Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !!!
Today is January 20, the 20th day of 2014 and there are 345 days left this year where it is another Blessed day in the work for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
It’s another beautiful day outside where we have 38 warm degrees outside in Albuquerque, but yet again, no sign of rain or moisture. Highs in the upper 50s/lower 60s today under a partly cloudy sky. With plenty of time for Mother Nature to change her mind beforehand, she’s giving us a 30% chance of some rain this coming Thursday and can we ever use it!
We take special note today to celebrate Martin Luther Kings birthday and there will be events across the nation in his honor. The American federal holiday will mark the birthday of the iconic civil rights movement leader. Each year, MLK Day is observed around the time of King’s actual birthday, which is January 15. King’s birthday became a federal holiday after his assassination in 1968. President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983 and the day was first observed nationwide in 1986. Last year, August 28 marked the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his infamous “I have a dream” speech.
So, What Happened Today In 1981 ?
Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States
Ronald Reagan, former Western movie actor and host of television’s popular “Death Valley Days” is sworn in as the 40th president of the United States.
More than any president since the Texas-born Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan’s public image was closely tied to the American West, although he was raised in the solidly Midwestern state of Illinois. In the 1930s, Reagan moved to California, where he became a moderately successful Hollywood actor. Thereafter, he always considered himself a true westerner in spirit.
Reagan’s image as a westerner was reinforced by his acting career. Although he acted in other genres as well, many of Reagan’s movies were B-grade Westerns like “Law and Order,” in which he played a sheriff who was the only law “from Dodge City to Tombstone!” When his movie career waned, Reagan made the transition to television as a host of the hugely popular showcase for western stories, “Death Valley Days.”
Reagan’s film and TV career not only won him public-name recognition but also helped establish his enduring “good-guy” reputation. A few of Reagan’s roles in non-western movies included men of questionable character, but in Westerns he usually played the brave and wholesome sheriff or cowboy who killed the outlaws, saved the school marm, and brought justice to the Wild West. Though it is difficult to estimate exactly how important such positive roles were for his subsequent political career, surely Reagan’s “white hat” movie image helped win him some confidence and votes.
Reagan’s politics also increasingly reflected the mythic western image of rugged independence and self-reliance. Although he had been a liberal New Deal Democrat as a young man, by the 1950s, Reagan had become a hard-line conservative. As president of the Screen Actor’s Guild (1947-52, 1959-60), he won national attention as an outspoken anticommunist, and he began to view even the mild federal socialism of the New Deal as destructive to individual initiative and freedom. Switching his allegiance to the Republican Party, Reagan won two terms as governor of California (1967-75), where he gained a devoted national following that helped him win the presidency.
During his eight years as president of the United States (1981-89), Reagan redefined the center in American politics, moving it away from the liberal Democrats and towards the conservative Republicans. Though his days as a western movie star were long past by then, Reagan continued to celebrate the mythic independence of the western pioneer as a parallel to modern conservatism. To drive home the point, Reagan made frequent and highly visible retreats to his California ranch, where he rode horses, fixed fences, and cut firewood for the TV cameras. This president, Reagan’s actions seemed to say, was a self-reliant cowboy at heart and only a reluctant politician.
After a long struggle with Alzheimer s disease, Ronald Reagan died on June 5, 2004. He was buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On January 20 In History:
1265 – England’s first representative Parliament met for the first time;
1649 – King Charles I of England went on trial, accused of high treason (he was found guilty and executed by month’s end);
1777 – In the American Revolution, Brigadier General Philemon Dickinson leads 400 raw men from the New Jersey militia and 50 Pennsylvania riflemen under Captain Robert Durkee in an attack against a group of 500 British soldiers foraging for food led by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Abercromby near Van Nest’s Mills in Millstone, New Jersey;
1783 – Britain signs a peace agreement with France and Spain, who allied against it in the American War of Independence;
1841 – During the First Opium War, China cedes the island of Hong Kong to the British with the signing of the Chuenpi Convention, an agreement seeking an end to the first Anglo-Chinese conflict;
1863 – During the American Civil War, Union General Ambrose Burnside’s Army of the Potomac begins an offensive against General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia that quickly bogs down as several days of heavy rain turn the roads of Virginia into a muddy quagmire. The campaign was abandoned three days later;
1887 – The U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base;
1908 – The Sullivan Ordinance bars women from smoking in public facilities in the United States;
1918 – In World War I, British and German forces clash in the Aegean Sea when the German battleships Goeben and Breslau attempt a surprise raid on Allied forces off the Dardanelle Straits;
1930 – First radio broadcast of the “Lone Ranger” is performed in Detroit;
1942 – During World War II, Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the “Final Solution” of the “Jewish question.” The Solution calls for the extermination of all Jews in Europe. In July 1941, Herman Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, had ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler’s number-two man, to submit “as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative, material, and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question.” The minutes of this conference were kept with meticulous care, which later provided key evidence during the Nuremberg war crimes trials;
1945 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only president to be elected to three terms in office, is inaugurated to his fourth term;
1954 – More than 22,000 anti-communist prisoners are turned over the United Nations forces in Korea;
1955 – First Atomic Submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut;
1972 – In continued efforts to disrupt an anticipated communist offensive, a contingent of more than 10,000 South Vietnamese troops begin a sweep 45 miles northwest of Saigon to find and destroy enemy forces;
1980 – Bleachers at a bullring in Sincelejo, Colombia, collapse, resulting in the deaths of 222 people and injuring hundreds more. The collapse at Sincelejo, the deadliest tragedy at a sporting event in Colombia’s history, was the result of overcrowding and poor construction;
1981 – Minutes after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as the 40th president of the United States, the 52 U.S. captives held at the U.S. embassy in Teheran, Iran, are released, ending the 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis;
1986 – The United States observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.;
1987 – British negotiator Terry Waite disappears while attempting to win freedom for Western hostages held in Lebanon. Waite, special envoy of the archbishop of Canterbury, secured the release of missionaries detained in Iran after the Islamic revolution. He also extracted British hostages from Libya and even succeeded in releasing American hostages from Lebanon in 1986. A total of 10 captives had been released through Waite’s efforts before Shiite Muslims seized him during a return mission to Beirut on January 20, 1987. He was not released for more than four years;
1996 – Yasser Arafat is elected president of the Palestinian National Council with 88.1 percent of the popular vote, becoming the first democratically elected leader of the Palestinian people in history;
2009 – Russian natural gas began flowing into Ukraine after a nearly two-week cutoff that had left large parts of Europe cold and dark;
2009 – The Salvation Army announced a donation likely to exceed $1.5 billion from the estate of Joan Kroc, the late widow of McDonald’s founder, Ray Kroc;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY !
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff:
Today’s Patriotic Quote:
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
– President Ronald Reagan
Today’s Funny Sign, (on an office refrigerator door):
Today’s Funny Animal Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sArME-c92zM
Today’s ‘This is what camera’s are made for’ Picture:
Today’s Crazy Law:
In Acworth, Georgia – All citizens must own a rake.
Today’s Crazy ?/Thought:
Is it legal to name your kid “Anonymous”?
Today’s First Aid Lesson:
Today’s Word Of The Day:
Tautology – is the repetition of meaning in two consecutive words, or the needless repetition of an idea. A tautology is considered a fault of style. Examples include “free gift” and “extra bonus.”
Today’s Yiddish Word You Should Know:
feh! – An expression of disgust or disapproval, representative of the sound of spitting.
Today’s ‘The AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Today’s Quote/Thought:
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
– Henry Van Dyke
Today’s ‘Military Rules Of Engagement’ Advice:
Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you.
Today’s ‘Moment That Makes You Happy’ Picture:
Today’s Job Issues:
I tried being a Chef – figured it would add a little spice to my life, but just didn’t have the thyme.
Today’s Joke Of The Day:
An elderly gentleman had serious hearing problems for a number of years.
He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%.
The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, “Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased that you can hear again.”
The gentleman replied, “Oh, I haven’t told my family yet. I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I’ve changed my will three times already!”
Today’s ‘A Sign For Every Profession’:
At the Electric Company – “We would be delighted if you send in your payment. However, if you don’t, you will be.”
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
Savior To Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8AkEUNHVw7E
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.
– James 1:2-3
Dear Father God, through the friends you have sent into my life and by the power of your gift, the Holy Spirit, help me to stand up under trial and prove my character true with perseverance when under fire. Give my faith courage and endurance so that my life shows forth your enduring strength. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen.
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – GOD BLESS To Every One !!!
