Hello everyone ! It is a cold but Glorious day in our work for the Lord here at
For Gods Glory Alone Ministries !!
Starting today, I am going to attempt to do a daily post titled “Today In History” which will obviously be a new post for us here. I ask everyone be patient as I find new or better places to find information and finalize a set format for this item each day.
I will attempt to give you some of the more interesting things, or even the least know things, that happened on ‘today in history’. I will pick one of the items and provide a more detailed and/or informative narration to that item. Many times, an item in recent history will already be posted on here and many other locations and may possibly even be in the news stream that day. My intent is to provide information on a particular subject which may not quite be known so widely.
Such as today, obviously, the #1 memory or story to folks today, on this day in history, would be the assassination of President John F Kennedy in 1963. Who remembers that C.S. Lewis also died the very same day? There have already been a couple posts here on fggam.org, one by myself, on President Kennedy and it will be covered in the news all day today.
So, for a first shot at this, here we go:
What happened today in 1783:
On November 22, 1783 – John Hanson, the first president of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation, dies in his home state of Maryland. Hanson is sometimes called the ‘first’ president of the United States, but this is a misnomer, since the presidency did not exist as an executive position separate from Congress until the federal Constitution created the role upon its ratification in 1789.
Hanson was the self-educated son of Charles County, Maryland farmers. His family had lived in Maryland for three generations beginning with the emigration from England of his grandfather, for whom he was named. At age 25, John married 16 year old Jane Contee in Maryland. Their lasting union produced nine children, five of whom survived to adulthood, although their son Peter was later killed in action as a Continental soldier at Fort Washington, New York in November 1776.
Hanson’s political career began in 1757 with his election to the Maryland Colonial Assembly. He returned to represent Charles County again from 1758-1763, 1765, 1766 and 1768-1769. As colonial-British relations frayed, Hanson took a seat in the revolutionary Annapolis Convention, which took control of the colony from the British in 1774 and renamed itself the Assembly of Freemen in 1776. An outspoken supporter of the Patriot cause, Hanson was instrumental in Maryland’s decision to back the rebels laying siege to British controlled Boston in the aftermath of the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Named a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1779, Hanson served in that body from 1780 to 1782, including a term as the president of Congress, (a position similar to that of prime minister in the British Parliament) from 1781 to 1782, during which time the Articles of Confederation were finally ratified and General George Washington defeated the British army at Yorktown, Virginia. Upon the ratification of the Articles on March 11, 1781, the Continental Congress became the “Congress of the Confederation” or the United States in Congress Assembled”. Hanson was the first president of that body, but not of the United States.
Other memorable events:
365 – Felix II ends reign as Catholic Pope;
498 – St. Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II;
1718 – Blackbeard was killed off the shores of North Carolina;
1842 – Mt St. Helens erupts in Washington state;
1864 – Confederate General Hood enters Tennesse;
1900 – First Mercedes was taken for a test drive;
1908 – International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopted ‘SOS’ as the official distress call;
1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France;
1963 – Christian author and intellectual giant, C.S. Lewis dies;
1963 – President John F Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas;
1968 – Beatles release “The Beatles”, their only double album.
UNTIL TOMORROW – GOD BLESS TO ALL !
