Good Morning and God Bless Everyone !
Today is December 11, the 345th day of 2013 and there are 20 days left this year.
Another beautiful day here in Albuquerque NM where it is presently 14 degrees and a windchill factor of 4. It’s expected to get up to a balmy 30 degrees today and we’ll be basking in God’s sunshine!
Just another blessed and beautiful day here in our work for the Lord at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
So, What Happened Today In 1872:
Buffalo Bill Cody Performs His First Stage Appearance
Already appearing as a well-known figure of the Wild West in popular dime novels, Buffalo Bill Cody makes his first stage appearance on this day, in a Chicago-based production of The Scouts of the Prairie.
Unlike many of his imitators in Wild West shows and movies, William Frederick Cody actually played an important role in the western settlement that he later romanticized and celebrated. Born in Iowa in 1846, Cody joined the western messenger service of Majors and Russell as a rider while still in his teens. He later rode for the famous Pony Express, during which time he completed the third longest emergency ride in the brief history of that company. During the Civil War, Cody joined forces with a variety of irregular militia groups supporting the North. In 1864, he enlisted in the Union army as a private and served as a cavalry teamster until 1865.
Cody began to earn his famous nickname in 1867, when he signed on to provide buffalo meat for the workers of the Eastern Division of the Union Pacific Railroad construction project. His reputation for skilled marksmanship and experience as a rapid-delivery messenger attracted the attention of U.S. Army Lieutenant General Philip Sheridan, who gave Cody an unusual four-year position as a scout-a testament to Cody’s extraordinary frontier skills.
Cody’s work as a scout in the western Indian wars laid the foundation for his later fame. From 1868 to 1872, he fought in 16 battles with Indians, participating in a celebrated victory over the Cheyenne in 1869. One impressed general praised Cody’s “extraordinarily good services as trailer and fighter… his marksmanship being very conspicuous.” Later, Cody again gained national attention by serving as a hunting guide for famous Europeans and Americans eager to experience a bit of the “Wild West” before it disappeared. As luck would have it, one of Cody’s customers was Edward Judson, a successful writer who penned popular dime novels under the name Ned Buntline. Impressed by his young guide’s calm competence and stories of dramatic fights with Indians, Buntline made Cody the hero of a highly imaginative Wild West novel published in 1869. When a stage version of the novel debuted in Chicago as The Scouts of the Prairie, Buntline convinced Cody to abandon his real-life western adventures to play a highly exaggerated version of himself in the play.
Once he had a taste of the performing life, Cody never looked back. Though he continued to spend time scouting or guiding hunt trips in the West, Cody remained on the Chicago stage for the next 11 years. Buffalo Bill Cody was the hero of more than 1,700 variant issues of dime novels, and his star shone even more brightly when his world-famous Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show debuted in 1883. The show was still touring when Buffalo Bill Cody died in 1917.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events That Occurred On December The 11th In History:
1620 – Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock with 103 Pilgrims;
1777 – General George Washington begins march from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge Pennsylvania but is delayed by General Cornwallis who discovered them by surprise. Outnumbered, Washington retreated & burned the bridge over the Schuylkill River to prevent several thousand British troops from attacking. The Continental Army finally reached Valley Forge safely on December the 19th where they would face a winter of starvation, disease & death;
1792 – France’s King Louis XVI goes before the Convention facing charges of treason. He was convicted and executed the following month;
1815 – President James Madison presents congress with a trade agreement with Great Britain to regulate commerce between the two countries. The agreement came just one year after the signing of the treaty ending the War of 1812;
1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th state;
1844 – 1st dental use of Nitrous Oxide in Hartford, CT;
1862 – Union Army of the Potomac occupies Fredericksburg Virginia as General Burnside continues to execute his plan to capture Richmond Virgina;
1901 – 1st trans-Atlantic radio signal completed between Cornwall England to Newfoundland;
1915 – Yuan Shih-kai accepts Chinese throne;
1928 – Buenos Aires police announce they had thwarted an assassination attempt on President-elect Herbert Hoover;
1941 – Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States after being taken by surprise by Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii;
1944 – Toronto Canada is battered with its worst ever snowfall. 21 people died when the city received nearly 20 inches of snow in one day;
1946 – In the aftermath of WWII, the United Nations General Assembly establishes the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, (UNICEF);
1961 – USNS Core arrives in Saigon with the 1st U.S. helicopter unit to be used to transport South Vietnamese troops;
1962 – New York City authorities vote against building elevated expressway across lower Manhattan that would have linked the Holland Tunnel on the west side with Williamsburg & Manhattan bridges on the east;
1969 – Soviets declare nudity as displayed in the popular American play “Oh! Calcutta!” is a sign of decadence in Western culture;
1969 – Paratroopers from the U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division departs Vietnam. The unit had been sent to Vietnam in February 1968 as an emergency response to the Communist Tet Offensive;
1972 – Apollo 17’s lunar lander landed on the moon with astronauts Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt aboard, the last two men to step onto the lunar surface;
1983 – 1st visit to a Lutheran Church by a Pope, (John Paul II in Rome);
1990 – 13 die in 83 vehicle pileup on I-75 in Chattanooga Tennessee due to fog;
1994 – Yeltsin orders Russian forces into Chechnya;
2008 – Financier Bernard Madoff is arrested in New York City & charged with masterminding a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme.
Today’s ‘I Wonder ?’:
Is the word Dictionary in the dictionary? (Yep, I looked too!)
Today’s Amazing ‘Useless’ Fact:
A snail can sleep for up to 3 years.
Today’s Faithful Quote:
“I want to know all God’s thoughts; all the rest are details.” – Albert Einstein
Today’s Advice:
It’s better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you’re stupid than to open it and remove all doubt!
Today’s Questionable Headline:
“Police Begin Campaign To Run Down Jaywalkers” (That’s taking it a bit far isn’t it?)
Today’s ‘Did You Know’:
Early politicians required feedback from the public to determine what the people considered important. Since there were no telephones, TV’s or radios, the politicians sent their assistants to local taverns, pubs, and bars. They were told to ‘go sip some Ale and listen to people’s conversations and political concerns’. Many assistants were dispatched at different times. ‘You go sip here’ and ‘You go sip there.’ The two words ‘go sip’ were eventually combined when referring to the local opinion polls and thus we have the term ‘gossip’.
Today’s ‘Do You Remember How To Use This?:
Today’s Inspiration Music Video:
It’s time to get in that Christmas Spirit!!! – “A Christmas Celebration” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDki7Vj0oIA
Today’s Funny Picture:
You need a hug Mom – 
Today’s Inspirational Thought:
UNTIL TOMORROW – GOD BLESS TO ALL !!!