Thought for Today

 History: 1492: Christopher Columbus begins his voyage - Santa Maria, Pinta, Nina 1829: Rossini's William Tell opera premiers 1900: Firestone founded 1936: Jesse Owens wins Olympic Gold in Berlin 1943: Patton slaps a private 1963: Allan Sherman releases "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" 1971: McCartney announces formation of Wings 1975: Superdome dedicated 1977: Radio Shack introduces TRS-80 1984: Mary Lou Retton is first American woman to win Olympic medal in gymnastics 2012: Michael Phelps wins his 17th Olympic Gold Medal 2019: 22 killed and 24 injured at Walmart in El Paso Born: Elisha Otis [elevator], Ernie Pyle, John Scopes, John Stennis, Tony Bennett, Martin Sheen, Martha Stewart, John Landis [Animal House], Tom Brady, Ryan Lochte [swimmer],  Died: Joseph Conrad, Lenny Bruce, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Bubba Smith,  Thought: Reading Matthew 5:33-37 this morning. Here Jesus addresses false vows, perhaps expanding on the commandment to not bear false witness. What were the pr...

 History:  1610: Henry Hudson enters Hudson Bay 1776: Formal signing of Declaration of Independence 1865: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published 1934: Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces 1943: PT-109 sinks 1945: Indianapolis survivors spotted 1945: Potsdam Conference 1967: In the Heat of the Night premiers 1973: American Graffiti premiers Born: Pierre L'Enfant, Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi [Statue of Liberty], Myrna Loy, James Baldwin [Go Tell It on the Mountain], Peter O'Toole,  Lamar Hunt [ KC Chiefs], Billy Cannon, Wes Craven, Victoria Jackson, Linda Fratianne,  Died: Thomas Gainsborough [Blue Boy], Horace Mann [public schools], Wild Bill Hickok, Enrico Caruso, Alexander Graham Bell, Warren G Harding, Thurman Munson, Shari Lewis [Lamb Chop],  Thought: Yesterday I read that I can murder by ignoring, mistreating, gossiping, starting rumors or passing them on. I can murder by thinking about killing and allowing my anger to turn to rage and...

 History: 1096: The People's Crusade arrives at Constantinople 1774: Joseph Priestly isolates and "discovers" oxygen 1793: France is first country to use the metric system 1834: Slavery Abolition Act becomes effective in the British Empire 1867: Blacks vote in state election in the South for the first time [TN] 1900: First Michelin Guide published 1911: Harriet Quimby is first woman to earn aviator's certificate 1927: Carter Family makes its first recording 1941: First Jeep produced 1944: Anne Frank's last diary entry 1946: Atomic Energy commission established 1966: Charles Whitman kills 16 and wounds 31 at the University of Texas 1988: Rush Limbaugh begins national radio show 1996: A Game of Thrones published 2007: I-35 bridge in Minneapolis collapses during rush hour 2021: US passes 35 million Covid cases Born: Claudius, William Clark [Lewis & Clark], Francis Scott Key, William Travis [Alamo], Herman Melville, Paul Barth [philosopher], Dom DeLuise, Jerry Gar...

 History: 1419: Following the execution of Jan Hus, reformer, his followers storm Prague Town Hall and throw the judge, mayor and council members out the window to their deaths 1729: Baltimore founded 1928: George Eastman shows first color motion pictures at his home in NY 1930: First broadcast of Death Valley Days 1935: First Penguin Book published 1942: WAVES created 1942: German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk 1945: USS Indianapolis sunk by German U-Boat 1956: US Motto "In God We Trust" adopted 1975: Jimmy Hoffa disappears 1990: First Saturn auto completed 2003: Last "old style" VW Beetle completed in Mexico 2021: 1 of every 100 Americans employed by Walmart and 1 of 169 employed by Amazon Born: Emily Bronte, Henry Ford, Casey Stengel, Henry Bloch [H&R Block], Edd Byrnes [77 Sunset Strip], Peter Bogdanovich, Paul Anka, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Anita Hill [Clarence Thomas], Delta Burke, Laurence Fishburne, Reggie Roby [punter for the Niners who wore his watch whil...

 History: 1773: First schoolhouse west of the Allegheny mountains completed--Ohio 1847: Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon TN--one of 15 in the US 1899: First motorcycle race--Manhattan Beach NY 1907: Boy Scouts formed by Robert Baden-Powell 1927: First iron lung installed 1933: Shoot out with Bonnie and Clyde kills Clyde's brother Buck 1938: Olympia National Park established 1952: First non-stop transpacific flight by a jet 1954: Fellowship of the Ring published 1974: Episcopal Church in Philadelphia ordains 11 female priests in violation of church rules 2001: The Princess Diaries premiers 2015: Microsoft launches Windows 10 2016: Hillary Clinton becomes Democratic nominee for President Born: Walter Hunt [invented the safety pin], Alex de Tocqueville, Armauer Hansen [first to identify leprosy as bacteria--Hansen's disease], Benito Mussolini, Dag Hammarskjold [UN Secretary General], Melvin Belli, Charles Schwab, Peter Jennings, Ken Burns, Martina McBride, Dak Prescott ...

 History: 1586: Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe 1858: First use of fingerprints for identification 1858: First airborne photographs--balloon 1900: Hamburger created by Louis Lassing  1933: First singing telegram 1943: FDR ends coffee rationing 1951: Movie "Alice in Wonderland" released by Disney Born: Beatrix Potter, Rudy Vallee, Earl Tupper [Tupperware], Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Bill Bradley [Senator and basketball HOF], Jim Davis [Garfield], Sally Struthers, Liz Cheney,  Died: Thomas Cromwell [Executed by Henry VIII because he would not support the divorce of Anne of Cleves], Cyrano de Bergerac, Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Robespierre, William Mayo [Mayo Clinic], Charles Mayo [Mayo clinic, founders die on the same date], Francis Crick [DNA structure], Ron Popeil [pocket fisherman],  Johann Sebastian Bach said "Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. I play the notes as they are written, but it is ...

 History: 1586: Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco from Virginia to England 1789: Congress creates Department of Foreign Affairs [State Department] 1890: Van Gogh shoots himself, dies 2 days later 1921: Insulin isolated by Banting and Best 1940: Bugs Bunny debuts in 'Wild Hare" 1953: Korean Armistice signed 1965: Cigarette health warnings required 1988: Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000SL computer 2020: Google allows employees to work from home Born: Leo Durocher, Norman Lear, Peggy Fleming, Maureen McGovern, Christopher Dean [Torville & Dean, Bolero], Ed Ogeron, Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Tannehill, Jordan Spieth,  Died: Joseph of Arimathea, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi [last Shah of Iran], James Mason, Frank Zamboni, Bob Hope, Sam Shepard, Caroline Sandell-Berg [called the Fanny Crosby of Sweden and writer of Day by Day] Day by Day is a great hymn of affirmation and encouragement. Google it today and rest in these thoughts: Trusting in my Father's wise bestowment, I've no cau...