Today In History; January 3

January 3, 2014

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Good Morning & God Bless To Everyone !!!

Today in January 3, the 3rd day of 2014 and there are 362 days left this year in which it is another blessed day in the work for our Lord here at:

For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!

As I start at 4 a.m. this morning it seems to be a beautiful day where it is 17 degrees outside with no windchill. We’re expecting another high in the upper 40’s/low 50’s under another full day of God’s glorious sunshine. We keep all those in the Eastern part of the country in our prayers where their undergoing blizzard like conditions. I encourage everyone to double-check any travel plans you may have today as the weather there will obviously affect air travel across the country.

We continue to ask for your prayers for Pastor Dewey’s boy Reno who continues his post operative recovery at home. We also ask for prayers for Pastor Ray Franks. Pastor Franks founded the Christian Television Station KAZQ Channel 32 here in Albuquerque and also founded the Evangel Christian Center & School. The Pastor has been fighting an infection in the hospital for a number of days and we ask you to lift him and his family in prayer today.

So, What Happened Today In 1990:

Panama’s General Manuel Antonio Noriega surrenders to U.S. troops

Panama’s General Manuel Antonio Noriega, after holing up for 10 days at the Vatican embassy in Panama City, surrenders to U.S. military troops to face charges of drug trafficking. Noriega was flown to Miami the following day and crowds of citizens on the streets of Panama City rejoiced. On July 10, 1992, the former dictator was convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Noriega, who was born in Panama in 1938, was a loyal soldier to General Omar Torrijos, who seized power in a 1968 coup. Under Torrijos, Noriega headed up the notorious G-2 intelligence service, which harassed and terrorized people who criticized the Torrijos regime. Noriega also became a C.I.A. operative, while at the same time getting rich smuggling drugs.

In 1981, Omar Torrijos died in a plane crash and after a two-year power struggle, Noriega emerged as general of Panama’s military forces. He became the country’s de facto leader, fixing presidential elections so he could install his own puppet officials. Noriega’s rule was marked by corruption and violence. He also became a double agent, selling American intelligence secrets to Cuba and Eastern European governments. In 1987, when Panamanians organized protests against Noriega and demanded his ouster, he declared a national emergency, shut down radio stations and newspapers and forced his political enemies into exile.

That year the United States cut off aid to Panama and tried to get Noriega to resign; in 1988, the U.S. began considering the use of military action to put an end to his drug trafficking. Noriega voided the May 1989 presidential election, which included a U.S.-backed candidate, and in December of that year he declared his country to be in a state of war with the United States. Shortly afterward, an American marine was killed by Panamanian soldiers. President George H.W. Bush authorized “Operation Just Cause,” and on December 20, 1989, 13,000 U.S. troops were sent to occupy Panama City, along with the 12,000 already there, and seize Noriega. During the invasion, 23 U.S. troops were killed in action and over 300 were wounded. Approximately 450 Panamanian troops were killed; estimates for the number of civilians who died range from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands injured.

Today, Noriega, derogatorily nicknamed “Pineapple Face” in reference to his pockmarked skin, is serving his sentence at a federal prison in Miami.

Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On January 3 In History:

1431 – Joan of Arc, nicknamed “The Maid Of Orleans”, is handed over to the pro-British Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon for charges of ‘insubordination & heterodoxy’ & was burned at the stake on May 30, 1941 when she was 19. Twenty-five years after her execution, an inquisitorial court authorized by Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, pronounced her innocent, & declared her a Martyr. Joan of Arc was beatified in 1909 & canonized in 1920. She is one of the patron saints of France, along with St. Denis, St. Martin of Tours, St. Louis IX & St. Theresa of Lisieux;

1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther from the Catholic Church;

1777 – During the American Revolution, in the Battle of Princeton, by stroke of genius, General George Washington manages to evade conflict with General Charles Cornwallis, who had been dispatched to Trenton to ‘bag the Fox’, (Washington). Washington wins several encounters with the British rear guard as it departs Princeton for Trenton New Jersey;

1823 – Stephen Austin receives grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico;

1831 – 1st U. S. Building & Loan Association is organized in Frankford Pennsylvania;

1833 – Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic;

1834 – Escalating the tensions that would lead to rebellion & war, the Mexican government imprisons colonizer Stephen Austin in Mexico City;

1861 – 2 weeks after South Carolina became the 1st state to secede from the Union, the state of Delaware rejects a similar proposal;

1868 – In an event that heralds the birth of modern Japan, patriotic samurai from Japan’s outlying domains join with anti-Shogunate Nobles in restoring the emperor to power after 700 years;

1870 – Construction begins on Brooklyn Bridge in New York City which is completed on May 24, 1883;

1888 – 1st wax drinking straw patented by Marvin Stone in Washington D.C.;

1899 – 1st known use of the word “Automobile” is seen in an editorial in the New York Times;

1920 – In WWI, the last U.S. troops leave France;

1921 – Italy halts the issuing of passports to anyone emigrating to the United States;

1924 – 2 years after British archaeologist Howard Carter & his workmen discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen near Luxor Egypt, they uncover the greatest treasure of the tomb, a stone sarcophagus containing a solid gold coffin that holds the mummy of Tutankhamen;

1925 – Benito Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament & becomes dictator of Italy;

1926 – Greek General Theonorus Pangulos names himself dictator of Greece;

1938 – Franklin Roosevelt, an adult victim of Polio, founds the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which he later renamed “The March Of Dimes”;

1945 – In WWII, U.S. aircraft carriers conduct their 1st strike on Okinawa Japan;

1945 – During WWII, in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima, Okinawa, & mainland Japan, Gen. Douglas MacArthur is placed in command of all U.S. ground forces & Adm. Chester Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. naval forces. This effectively ended the concept of unified commands, in which one man oversaw more than one service from more than one country in a distinct region;

1952 – Dragnet, a popular radio show, debuts on TV with Sergeant Joe Friday; “Just the facts, Ma’am”;

1957 – 1st electric watch is introduced in Lancaster Pennsylvania;

1959 – President Eisenhower signs a special proclamation admitting the territory of Alaska into the Union as the 49th state;

1961 – In the climax of deteriorating relations between the United States & Fidel Castro’s government in Cuba, President Eisenhower closes the American embassy in Havana & severs diplomatic relations;

1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Cuba’s Fidel Castro;

1965 – In the Vietnam War, the political crisis that had been undermining the South Vietnamese government & military for months is aggravated when thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Saigon clash with government marines & police;

1966 – Cambodia warns the United Nations of retaliation unless the United States & South Vietnam end their intrusions into the country;

1967 – Jack Ruby, the Dallas Texas nightclub owner & suspected mob member who killed the alleged assassin of President John F Kennedy dies of cancer in a Dallas hospital while awaiting re-trial after the Texas court of appeals overturned his original death sentence;

1978 – North Vietnamese troops reportedly occupy 400 square miles of Cambodia. The North Vietnamese Army, (NVA), troops were using Laos & Cambodia as staging areas for attacks against allied forces;

1987 – Aretha Franklin becomes 1st solo female performer to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame;

1999 – After 3 days of high winds & heavy snow, people in the Great Lakes region begin digging out from one of the worst blizzards on record while more than 100 people died in storm related accidents;

2004 – NASA’s Mars Rover, ‘Spirit’, successfully touched down on Mars;

2013 – It was one year ago!

Now, Off To The Fun Stuff:

Today’s Funny Critter Picture:

Today’s Word Of The Day:

Veneer – is a thin layer of attractive wood (or other material) glued on top of cheaper wood, to enhance the overall appearance. Usually the term is used figuratively, meaning anything that covers the real nature of something.

Today’s Inspirational Music Video:

Jesus Saves – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZM7YLTYB3ig

Today’s Funny Sign: