Good Morning, God Bless & Happy New Years To Everyone !!!
Today is January 1, the 1st day of 2014 and there are 364 days left this year where it is another blessed day here in the work for our Lord at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
It’s the first day of a new year and it is a beautiful day to start of the year. At 8 a.m. this morning in Albuquerque it is presently 27 degrees outside with no windchill and we’re expecting a high around 51 as God spreads his beautiful sunshine over us. (That’s from the weather channel – I’ll go out in just a minute to get the wife’s paper and see how close they are!)
We continue to ask for your prayers for our Pastor Dewey’s precious boy Reno. Pastor was able to bring Reno home yesterday and I know that while he may still not be feeling well yet, he’s much happier to be home with Pastor, his precious wife Sharon & his sister Buffy who I know is trying everything she can to mother over him. Reno is doing OK but post surgery recovery is never easy and we pray for speedy healing & recovery & for strength for the Pastor & his wife. Their hearts are so big and it hurts them so to see their boy go through this.
We here at FGGAM are looking forward to another wonderful year in our work for the Lord. We are praying for great things to happen in our ministry where we’re hoping to add more TV, Radio & other opportunities, budget permitting, in our effort to be the Salt and the Light and want to reach out to as very many people as we can with the wonderful world of God’s Word. I am so very thankful for our two Pastor’s, Dewey Moede & Paul Holt who guide us so wisely & to have Isaac Milleson who is our IT man, (I call them ET – You’ve got to be an ET to understand the IT stuff!), who volunteers his work to us to keep our wonderful website working so well, & for all those who volunteer their help and time contributing their work for us. I also need to give a ‘shout out’ to our partner businesses who help support our operations; you can see their information on the front page of fggam.org. We ask you to continue to pray for our success in our work for Him who makes Everything happen! And, as always, we appreciate you, our followers and readers; you are the reason we’re here and we’re in love doing it!
So, What Happened Today in 45 BC:
New Years Day 
In 45 B.C., New Year’s Day is celebrated on January 1 for the first time in history as the Julian calendar takes effect.
Soon after becoming Roman dictator, Julius Caesar decided that the traditional Roman calendar was in dire need of reform. Introduced around the seventh century B.C., the Roman calendar attempted to follow the lunar cycle but frequently fell out of phase with the seasons and had to be corrected. In addition, the pontifices, the Roman body charged with overseeing the calendar, often abused its authority by adding days to extend political terms or interfere with elections.
In designing his new calendar, Caesar enlisted the aid of Sosigenes, an Alexandrian astronomer, who advised him to do away with the lunar cycle entirely & follow the solar year, as did the Egyptians. The year was calculated to be 365 & 1/4 days, and Caesar added 67 days to 45 B.C., making 46 B.C. begin on January 1, rather than in March. He also decreed that every four years a day be added to February, thus theoretically keeping his calendar from falling out of step. Shortly before his assassination in 44 B.C., he changed the name of the month Quintilis to Julius (July) after himself. Later, the month of Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) after his successor.
Celebration of New Year’s Day in January fell out of practice during the Middle Ages, and even those who strictly adhered to the Julian calendar did not observe the New Year exactly on January 1. The reason for the latter was that Caesar and Sosigenes failed to calculate the correct value for the solar year as 365.242199 days, not 365.25 days. Thus, an 11-minute-a-year error added seven days by the year 1000, & 10 days by the mid-15th century.
The Roman church became aware of this problem, & in the 1570s Pope Gregory XIII commissioned Jesuit astronomer Christopher Clavius to come up with a new calendar. In 1582, the Gregorian calendar was implemented, omitting 10 days for that year and establishing the new rule that only one of every four centennial years should be a leap year. Since then, people around the world have gathered en masse on January 1 to celebrate the precise arrival of the New Year.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring on January 1 In History:
1 – Origin of the Christian Era;
404 – Last Gladiator competition is held in Rome;
990 – Russia adopts Julian Calendar;
1500 – The Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral searches the coast of Brazil & claims the region for Portugal;
1502 – Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro;
1515 – Jews are expelled from Laibach Austria;
1600 – Scotland 1st begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of March 25;
1698 – The Abenaki Indians & Massachusetts colonists sign a treaty halting hostilities between the two;
1735 – American patriot Paul Revere is born in Boston Massachusetts;
1752 – Flag maker Betsy Ross is born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania;
1781 – 1,500 soldiers from the Pennsylvania Line, all 11 regiments under General Anthony Wayne’s command, insist that their 3 year enlistments are expired & kill 3 officers in a drunken rage & abandon the Continental Army’s winter camp at Morristown New Jersey;
1788 – London’s oldest running newspaper, “The Times” publishes its 1st edition;
1797 – Albany replaces New York City as the capital of New York State;
1803 – Two months after his defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s colonial forces, Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaims independence of Saint-Domingue renaming it Haiti after its original Arawak name;
1847 – Michigan becomes the 1st state to abolish capital punishment;
1862 – 1st United States income tax. If you made more than $600 it was 3% & 5% if you made over $10,000;
1863 – A farmer named Daniel Freeman submits the 1st claim under the new Homestead Act for a property near Beatrice Nebraska;
1863 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the final Emancipation Proclamation, which ends slavery in the rebelling states. A preliminary proclamation was issued in September 1862, following the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland. The act signaled an important shift in the Union’s Civil War aims, expanding the goal of the war from reunification to include the eradication of slavery;
1880 – Construction begins on the Panama Canal;
1908 – 1st ‘Times Square’ new years ball drops in New York City;
1912 – Republic of China is established;
1915 – The British battleship HMS Formidable is torpedoed by a German U-boat & sinks in the English Channel killing 547 crewmen;
1919 – Edsel Ford, the son of Model T inventor & auto industry pioneer Henry Ford, succeeds his father as president of the Ford Motor Company. The younger Ford ascended to the top spot after his father resigned the position in December 1918, following a disagreement with stockholders. However, father & son soon managed to purchase these dissenting investors’ stock & regain control of the company;
1928 – 1st U.S. office building with air conditioning opens in San Antonia Texas;
1934 – Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison;
1937 – At a party at the Hormel Mansion in Minnesota, a guest wins $100 for naming a new canned meat – SPAM;
1942 – President Franklin D Roosevelt & British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue a declaration, signed by 26 countries, called the “United Nations” vowing to create an international postwar peacekeeping organization;
1945 – In WWII operation Bodenplatte, German planes attack American forward air bases in Europe which is the last major offensive move of the Luftwaffe;
1946 – An American soldier accepts the surrender of about 20 Japanese soldiers who only discovered that the war was over by reading it in the newspaper. On the island of Corregidor, located at the mouth of Manila Bay, a lone soldier on detail for the American Graves Registration was busy recording the makeshift graves of American soldiers who had lost their lives fighting the Japanese. He was interrupted when approximately 20 Japanese soldiers approached him—literally waving a white flag. They had been living in an underground tunnel built during the war and learned that their country had already surrendered when one of them ventured out in search of water & found a newspaper announcing Japan’s defeat;
1950 – Ho Chi Ming begins offensive against French troops in Indochina;
1954 – NBC broadcast the first coast-to-coast color TV program as it presented live coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif;
1959 – Facing a popular revolution spearheaded by Fidel Castro’s 26th of July movement, Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees the Island nation. Amid celebration & chaos in the Cuban capital of Havana, the U.S. debated how best to deal with the radical Castro and the ominous rumblings of anti-Americanism in Cuba;
1962 – U.S. Navy Seals are established;
1966 – Advance elements of the 1st Regiment of the Marine 1st Division arrive in Vietnam. The entire division followed by the end of March. The division established its headquarters at Chu Lai & was given responsibility for the two southernmost provinces of I Corps (the military region just south of the DMZ). At the peak of its strength, the 1st Marine Division consisted of four regiments of infantry: the 1st, 5th, 7th, & 27th Marines. It also included the 11th Artillery regiment, which consisted of six battalions of 105-mm, 155-mm, & 8-inch howitzers. Other divisional combat units included the 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Antitank Battalion, 1st Amphibious Tractor Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, & the 1st Force Reconnaissance Company. The division numbered nearly 20,000 marines by the time all elements had arrived in South Vietnam;
1978 – An Air India Boeing 747 jet crashes into the sea just after takeoff from Bombay killing all 213 people on board. The crash was apparently the result of pilot error & equipment malfunction;
1985 – 1st mandatory seat belt law in the U.S. goes into effect in New York;
2000 – Despite global fears concerning Y2K issues & after years of preparation, only minor problems were reported such as at a nuclear plant in Japan, another with apartment heating in Korea & a problem with ‘Hotmail’.
Now We’re Off To The Fun Stuff:
Today’s Thought For The Day:
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
Today’s Inspiration Music Video:
God Gave Me You – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5hQK6GIrpYU
Today’s Advice:
Never grow a wishbone where a backbone ought to be.
Today’s I’m Too Big Doggie:
What is that thing on the floor?: 
Today’s Crazy Law:
In California – Baldwin Park: Nobody is allowed to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool.
Today’s Crazy & Thoughtful ?:
If humans evolved from monkey’s & apes, why are they still here?
Today’s Funny Sign:
Or maybe not so funny in today’s times 
Today’s Cooking Tip: 
Today’s Patriotic Thought:
“We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves & for one another.” – Richard Nixon
Today’s Christian Thought:
God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue…He is able to do what you can’t. He already has a plan. God’s not bewildered. Go to Him.
Today’s Tell Somebody: 
UNTIL TOMORROW – GOD BLESS TO EVERYONE & ENJOY A SAFE & HAPPY NEW YEAR’S DAY !!!
