Good Morning & God Bless To Everyone !!!
Today is January 11, the 11th day of 2014 and there are 354 days left this year where it is another BLESSED day here in the work for our Lord at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
It is another beautiful day here in Albuquerque NM where it is presently 26 degrees outside and a slight wind puts our windchill at about 17 but we’re expecting high in the low 50’s again under a glorious full sky of God’s bright & beautiful sunshine and no precipitation expected. Tomorrow is expected to be just about exactly the same.
So, What Happened Today In 1935:
American Aviator Amelia Earhart flies solo from Hawaii to California
In the first flight of its kind, American aviator Amelia Earhart departs Wheeler Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a solo flight to North America. Hawaiian commercial interests offered a $10,000 award to whoever accomplished the flight first. The next day, after traveling 2,400 miles in 18 hours, she safely landed at Oakland Airport in Oakland, California.
On May 21, 1932, exactly five years after American aviator Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Earhart became the first woman to repeat the feat when she landed her plane in Londonderry, Ireland. However, unlike Lindbergh when he made his historic flight, Earhart was already well-known to the public before her solo transatlantic flight. In 1928, as a member of a three-member crew, she had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an aircraft. Although her only function during the crossing was to keep the plane’s log, the event won her national fame, & Americans were enamored with the modest & daring young pilot. For her solo transatlantic crossing in 1932, she was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross by the U.S. Congress.
Two years after her Hawaii to California flight, she attempted with co-pilot Frederick J. Noonan to fly around the world, but her plane was lost on July 2, 1937, somewhere between New Guinea & Howland Island in the South Pacific. Radio operators picked up a signal that she was low on fuel–the last trace the world would ever know of Amelia Earhart.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On January 11 In History:
404 – Last Gladiator competition is held in Rome;
1759 – The first American life insurance corporation, for “poor & distressed” Presbyterian ministers & their widows & children, was chartered in Philadelphia;
1775 – Francis Salvador becomes the 1st Jew to hold an elected office in the Americas taking his seat on the South Carolina Provincial Congress;
1805 – Michigan Territory is created by an act of Congress;
1843 – Francis Scott Key, author of the “Star-Spangled Banner”, dies in Baltimore Maryland;
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the 1st woman in the United states to earn a medical degree;
1861 – Alabama becomes the 4th state to secede from the Union;
1863 – Union General John McClernand & Admiral David Porter capture Arkansas Post, a Confederate stronghold on the Arkansas River. The victory secured central Arkansas for the Union & lifted Northern morale just three weeks after the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia;
1908 – President Theodore Roosevelt declares the massive Grand Canyon in northwestern Arizona a national monument;
1913 – The 1st fully enclosed sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York;
1916 – To provide a safe & stable haven for the growing number of refugees pouring out of the devastated Balkan state of Serbia, French forces take formal military control of the Greek island of Corfu;
1922 – For the 1st time, insulin is used to treat diabetes on Leonard Thompson, 14, in Canada;
1927 – Charlie Chaplin’s $16 million estate is frozen by court receivers after his second wife, Lita Grey Chaplin, sues for divorce. Lita was a 16-year-old hopeful actress when the 35-year-old Chaplin married her in 1924. The bitter & prolonged divorce ended a three-year marriage with a $1 million settlement;
1928 – Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik revolution & early architect of the Soviet state is deported by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to Alma-Ata in remote Soviet Central Asia. He lived there in exile for a year before being banished from the USSR forever;
1937 – Nearly two weeks into a sit-down strike by General Motors (GM) auto workers at the Fisher Body Plant No. 2 in Flint, Michigan, a riot breaks out when police try to prevent the strikers from receiving food deliveries from supporters on the outside. Strikers & police officers alike were injured in the melee, which was later nicknamed the “Battle of the Running Bulls.” After the January 11 riot, Michigan governor Frank Murphy called in the National Guard to surround the plant. However, the governor, who wanted to preserve his reputation as a friend to the workingman, decided against ordering troops into the plant;
1940 – Benjamin Davis Sr. becomes the U.S. Army’s 1st black general. His son would later become a general as well;
1945 – During WWII, fighting in the Greek Civil War stops when a political truce is signed between the British-backed Democratic National Army & the communist National Liberation Front;
1948 – President Harry Truman proposes free, two-year community colleges for all who want an education;
1949 – Snowfall is recorded in Los Angeles California for the 1st time;
1949 – The cornerstone is laid at the 1st mosque of note in the United States on Connecticut Avenue in Washington D.C.;
1956 – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem issues Ordinance No. 6, allowing the internment of former Viet Minh members & others “considered as dangerous to national defense & common security.”;
1965 – Major cities, especially Saigon & Hue, & much of central Vietnam are disrupted by demonstrations & strikes led by Buddhists. Refusing to accept any government headed by Tran Van Huong, who they saw as a puppet of the United States, the Buddhists turned against U.S. institutions and their demonstrations took on an increasingly anti-American tone;
1966 – More than 10 inches of rain falls in 12 hours causing a flash flood in Rio de Janeiro Brazil killing 400 people & displacing 50,000 due to the sudden influx of water;
1973 – Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Washington D.C.;
1989 – After eight years as president of the United States, Ronald Reagan gives his farewell address to the American people. In his speech, President Reagan spoke with particular enthusiasm about the foreign policy achievements of his administration;
1991 – Congress empowers President George H W Bush to order attack on Iraq;
2010 – Miep Gies, the last survivor of a small group of people who helped hide a Jewish girl, Anne Frank, & her family from the Nazis during World War II, dies at age 100 in the Netherlands. After the Franks were discovered in 1944 & sent to concentration camps, Gies rescued the notebooks that Anne Frank left behind describing her two years in hiding. These writings were later published as “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,” which became one of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust;
2012 – Joran van der Sloot, a longtime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba, pleads guilty to the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, in Lima, Peru. Flores was killed on May 30, 2010, exactly five years to the day after Holloway went missing while on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island;
2013 – It was one year ago Today!
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff:
Today’s Funny Sign:
Today’s Educational Video:
In today’s world of computers and hi-tech gadgets most think that paper is a thing of the past. The following video will explain, explicitly, just exactly where that theory goes wrong: http://www.youtube.com/embed/V_gOZDWQj3Q?rel=0
Today’s Though For The Day:
Today’s Word Of The Day:
Pyrrhic (p1r’1k) – the noun, is a metrical unit. It is used more widely as an adjective, however, as in “pyrrhic victory,” which means a victory with huge costs. It makes reference to Pyrrhus from Epirus, who sustained great losses in order to defeat the Roman army.
Today’s ‘A Nation Run By Idiots’:
If, in the nation’s largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not one 24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat – you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
Today’s I’m Too Cute Picture:
Today’s Funny:
I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
Gold – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p9PjrtcHJPo
Today’s Patriotic Quote:
“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.” – Herbert Hoover
Today’s Remember The Days:
The Ross Sisters – back when performer’s performed, actor’s acted, entertainer’s entertained, & singer’s sang; and wholesome to boot – very enjoyable video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61cY1ILv60k&feature=player_embedded
Today’s Joke Of The Day:
This redneck was parked behind a trailer load of pigs near the zoo in Washington, DC. As the truck drove away–one of the pigs fell out. He walked over and picked the pig up and placed it in the front seat of his truck.
He was sitting there looking puzzled when a policeman walked up and asked what was going on. He told the story and the policeman recommended he take the pig to the zoo.
The redneck was sitting in the same spot the next day with the pig sitting up in the front seat. The cop said “didn’t I ask you to take this pig to the zoo?”
The redneck replied “I did and he liked it so well–today I’m taking him to the movies!”
Today’s Crazy Law:
Connecticut – it is illegal to pirouette while crossing the street.
Today’s Crazy ?:
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
Today’s Construction OOPS Picture:
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
In my anguish I cried to the Lord, and he answered by setting me free. The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? – Psalm 118:5-6
I am thankful, O God, that you refused to be God from a safe distance. Because you came and felt what it was like to be abandoned, forsaken, and alone, I know I can trust that I will never be forsaken by you. Please give me a clearer sense of your presence with me in my life today, I pray through Jesus. Amen.
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – GOD BLESS To Everyone !!!
