Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is January 29, the 29th day of 2014 and there are 336 days left this year where it is another Blessed day in the work for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
We have another beautiful day ahead of us here in Albuquerque. Presently at 7:42 a.m., it’s 26 degrees outside with a wind chill of 21. We’re expecting high’s in the mid to upper 50s under sunny skies all day. Tomorrow we’re listed for a dose of partly cloudy and a high around 68 but still no desperately needed rain!
So, What Happened Today In 1777 ?
In the American Revolutionary War, American’s retreat from Fort Independence
In the American Revolutionary War, facing a surprise British counter-assault in the bitter cold and with a snowstorm approaching, American commander Major General William Heath and his army of 6,000 abandon their siege on Fort Independence, in Bronx County, New York, on this day in 1777.
Acting on orders from General George Washington, General Heath and his men had begun their assault on Fort Independence 11 days earlier on January 18, 1777. General Washington, who was under British attack in nearby New Jersey, believed that a successful assault on Fort Independence would force the British to divert troops from New Jersey to defend the outpost, located just outside British-controlled Manhattan between the Post Roads to Boston and Albany.
On January 25, a torrential rainstorm overflowed the Bronx River and muddied the battlefield, making troop movement nearly impossible for the Patriots. A British counter-assault and the pending snowstorm forced General Heath to admit defeat, and he ordered his troops to retreat on January 29, 1777.
Fort Independence was first built by the Patriots in 1776 and then burned by them as they retreated from New York City. The British partially rebuilt the fort when they took control later in the year. The fort endured the Patriots’ attack in 1777, but was destroyed again as the British left in 1779 . The city park that now exists on the site memorialize’s the fort on its front gates, as well as in its name.
Also on this day in 1777, Washington placed Major General Israel Putnam in command of all Patriot troops in New York, charging them with defense of the city and its water routes.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On January 29 In History:
1595 – (It is believed) that William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo & Juliet” was probably first performed;
1820 – Ten years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life, King George III, the British king who lost the American colonies, dies at the age of 82;
1834 – Andrew Jackson becomes the first president to use federal troops to quell labor unrest. Workers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal were rebelling because of persistent poor working conditions and low pay;
1843 – William McKinley, who will become the 25th American president and the first to ride in an automobile, is born in Niles, Ohio. McKinley served in the White House from 1897 to 1901, a time when the American automotive industry was in its infancy. During his presidency, McKinley (who died from an assassin’s bullet in September 1901) took a drive in a Stanley Steamer, a steam-engine-powered auto built in the late 1890s by brothers Francis and Freelan Stanley;
1861 – The territory of Kansas is admitted into the Union as the 34th state, or the 28th state if the secession of eight Southern states over the previous six weeks is taken into account. Kansas, deeply divided over the issue of slavery, was granted statehood as a free state in a gesture of support for Kansas’ militant anti-slavery forces, which had been in armed conflict with pro-slavery groups since Kansas became a territory in 1854;
1891 – Following the death of her brother, King Kalakaua, Liliuokalani becomes the last monarch of the Hawaiian Islands;
1896 – Emile Grubbe is the first doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer;
1922 – Accumulated snowfall from a blizzard collapses the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C. One hundred and eight people were killed, including five in a single family. Another 133 were hospitalized. President Warren Harding issued his personal condolences to the families of the victims, which included a former congressman;
1924 – Ice Cream Cone rolling machine is patented by Carl Taylor in Cleveland, Ohio;
1926 – Violette Neatley Anderson becomes the first African-American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court;
1929 – The Seeing Eye, America’s first school for training dogs to guide the blind, is founded in Nashville, Tennessee;
1933 – Adolf Hitler is appointed ‘Chancellor’ by German President von Hindenburg;
1936 – The U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson;
1942 – In World War II, Britain and the USSR secure an agreement with Iran that offers the Iran protection while creating a “Persian corridor” for the Allies—a supply route from the West to Russia. Early in the war, Iran collaborated with Germany by exporting grain to the Axis power in exchange for technicians. But the Allies viewed Iran as a valuable source of oil and conveniently situated as a route for shipping Western war material east to the USSR. On August 25, 1941, both Allied powers invaded Iran (which Prime Minister Winston Churchill preferred to call “Persia,” so there would be no confusion between “Iran” and “Iraq”), the Soviets from the north and the Brits from the south. In four days, the Allies effectively controlled Iran;
1944 – The world’s largest warship and the last battleship commissioned by the United States, USS Missouri, is launched;
1950 – Riots break out in Johannesburg, South Africa, over the policy of Apartheid;
1966 – A snow storm in the Northeast United States kills 165 people;
1968 – In the Vietnamese War, in his annual budget message, President Lyndon B. Johnson asks for $26.3 billion to continue the war in Vietnam, and announces an increase in taxes. The war was becoming very expensive, both in terms of lives and national treasure. Johnson had been given a glowing report on progress in the war from Gen. William Westmoreland, senior U.S. commander in South Vietnam. Westmoreland stated in a speech before the National Press Club that, “We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view. I am absolutely certain that, whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing. The enemy’s hopes are bankrupt.”;
1974 – In the Vietnamese War, the fighting continues in South Vietnam despite the cease-fire that was initiated on January 28, 1973, under the provisions of the Paris Peace Accords. This latest fighting was part of the ongoing battles that followed the brief lull of the cease-fire. The Peace Accords had left an estimated 145,000 North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam when the cease-fire went into effect. Renewed fighting broke out after the cease-fire as both sides jockeyed for control of territory throughout South Vietnam. Each side held that military operations were justified by the other side’s violations of the cease-fire, resulting in an almost endless chain of retaliations;
1979 – During the Cold War, Deng Xiaoping, deputy premier of China, meets President Jimmy Carter, and together they sign historic new accords that reverse decades of U.S. opposition to the People’s Republic of China;
1979 – Brenda Spencer kills two men and wounds nine children as they enter the Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego. Spencer blazed away with rifle shots from her home directly across the street from the school. After 20 minutes of shooting, police surrounded Spencer’s home for six hours before she surrendered. Asked for some explanation for the attack, Spencer allegedly said, “I just don’t like Mondays. I did this because it’s a way to cheer up the day. Nobody likes Mondays.”;
1991 – In the Persian Gulf War, ‘Desert Storm’, Iraqi forces attack into Saudi Arabian town of Kafji, but are turned back by Coalition forces;
2002 – In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush likens Iraq, Iran and North Korea to an ‘axis of evil’;
2004 – In a prisoner exchange, Israel freed 400 Palestinians and about 30 other Arabs while Hezbollah released a kidnapped Israeli businessman and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers. On the same day, a suicide bomber struck a bus in Jerusalem, killing ten Israelis;
2009 – The Illinois Senate voted, 59-0, to convict Gov. Rod Blagojevich of abuse of power and throw him out of office nearly two months after the second-term Democrat’s arrest on charges of trying to sell Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat;
2013 – A hostage crisis began in Midland City, Ala., as retired truck driver Jimmy Lee Dykes kidnapped 5-year-old Ethan Gilman off a school bus after killing the driver, Charles Poland; Dykes held the boy inside an underground bunker for six days until authorities moved in, killing Dykes and rescuing the child;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY!
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff:
Today’s Patriotic Quote:
“It is not strange … to mistake change for progress.”
– President Millard Fillmore
Today’s Founder’s Quote:
“It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others.”
– Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1784
Today’s ‘Doggy Helper’ Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mLpnVNoLC-A
Today’s Dog’s Thoughts:
Today’s Thought Of The Day:
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
– Jean de la Fontaine
Today’s Quote For The Day:
Hugging is a means of getting two people so close together that they can’t see anything wrong with each other.
– Author Unknown
Today’s ‘Oops Construction Site’ Picture:
Today’s Proverb:
A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths!
Today’s Crazy Law:
In Lebanon, Virginia – It is illegal to kick your wife out of bed.
Today’s ‘Notes From The Kids’:
Today’s ‘Astute Visionary’:
“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.”
– Western Union internal memo, 1876
Today’s ‘So Long Ago’:
Not So Long Ago – A CD was a bank account!
Today’s ‘How The Heck Did That Happen’:
Today’s Christian Quote For The Day:
“If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.”
– Phillips Brooks
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
Trust In Jesus – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2BtaCeJYqZA
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
He sat down, called the twelve disciples over to him, and said, “Whoever wants to be first must take last place and be the servant of everyone else.”
Mark 9:35
My God and Savior, you have made the world wonderful and have given your Son to redeem me. How can I thank you or repay you for your grace and kindness? Help me serve others with grace and kindness. Give me eyes to see people as you do; not judging by mere appearance, but valuing and treating people as Jesus does. I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus, the one who washed his disciples’ feet. Amen.
Today’s Funny Silly Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – God Bless To Every One !!!
