Thought for Today

History: 1210: King John begins jailing Jews in England 1604: Shakespeare's "Othello" first presented 1665: Robert Hooke's "Micrographia" is published--first to use drawings using a microscope and coined the word "cell" 1765: Stamp Act goes into effect in the colonies 1834: First published reference to poker 1859: Cape Lookout Lighthouse lit--NC 1861: George McClellan named chief of Union army 1894: Vaccine for diphtheria announced 1915: Parris Island named Marine Corps Recruit Depot 1922: Ottoman Empire ends when Ataturk take Constantinople and declares Republic of Turkey 1924: Boston Bruins are first US team to join the NHL 1931: Dupont introduces synthetic rubber 1938: Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in match race 1945: First issue of Ebony Magazine published 1946: Charles Johnson becomes 1st Black president of Fisk 1967: "Cool Hand Luke" released 1991: Three faculty and one staff killed at University of Iowa by student 1997" ...

 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...