Good Morning & God Bless To Everyone !!!
Today is January 6, the 6th day of 2014 and there are 359 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 are so very fortunate here in Albuquerque enjoying another beautiful day here in Albuquerque where it is presently 13 degrees outside although a breeze does have the windchill down to 4 degrees. Can’t complain as I watch The Weather Channel tell me about folks who will be waking up to sub-zero temperatures before considering the windchill and temps are not expected to break zero today while we’re expecting highs in the high 30’s to low 40’s. My bones are twitching just at the thought! I can remember days back in the Navy standing watch outside on the bridge of the ship in the North Atlantic with 70/80 knot winds in your face and freezing sea water blowing in your face for hours on end and think about all the folks going through this almost historic cold wave. (I’ll leave out any sarcastic comments about global warming this morning !!!) We urge all to be extremely careful if you must be out and about; these are obviously very dangerous conditions.
So very many prayers to put out today it’s too long a list for this posting but I ask all to put your prayers to God today. Maybe, as it always is, it would just a good day to go out and share Jesus with someone who doesn’t have Him in their hearts today!
So, What Happened Today In 1975:
Phuoc Binh, Capital of Phuoc Long Province falls to the North Vietnamese
Phuoc Binh, the capital of Phuoc Long Province, about 60 miles north of Saigon, falls to the North Vietnamese. Phuoc Binh was the first provincial capital taken by the communists since the fall of Quang Tri on May 1, 1972.
Two days later, the North Vietnamese took the last of the South Vietnamese positions in the region, gaining control of the entire province. The South Vietnamese Air Force lost 20 planes defending the province. Presidents Nixon & Ford had promised South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu that the United States would come to the aid of South Vietnam if the North Vietnamese launched a major offensive in violation of the Paris Peace Accords. However, the United States did nothing when Phuoc Binh fell to the communists. In fact, the passive response of the United States convinced North Vietnam that the Americans would not soon return to Vietnam & encouraged the Politburo in Hanoi to launch a new attack in the hopes of creating ripe conditions for a general uprising in South Vietnam by 1976.
When the North Vietnamese launched the new offensive in early 1975, the South Vietnamese forces, demoralized by the failure of the United States to come to their aid, were defeated in just 55 days. North Vietnamese tanks crashed through the gates of the presidential palace on April 30 & South Vietnam surrendered fully to the communists.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On January 6 In History:
1066 – Harold Godwineson is crowned King Harold II – King of England;
1449 – Byzantine emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra;
1497 – Jews are expelled from Graz in Styria Austria;
1540 – Henry VIII of England marries his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves. The marriage lasts for 6 months;
1759- George Washington & Martha Dandridge Custis were married in New Kent County Virginia;
1777 – After 2 significant victories over the British in Trenton & Princeton New Jersey, General George Washington marches north to Morristown New Jersey where he set up winter quarters for himself & the men of the Continental Army;
1798 – Jedediah Strong Smith, one of America’s greatest trapper-explorers, is born in Bainbridge, New York. Smith explored a stunningly large area of the Far West during his short life. He began his western voyages in 1822, when he joined the pioneering fur trader William Ashley on a trip up the Missouri River. Unlike earlier fur traders, who depended on Native Americans to actually trap or hunt the furs, Ashley eliminated the Indians as middlemen & instead sent out independent Anglo trappers like Smith to do the job;
1827 – Confederate General John Calvin Brown is born in Giles County Tennessee;
1838 – Samuel Morse’s telegraph system is demonstrated for the 1st time at Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown New Jersey;
1861 – The Governor of Maryland, Thomas Hicks, announces his opposition to the state’s possible secession from the Union;
1893 – Great Northern Railway connects Seattle Washington with the east coast;
1912 – New Mexico joins the Union as the 47th state;
1919 – Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States dies at Sagamore Hill, his estate overlooking New York’s Long Island Sound;
1925 – John DeLorean, a maverick auto industry executive & founder of the DeLorean Motor Company is born in Detroit Michigan;
1941 – On this day in 1941, President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses Congress in an effort to move the nation away from a foreign policy of neutrality. The president had watched with increasing anxiety as European nations struggled & fell to Hitler’s fascist regime & was intent on rallying public support for the United States to take a stronger interventionist role. In his address to the 77th Congress, Roosevelt stated that the need of the moment is that our actions & our policy should be devoted primarily–almost exclusively–to meeting the foreign peril. For all our domestic problems are now a part of the great emergency;
1942 – During WWII, Franklin D Roosevelt announces to Congress that he is authorizing the largest armaments production in the history of the United States;
1945 – George H.W. Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye New York;
1946 – Ho Chi Minh wins elections in Indochina;
1958 – The Soviet Union announces plans to cut the size of its standing army by 300,000 troops in the coming year. The reduction was part of a 1956 policy announced by Krushchev in anticipation of “peaceful coexistence” with the West, & an indication that Cold War relations between the United States & the Soviet Union were undergoing a slight thaw in the mid-to-late-1950s;
1967 – Over 16,000 American & 14,000 South Vietnamese troops start their biggest attack on the Iron Triangle, northwest of Saigon;
1971 – U.S. Army drops charges of an alleged cover-up in the My Lai massacre against 4 officers. After all the charges were dropped, a total of 11 people had been cleared of responsibility during the My Lai trials;
1974 – A year-round ‘Daylight Saving Time’ began in the United States on a trial basis as a fuel-saving measure in response to the OPEC oil embargo;
1994 – Olympic hopeful Nancy Kerrigan is attacked at a Detroit ice rink following a practice session two days before the Olympic trials. A man hit Kerrigan with a club on the back of her knee, causing the figure skater to cry out in pain & bewilderment. When the full story emerged a week later, the nation became caught up in a real-life soap opera. One of Kerrigan’s chief rivals for a place on the U.S. Figure Skating Team was Tonya Harding. In mid-December 1993, Harding’s ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, approached Shawn Eckardt about somehow eliminating Kerrigan from the competition. Eckardt set up a meeting with Derrick Smith & Shane Stant, who agreed to injure Kerrigan for a fee;
1996 – Snow begins falling in Washington D.C. & up the eastern seaboard beginning a blizzard that kills 154 people & causes $1 billion in damages;
2001 – After a bitterly contested election, Vice President Al Gore presides over a joint session of Congress that certifies George W Bush as the winner of the 2000 election. In one of the closest Presidential elections in U.S. history, George W. Bush was finally declared the winner more than five weeks after the election due to the disputed Florida ballots. Gore became the third Presidential candidate to win the popular vote but lose the election after the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to halt Florida’s manual recount. The ruling in effect gave Florida’s 25 electoral votes to Bush giving him 271 to Gore’s 266—where 270 is needed to win the election. George W. Bush took the oath of office on January 20, 2001, to become the 43rd President of the United States;
2005 – Former Ku Klux Klan organizer Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi;
2009 – Congress opened for business at the dawn of a new Democratic era with vows to fix the crisis-ridden economy; Republicans pledged cooperation in Congress as well as with President-elect Barack Obama, to a point. Obama vowed to “bring a long-overdue sense of responsibility and accountability to Washington” and called the need for budget reform “an absolute necessity.”
2013 – It was one year ago today!
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff:
Today’s I Love You Picture:
Today’s Word Of The Day:
Derision – is a scornful treatment of someone or something; a mockery or ridicule. The object that is being mocked can be called derision.
Today’s Common Joke:
The Doctor’s Count Down:
A man goes to his doctor for a complete checkup.
He hasn’t been feeling well and wants to find out if he’s ill.
After the checkup the doctor comes out with the results of the examination.
“I’m afraid I have some bad news. You’re dying and you don’t have much time,” the doctor says.
“Oh no, that’s terrible. How long have I got?” the man asks.
“10..” says the doctor.
“10? 10 what? Months? Weeks? What?!” he asks desperately.
“10…9…8…7…”
Today’s Fear No Evil Picture:
Today’s Crazy Law:
In Natchez Missouri – It shall be unlawful to provide beer or other intoxicants to elephants.
Today’s Crazy ?:
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
Today’s Funny Sign:
Today’s Patriotic Quote:
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. – Dwight D Eisenhower
Today’s Christian Inspirational Music Video:
Be My God So I Can Just Be Me, Broken – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Zeoqkwsmph0
Today’s Verse & Prayer Of The Day:
Prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. – 1 Peter 1:13
Almighty God, I long for the day when I get to see Jesus face to face coming with the angels in power. Until that time, fasten my heart in hope to the glory Jesus will share with me on that day, & please empower me to live as one who knows that victory is mine in Jesus. Jesus, through your powerful name I pray. Amen.
Today’s Thought:
Today’s Christian Sign:
Until Tomorrow – GOD BLESS To All !!!