Thought for Today

 History: 1885: "Good Housekeeping" magazine first published 1890: Territory of Oklahoma created 1918: General Motors acquires Chevrolet 1927: Supreme Court permits forced sterilization of "unfits" by States 1932: Pearl Buck"s "Good Earth" wins Pulitzer 1936: Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" premiers 1955: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" wins Pulitzer 1994: Dr. Kervokian found innocent of assisting suicides 2011: Osama bin Laden killed by Special Forces 2022: Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe v. Wade leaked Born: Hedda Hopper [gossip columnist], Red Baron, Benjamin Spock, Pinky Lee, Theodore Bikel, Engelbert Humperdinck, Lesley Gore, James Dyson, Larry Gatlin, Jamaal Wilkes, Dwayne Johnson, David Beckham, Kyle Busch,  Died: Athanaisus, Leonardo da Vinci, Joseph McCarthy, J Edgar Hoover, Norm Van Brocklin, Lynn Redgrave, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Bobby Unser,  Thought: Reading John 16:5-15 this morning.Jesus again tells his disciples He is g...

 History: 1753: Linnaeus publishes "Species Plantarum" starting plant taxonomy 1776: Secret Society of Illuminati founded 1786: Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" premiers 1840: First adhesive postage stamp issued--Penny Black 1867: Howard University chartered 1893: World Columbian Exposition opens in Chigago 1920: Babe Ruth's first home rum for the Yankees 1931: Empire State Building opens 1939: Batman first appears in Detective Comics #27 1939: Back to the Bible broadcasts begin in Lincoln Nebraska 1948: Citation wins the Kentucky Derby 1941: Cheerioats introduced, changed to Cheerios in 1945 1952: Mr. Potato Head introduced 1960: Francis Gary Powers shot down by Soviets 1961: Harper Lee wins Pulitzer for "To Kill a Mockingbird" 1982: World's Fair opens in Knoxville 1999: SpomgeBob Square Pants premiers 2009: Same sex marriage legalized in Sweden Born: Kamehameha [King of Hawaii], Mother Jones, Calamity Jane, Kate Smith, Glenn Ford, Jack Paar, Jos...

  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...