Good Morning and God Bless to ALL !
Today is December 17, the 351st day of 2013 and there are 14 days left this year and it is a blessed day to be here in the work of our Lord at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
Sorry I am a little late this morning …Knew I was behind schedule and so I had to search for my list of excuses and couldn’t find it!!! It is another beautiful day out this morning in Albuquerque where we’re expecting highs in the mid to upper 50’s today while we bask in God’s glorious sunshine!
So, What Happened Today In 1862:
General Grant Expels Jews From Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi
On this day in 1862, during the Civil War, U.S. Army General Ulysses S. Grant, the future 18th president of the United States, issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews suspected of engaging in war profiteering from a region occupied by the Union Army.
Grant was commander of the military’s administrative “department” of Tennessee (consisting of Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi) and was in charge of issuing trade licenses. Although President Abraham Lincoln permitted limited trade in southern cotton, Grant was tasked with shutting down the black-market trade in the cotton industry. Swayed by the commonly held prejudice that Jews were largely responsible for war profiteering, Grant blamed the district’s Jewish community for organizing the illegal trade in black-market cotton.
Grant’s order prohibited the issuing of trade licenses to Jews within the Tennessee district. Furthermore, it required them to leave the district within 24 hours of the order or risk imprisonment. Grant’s zealous underlings immediately began to enforce the order: Entire families were marched out of town with only what they could carry.
According to the American Jewish Historical Society’s research, Lincoln did not know about Grant’s order and expressed surprise when a group of Jewish leaders met with him to protest Grant’s decree. President Lincoln disapproved of the order and expressed his disbelief to Grant in a letter: “a paper purporting to be [issued by you] has been presented here. It expels all Jews from your department. If such an order has been issued, it will be immediately revoked.” Three days later, Grant obeyed the commander in chief’s orders and revoked General Order No. 11. Lincoln later told Jewish representatives that “to condemn a class is, to say the least, to wrong the good with the bad” and promised to not only rid the country of slavery, but to protect Americans from religious discrimination.
Grant’s reputation was not tarnished by the General Order No. 11 episode. In fact, after the war, most Americans regarded Grant as a hero and he went on to win the majority of the Jewish vote in the presidential election of 1868. As president, he appointed Jews to top federal positions.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On December 17 In History:
1538 – England’s King Henry VIII is excommunicated by Pope Paul III;
1777 – French foreign minister, Charles Gravier, Count of Vergennes, officially acknowledges the United States as an independent nation;
1790 – Aztec calender stone is discovered in Mexico City;
1791 – New York City traffic regulation creates the 1st ‘One Way’ street in the U.S.;
1798 – 1st impeachment trial begins against a U.S. senator, (W. Blount, TN);
1903 – Orville & Wilber Wright perform 1st successful flight of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft near Kitty Hawk North Carolina;
1914 – Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities;
1924 – 1st U.S. diesel-electric locomotive enters service in Bronx, NY;
1938 – German chemists Otto Hahn & Fritz Strass Mann discover nuclear fission by splitting the nuclei of uranium into lighter elements in Berlin, Germany;
1941 – In WWII, Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel was relieved of his command of the U.S. pacific fleet in the wake of the Pearl Harbor disaster;
1944 – During WWII, U.S. Major General Pratt declares that effective January 2, 1945, Japanese American “evacuees” from the west coast could return home. In June of 1942 there were more than 110,000 Japanese Americans put in internment camps during the war with Japan;
1953 – FCC approves RCA’s black & white compatible color TV specifications;
1957 – The U.S. successfully test-fired the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile for the 1st time;
1971 – During the Vietnam war, Cambodian government positions in Prak Ham north of Phnom Penh & a 4,000-man base at Taing Kauk becomes the target of continuous heavy bombardment by communist forces. After 5 years of war Cambodian forces surrendered to the Khmer Rouge. The Victorious Khmer Rouge emptied the cities and forced millions into forced labor camps, murdered hundreds of thousands of opponents & caused hundreds of thousands of deaths from exhaustion, hunger & disease;
1975 – Federal jury in Sacramento California sentences Lynette Alice Fromme, refered to as “Squeaky,” to life in prison for her assassination attempt on President Gerald R. Ford;
1979 – Stuntman Stan Barrett breaks the sound barrier blasting across a dry lakebed at California’s Edwards Air Force Base;
1990 – Radical Catholic Priest, Jean-Bertrand Aristide becomes 1st freely elected president of Haiti in a landslide victory;
1991 – After a long meeting between Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev & President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin, a spokesman for the latter announces that the Soviet Union will officially cease to exist on or before new years eve ending the nation that President Ronald Reagan called “The Evil Empire”;
2011 – Kim Jong II, leader of North Korea dies.
Today’s Political Quote:
Today’s Word Of The Day:
Propaganda – is any kind of information that is spread to help or harm a specific doctrine, system, person, group and so on. The origin of the word is connected with the “College of the Propaganda,” a school created by Pope Urban VIII to educate priests for missions around the world.
Today’s ‘Maybe We Should Re-Word That!’:
Today’s Funny ?:
Why is the show called unsolved mysteries? – If they were solved they wouldn’t be mysteries.
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
Do You Hear What I Hear – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLhL0UQwJ8E&list=PL21AB3D686BCB9474&index=11
Today’s ‘Chickens Rights Day’ Quote:
Today’s Christian Thought:
Next time your day goes south, here is what you do: Steep yourself in the grace of God. Saturate your day in His love. Marinate your mind in His mercy. He has settled your accounts, paid your debt.
“Christ carried our sins in His body on the cross.”
1 Peter 2:24
Today’s Funny Dog Picture:
UNTIL TOMORROW – GOD BLESS TO ALL !!!
