Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is February 1, the 32 day of 2014 and there are 333 days left this year where it is another Blessed day in the work for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
Today I ask for everyone to join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform — Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and their families who are standing in harm’s way in defense of OUR Liberty and Freedom.
Heavenly Father, Grant a courageous heart, a quick mind and a serene spirit to those now in our armed forces, ready to offer their talents and if necessary their lives, for the cause of truth, justice, and liberty. Keep them close to You in every way. Make them always, even in these difficult circumstances, true witnesses to Your goodness, love, and compassion. And finally, bring them safely back to their homes and families. Father, may the families of our military personnel, their spouses, children, and parents, cast all their cares and burdens upon You. Instead of being worried or filled with anxiety, may they pray about everything that concerns them and everything that concerns their soldiers’ life and deployment. As You promised, then cause Your peace, which surpasses all understanding, to guard their hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Grant all our military troops this same peace, and let them feel the love we have for them even though we are far apart. AMEN!
What Happened Today In 1974 ?
Ted Bundy strikes again and is labeled a ‘Serial Killer’
University of Washington student Lynda Ann Healy disappears from her apartment and is killed by Ted Bundy. The murder marked Bundy’s entry into the ranks of serial killers as he had recently attacked his first victim, Sharon Clarke, in her Seattle home. By the time he was finally captured on April 27, 1979, Bundy had become America’s most famous serial killer.
In the summer of 1974, Bundy attacked at least seven young women in Washington. Bundy’s victims looked remarkably similar to each other: Nearly all of them had long, dark hair parted in the middle. Those who knew him said that he was very smart and personable, and he used his charm to pick up his victims. In another gambit, he also used a fake cast on his arm to appear less threatening.
By the fall of 1974, the disappearances of young women stopped in Washington and started in Utah after Bundy enrolled in law school in Salt Lake City. He later expanded his area of attack to Colorado and, on August 16, 1975, was arrested by police as he prowled a neighborhood in his Volkswagen.
In Aspen, Bundy was charged with murder but escaped out the window of the courthouse library. For eight days he eluded authorities on the outskirts of Aspen. When he was finally caught, Bundy was put in a jail cell, only to escape again on December 30, 1977, while awaiting trial.
Within two weeks, he had settled near Florida State University and began raping and killing more young women. This time, he didn’t bother trying to charm victims into his car. Two weeks after a sorority house attack, Bundy raped and strangled 12-year-old Kimberly Leach near Jacksonville. Days later, Bundy was arrested while driving a stolen Volkswagen.
Bundy ably defended himself at trial, but the evidence, including teeth marks on one of his victims, condemned him to a death sentence in Florida. For the next 10 years, Bundy filed appeal after appeal to avoid the electric chair. This was unsuccessful, and he eventually confessed to 36 murders. When he was executed on January 24, 1989, thousands of people came to cheer outside the Florida State Prison.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On February 1 In History:
1327 – Teenager Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.;
1587 – Elizabeth I, Queen of England, signs the Warrant of Execution for Mary Stuart, Mary Queen of Scots.;
1669 – French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion.;
1709 – Alexander Selkirk, ‘Robinson Crusoe’, is rescued from the Juan Fernandez Islands;
1781 – American Brigadier General William Lee Davidson dies in combat attempting to prevent General Charles Cornwallis’ army from crossing the Catawba River in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. In 1835, Davidson’s son, William Lee Davidson II, gave the Concord Presbytery land on which to build a college in his father’s honor named Davidson College.;
1790 – In the Royal Exchange Building on New York City’s Broad Street, the Supreme Court of the United States meets for the first time, with Chief Justice John Jay of New York presiding.;
1793 – In the French Revolutionary War, France declares war on Britain & the Netherlands;
1861 – Texas becomes the seventh state to secede from the Union when a state convention votes 166 to 8 in favor of the measure. The Texans who voted to leave the Union did so over the objections of their governor, Sam Houston. A staunch Unionist, Houston’s election in 1859 as governor seemed to indicate that Texas did not share the rising secessionist sentiments of the other Southern states. However, events swayed many Texans to the secessionist cause.;
1862 – Julia Howe publishes the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”.;
1884 – The first portion, or fascicle, of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), considered the most comprehensive and accurate dictionary of the English language, is published. Today, the OED is the definitive authority on the meaning, pronunciation and history of over half a million words, past and present. Plans for the dictionary began in 1857 when members of London’s Philological Society, who believed there were no up-to-date, error-free English dictionaries available, decided to produce one that would cover all vocabulary from the Anglo-Saxon period (1150 A.D.) to the present.;
1885 – John Taylor, the president of the Mormon Church, goes “underground” to avoid arrest and continue resisting federal demands for reforms within the community of Latter-day Saints.;
1898 – Travelers Insurance Company issues the first automobile insurance policy in the United States.;
1906 – The first federal penitentiary building is completed in Leavenworth, Kansas;
1909 – United States troops leave Cuba after installing Jose Miguel Gomez as president.;
1943 – In World War II, Japanese forces on Guadalcanal Island, defeated by Marines, start to withdraw after the Japanese emperor finally gives them permission. By February 1943, the Japanese retreated on secret orders of their emperor. In fact, the Japanese retreat was so stealthy that the Americans did not even know it had taken place until they stumbled upon abandoned positions, empty boats, and discarded supplies. In total, the Japanese lost more than 25,000 men compared with a loss of 1,600 by the Americans. Each side lost 24 warships.;
1945 – U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescue 513 American survivors of the Bataan Death March.;
1946 – Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.;
1951 – During the Korean War, by a vote of 44 to 7, the United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning the communist government of the People’s Republic of China for acts of aggression in Korea. The action was largely symbolic, because many nations, including some that voted for the resolution were reluctant to take more forceful action against the People’s Republic of China for fear that the conflict in Korea would escalate. While economic and political sanctions could have been brought against China, the United Nations decided to take no further action. The Korean War dragged on for two more bloody years, finally ending in a stalemate and cease-fire in 1953. By that time, over 50,000 U.S. troops had died in the conflict.;
1964 – In the Vietnamese War, U.S. and South Vietnamese naval forces initiate Operation Plan (Oplan) 34A, which calls for raids by South Vietnamese commandos, operating under American orders, against North Vietnamese coastal and island installations. Although American forces were not directly involved in the actual raids, U.S. Navy ships were on station to conduct electronic surveillance and monitor North Vietnamese defense responses under another program called Operation De Soto.On August 2, 1964, North Vietnamese patrol boats, responding to an Oplan 34A attack by South Vietnamese gunboats against the North Vietnamese island of Hon Me, attacked the destroyer USS Maddox which was conducting a De Soto mission in the area. Two days after the first attack, there was another incident that still remains unclear. Although it was questionable whether the second attack actually happened, the incident provided the rationale for retaliatory air attacks against the North Vietnamese and the subsequent Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which became the basis for the initial escalation of the war in Vietnam, and ultimately the insertion of U.S. combat troops into the area.;
1968 – Famous photo of Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in the middle of the street is taken and then published around the world.;
1972 – The first scientific hand-held calculator, the HP-35, is introduced to the public for $395.;
1977 – A heavy snow blizzard in New England claims 100 lives.;
1978 – Movie director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.;
1979 – The Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran in triumph after 15 years of exile. The shah and his family had fled the country two weeks before, and jubilant Iranian revolutionaries were eager to establish a fundamentalist Islamic government under Khomeini’s leadership.;
1994 – Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding’s ex-husband, pleaded guilty in Portland, Ore., to racketeering for his part in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan in exchange for a 24-month sentence (he ended up serving six) and a $100,000 fine.;
2003 – The space shuttle Columbia breaks up while entering the atmosphere over Texas, killing all seven crew members on board. The Columbia‘s 28th space mission, designated STS-107, was originally scheduled to launch on January 11, 2001, but was delayed numerous times for a variety of reasons over nearly two years. Eighty seconds into the launch, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the shuttle’s propellant tank and hit the edge of the shuttle’s left wing. Columbia reentered the earth’s atmosphere on the morning of February 1. It wasn’t until 10 minutes later, at 8:53 a.m.–as the shuttle was 231,000 feet above the California coastline traveling at 23 times the speed of sound–that the first indications of trouble began. Because the heat-resistant tiles covering the left wing’s leading edge had been damaged or were missing, wind and heat entered the wing and blew it apart. The first debris began falling to the ground in west Texas near Lubbock at 8:58 a.m. One minute later, the last communication from the crew was heard, and at 9 a.m. the shuttle disintegrated over southeast Texas, near Dallas. Making the tragedy even worse, two pilots aboard a search helicopter were killed in a crash while looking for debris. Strangely, worms that the crew had used in a study that were stored in a canister aboard the Columbia did survive.;
2004 – During the Super Bowl on this day in 2004, the first TV commercial airs for the Ford GT, a new, high-performance “supercar” based on Ford’s GT40 race car, which won the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race in France four years in a row starting in 1966. The TV ad for the two-seater Ford GT featured a driver’s eye view of the car noisily zooming around California’s Thunderhill Raceway, and ended with the tag line: “The Pace Car for an Entire Company.”;
2005 – Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage.;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY !
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff:
Today’s ‘Ricks Thought For The Day’:
Anybody can be cool – Awesome takes hard work and practice.
Today’s Founder’s Quote:
“The States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore … never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.”
– Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge William Johnson, 1823
Today’s ‘Let’s Be Friends’ Picture:
Today’s Thought/Quote For The Day:
“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.”
– Eddie Rickenbacker, American war hero
Today’s ‘Ricks Observation’:
Is it possible that in a country becoming more and more racially divided over the last 5 years, that people being accused of being prejudice, when they in fact are not, will actually only further increase that racial division? It may only contain 6 letters but racism is a very big word, please use it wisely, it can carry some very heavy consequences!
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Somewhere In Greece
Today’s Word Of The Day:
fascicle – A small bundle; a single part of a printed work issued in installments.
Today’s Lexophile Word Play:
When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.
Today’s ‘Maturity’ Issue:
Today’s ‘Dogs Thoughts’:
Today’s ‘Crazy Instruction’:
On a bag of Fritos – You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside.
Today’s Funny Animal Video:
The Cat vs The Mail Man Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQi_FsDjkZ8&feature=player_embedded
Today’s ‘Astute Visionary’:
“Who wants to hear actors talk?”
– H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
Today’s ‘So Long Ago’:
Not so long ago – a ‘Hard Drive’ was a long trip on the road.
Today’s ‘This Is What Camera’s Were Made For’ Picture:
Today’s Proverb:
A tree falls in the direction it leans!
Today’s Crazy Law:
In Beech Grove, Indiana – It is forbidden to eat watermelon in the park.
Today’s ‘Moments That Make You Happy’ Picture:
Today’s Inspirational Quote:
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer up somebody else.”
– Mark Twain
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
My Redeemer Lives – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rF7Bv9Rjl0E
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.
– Deuteronomy 6:4-5
Dear Lord, I honor you as God Almighty. I appreciate you for all your kindness and blessings lavished upon me. I love you because you first loved me in Jesus. My heart’s desire today is to demonstrate my love for you in all I do, and love and say. In Jesus Blessed Name I Pray. Amen.
Today’s Funny Silly Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – America, BLESS GOD !!!