Thought for Today

  History: 1429: Joan of Arc arrives at the battle of Orleans 1764: John Newton ordained a deacon [Amazing Grace] 1852: First edition of Roget's Thesaurus published 1918: Tris Speaker has 4 unassisted double plays in a game 1943: Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrested by the Nazis 1945: 31,601 liberated from Dacau 1961: Wide World of Sports premiers 1967: Aretha Franklin releases "Respect" 1990: Wrecking balls begin destroying the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate 1992: Riots begin after police are acquitted in Rodney King trial 2004: Last Oldsmobile produced 2018: "The Simpsons" passes "Gunsmoke" to have the most episodes  2020: U.S. Covid deaths exceed 26,000 Born: William Randolph Hearst, Duke Ellington, Hirohito, George Allen, Danny Davis [Nashville Brass], Rod McKuen, Willie Nelson, Bernie Madoff, Duane Allen [Oak Ridge Boys], Johnny Miller, Dale Earnhardt, Jerry Seinfeld, Eve Plumb, Michelle Pfeiffer, Reggie Miller, Andre Agassi, Uma Thurman, Jay Cutler,

 History: 1789: Mutiny on the Bounty 1855: First US veterinary college incorporated 1872: Frances Havergal writes the words to the hymn "A Worker's Prayer." I love the line which says "O teach me Lord that I may teach the precious things Thou dost impart and wing my words that they may teach the hidden depths of many a heart." Truly a teacher's prayer. She also wrote "Like a River Glorious" and "Take My Life and Let it Be" 1923: Wembley Stadium opens 1937: First commercial flight across th Pacific--Pan Am 1947: Thor Heyerdahl sails the Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia 1965: Pavarotti makes his debut 1966: "Sound of Music" wins Best Picture 1971: Samuel Gravely is the first Black admiral in the Navy 1968: Aloha Airlines jet loses roof in flight--stewardess killed 2011: Cam Newton picked #1 by the Panthers 2020: Over 1 million confirmed Covid cases in the US Born: James Monroe, Lionel Barrymore, Oskar Schindler, Allistair MacLean,

 History: 1749: First performance of Handel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks" 1773: Parliament passes the Tea Act--Boston disagrees 1805: Marines attack the shores of Tripoli 1810: Beethoven composes "Fur Elise" 1840: Cornerstone laid for the Palace of Westminster 1865: Cornell University chartered 1937: First Social Security payment 1982: Trial of John Hinckley begins [shot President Reagan] 2020: Confirmed Covid cases exceed 3 million Born: Samuel Morse, US Grant, Rogers Hornsby, Walter Lantz [Woody Woodpecker], Jack Klugman, Coretta Scott King, Casey Kasem, Judy Carne, Lee Roy Jordan, Austin Dillon [NASCAR] Died: Magellan, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward R Murrow, Al Hirt, Ruth Handler [invented Barbi Doll] Thought: Reading John 14:1 this morning. Do you ever have a troubled heart? Do you every worry or doubt? Does your faith fade in the face of some terrible event or circumstance? Jesus recognizes that we may have troubled hearts. The disciples had been told aga

  History: 1514: Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn 1564: William Shakespeare baptized 1654: Jews are expelled from Brazil 1835: Chopin's "Grand Pololaise Brillante" premiers 1859: First successful use of the insanity defense in the U.S.-Dan Sickles acquitted of murder 1865: Army of Tennessee surrenders in NC 1877: Minnesota is stricken with a plaque of locusts. Governor calls for a day of prayer. For 2 days warm weather continues to cause locusts to hatch while scoffers make fun of prayer---BUT on the 4th day, a late freeze kills them all. A chapel in Cold Spring MN commemorates God's answered prayer 1920: First Olympic hockey game 1933: Jewish students barred from schools in Germany 1941: First organ at a baseball game--Cubs 1954: First mass inoculations with the Salk vaccine 1986: Nuclear reactor explodes at Chernobyl 2018: Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault 2019: 23.1% list "no religion" in answer to survey question--most common res

  History: 1507: First use of "America" on a world map 1684: Patent granted for the thimble 1719: Daniel DeFoe publishes "Robinson Crusoe", considered the first English novel 1792: "Les Marseillaise" composed 1792: Guillotine first used in France 1859: Ground broken for the Suez Canal 1901: NY is first state to require automobile license plates 1926: Premier of Puccini's "Turandot" 1928: "Buddy" becomes first guide dog for US citizen 1944: United Negro College Fund incorporates 1953: Crick and Watson's discovery of the DNA double helix reported in Nature Magazine 1959: Saint Lawrence Seaway opens 2011: At least 300 killed in tornado outbreak in the South Born: Oliver Cromwell, Guglielmo Marconi, Arthur Chevrolet, Edward R Murrow, Ella Fitzgerald, Meadowlark Lemon, Al Pacino, Adam Silver [NBA], Renee Zellweger,  Died: Anders Celsius, Ginger Rogers, Art Fleming ["Jeopardy"], Bea Arthur, Dorothy Provine, John Havlicek,  T

  History: 1184 BC: Greeks enter Troy in a Trojan Horse 1800: Library of Congress established 1872: Mt. Vesuvius erupts 1877: Last Federal troops withdraw from the South 1888: Eastman Kodak founded 1898: Spain declares war on the U.S. 1950: Jordan annexes the West Bank 1961: JFK acceptsd responsibility for the Bay of Pigs 1962: First TV signal sent via satellite 2011: Hundreds of Chinese jailed for gathering for Easter services in Beijing Square--their churches had been confiscated. 2013: Deadliest structural failure in history-1134 killed, 2500 injured when building collapses in Bangladesh Born: Robert Bailey Thomas [founded Farmers' Almanac], John Russell Pope [architect, Jefferson Memorial, National Archives], Robert Penn Warren, Justin Wilson [Cajun Chef], Shirley MacLaine, Barbara Streisand, Richard Sterban [Oak Ridge Boys], Cedric the Entertainer, Chipper Jones, Lee Westwood, Kelly Clarkson Died: Daniel DeFoe, Lucy Maud Montgomery ["Anne of Green Gables"], Bud Abbot

  History: 1864: US mints 2 cent coin--first appearance of "In God We Trust" 1876: Tchaikovsky completes "Swan Lake" 1914: Babe Ruth pitches his first major league game--wins 6-0 1915: First use of poison gas in war--Germany uses chlorine 1934: 5,000 pastors and laypeople create the "Confessing Church" relying on the confessions of the Reformation rather than Nazi racial theories and propaganda 1940: Admiral Joseph Taussig tetsifies before Congress that war with Japan is inevitable 1966: Atlanta Braves win their first game 1969: First human eye transplant 1976: Barbara Walters becomes first female nightly network news anchor 1993: Holocaust Museum dedicated 1994: Largest Lollipop--3,011 pounds made in Denmark 2018: Gunman kills 4 in Nashville Waffle House--James Shaw wrestles rifle away. Born: Muhammad, Isabella, Henry Fielding, Immanuel Kant, Harold Jeffreys [theory of probability], Vladimir Nabokov ["Lolita"], Robert Oppenheimer, Eddie Albert,

History: 1600: First date in the novel "Shogun" 1649: Toleration Act in Maryland--freedom of worship for Christians; death penalty for anyone rejecting the divinity of Christ 1836: Battle of San Jacinto--Texas independence from Mexico 1855: Sunday School teacher Edward Kimball visits the Holton Shoe Store in Boston, tells Dwight Moody about Jesus. Moody converted shortly thereafter 1862: Denver Mint established 1889: Thomas Huxley first publically uses the word "agnostic" to describe intellectuals who cannot decide about the existence of God 1878: First egg rolling on the White House Lawn 1952: First Secretaries Day  1956: "Heartbreak Hotel" hits #1 1984: "Footlose" pushes "Thriller" from the top of the albums chart after 37 weeks 1986: Geraldo opens Capone's safe on live TV--nothing 2020: President Trump announces 60-day ban on most green cards Born: Catherine the Great, Charlotte Bronte, John Muir, Anthony Quinn, Elizabeth II, Don

  History: 1529: "Protestant" first used to refer to those involved in the Reformation 1862: Louis Pasteur completes first pasteurization test 1898: Spurgeon's London Tabernacle burns 1902: The Curie's isolate radium chloride 1912: Fenway Park opens in Boston and Tiger Stadium in Detroit 1918: The Red Baron shoots down his 79th and 80th victims--dies the following day 1920: Balfour Declaration makes Palestine a British Mandate 1935: "Your Hit Parade" first broadcast 1940: First electron microscope demonstrated 1967: Tom Seaver wins his first game 1971: Barbara Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun" 1971: Supreme Court upholds bussing to achieve desegregation 1972: Apollo 16 lands on the moon 1979: Jimmy Carter attacked by swamp rabbit 1999: Columbine--13 killed, 24 injured 2010: Deepwater Horizon explodes--kills 11 and creates major oil slick 2020: Last three ships docked as Covid stops cruise lines Born: Young Tom Morris, Adolph Hitler, Joa

  History: 1775: The Shot Heard Round the World 1854: Charles Haddon Spurgeon called to pastor New Park Chapel, London [age 19] 1892: Charles Duryea takes the first American made automobile for a drive 1897: First Boston Marathon 1933: FDR announces that the US will leave the gold standard 1934: Shirley Temple's first film, "Stand Up and Cheer" 1943: Jews refuse to surrender Warsaw ghetto 1945: "Carousel" by Rodgers and Hammerstein opens on Broadway 1948: ABC debuts 1963: Johnny Cash releases "Ring of Fore" written by June Carter and Merle Haggard 1982: Guino Bluford named first black astronaut and Sally Ride named first female astronaut 1993: 76 Branch Davidians die near Waco TX after 51 day seige 1995: Timothy McVeigh explodes truck bomb in Oklahoma City killing 168 and injuring 500 Born: Eliot Ness, Frank Fontaine, Hugh O'Brian, Dick Sargent, Jayne Mansfield, Dudley Moore, Jack Rousch, Al Unser Jr., Ashley Judd, Kate Hudson, Maria Sharapova Died

  History: 1506: Cornerstone of current St Peter's Basilica is laid 1775: Paul Revere and William Dawes -- the regulars are coming 1906: San Francisco earthquake and fire 1907: Fairmont Hotel opens in San Francisco 1912: RMS Carpathia arrives in NYC with Titanic survivors 1921: Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Springs 1924: First crossword puzzle book published 1934: First "Washateria" opens in Fort Worth 1935: Gene Sarazen makes double eagle on the 15th to win the Masters 1955: First "Walk", "Don't Walk" lighted street signs installed 1983: Alice Walker wins Pulitzer for "The Color Purple" 1995: Joe Montana announces his retirement 1998: Peyton Manning selected #1 by the Colts Born: Lucrezia Borgia, Clarence Darrow [Monkey Trial], Barbara Hale, James Woods, Rick Moranis, Conan O'Brien, Melissa Joan Hart,  Died: Yamamoto, Ernie Pyle, Albert Einstein, Thor Heyerdahl, Dick Clark,  Thought: Yesterday I read John 6:12. Today I

  History: 1387: Characters in"The Canterbury Tales" begin their journey 1397: Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time 1725: John Rudge leaves twenty shillings a year from his estate to the Parrish Trysull to be used to hire a poor man to keep people awake during sermons and keep dogs out of church 1951: Mickey Mantle's first major league game 1964: Ford Mustang formally introduced 1969: Sirhan Sirhan convicted of murder 1970: Apollo 13 lands safely 1993: Rodney King riots after 2 policemen found not guilty 2013: Same sex marriage legalized in New Zealand 2020: WHO warns that Africa could have 300,000 deaths and 30 million in poverty due to Covid Born: Alexander Cartwright [invented modern baseball], JP Morgan, Thornton Wilder, William Holden, Harry Reasoner, Daffy Duck, Sean Bean, Boomer Esiason, Jennifer Garner, Victoria Beckham Died: Benjamin Franklin, Ralph David Abernathy, Linda McCartney, Doris Roberts, Barbara Bush Thought: Do you like leftovers? As a

  History: 297: Seven martyrs of Samos are jailed for refusing to sacrifice to pagan gods; crucified in June 1729: Bach's "St. Matthew's Passion" premiers 1802: William Wordsworth sees a "long belt" of daffodils inspiring him to write "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" 1817: Thomas Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc open the first American School for the Deaf 1865: Lincoln dies 1896: First modern Olympics held in Athens 1912: Titanic sinks 1923: Insulin becomes generally available to diabetics 1924: Rand McNally publishes its first Road Atlas 1927: Babe Ruth hits first of 60 home runs 1947: Jackie Robinson's first game in the majors 1952: First bank credit card issued 1955: Ray Kroc opens the first McDonald's 1992: Jay Leno's last appearance as the host of The Tonight Show 2013: Boston Marathon bombing 2019: Fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral 2020: US reports 2752 Covid deaths Born: Leonardo da Vinci, Guru Nanak [founded Sikhism], Mary Harris Thomps

  History: 1611: The word "Telescope" first used 1828: Noah Webster files copyrigth for First American Dictionary 1841: Edgar Allen Poe publishes "Murder in the Rue Morgue"] 1869: First pony express arrives in San Francisco 1865: Booth shoots President Lincoln 1902: JC Penney opens "The Golden Rule Store" 1903: Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid 1910: President Taft begins tradition of President throwing out the first pitch 1912: Titanic hits the iceberg 1918: Douglas Campbell shoots down his 5th German plane--1st air ace 1939: Steinbeck publishes "The Grapes of Wrath" 1944: Ike becomes Supreme Allied Commander 1950: Mitsuo Fuchida becomes a Christian. Radioed "Tora, Tora, Tora" at Pearl Harbor. Read about his story-- "Wounded Tiger" 1960: Barry Gordy founds Motown Records 2003: Human Genome Project completed 2019: Tiger Woods wins his 5th Masters Born: Anne Sullivan [educated Helen Keller], Arnold Toynby, John Giel

  History: 1668: John dryden appointed first British Poet Laureate 1742: Handel's "Messiah" performed for the first time 1840: William Henry Lane perfects tap dancing 1870: Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in NYC 1943: Jefferson Memorial dedicated 1949: Mayo Clinic announces discovery of Cortisone 1970: Apollo 13 radios--Okay, Houston we have a problem here 1986: Jack Nicklaus wins his 6th Masters and 18th Major 1997: Tiger Woods wins his first Masters by 12 strokes 2020: Andrew Cuomo says, "I believe the worst is over" Born: Peter Faber [co-founder Society of Jesus], Guy Fawkes, Thomas Jefferson, JB Lightfoot [theologian], FW Woolworth, Butch Cassidy, Robert Watson-Watt [developed radar], Alfred Butts [invented Scrabble], Bob Devaney [coach], Madalyn Murray O'Hair [atheist], Don Adams ["Get Smart"], Dan Gurney, Lyle Waggoner, Tony Dow [Wally on Leave It to Beaver], Gary Kasparov, Davis Love III Died: Jane Taylor [wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle Littl

  History: 1557: Protestants converts are burned for their faith--Thomas Loseby, Henry Ramsey, Thomas Thirtel, Margaret Hyde, Agnes Stanley 1857" "Madame Bovary" published 1861: Fort Sumter attacked 1862: James Andrews steals the General at Kennesaw GA beginning the great locomotive chase 1877: Catcher's mask first used in baseball 1919: Parliament limits work week to 48 hours 1938: First law requiring medical test for marriage license 1945: FDR dies at the Little White House in Warm Springs GA 1954: Bill Haley and the Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" 1961: Yuri Gargarin is first to orbit the earth 1966: First B-52 bombings in Vietnam 1976: Anne Rice's "Interview with a Vampire" released 1987: Larry Mize chips in from 140 feet on #11 to win the Masters 1987: Texaco files for bankruptcy 2009: Navy rescues Captain Richard Phillips 2020: 40 tornadoes kill 32 from Texas to SC Born: Henry Clay, Beverly Cleary [Ramona series of children's b

  History: 1814: Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba 1876: Order of the Elks organizes 1890: Ellis Island designated as an immigration station 1899: Treaty of Paris ends the Spanish-American War and Puerto Rico is ceded to the US 1900: First modern submarine is purchased by the Navy 1909: Establishment of Tel Aviv as a Jewish settlement 1945: Four soldiers from the Sixth Armored Division liberate Buchenwald 1951: General MacArthur relieved of command in Korea 1961: Trial of Adolph Eichmann begins 1965: Jack Nicklaus wins his second Green Jacket; 40 tornadoes hit the midwest killing 272 and injuring 5000 1968: LBJ signs the Civil Rights Act 1970: Apollo 13 launched 1976: Apple 1 computer released 1991: "Miss Saigon" opens in NY 2015: President Obama and Raul Castro meet in Panama Born: James Parkinson [first described Parkinson's disease], Dean Acheson, Jane Bolin [first Black female judge], Oleg Cassini, Ethel Kennedy, Joel Grey [Cabaret],  Died: Joseph Merrick [Elep

  History: 1516: Venice compels Jews to live is a certain area--first Jewish ghetto 1790: US Patent system forms 1815: Major portion of Tambora eruption 1816: Samuel Taylor Coleridge recites "Kubla Khan" to Lord Byron who convinces him to publish it 1825: First hotel in Hawaii opens 1841: Horace Greeley begins publishing the NY Tribune 1868: first complete public performance of Brahms' "Requiem" 1869: Congress increases Supreme Court from 7 to 9  1912: Titanic sails on its maiden voyage 1916: PGA founded and first professional golf tournament held 1925: "The Great Gadsby" published 1947: Jackie Robinson signs a contract with the Dodgers 1949: Sam Snead wins first of three Green Jackets 1961: Gary Player becomes first international to win the Masters 1963: Nuclear sub Thresher sinks killing 129 including my friend, Joel Stephens 1968: "In the Heat of the Night" wins Best Picture Oscar 1995: NYC bans smoking in restaurants that seat more than 3

  History: 1730: First North American synagogue opens in NYC 1766: First fire escape patented--wicker basket on pulley and chain 1820: Venus de Milo discovered on Milos 1862: Aerosol dispenser patented 1904: Longacre Square changed to Times Square [NY Times moved to the area] 1935: WPA approved by Congress 1946: League of Nations convenes for the first time 1952: President Truman seizes steel mills to avoid strike 1966: Time Magazine publishes "God is Dead" issue 1974: Hank Aaron hits #715 1990: "Twin Peaks" premiers 2003: Lady Vols lose to Connecticut in Championship game 2020: Bernie Sanders drops out of Presidential race 2022: First all private space flight lauched Born: William Welch [founded Johns Hopkins Hospital], Mary Pickford, Sonja Henie [3 Olympic Golds in Figure Skating], Betty Ford, John Havlicek, Jim Lampley, Robin Wright,  Died: Lorenzo de Medici, Elisha Otis [elevator], FW Woolworth, Pablo Picasso, Omar Bradley, Marian Anderson, Annette Funicello, Ma

 History: 1724: Bach's "St. John's Passion" premiers 1805: Beethoven conducts the premier of "Eroica" 1805: Lewis & Clark leave Fort Mandan, ND [Jan and I follwed the trail from St. Louis to Fort Clapsot] 1902: Texas Oil Company formed--Texaco 1940: First postage stamp with African American--Booker T Washington 1948: World Health Organization formed 1963: Jack Nicklaus wins first of six Masters 2003: US troops capture Baghdad Born: William Wordsworth, Walter Camp [father of American football], Ole Kirk Christiansen [founded LEGO], Walter Winchell, Percy Faith, Billie Holiday, Ravi Shankar, James Garner, Daniel Ellsberg [Pentagon Papers], Wayne Rogers, David Frost, Francis Ford Coppola, Jackie Chan, Tony Dorsett, Russell Crowe Died: PT Barnum, Henry Ford, Johnny Hart [BC and Wizard of ID comics], George Nissen [invented trampoline], Mike Wallace, John Prine Thought: Reading Luke 10:40 this morning. Jesus has come to visit Mary and Martha. Verse 39 tells u

 History: 1652: Cape Colony South Africa founded 1830: Joseph Smith and 5 others form Church of Latter-Day Saints in Fayette NY 1862: Battle of Shiloh 1889: George Eastman begins selling flexible rolled film 1893: Mormon Temple dedicated 1909: Robert Peary reaches the North Pole 1917: US declares war on Germany 1930: Hostess Twinkie invented 1934: 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany 1958: Arnold Palmer wins his first of four Masters 1980: Post-It notes introduced 2020: Tiger in the Bronx zoo tests positive for Covid Born: Raphael, Donald Douglas [Douglas DC 3], James Watson [DNA], Andre Previn, Billy Dee Williams, Merle Haggard, Janet Lynn [5 time US Figure Skating champion], Raul Rudd Died: Richard the Lionheart, Thomas Green Clemson [Clemson University], Chiang Kai-shek, Isaac Asimov, Greer Garson, Jack Kent Cooke, Tammy Wynette, Thomas Kinkade, Mickey Rooney, Merle Haggard [on his birthday], Don Rickles Thought: Reading Luke 6 today. This chapter is Luke's account of the

  History: 1722: Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island 1764: Parliament passes Sugar Tax on the colonies 1792: Washington casts first Presidential veto 1815: Mt. Tambora eruption begins. The largest eruption ever witnessed; killed 10,000 initially. Created  the year without summer in 1816--frost and snow in North America in June and July.  1906: Mt Vesuvius erupts killing 100 1923: Firestone begins producing inflatable tires 1936: Tupelo almost destroyed by a tornado which killed 216 1965: "My Fair Lady" wins Best Picture Oscar 1971: Fran Phipps is the first woman to reach the North Pole 1972: Baseball players strike--lose 86 games 2020: Boris Johnson hospitalized with Covid Born: Thomas Hobbes, Joseph Lister, Booker T Washington, Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Alberto Broccoli [James Bond producer], Gregory Peck, Arthur Hailey, Gale Storm, Frank Gorshin, Colin Powell, Pharrell Williams Died: Robert Raikes [Sunday School advocate], Douglas MacArthur, Howard Hughes, Abe Fortas,

  History: 1789: Congress begins first regular sessions. 1818: Congress decides US Flag will have 13 stripes and 20 stars 1859: The song "Dixie" debuts in NYC minstrel show 1902: Rhodes Scholarship formed with $10 million 1917: Senate votes to participate in WWI 1949: NATO Treaty signed 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis 1973: World Trade Center opens in NYC 1974: Hank Aaron hits #714 tying Babe Ruth 1975: Microsoft founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen 1999: Aliaba founded by Jack Ma Born: Dorothea Dix [created 1st American mental asylums], Admiral Yamamoto, Tris Speaker, Bea Benaderet ["Petticoat Junction"], John Cameron Swayze, Muddy Waters, Gil Hodges, Maya Angelou, Anthony Perkins ["Psycho"], Bill France Jr. [NASCAR], Craig T Nelson, Steve Gatlin, Graham Norton, Jack Del Rio, Robert Downey Jr., Heath Ledger,  Died: John Napier [invented logarithms], William Henry Harrison, Karl Benz, Andre Michelin, Adam Clayton Powell, Gloria Swanson, Jo

History: 1860: Pony Express begins between St. Joseph MO and Sacramento CA 1882: Jesse James killed by Robert Ford 1933: First airplane flight over Denali 1953: First issue of TV Guide 1960: Elvis records "It's Now or Never," "Fever," and "Are You Lonesome Tonight" at RCA studio in Nashville 1968: "Planet of the Apes" premiers 1973: First mobile phone call completed 1974: Super tornado outbreak kills 315 and injures 5500. One hit a house near the corner of Leland Lane and Tyne Boulevard--I was there. 2007: Lady Vols win their 7th Championship 2020: Captain Brett Crozier cheered after being fired for writing a letter demanding more help for sailors with Covid Thought: Reading again Luke 1:37 this morning. "Nothing will be impossible with God." This is Gods's word to Mary. It had been God's word to Sarah in the Old Testament when she was promised a son named Isaac. "Is anything to difficult for God?" Genesis 18:14. T

  History: 1748: Ruins of Pompeii discovered 1778: Oliver Pollock creates the $ sign 1889: First dishwashing machine marketed 1891: The Wrigley Company founded [chewing gum] 1905: SOS adopted as distress signal 1927: First automatic record changer 1929: Louis Marx introduces the Yo-Yo 1930: Bobby Jones begins his Grand Slam season 1933: Nazis begin boycott of Jewish businesses 1934: Clyde Barrow kills 2 young highway patrolmen 1945: Battle of Okinawa 1952: Big Bang Theory proposed 1954: Air Force Academy established 1967: Department of Transportation begins operation 1976: Apple Computer founded 1982: Canal Zone transferred to Panama 2000: Michelle Kwan wins her third World Figure Skating Gold 2004: Gmail is introduced 2019: Online sales exceed retail sales for the first time 2020: Wimbledon cancelled for the first time since WWII Born: William Harvey [circulation of blood], Otto von Bismarck, Edgar Wallace [King Kong], Lon Chaney, William Manchester [author], Bo Schembechler, Debbie R