzky scores his first NHL goal 1980: Reagan promises to name a woman to the Supreme Court Born: William Penn, Dwight D Eisenhower, EE Cummings [poet], C Everett Koop, Roger Moore, John Dean, Ralph Lauren, Beth Daniel [LPGA], Stephen A Smith [sportscaster], Frank Wycheck, Natalie Maines [Dixie Chicks], Usher,  Died: Erwin Rommel, Errol Flynn, Bing Crosby, Leonard Bernstein, Harold Robbins, Freddy Fender, Arlen Specter,  Thought: Yesterday I wrote about Elijah being refreshed ...

  History: 54: Nero succeeds Claudius who died of mushroom poisoning 1792: Old Farmer's Almanac first published 1843: B'nai B'rith founded 1864: Battle of Harper's Ferry 1884: Greenwich chosen as universal time meridian of longitude 1885: Georgia Tech founded [My son is a graduate of either the North Avenue Trade School as a Bulldog would say or he would say that MIT is the Georgia Tech of the North] 1941: Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children and old people 1950: "All About Eve" premiers 1963: The term "Beatlemania" is coined 1971: First World Series night game 1982: Jim Thorpe's Olympic Gold Medals reinstated 1988: Shroud of Turin shown to be fake by carbon dating 2010: 33 Chilean miners rescued after 69 days 2019: Simone Biles wins her 25th medal Born: Jane Grey, Cornel Wilde, Yves Montand, Lenny Bruce, Margaret Thatcher, Paul Simon, Jerry Jones [Cowboys], Desmond Wilson [Sanford & Son], Pat Day [Triple Crown jockey], Doc Rivers [NBA], Jerry R...

  History: 539 BC: Cyrus the Great conquers Babylon--writing on the wall 1285: 180 Jews refuse baptism and are set on fire--Munich 1492: Columbus makes landfall in Caribbean 1609: "Three Blind Mice" published in a book 1740: George Whitefield preaches to 30,000 in Boston 1773: America's first insane asylum opens in Virginia 1792: First celebration of Columbus Day--NY 1871: President Grant condemns KKK 1892: Pledge of Allegiance first recited in public schools 1901: Theodore Roosevelt renames Executive Mansion the White House 1920: Construction of Holland Tunnel begins [NYC] 1928: First use of iron lung--Boston Children's Hospital 1931: Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio opens 1948: Casey Stengel becomes Yankee manager 1950: George Burns and Gracie Allen Show premiers 1960: Khrushchev bangs shoe at UN 1964: Don Schollander wins first of 4 gold medals in Tokyo 1979: Larry Bird and Magic Johnson make NBA debut 2000: 17 crew members killed by suicide bombers aboard USS Col...

  History: 1138: Earthquake at Aleppo Syria kills 230,000 1890: First 100 yard dash under 10 seconds [John Owen] 1890: Daughters of the American Revolution founded 1929: JC Penney's becomes first nationwide store with stores in all 48 states 1939: Einstein tells FDR about possibility of atomic bomb 1975: "Saturday Night Live" premiers 1983: Last hand-cranked telephones in US go out of service--Bryant Pond Maine 1984: First space walk by a woman--Kathryn Sullivan 1987: 200,000 march for gay and lesbian rights in Washington DC 1992: Debate among Clinton, Bush and Perot 2001: Polaroid files for bankruptcy 2021: Jon Gruden steps down as Raiders coach Born: George Williams [founded YMCA], Henry John Heinz, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jerome Robbins, Elmore Leonard, Dottie West, Daryl Hall [Hall & Oates], Steve Young, Joan Cusack, Luke Perry, Michelle Wie, Cardi B,  Died: Huldrych Zwingli [Protestant reformer], Casimir Pulaski [father of American Cavalry], Meriwether Lewis, Chico Ma...

  History: 1780: Great Hurricane of 1780 hits Caribbean killing 20,000-30,000 1845: Naval School [Naval Academy] opens at Annapolis 1871: Great Chicago Fire extinguished after 3 days--300 dead, 100,000 homeless 1886: First dinner jacket worn to a ball in Tuxedo Park NY 1889: Barnard College formed after Columbia refuses to admit women 1933: First synthetic detergent goes on sale--Dreft 1935: Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway 1956: Movie "Giant" premiers 1961: Bob Newhart Show premiers 1963: "From Russia with Love" premiers 1973: Spiro Agnew resigns as VP 1978: Susan B Anthony dollar approved by Congress 2018: Hurricane Michael [Category 4] hits Florida Born: Henry Cavendish [discovered hydrogen], Giuseppe Verdi, Helen Hayes, Thelonious Monk [Jazz pianist], Frank Sinkwich [UGA Heisman winner], Ed Wood, James Clavell, Ben Vereen, John Prine, Nora Roberts, Tanya Tucker, Gavin Newsom, Brett Farve, Dale Earnhardt Jr.,  Died: Abel Tasman [Tasmani...

  History: 451: Council of Chalcedon 1860: Telegraph line between LA and San Francisco opens 1871: Forest fire destroys Peshtigo Wisconsin killing between 1200-2500 people 1871: Great Chicago Fire destroys 4 square miles and kills 300 1906: First permanent wave for hair demonstrated in London 1918: Alvin York kills 25 German soldiers 1933: Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco 1942: Albert & Costello radio show begins 1945: Microwave oven patented 1957: Dodgers announce  move to LA 2001: Office of Homeland Security founded 2004: Martha Stewart begins serving 5 month sentence 2020: FBI charges 13 men for plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Born: Frank Duryea [first auto built in US], Eddie Rickenbacker, Jim Eliot [missionary], Pepper Rodgers, Paul Hogan [Crocodile Dundee], Jesse Jackson, Chevy Chase, Johnny Ramone, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Elliott, CeCe Winans, Matt Damon, Bruno Mars, Bubba Wallace Died: John Hancock, Franklin Pierce, Willy Brandt, Al Davis [Raiders], Roger ...

  History: 1765: Stamp Act Congress convenes in NYC to protest British Stamp Act 1806: Carbon paper patented 1857: Charles Spurgeon preaches to 23,000+ at the Crystal Palace 1868: Cornell University opens 1873: Lottie Moon arrives in China 1916: Georgia Tech coached by John Heisman defeats Cumberland 222-0 1919: KLM Airlines established 1931: First infra-red photograph 1950: US invades North Korea crossing 38th parallel 1952: First "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia [Dick Clark joins in 1955] 1959: Far side of the moon seen for the first time--Soviet Lunar 3 1960: "Route 66" premiers 1963: Hurricane Flora kills over 7,000 in Haiti and Dominican Republic 1968: Film rating system adopted 1971: "The French Connection" premiers 1991: Anita Hill accuses Clarence Thomas of inappropriate sexual comments 1993: Toni Morrison receives Nobel Prize for Literature 1996: Fox News launched 2001: US invasion of Afghanistan begins Born: Uncle Dave Macon, Niels Bohr, Eli...

  History: 1866: First US train robbery--Reno brothers take $13,000] 1871: First national tour of the Fisk Jubilee Singers begins 1882: First World Series Game 1889: Moulin Rouge opens in Paris 1889: Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture 1890: General Conference of the Mormons outlaws polygamy 1893: Cream of wheat invented 1927: "The Jazz Singer" released 1945: Mr. Sianis buys a seat for his billy goat for game 4 of the World Series. He is thrown out and places billy goat curse on the Chicago Cubs 1951: Stalin says Russia has the bomb 1960: "Spartacus" premiers 1966: LSD declared illegal in California 1985: Phil Niekro wins his 300th game 2010: Instagram launched 2018: Brent Kavanaugh sworn in Born: Jenny Lind [Swedish Nightingale], George Westinghouse, Le Corbusier, Helen Wills Moody [19 Grand Slam titles], Janet Gaynor, Carole Lombard, Thor Heyerdahl, Fred Graham, Tony Dungy, Elisabeth Shue, Rebecca Lobo,  Died: William Tyndale [strangled and burned for Prote...

 History: 1568: Trial of Mary Queen of Scots begins 1877: Chief Joseph surrenders ending Nez Perce War 1924: First Little Orphan Annie cartoon appears 1925: WSM-AM begins radio transmission 1932: Detroit Falcons become the Redwings and the Winged Wheel logo is introduced 1942: 5,000 Jews massacred in Dubno Russia and 90 Jewish women beaten to death at Auschwitz 1947: Truman makes first televised Presidential address from the White House 1953: Earl Warren becomes Chief Justice 1961: "Breakfast at Tiffany's" premiers 1962: "Dr. No" premiers in London 1973: Elton John releases "Yellow Brick Road" album 1983: Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize 2015: Jerry Brown signs bill giving terminally ill patients right to die Born: Jonathan Edwards, Chester A Arthur, Louis Lumiere [first motion picture], Robert Goddard [first liquid fueled rocket], Ray Kroc [McDonald's], Allen Ludden [Password], Bill Dana [Jose Jimenez], Barry Switzer, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Laura ...

History: 1537: William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale publish first complete English Bible--Matthew Bible 1675: Pocket watch patented 1883: Orient Express leaves Paris for Istanbul on first official journey 1915: Dinosaur National Monument established 1948: World Council of Churches formed 1957: "Leave It to Beaver" premiers 1957: Russia launches Sputnik I 1990: "Beverly Hills 90210" premiers 1999: Faith Hill releases "Breathe" 2006: WikiLeaks is launched Born: Rutherford B Hayes, Frederic Remington [sculptor], Damon Runyon, Buster Keaton, Charlton Heston, Dick Tracy [per the comic strip], Sam Huff [Football HOF], Jackie Collins, Anne Rice, Tony La Russa, Susan Sarandon, Sarah Fisher [racer], Dakota Johnson,  Died: Rembrandt, Catherine Booth [co-founder Salvation Army], Frederic Auguste Bartholdi [Statue of Liberty],  Max Planck [physicist], Janis Joplin, Secretariat,  Thought: Continuing this morning to consider the story of David in 2 Samuel 7. Yesterday, D...