Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is January 28, the 28th day of 2014 and there are 337 days left this year where it is another Blessed day in the work for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
So, What Happened Today In 1973 ?
Vietnam War Cease Fire Goes Into Effect
A cease-fire goes into effect at 8 a.m., Saigon time (midnight on January 27, Greenwich Mean Time).
When the cease-fire went into effect, Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam’s territory and 85 percent of the population. The South Vietnamese Army was well equipped via last-minute deliveries of U.S. weapons and continued to receive U.S. aid after the cease-fire. The CIA estimated North Vietnamese presence in the South at 145,000 men, about the same as the previous year. The cease-fire began on time, but both sides violated it. South Vietnamese forces continued to take back villages occupied by communists in the two days before the cease-fire deadline and the communists tried to capture additional territory.
Each side held that military operations were justified by the other side’s violations of the cease-fire. What resulted was an almost endless chain of retaliations. During the period between the initiation of the cease-fire and the end of 1973, there were an average of 2,980 combat incidents per month in South Vietnam. Most of these were low-intensity harassing attacks designed to wear down the South Vietnamese forces, but the North Vietnamese intensified their efforts in the Central Highlands in September when they attacked government positions with tanks west of Pleiku. As a result of these post-cease-fire actions, about 25,000 South Vietnamese were killed in battle in 1973, while communist losses in South Vietnam were estimated at 45,000.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On January 28 In History:
28 – Roman emperor Nerva names Trajan, an army general, as his successor;
814 – Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne died in Aachen in present day Germany;
1099 – First Crusaders begin siege of Hosn-el-Akrad, Syria;
1547 – England’s King Henry VIII dies and is succeeded by his 9-year-old son Edward VI;
1757 – Ahmed Shah, the first King of Afghanistan, occupies Delhi and annexes the Punjab;
1813 – The famous novel “Pride & Prejudice” by Jane Austen is first published anonymously in London, England;
1855 – The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway;
1871 – Surrounded by Prussian troops and suffering from famine, the French army in Paris surrenders. During the siege, balloons were used to keep contact with the outside world;
1878 – First telephone exchange in America opens in New Haven Connecticut and George W. Coy is hired as the first full-time telephone operator;
1915 – President Woodrow Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates;
1915 – The United States Coast Guard was created as President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill merging the Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service;
1915 – In World War I, in the country’s first such action against American shipping interests on the high seas, the captain of a German cruiser orders the destruction of the William P. Frye, an American merchant ship;
1916 – President Woodrow Wilson nominates Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court on this day in 1916. After a bitterly contested confirmation, Brandeis became the first Jewish judge on the Supreme Court;
1917 – American forces are recalled from Mexico after nearly 11 months of fruitless searching for Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, who was accused of leading a bloody raid against Columbus, New Mexico. Villa continued his guerrilla activities in northern Mexico until Adolfo de la Huerta took power over the government and drafted a reformist constitution. Villa entered into an amicable agreement with Huerta and agreed to retire from politics. In 1920, the government pardoned Villa, but three years later he was assassinated at Parral;
1932 – The Japanese attack Shanghai, China and declares martial law;
1932 – Wisconsin becomes the first U.S. state to enact unemployment insurance;
1935 – Iceland becomes first country to legalize abortion;
1944 – In World War II, 683 British bombers attack Berlin, Germany;
1955 – U.S. Congress passes bill authorizing troop mobilization if China should attack Taiwan;
1958 – Charles Starkweather, a 19-year-old high-school dropout from Lincoln, Nebraska, and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, kill a Lincoln businessman, his wife and their maid, as part of a murderous crime spree that began a week earlier and would ultimately leave 10 people dead;
1959 – The Green Bay Packers sign Vince Lombardi to a 5-year contract as the teams coach and general manager;
1962 – Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia & survives at the Kamativi tin mine at Gwaji River, Wankie District, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia);
1964 – During the Cold War, The U.S. State Department angrily accuses the Soviet Union of shooting down an American jet that strayed into East German airspace. Three U.S. officers aboard the plane were killed in the incident. The Soviets responded with charges that the flight was a “gross provocation,” and the incident was an ugly reminder of the heightened East-West tensions of the Cold War era. Like numerous other similar Cold War incidents–including the arrest of suspected “spies” and the seizure of ships–this event resulted in heated verbal exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union, but little else. Both nations had bigger issues to contend with: the United States was engaged in the Vietnam War, and the Soviet Union was dealing with a widening split with communist China. The deaths were, however, another reminder that the heated suspicion, heightened tension, and loaded rhetoric of the Cold War did have the potential to erupt into meaningless death and destruction;
1970 – Israeli fighter jets attack Cairo, Egypt suburbs;
1975 – President Gerald Ford asks Congress for an additional $522 million in military aid for South Vietnam and Cambodia. He revealed that North Vietnam now had 289,000 troops in South Vietnam, and tanks, heavy artillery, and antiaircraft weapons “by the hundreds.” Ford succeeded Richard Nixon when he resigned the presidency in August 1974. Despite his wishes to honor Nixon’s promise to come to the aid of South Vietnam, he was faced with a hostile Congress who refused to appropriate military aid for South Vietnam and Cambodia; both countries fell to the communists later in the year;
1980 – Six U.S. diplomats who had avoided being taken hostage at their embassy in Tehran flew out of Iran with the help of Canadian diplomats;
1982 – Italian anti-terrorism forces rescued U.S. Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier, 42 days after he had been kidnapped by the Red Brigades;
1984 – World record number of dominoes are toppled in Fuerth, West Germany – 295,000;
1986 – At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space. She underwent months of shuttle training but then, beginning January 23, was forced to wait six long days as the Challenger‘s launch countdown was repeatedly delayed because of weather and technical problem. Seventy-three seconds after their liftoff, hundreds on the ground, including Christa’s family, stared in disbelief as the shuttle exploded in a forking plume of smoke and fire. Millions more watched the wrenching tragedy unfold on live television. There were no survivors;
1988 – Canada’s Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional;
2009 – In a swift victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House approved, 244-188, a huge $819 billion stimulus bill with Republicans unanimous in opposition despite Obama’s pleas for bipartisan support;
2011 – Responding to anti-government protests in Egypt, the government cuts off access to the internet, cell phones, and imposes a curfew while President Mubarak asks his government to resign. It is now referred to as the “Friday of Anger”;
2013 – Backed by French helicopters and paratroopers, Malian soldiers entered the fabled city of Timbuktu after al-Qaida-linked militants who’d ruled the outpost by fear for nearly 10 months fled into the desert;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY !
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff:
Today’s Thought For The Day:
“There are men running governments who shouldn’t be allowed to play with matches.”
– Will Rogers
Today’s Patriotic Thought:
“Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.”
– Thomas Jefferson
Today’s ‘Dog Thoughts’:
Today’s ‘Astute Visionary’:
“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
– Ken Olson, President, Chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
Today’s Training Video:
How To Beach A Ship – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3g2kGkMZ734
Today’s ‘So Long Ago’:
Not So Long Ago – Memory was something that you lost with age!
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Kemenuh Water Fall, Bali
Today’s Proverb:
A light is still a light – even though the blind man cannot see it.
Today’s Funny Puppy Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=28xjtYY3V3Q
Today’s Job Issue:
After years of trying to find steady work, I finally got a job as a Historian, then I realized there was no future in it!
Today’s ‘Notes From Your Kids’:
Today’s Word Of The Day:
Patriot – a person who loves his country, and zealously supports and defends it and its interests.
Today’s Yiddish Word You Should Know:
kibbitz – In Yiddish, it’s spelled kibets, and it’s related to the Hebrew “kibbutz” or “collective.” But it can also mean verbal joking, which after all is a collective activity. It didn’t originally mean giving unwanted advice about someone else’s game – that’s an American innovation.
Today’s ‘How The Heck Did That Happen’ Picture:
Today’s Crazy Law:
In New Hampshire – If a person is caught raking the beaches, picking up litter, hauling away trash, building a bench for the park, or many other kind things without a permit, he/she may be fined $150 for ”maintaining the national forest without a permit”.
Today’s Crazy ?/Thought:
How far east can you go before you’re heading west?
Today’s ‘Oops Construction Site Picture’:
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.
– John 4:24
Father God, by the gift of your Spirit I come to you as your child and thank you so much for giving me your Spirit so that I can approach you with confidence and know you hear the concerns of my heart. Please accept the worship of my heart, of my words, and of my actions. May the things I do today bring you glory. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
A New Hallelujah – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nBxOkruKpqI
Today’s Funny Silly Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – God Bless To Every One !!!