Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is February 5, the 36th day of 2014 and there are 329 days left this year where it is another Blessed Day in the pleasure of doing the work or our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
So, What Happened Today In 1631 ?
Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island and the first Baptist Church in America, arrives in America
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island and an important American religious leader, arrives in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England. Williams, a Puritan, worked as a teacher before serving briefly as a colorful pastor at Plymouth and then at Salem. Within a few years of his arrival, he alarmed the Puritan oligarchy of Massachusetts by speaking out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension and to confiscate Indian land. In October 1635, he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court.
After leaving Massachusetts, Williams, with the assistance of the Narragansett tribe, established a settlement at the junction of two rivers near Narragansett Bay, located in present-day Rhode Island. He declared the settlement open to all those seeking freedom of conscience and the removal of the church from civil matters, and many dissatisfied Puritans came. Taking the success of the venture as a sign from God, Williams named the community “Providence.”
Among those who found a haven in the religious and political refuge of the Rhode Island Colony were Anne Hutchinson, like Williams, exiled from Massachusetts for religious reasons; some of the first Jews to settle in North America; and the Quakers. In Providence, Roger Williams also founded the first Baptist church in America and edited the first dictionary of Native American languages.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On February 5 In History:
1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society;
1777 – Georgia formally adopts a new state constitution and becomes the first U.S. state to abolish the inheritance practices of primogeniture and entail. Primogeniture ensured that the eldest son in a family inherited the largest portion of his father’s property upon the father’s death. The practice of entail, guaranteeing that a landed estate remain in the hands of only one male heir, was frequently practiced in conjunction with primogeniture;
1783 – Sweden recognizes the independence of the United States;
1783 – The estimated 7.5 to 8.0-magnitude quake struck at about 1 p.m. in the Calabria province. Within a minute, over 100 villages were leveled throughout the region. Communities were literally wiped away with no survivors or standing structures remaining. The quake also produced an uncommon number of fractures in the Earth’s surface. In one case, a mile-long ravine–nearly 100 feet wide–was instantly created. According to one report, more than 100 goats fell into another crack in the earth. A total of 80,000 people died in the earthquake of 1783;
1826 – Millard Fillmore, who later becomes the 13th president of the United States, marries Abigail Powers, a New York native and a preacher’s daughter. The social life of the White House was fairly quiet under Abigail Fillmore. She preferred reading to parties and opted out of many social events due to an old ankle injury that left her with chronic pain. Fillmore lasted one term as president. At his successor’s inauguration, held outdoors in the freezing cold, Abigail became ill with pneumonia and died a short time later;
1850 – Adding machine employing depressible keys is patented in New Paltz, New York;
1865 – During the American Civil War, at the Battle of Dabney’s Mill, also known as Hatcher’s Run, Union and Confederate forces around Petersburg, Virginia, begin a three-day battle that produces 3,000 casualties but ends with no significant advantage for either side;
1883 – In the Old West, the Southern Pacific Railroad completes its transcontinental “Sunset Route” from New Orleans to California, consolidating its dominance over rail traffic to the Pacific;
1881 – Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated;
1917 – With more than a two-thirds majority, Congress overrides President Woodrow Wilson’s veto of the previous week and passes the Immigration Act. The law required a literacy test for immigrants and barred Asiatic laborers, except for those from countries with special treaties or agreements with the United States, such as the Philippines;
1917 – After seven years of revolution and civil upheaval, Mexican President Venustiano Carranza proclaims the modern Mexican constitution, which promises the restoration of lands to native peoples, the separation of church and state, and dramatic economic and educational reforms. The progressive political document combined revolutionary demands for land reform with advanced social theory. It would be decades, however, before most of the sweeping reforms promised by the constitution became reality. Carranza was deposed and killed in 1920, and lasting stability eluded Mexico until after World War II when industrialism spurred by the war grew into a major part of the economy and Miguel Aleman became the first in an unbroken series of civilian presidents;
1918 – During World War I, the Anchor line steamship Tuscania, traveling as part of a British convoy and transporting over 2,000 American soldiers bound for Europe, is torpedoed and sinks off the coast of Ireland by the German submarine U-77. Of the 2,397 American servicemen on the Tuscania, the convoy was able to rescue 2,187, along with the majority of the ship’s British crew;
1918 – In World War I, Lt. Stephen W. Thompson of Dayton, Ohio becomes first U.S. military serviceman to shoot down an enemy airplane. Since his American squadron had not yet started flying missions, while visiting a nearby French bombing squadron, Thompson was invited to replace a sick French pilot. Once inside German territory, Thompson was attacked and Thompson shot down an Albatros fighter over Saarbrucken;
1922 – The first edition of Reader’s Digest was published;
1937 – First Charlie Chaplin ‘talkie’ movie, “Modern Times” is released;
1937 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices; the proposal, which failed in Congress, drew accusations that Roosevelt was attempting to “pack” the nation’s highest court;
1941 – During World War II, Adolf Hitler scolds his Axis partner, Benito Mussolini, for his troops’ retreat in the face of British advances in Libya, demanding that the Duce command his forces to resist;
1952 – New York adopts ‘Three Color’ traffic light system;
1953 – Walt Disney’s animated feature “Peter Pan” was first released;
1960 – In the Vietnam War, the South Vietnamese government requests that Washington double U.S. Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG-Vietnam) strength. The advisory group was formed on November 1, 1955 to provide military assistance to South Vietnam. MAAG-Vietnam had U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps elements that provided advice and assistance to the South Vietnamese Ministry of Defense, Joint General Staff and corps and division commanders, as well as to training centers and province and district headquarters. In May 1964, MAAG-Vietnam was disbanded and its personnel and responsibilities absorbed by the U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), which had been established in Saigon two years earlier;
1973 – Juan Corona is sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders. Corona was a labor contractor who hired migrant workers for produce fields in California. In a murder spree lasting six weeks he raped and murdered 25 men and buried their machete-hacked bodies in the orchards owned by local farmers. He is presently still in Corcoran State Prison;
1973 – The United States Army buried its last official casualty of the Vietnam War, Colonel William Benedict Nolde, at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. He was 43 years old when he was killed-in-action on January 27, 1973 near An Loc when an artillery shell exploded just eleven hours before the truce began. He was an advisor to the South Vietnam Army and while he was not the last American to die in Vietnam, his death was the last recorded before the cease-fire and thus earned the dubious honor of being the last of 45,941 Americans killed during the conflict. As such, his funeral drew not only full military honors but considerably more brass than the funeral of a field-grade officer would normally command. Among 150 or so mourners were General Alexander Haig, the Army Vice Chief of Staff and Lieutenant General Robert E. Coffin, who had been his Commanding Officer when he served in Italy before his Vietnam tour;
1975 – North Vietnamese Gen. Van Tien Dung departs for South Vietnam to take command of communist forces in preparation for a new offensive. In December 1974, the North Vietnamese 7th Division and the newly formed 3rd Division attacked Phuoc Long Province, north of Saigon. This attack represented an escalation in the “cease-fire war” that started shortly after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973. The attack was much more successful than the North Vietnamese anticipated: the South Vietnamese soldiers fought poorly and the United States did nothing. The North Vietnamese decided to launch a major offensive against the South Vietnamese. “Campaign 275” began on March 1, 1975. The North Vietnamese forces quickly overran the South Vietnamese and the United States failed to provide the promised support. Saigon fell on April 30 and the South Vietnamese government officially surrendered;
1988 – Two federal grand juries in Florida announce indictments of Panama military strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega and 16 associates on drug smuggling and money laundering charges. Noriega, the de facto dictator of Panama since 1983, was charged with smuggling marijuana into the United States, laundering millions of U.S. dollars, and assisting Colombia’s Medellin drug cartel in trafficking cocaine to America
1989 – In an important move signaling the close of the nearly decade-long Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan, the last Russian troops withdraw from the capital city of Kabul. Less than two weeks later, all Soviet troops departed Afghanistan entirely, ending what many observers referred to as Russia’s “Vietnam.”;
2004 – Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf pardoned the country’s top nuclear scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, for leaking weapons technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea;
2012 – 36-year-old Josh Powell, who had been in the public eye since police labeled him a person of interest in the 2009 disappearance of his 28-year-old wife, Susan, locks out a social worker then kills himself and his two sons, ages 5 and 7, by setting fire to his Graham, Washington, home;
2013 – United Kingdom House of Commons votes in favor of same-sex marriage;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY !
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff !
Today’s ‘I Wonder Why’ From Rick:
I wonder why it only takes 30 days or less, sometimes only a week, to get food stamps and cash assistance when it takes up to 6 months, frequently over a year, for disabled military veterans to get their disability benefits?
Today’s ‘It’s Just An Observation’ From Rick:
President Obama went on the road Thursday where he faced hostile questions about Obamacare. He answered if you have trouble with the Obamacare website, you can always apply by mail. Only the federal government could develop a website that’s slower than the US mail service!
Today’s ‘Dog Thoughts’:
Today’s Founder’s Quote:
“A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.”
– Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
Today’s Thought For The Day:
“The greater the philosopher, the harder it is for him to answer the questions of common people.”
– Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Somewhere In Hawaii
Today’s ‘Astute Visionary’:
“If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.”
– Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M “Post-It” Notepads.
Today’s ‘So Long Ago’:
Not So Long Ago – A web was a spider’s home and a virus meant you were sick, probably the flu!
Today’s Construction Site Oops Picture:
Today’s Crazy Label Instruction:
Found on some Swann frozen dinners – “Serving suggestion: Defrost.”
Today’s Crazy Law:
In Alabama – You may not have an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time.
Today’s BONUS ‘AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Video:
Mountains of Switzerland – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sni8ZuRgJ5s&feature=player_embedded
Today’s ‘Cuddling Teddy Bears’ Picture:
Today’s Funny Animal Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bxp6zUO94jo
Today’s ‘Let’s Be Friends’ Picture:
Today’s Joke Of The Day:
“The Dumb Yuppie”
A yuppie opened the door of his BMW when suddenly a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off completely.
When the police arrived at the scene, the yuppie was complaining bitterly about the damage to his precious BMW.
“Officer, look what they’ve done to my Beeeemer!!!” he whined.
“You yuppies are so materialistic, you make me sick!!!” retorted the officer.
“You’re so worried about your stupid BMW that you didn’t even notice that your left arm was ripped off!”
“Oh my gaaad…” replied the yuppie, finally noticing the bloody left shoulder where his arm once was.
“WHERE’S MY ROLEX!!!!!”
Today’s ‘Welcome Home Soldier’:
Today’s Inspirational Quote:
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
– Wayne Dyer
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
Wanted – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8C-povr7b6k
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
– Isaiah 2:22
Father God, you know the broken places in my heart that were caused by the failure of people in my life. I confess that I have sometimes become disillusioned with your way because of the failures and inconsistencies in your people. Deep down I know, dear Father, that their failures do not mean your failure, but it is hard for it not to feel that way. Call me close to you. Give me a more gracious heart toward those who fail me. Establish my faith, strong and firm in you, O LORD. In you I put my trust. In Jesus’ name. Amen
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – America, Bless GOD !!!
