Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !!!
Today is January 23, the 23rd day of 2014 and there are 342 days left this year where it is another Blessed day in the work for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
A chilly and windy day in Albuquerque today where it’s presently 30 degrees at 7:49 a.m. but a hefty wind has a chill factor of about 12 degrees. Partly cloudy skies with wind today, but unfortunately, still no moisture. High will get up to about 38 today. Tomorrow we get back to a little warmer weather again with a high in upper 40s but still no rain scheduled.
Personally, I’m opting for the weather forecast from above:
Today’s HEAVENLY FORECAST: GOD WILL REIGN FOREVER !!!
So, What Happened Today In 1870 ?
Soldiers Massacre The Wrong Camp Of Indians
Declaring he did not care whether or not it was the rebellious band of Indians he had been searching for, Colonel Eugene Baker orders his men to attack a sleeping camp of peaceful Blackfeet along the Marias River in northern Montana.
The previous fall, Malcolm Clarke, an influential Montana rancher, had accused a Blackfeet warrior named Owl Child of stealing some of his horses; he punished the proud brave with a brutal whipping. In retribution, Owl Child and several allies murdered Clarke and his son at their home near Helena, and then fled north to join a band of rebellious Blackfeet under the leadership of Mountain Chief. Outraged and frightened, Montanans demanded that Owl Child and his followers be punished, and the government responded by ordering the forces garrisoned under Major Eugene Baker at Fort Ellis (near modern-day Bozeman, Montana) to strike back.
Strengthening his cavalry units with two infantry groups from Fort Shaw near Great Falls, Baker led his troops out into sub-zero winter weather and headed north in search of Mountain Chief’s band. Soldiers later reported that Baker drank a great deal throughout the march. On January 22, Baker discovered an Indian village along the Marias River, and, postponing his attack until the following morning, spent the evening drinking heavily.
At daybreak on the morning of January 23, 1870, Baker ordered his men to surround the camp in preparation for attack. As the darkness faded, Baker’s scout, Joe Kipp, recognized that the painted designs on the buffalo-skin lodges were those of a peaceful band of Blackfeet led by Heavy Runner. Mountain Chief and Owl Child, Kipp quickly realized, must have gotten wind of the approaching soldiers and moved their winter camp elsewhere. Kipp rushed to tell Baker that they had the wrong Indians, but Baker reportedly replied, “That makes no difference, one band or another of them; they are all Piegans [Blackfeet] and we will attack them.” Baker then ordered a sergeant to shoot Kipp if he tried to warn the sleeping camp of Blackfeet and gave the command to attack.
Baker’s soldiers began blindly firing into the village, catching the peaceful Indians utterly unaware and defenseless. By the time the brutal attack was over, Baker and his men had, by the best estimate, murdered 37 men, 90 women, and 50 children. Knocking down lodges with frightened survivors inside, the soldiers set them on fire, burnt some of the Blackfeet alive, and then burned the band’s meager supplies of food for the winter. Baker initially captured about 140 women and children as prisoners to take back to Fort Ellis, but when he discovered many were ill with smallpox, he abandoned them to face the deadly winter without food or shelter.
When word of the Baker Massacre (now known as the Marias Massacre) reached the east, many Americans were outraged. One angry congressman denounced Baker, saying “civilization shudders at horrors like this.” Baker’s superiors, however, supported his actions, as did the people of Montana, with one journalist calling Baker’s critics “namby-pamby, sniffling old maid sentimentalists.” Neither Baker nor his men faced a court-martial or any other disciplinary actions. However, the public outrage over the massacre did derail the growing movement to transfer control of Indian affairs from the Department of Interior to the War Department–President Ulysses S. Grant decreed that henceforth all Indian agents would be civilians rather than soldiers.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On January 23 In History:
638 – Start of the Islamic calendar;
1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries;
1492 – “Pentateuch”, (Jewish Holy Book), is first printed;’
1552 – Second version of ‘Book of Common Prayer’, re-edited by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, becomes mandatory;
1556 – An earthquake in Shaanxi, China, kills an estimated 830,000 people. Counting casualties is often imprecise after large-scale disasters, especially prior to the 20th century, but this disaster is still considered the deadliest of all time;
1647 – Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to the English parliament;
1719 – Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire;
1775 – London merchants petition parliament for relief from the financial hardship put upon them by the curtailment of trade with the North American colonies;
1789 – First Catholic college in the United States, Georgetown, is founded;
1845 – Congress decided all national elections will be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November;
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is granted a medical degree from Geneva College in New York, becoming the first female to be officially recognized as a physician in U.S. history;
1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge;
1865 – In the Civil War, Confederate General John Bell Hood is officially removed as commander of the Army of Tennessee. He had requested the removal a few weeks before. The action closed a bleak chapter in the history of the Army of Tennessee;
1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes first Native American United States Senator;
1920 – The Dutch government refuses demands by the Allies for the extradition of Wilhelm II, the former kaiser of Germany, who has been living in exile in the Netherlands since November 1918;
1922 – At Toronto General Hospital, 14-year-old Canadian Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to receive an insulin injection as treatment for diabetes;
1933 – 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified changing date of presidential inaugurations to January 20;
1941 – In World War II, Charles A. Lindbergh, a national hero since his nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic, testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Lend-Lease policy and suggests that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Hitler;
1948 – The Soviets refuse United Nations entry into North Korea to administer elections;
1950 – Jerusalem becomes the official capital of Israel;
1957 – Machines at the Wham-O toy company roll out the first batch of their aerodynamic plastic discs–now known to millions of fans all over the world as Frisbees. The story of the Frisbee began in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where William Frisbie opened the Frisbie Pie Company in 1871. Students from nearby universities would throw the empty pie tins to each other, yelling “Frisbie!” as they let go;
1961 – The Supreme Court rules cities and states have the right to censor films;
1964 – The 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that bars ‘Poll Taxes’ in federal elections is ratified;
1968 – As a part of the ‘Cold War’, the U.S. intelligence-gathering ship Pueblo is seized by North Korean naval vessels and charged with spying and violating North Korean territorial waters. Negotiations to free the 83-man crew of the U.S. ship dragged on for nearly a year, damaging the credibility of and confidence in the foreign policy of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration;
1973 – President Nixon announces that Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, the chief North Vietnamese negotiator, have initialled a peace agreement in Paris “to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.” The actual document was entitled “An Agreement Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam” and it was formally signed on January 27;
1987 – For the first time since the end of World War II, Japan exceeds their agreed military spending cap of 1% of their GNP;
1996 – First version of the Java computer programming language is released;
1997 – The day after her unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Madeline Albright is sworn in as America’s first female secretary of state by Vice President Al Gore at the White House. As head of the U.S. State Department, Albright was the highest ranking female official in U.S. history, a distinction that led some to declare that the “glass ceiling” preventing the ascension of women in government had been lifted;
2002 – Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan by militants linked to Al Qaeda. He was subsequently executed by beheading;
2003 – Final communication is made between Mother Earth and Pioneer 10;
2004 – Bob Keeshan, TV’s “Captain Kangaroo,” died in Windsor, Vt., at age 76;
2013 – United States Armed Forces overturns ban on women serving in combat;
2013 – Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, lays out his intention to renegotiate terms with the EU, and subsequent plan to offer a referendum on his country’s withdrawal from the EU if a new deal is agreed;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY !
Now Off To The Fun Stuff:
Today’s Founder’s Quote:
“The best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. … The more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. More will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.”
– Benjamin Franklin (1766)
(A lesson we still haven’t learned today – 248 years later & over 50 years into the “War On Poverty”)!!!
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Angel Falls, Venezuela
Today’s Funny Animal Video:
Dancing parrots – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCV230ER_zA&feature=player_embedded
Today’s ‘A Sign For Every Profession’:
In a Restaurant window – “Don’t stand thee and be hungry; come on in and get fed up.”
Today’s ‘This Is What Camera’s We’re Made For’ Picture:
Today’s Crazy Law:
In New York City – It is illegal to jump off the Empire State building.
Today’s Crazy ?/Thought:
Why is there a disclaimer on the Allstate Auto Insurance commericals that says “Not available in all states”?
Today’s ‘How The Heck Did That Happen’ Picture:
Today’s Inspirational Video – Thank A Mom Today – They Deserve It:
https://www.chonday.com/Videos/tahnkmompg1
Today’s Cooking Class:
Today’s Word Of The Day:
Oblivion – comes from Latim oblivio(to forget). It means the state of being completely forgotten. If something is in oblivion, people forgot about it, or are totally unaware of it.
Today’s Yiddish Word You Should Know:
gornisht – More polite than bupkes, and also implies a strong sense of nothing; used in phrases such as “gornisht helfn”, (beyond help).
Today’s ‘Cute Critter’ With It’s Teddy Picture:
Today’s Quote:
“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”
– Margaret Thatcher
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
Come To Me – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3lBtnreAcAE
Today’s Inspirational Thought:
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.
– James 1:5
My gracious God, giver of all good gifts, please bless me with wisdom today. Let me reflect your will and live for your glory in all my decisions. Let your Kingdom guide my heart as I make my choices and have your Spirit lead me in your ways. I confess, Father, that I cannot guide my own steps without your help. So grant me wisdom this day. I pray in Jesus name. Amen.
Today’s Funny Silly Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – God Bless To Every One !!!