Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is February 25, the 56th day of 2014 and there are 309 days left this year where it is another Blessed Day in the pleasure of our service for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
So, What Happened Today In 1870 ?
British troops surrender Fort Sackville in the American Revolution
In the American Revolutionary War, Fort Sackville is surrendered, marking the beginning of the end of British domination in America’s western frontier.
Eighteen days earlier, George Rogers Clark departed Kaskaskia on the Mississippi River with a force of approximately 170 men, including Kentucky militia and French volunteers. The party traveled over 200 miles of land covered by deep and icy flood water until they reached Fort Sackville at Vincennes (Indiana) on February 23, 1779. After brutally killing five captive British-allied Indians within view of the fort, Clark secured the surrender of the British garrison under Lieutenant-Governor Henry Hamilton at 10 a.m. on February 25.
Upon their arrival in Vincennes, French settlers, who had allied themselves with Hamilton when he took the fort in December, welcomed and provisioned Clark’s forces. Inside Fort Sackville, Hamilton had only 40 British soldiers and an equal number of mixed French volunteers—French settlers fought on both sides of the American Revolution—and militia from Detroit. The French portion of Hamilton’s force was reluctant to fight once they realized their compatriots had allied themselves with Clark.
Clark managed to make his 170 men seem more like 500 by unfurling flags suitable to a larger number of troops. The able woodsmen filling Clark’s ranks were able to fire at a rapid rate that reinforced Hamilton’s sense that he was surrounded by a substantial army. Meanwhile, Clark began tunneling under the fort with the intent of exploding the gunpowder stores within it. When an Indian raiding party attempted to return to the fort from the Ohio Valley, Clark’s men killed or captured all of them. The public tomahawk executions served upon five of the captives frightened the British as to their fate in Clark’s hands. Their subsequent surrender revealed British weakness to the area’s Indians, who realized they could no longer rely on the British to protect them from the Patriots.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On February 25 In History:
1570 – Pope Pius V issues the bull Regnans in Excelsis which excommunicates Queen Elizabeth of England;
1601 – Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and former favorite of Elizabeth I, is beheaded in the Tower of London for high treason;
1642 – Dutch settlers slaughter lower Hudson Valley Indians in New Netherland, North America, who sought refuge from Mohawk attackers;
1828 – John Adams, son of President John Quincy Adams, marries his first cousin and inadvertently follows a pattern of keeping marriages within the family. John Adams’ grandfather, President John Adams, had married his third cousin, Abigail Smith. Intermarriage skipped a generation with John Quincy Adams, who married a non-relative. But, at 25 years old, John Quincy’s second-eldest son, John, married his first cousin on his mother’s side, 22-year-old Mary Catherine Hellen, in a private ceremony at the White House;
1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first revolving cylinder multi-shot firearm;
1862 – The U.S. Congress passes the Legal Tender Act, authorizing the use of paper notes to pay the government’s bills. This ended the long-standing policy of using only gold or silver in transactions, and it allowed the government to finance the enormously costly Civil War long after its gold and silver reserves were depleted. Another legal tender act passed in 1863, and by war’s end nearly a half-billion dollars in greenbacks had been issued. The Legal Tender Act laid the foundation for the creation of a permanent currency in the decades after the Civil War;
1870 – Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Mississippi, is sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress;
1890 – Vlacheslav Mikhaylovich Skryabin, foreign minister for the Soviet Union who took the revolutionary name Molotov, is born in Kurkaka, Russia. Molotov was an enthusiastic advocate of Marxist revolution in Russia from its earliest days. He was an organizer of the Bolshevik Party in 1906 and suffered arrest in 1909 and 1915 under the czarist government for his subversive political activities. He retired from public life in 1962 and died in 1986. Though he held many notable posts in the Soviet government, many remember him for another reason; during World War II, Molotov advocated the use of throwing bottles filled with flammable liquid and stuffed with a lit rag at the enemy, and the famous “Molotov cocktail” was born;
1913 – The 16th Amendment to the constitution is adopted giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes and is declared in effect by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knoxsetting and is the legal basis for the income tax;
1916 – In World War I, German troops seize Fort Douaumont, the most formidable of the forts guarding the walled city of Verdun, France, four days after launching their initial attack. The Battle of Verdun will become the longest and bloodiest conflict of World War I, lasting 10 months and resulting in over 700,000 total casualties;
1919 – Oregon introduces the first state tax on gasoline at one cent per gallon, to be used for road construction;
1933 – The first genuine aircraft carrier, not a conversion, the USS Ranger is christened;
1938 – American drive-in movie theaters experienced their golden era during the 1950s, but some Floridians were watching movies under the stars in their cars even before then: The city of Miami gets its first drive-in on this day in 1938. The Miami drive-in charged admission of 35 cents per person, which was more than the average ticket price at an indoor theater, and soon had to trim the price to 25 cents per person. America’s first-ever drive-in opened near Camden, New Jersey, on June 6, 1933. Admission was 25 cents per car and an additional 25 cents per person. The sound for the movies was provided by three large RCA speakers next to the main screen. The quality of the drive-in experience improved during the 1940s with the advent of the in-car speaker;
1943 – In World War II, United States troops retake the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia where they had been defeated five days before;
1948 – During the Cold War, under pressure from the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, President Eduard Benes allows a communist-dominated government to be organized. Although the Soviet Union did not physically intervene (as it would in 1968), Western observers decried the virtually bloodless communist coup as an example of Soviet expansion into Eastern Europe;
1971 – During the Vietnam War, legislation is initiated to forbid U.S. military support of any South Vietnamese invasion of North Vietnam without congressional approval. This legislation was a result of the controversy that arose after the invasion of Laos by South Vietnamese forces in Operation Lam Son 719. On February 8, South Vietnamese forces had launched a major cross-border operation into Laos to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail and destroy the North Vietnamese supply dumps in the area. Although the only direct U.S. support permitted was long-range cross-border artillery fire from firebases in South Vietnam, fixed-wing air strikes, and 2,600 helicopters to airlift Saigon troops and supplies, President Richard Nixon’s critics condemned the invasion. Foreign Relations Committee chairman Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Arkansas) declared the Laotian invasion illegal under the terms of the repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which allowed the president only the mandate to end the war;
1972 – In the Vietnam War, U.S. troops clash with North Vietnamese forces in a major battle 42 miles east of Saigon, the biggest single U.S. engagement with an enemy force in nearly a year. The five-hour action around a communist bunker line resulted in four dead and 47 wounded, almost half the U.S. weekly casualties;
1976 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states may ban the hiring of illegal aliens;
1984 – A huge explosion destroys a shantytown in Brazil, killing at least 500 people, mostly young children. An investigation into the disaster later revealed that the true death count was impossible to know because so many bodies had in effect been cremated in the intense blaze. Gas pipelines ran next to the slum. When workers opened the wrong pipeline, highly combustible octane gas poured into the ditches of Vila Soco. Soon after midnight, an explosion was sparked, and a fireball ripped through the favela;
1986 – In the face of mass demonstrations against his rule, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and his entourage are airlifted from the presidential palace in Manila by U.S. helicopters. Elected in 1966, Marcos declared martial law in 1972 in response to leftist violence. In the next year, he assumed dictatorial powers. Backed by the United States, his regime was marked by misuse of foreign support, repression, and political murders. In 1986, Marcos defrauded the electorate in a presidential election, declaring himself the victor over Corazon Aquino, the wife of an assassinated rival. Aquino also declared herself the rightful winner, and the public rallied behind her. Deserted by his former supporters, Marcos and his wife, Imelda, fled to Hawaii in exile, where they faced investigation on embezzlement charges. He died in 1989;
1991 – In the Persian Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, the United States barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia is hit by scud missile killing 28;
1994 – American-born Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein opened fire with an automatic rifle inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank, killing 29 Muslims before he was beaten to death by worshipers;
2004 – The U.S. Supreme Court, in Locke v. Davey, ruled states didn’t have to underwrite the religious training of students planning careers in the ministry;
2004 – The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s film about the last 44 hours of Jesus of Nazareth’s life, opens in theaters across the United States on this day in 2004. Not coincidentally, the day was Ash Wednesday, the start of the Catholic season of Lent;
2010 – After being delayed by the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych is sworn in as the 4th President of Ukraine;
2011 – Researchers in Fairbanks, Alaska, discover remains of a 3-year old child from the Ice Age and named it Xaasaa Cheege Ts’eniin, ‘Upper Sun River Mouth Child’;
2013 – A high-stakes civil trial started in New Orleans to assign blame and help figure out exactly how much more BP and other companies should pay for the 2010 Gulf oil spill. Testimony for the first phase of the trial concluded in April 2013; the trial’s second phase began and ended in Oct. 2013, with a third phase yet to take place;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY !
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff !!!
Today’s ‘Least We Forget’ Music Video:
Some Gave All – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oL_K8G6jdHA
(For my fellow service men & women – I apologize for the tears in your eyes – but it’s still worth it!)
Today’s American Foundation:
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”
– James Madison, Federalist No. 45, 1788
Today’s Patriotic Quote:
“Building a more peaceful world requires a sound strategy and the national resolve to back it up. When radical forces threaten our friends, when economic misfortune creates conditions of instability, when strategically vital parts of the world fall under the shadow of Soviet power, our response can make the difference between peaceful change or disorder and violence. … Our foreign policy must be rooted in realism, not naiveté or self-delusion.”
– President Ronald Reagan
Today’s Did You Know:
Today’s Thought For The Day:
“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.”
– Cynthia Heimel
Today’s ‘It’s Just An Observation’:
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may stubbornly insist that ObamaCare isn’t destroying jobs, but the Advanced Medical Technology Association, an industry trade group, says otherwise. Just the medical device tax “has resulted in employment reductions of approximately 14,000 industry workers and forgone hiring of 19,000 workers,” the group says. “The total job impact of the tax on industry employment was approximately 33,000.” On top of that, the indirect effect of the tax was to eliminate “as many as 165,000 jobs.” Jobs are also being sent overseas, while companies cut back on research and development, slow down investment and forego plans for new facilities. But Sebelius says “there is absolutely no evidence” of this, so move along.
Today’s “You Cut My Retirement Because?”:
Today’s ‘I Have To Wonder’:
President Obama warned Ukraine there will be consequences if democracy is not restored in the that nation. But our options are limited. Presumably, the White House would send its envoy extraordinaire to Kiev to deal with the crisis, but how can Dennis Rodman be in two places at the same time?
Today’s Proverb:
Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside us!
– Author Unknown
Today’s ‘Adorable, Young Or Old’:
Today’s Funny Animal Video:
Cats can be funny too – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=20mrEtabOLM
Today’s Crazy Law:
In Alaska – Even though it is legal to hunt a bear, it is illegal to wake a bear and take a picture for photo opportunities.
Today’s ‘Don’t Worry’:
Today’s Fact Of The Day:
Although Earth’s plates are made of solid rock, they buckle and twist like slabs of warm clay when they collide.
Today’s Word Of The Day:
Coltish adj. Energetic but awkward in one’s movements or behavior. Playful, not trained or disciplined. “Coltish horseplay to celebrate their graduation.”
Today’s ‘The END Could Be Near!’:
Today’s Quote For The Day:
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
Today’s Trivia:
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
Today’s Life’s Lesson:
Today’s Inspirational Quote:
“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.”
– Charles Kingsley (1819-75), British writer and clergyman
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
Amazing Grace – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CDdvReNKKuk
Today’s AWE of GOD:
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.
– Matthew 22:37-39
My Living and Loving True God, Please accept the work of my hands, the words of my mouth, the moments of my rest, and the love of my heart as my worship to you this day. I pray that these are pleasing and refreshing to you. In the name of my Lord, Your Son, Jesus, I pray. Amen
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – America, Bless God !!!
