Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !!!
Today is January 16, the 16th day of 2014 and there are 349 days left this year where it is another Blessed day in the work for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
It’s another wonderful day as it is presently 31 degrees outside with no wind at about 6 a.m. We’re expecting a high of 55 today with God’s glorious sunshine beaming down us all day.
So, What Happened Today In 1991:
The Persian Gulf War, “Desert Storm”, Begins As Allied Air Forces Commence Shock & Awe Bombing Tactics
At midnight in Iraq, the United Nations deadline for the Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait expires, and the Pentagon prepares to commence offensive operations to forcibly eject Iraq from its five-month occupation of its oil-rich neighbor. At 4:30 p.m. EST, the first fighter aircraft were launched from Saudi Arabia and off U.S. and British aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf on bombing missions over Iraq. All evening, aircraft from the U.S.-led military coalition pounded targets in and around Baghdad as the world watched the events transpire in television footage transmitted live via satellite from Baghdad and elsewhere. At 7:00 p.m., Operation Desert Storm, the code-name for the massive U.S.-led offensive against Iraq, was formally announced at the White House.
The operation was conducted by an international coalition under the command of U.S. General Norman Schwarzkopf and featured forces from 32 nations, including Britain, Egypt, France, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. During the next six weeks, the allied force engaged in a massive air war against Iraq’s military and civil infrastructure, and encountered little effective resistance from the Iraqi air force or air defenses. Iraqi ground forces were helpless during this stage of the war, and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s only significant retaliatory measure was the launching of SCUD missile attacks against Israel and Saudi Arabia. Saddam hoped that the missile attacks would provoke Israel to enter the conflict, thus dissolving Arab support of the war. At the request of the United States, however, Israel remained out of the war.
On February 24, a massive coalition ground offensive began, and Iraq’s outdated and poorly supplied armed forces were rapidly overwhelmed. Kuwait was liberated in less than four days, and a majority of Iraq’s armed forces surrendered, retreated into Iraq, or were destroyed. On February 28, President George H.W. Bush declared a cease-fire, and Iraq pledged to honor future coalition and U.N. peace terms. One hundred and twenty-five American soldiers were killed in the Persian Gulf War, with another 21 regarded as missing in action.
On March 20, 2003, a second war between Iraq and a U.S.-led coalition began, this time with the stated U.S. objective of removing Saddam Hussein from power and, ostensibly, finding and destroying the country’s weapons of mass destruction. Hussein was captured by a U.S. military unit on December 13, 2003. No weapons of mass destruction were found. Although U.S. President George W. Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq on May 1, 2003, an insurgency has continued an intense guerrilla war in the nation that has resulted in thousands of coalition military, insurgent and civilian deaths.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On January 16 In History:
27 BC – The title “Augustus” is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate;
1120 – The council of Nablus is held establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem;
1547 – Ivan IV of Russia, popularly known as “Ivan the Terrible” is crowned Czar;
1581 – English parliament passes law against Catholicism;
1777 – Vermont declares independence from New York;
1780 – During the American Revolutionary War, British Admiral Sir George Rodney, with 18 ships-of-the-line, engages an inferior Spanish squadron of 11 battleships commanded by Don Juan de Langara off the southwestern coast of Portugal at Cape St. Vincent, in what comes to be known as The Moonlight Battle. The Spanish, who were at war with the British because they had chosen to back the American rebels in the War for Independence, saw the British fleet in pursuit and attempted to retreat home to the port of Cadiz;
1786 – The Council of Virginia guarantees religious freedom;
1847 – In the American ‘Old West’, A leader in the successful fight to wrest California away from Mexico, the explorer and mapmaker John C. Fremont briefly becomes governor of the newly won American territory;
1861 – Shortly before the beginning of the Civil War, the “Crittenden Compromise”, a last-ditch effort to keep the North & South united, dies in the U.S. Senate;
1883 – U.S. Civil Service Commission is established;
1919 – The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibiting the “manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes,” is ratified and becomes the law of the land;
1936 – Albert Fish is executed at Sing Sing prison in New York. The “Moon Maniac” was one of America’s most notorious and disturbed killers. Authorities believe that Fish killed as many as 10 children and then ate their remains. Fish went to the electric chair with great anticipation, telling guards, “It will be the supreme thrill, the only one I haven’t tried.”;
1939 – “SUPERMAN” debuts as a comic strip;
1944 – During World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower formally assumed command of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in London, England;
1945 – In World War II, Adolf Hitler takes to his underground bunker, where he remains for 105 days until he commits suicide. Hitler retired to his bunker after deciding to remain in Berlin for the last great siege of the war. Fifty-five feet under the chancellery (Hitler’s headquarters as chancellor), the shelter contained 18 small rooms and was fully self-sufficient, with its own water and electrical supply. He left only rarely (once to decorate a squadron of Hitler Youth) and spent most of his time micromanaging what was left of German defenses and entertaining Nazi colleagues like Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Constantly at his side during this time were his companion, Eva Braun, and his Alsatian, Blondi;
1945 – During World War II, the Battle of the Bulge effectively ends as the U.S. First and Third Armies link up at Houffalize, Belgium;
1956 – Egypt proclaims Islam the official state religion;
1969 – During the Vietnam War, an agreement is reached in Paris for the opening of expanded peace talks. It was agreed that representatives of the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the National Liberation Front would sit at a circular table without nameplates, flags or markings;
1969 – Two manned Soviet Soyuz spaceships become the first vehicles to dock in space and transfer personnel between the two;
1979 – Faced with an army mutiny and violent demonstrations against his rule, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the leader of Iran since 1941, is forced to flee the country. Fourteen days later, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of the Islamic revolution, returned after 15 years of exile and took control of Iran;
1990 – In the wake of vicious fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in Azerbaijan, the Soviet government sends in 11,000 troops to quell the conflict. The fighting–and the official Soviet reaction to it–was an indication of the increasing ineffectiveness of the central Soviet government in maintaining control in the Soviet republics, and of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s weakening political power;
2003 – The space shuttle Columbia blasted off for what turned out to be its last flight; on board was Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. The mission ended in tragedy on Feb. 1, when the shuttle broke up during its return descent, killing all seven crew members;
2009 – President-elect Barack Obama made a pitch for his massive economic stimulus plan at a factory in Bedford Heights, Ohio, saying his proposal would make smart investments in the country’s future and create solid jobs in up-and-coming industries;
2013 – Pauline Phillips, who for more than 40 years wrote the “Dear Abby” newspaper advice column, dies at age 94 in Minneapolis after battling Alzheimer’s disease. Using the pen name Abigail Van Buren, Phillips made her “Dear Abby” debut in 1956, and over the ensuing decades dispensed witty advice on a broad range of topics, from snoring to sex. With a daily readership eventually topping 110 million people, “Dear Abby” became the world’s most widely syndicated newspaper column, appearing in some 1,400 newspapers and generating around 10,000 letters per week;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY!
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff:
Today’s ‘Did You Realize’:
As of this morning, in our National Debt, just to the country of China, the United States of America owes $1.3 trillion. That equates to $1,000.00 for every individual in the country of China! During his election campaign, when the total national debt approached $10 trillion, Obama stated this was “Un-Patriotic”(?). The total nation debt now approaches $17 trillion!
Today’s Funny Animal Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6vxPmtoXclo
Today’s ‘The AWE of GOD” Picture:
Today’s Thought:
I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
God So Loved – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1RSi8nRZKTw
Today’s Quote:
“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world!” – Thomas Edison
Today’s Patriotic Quote:
“Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.” – Ulysses S. Grant
Today’s Moment That Makes Us Happy:
Today’s Word Of The Day:
Folksonomy – is a neologism formed with the words folk andtaxonomy. It is the classification of online content based on user-generated tags. This classification can be the work of a single individual, but more often it refers to the cooperation among many individuals of a particular online service or community.
Today’s ‘Yiddish’ Word You Should Know:
bupkes – Not a word for polite company. Bubkes or bobkes may be related to the Polish word for “beans”, but it really means “goat droppings” or “horse droppings.” It’s often used by American Jews for “trivial, worthless, useless, a ridiculously small amount” – less than nothing, so to speak. “After all the work I did, I got bupkes!”
Today’s Funny Warning Sign:
Today’s Crazy Law:
In Anniston, Alabama – You may not wear blue jeans down Noble Street.
Today’s Crazy ?/Thought:
What do you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?
Today’s ‘Oops’ Construction Picture:
Today’s Joke Of The Day:
Two morons are trying to measure a telephone pole.
They keep trying to climb it and keep sliding down.
Along comes this really big, musclebound shmuck and says, “Hey, what are you guys doing?”
The two idiots say, “We’re trying to measure the height of this pole.”
The schmuck wraps his arms around the pole, pulls it out of the ground, lays it down and measures it.
Then he picks it up, puts it back in the ground, says “40 feet” and walks away.
The first moron says to the other, “What a stupid idiot – we wanted the *height*, not the length.”
Today’s Verse And Prayer:
So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. – Galatians 5:16
Father, I thank you so much for your Holy Spirit that lives in me and is now interceding with you for me. Please fill me with your Spirit so that my life more nearly reflects your will and focuses on your concerns. Through Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – GOD BLESS To Every One !!!
