Hello everyone !
This morning we awake at my house with a light dusting of snow on the ground and a very chilly bite in the air but it is still a Glorious day in our work for the Lord here at
For Gods Glory Alone Ministries !!!
I love waking in the morning to see a beautiful layer of snow covering God’s precious earth, so refreshing!!!
“Today In History” is a new daily post for us here at FGGAM. Today, we’re going to add: ‘Today’s Funny’, ‘Today’s Pun Of The Day’ and ‘Today’s Thought For The Day’; I hope you get a kick out of it!
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.
What Happened Today In 1804:
On this day in 1804, Franklin Pierce, America’s 14th president, is born in a log cabin in Hillsborough, New Hampshire.
Pierce, described by biographers and contemporaries as a personable and sincere young man, worked as a lawyer before winning a seat in the New Hampshire state legislature in 1828, while his father served as New Hampshire’s governor. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1832 and fought in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), for which he received military honors.
As president, Pierce facilitated the acquisition of the territories that now make up the states of Arizona and New Mexico through the Gadsden Purchase of 1853. He also improved trade relations with Canada in exchange for greater U.S. fishing rights along the continent’s North Atlantic coast. However, he is best remembered for his endorsement of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether they would allow slavery or outlaw the practice. Foreshadowing the brutal Civil War that was soon to come, the territories erupted in sectarian violence after the act’s passing. Pierce’s failure to stem the fighting and his role in the Ostend Manifesto fiasco of 1854 (a secret plan to start a war with Spain in order to annex Cuba) proved to be his political undoing. Members of his own Democratic Party refused to re-nominate him for president in the election of 1856, popularizing the slogan “anybody but Pierce.”
In 1834, Pierce had married Jane Means Appleton and the couple had three sons. The first, Franklin, died in infancy; a second, Frank Robert, died at age four from typhus; and their third son, Benny, was killed in a train wreck from which Pierce and his wife narrowly escaped. The string of tragedies led Pierce to drinking. He also suffered from chronic nervous exhaustion. By the end of his term, a Philadelphia Enquirer reporter described Pierce as “a wreck of his former self…his face wears a hue so ghastly and cadaverous that one could almost fancy he was gazing on a corpse.” Upon leaving office in 1857, Pierce was asked what he would do next; he allegedly replied “there’s nothing left [to do] but get drunk.” The effects of alcoholism led to his death in 1869 at the age of 65.
Other 11/23 Memorable Events:
615 – Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale) dies;
800 – Charlemagne arrives in Rome to investigate alleged crimes of Pope Leo III;
1165 – Pope Alexander III returns from exile;
1584 – English parliament expels Jesuits;
1700 Cardinal Francesco Albany elected Pope Clemens XI;
1749 – Reluctant Patriot Edward Rutledge is born;
1819 – Union General Benjamin Prentiss is born;
1859 – ‘Billy The Kid’ was born;
1863 – Civil War battle of Chattanooga begins;
1915 – WWI battle of Ctesiphin in Mesopotama enters 2nd day;
1936 – First issue of ‘LIFE’ magazine is published;
1940 – Romania signs ‘Tripartite Pact’ allying itself with Axes forces of Germany, Italy & Japan;
1979 – Irish Republican Army (IRA) member Thomas McMahon sentenced for Mount Battens assassination;
1990 – ‘Charlie and The Chocolate Factory’ creator Roald Dahl dies;
2012 – Larry Hagman, popular star of TV’s ‘Dallas’ and ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ dies,
Today’s Funny:
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today; It’s already tomorrow in Australia!
Today’s Pun Of The Day:
What happened to the RICH guy with a DOUBLE CHIN? – – – He made a FOUR CHIN!!!
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. – John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)
Until Tomorrow – GOD BLESS TO ALL !
