Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is February 6, the 37th day of 2014 and there are 328 days left in the year where it is another Blessed Day in the pleasure of working for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
While I understand many across the country have had more than they feel is their fair share already this year, here in Albuquerque we are giving our Thanks to GOD today after finally receiving some precious snow yesterday and last night. Despite the cold near zero during the night, it was for once a total pleasure to have to go outside in my ‘jammies’ to dust off the satellite TV dish to get the signal back! From my understanding we’re actually looking forward to some more within the next day or so. A precious gift directly from God Himself. In our greed for any form of ‘wetness’ under our drought conditions, we also ask for Him to share with our fellow-man throughout the southwest where drought is overrunning the countryside and water rationing is already being instituted in California, in the middle of winter! We Thank You Father GOD!
So, What Happened Today In 1778 ?
The Franco-American Alliances Are Signed In The American Revolutionary War
During the American War for Independence, representatives from the United States and France sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance in Paris.
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce recognized the United States as an independent nation and encouraged trade between France and the America, while the Treaty of Alliance provided for a military alliance against Great Britain, stipulating that the absolute independence of the United States be recognized as a condition for peace and that France would be permitted to conquer the British West Indies.
With the treaties, the first entered into by the U.S. government, the Bourbon monarchy of France formalized its commitment to assist the American colonies in their struggle against France’s old rival, Great Britain. The eagerness of the French to help the United States was motivated both by an appreciation of the American revolutionaries’ democratic ideals and by bitterness at having lost most of their American empire to the British at the conclusion of the French and Indian Wars in 1763.
In 1776, the Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and Arthur Lee to a diplomatic commission to secure a formal alliance with France. Covert French aid began filtering into the colonies soon after the outbreak of hostilities in 1775, but it was not until the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 that the French became convinced that the Americans were worth backing in a formal treaty.
On February 6, 1778, the treaties of Amity and Commerce and Alliance were signed, and in May 1778 the Continental Congress ratified them. One month later, war between Britain and France formally began when a British squadron fired on two French ships. During the American Revolution, French naval fleets proved critical in the defeat of the British, which culminated in the Battle of Yorktown in October 1781.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On February 6 In History:
1693 – Royal Charter granted to College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia;
1778 – During the American Revolutionary War, England declares war on France;
1788 – Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution;
1820 – The first organized immigration of freed slaves to Africa from the United States departs New York harbor on a journey to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa;
1832 – First appearance of cholera appears at Edinburgh, Scotland;
1865 – In the Civil War, Confederate General John Pegram, age 33, is killed at the Battle of Dabney’s Mill (also called Hatcher’s Run), Virginia;
1891 – In the Old West, the members of the Dalton Gang stage an unsuccessful train robbery near Alila, California, an inauspicious beginning to their careers as serious criminals. Bob, Emmett, and Grat Dalton were only three of Lewis and Adeleine Dalton’s 10 sons. The brothers grew up on a succession of Oklahoma and Kansas homesteads during the post-Civil War period, when the region was awash in violence lingering from the war and notorious outlaw bands like the James-Younger Gang. Still, the majority of the Dalton boys became law-abiding citizens, and one of the older brothers, Frank, served as a deputy U.S. marshal;
1899 – A peace treaty between the United States and Spain was ratified by the U.S. Senate;
1900 – President McKinley appoints W.H. Taft commissioner to report on the Philippines;
1911 – President Ronald Wilson Reagan is born in Tampico, Illinois. Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States served for two terms from 1981 to 1989. Known as The Great Communicator, he was the first actor to be elected president after two centuries of mainly lawyers and soldiers;
1916 – Germany admits full liability for the Lusitania incident and recognizes the United States right to claim indemnity;
1917 – In World War I, just three days after U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s speech of February 3, 1917—in which he broke diplomatic relations with Germany and warned that war would follow if American interests at sea were again assaulted—a German submarine torpedoes and sinks the Anchor Line passenger steamer California off the Irish coast. On April 2, Wilson went before Congress to deliver his war message; the formal declaration of U.S. entrance into the First World War came four days later;
1918 – Britain grants women, (30 & over), the right to vote;
1922 – Cardinal Archille Ratti was elected pope; he took the name Pius XI;
1933 – The 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the so-called “lame duck” amendment, was proclaimed in effect by Secretary of State Henry Stimson;
1933 – Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich begins censorship of the press & media;
1935 – Infamous and popular board game “Monopoly” goes on sale for the first time, (also see 2013 entry – Monopoly);
1943 – During World War II, wary of his growing antiwar attitude, Benito Mussolini removes Count Galeazzo Ciano, his son-in-law, as head of Italy’s foreign ministry and takes over the duty himself;
1945 – General MacArthur reports the fall of Manila in the Philippines and the liberation of 5,000 allied prisoners;
1952 – After a long illness, King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies in his sleep at the royal estate at Sandringham. Princess Elizabeth, the oldest of the king’s two daughters and next in line to succeed him, was in Kenya at the time of her father’s death; she was crowned Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953, at age 27;
1959 – The United States successfully test-fired for the first time a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral;
1963 – During the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crises, the United States reports that all soviet offensive weapons have been removed from Cuba;
1966 – In the Vietnam War, accompanied by his leading political and military advisers, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky in Honolulu. The talks concluded with issuance of a joint declaration in which the United States promised to help South Vietnam “prevent aggression,” develop its economy, and establish “the principles of self-determination of peoples and government by the consent of the governed.” Johnson declared: “We are determined to win not only military victory but victory over hunger, disease, and despair.”;
1985 – During the Cold War, in his State of the Union address, President Ronald Reagan defines some of the key concepts of his foreign policy, establishing what comes to be known as the “Reagan Doctrine.” The doctrine served as the foundation for the Reagan administration’s support of “freedom fighters” around the globe;
1987 – No Smoking rules go into effect in all federal buildings;
1998 – A judge reinstates the suspended sentence of school teacher Mary Kay Letourneau and sends her back to prison for seven years after she is caught violating a no-contact order with her former student Vili Fualaau, when she is found in a vehicle with the boy. Letourneau first met Fualaau when she was a teacher at Shorewood Elementary School, in the Seattle suburb of Burien, Washington, and he was a second-grader. During the summer of 1996, Letourneau, then 34 and a married mother of four, began a sexual relationship with her former sixth-grade student, then 12-years-old;
2009 – The Honda Insight, billed as “the world’s first affordable hybrid,” goes on sale in Japan. Honda took some 18,000 orders for the car within the first three weeks, pushing Toyota’s Prius, known as the world’s first mass-produced hybrid vehicle, out of the top-10-selling cars for that month;
2013 – Toy maker Hasbro Inc. announced that Monopoly fans had voted online to add a cat token to the board game, replacing the iron, (also see 1935 entry above – Monopoly);
2013 – The U.S. Postal Service proposed eliminating Saturday mail delivery, an announcement that immediately drew protests from some lawmakers;
2013 – IT WAS ONE YEAR AGO TODAY !
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff !
Today’s “Just An Observation’ From Rick:
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama stated: “Wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that’s what I’m going to do. … Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. … I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress…” (This was a thinly veiled threat to use executive orders to overstep the Second Amendment proscription on government interference with “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.”)
– * – * – I would observe that he will only end up creating millions more ‘Illegal Gun Owners’ than there already are!
Today’s ‘Rick’s Thought For The Day’:
The White House announced Monday that President Obama will visit Saudi Arabia and meet with King Abdullah in March. The Saudi way of thinking is the exact opposite of Western thinking. In California, for instance, we expose our women and cover up our oil.
Today’s ‘A Dogs Thought’:
Dear God: Why are there cars named after the jaguar, the cougar, the mustang, the colt, the stingray, and the rabbit, but not ONE named for a Dog? How often do you see a cougar riding around? We love a nice car ride! If it wouldn’t be too difficult, maybe we could name one something like the ‘Chrysler Eagle’ the ‘Chrysler Beagle’?
Today’s Funny Animal Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=i479N2ei8Us
Today’s Thought For The Day:
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
– Winston Churchill
Today’s Quote For The Day:
Booker T. Washington
Today’s Patriotic Quote For The Day:
“Facts are stubborn things; and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence.”
– John Adams
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Barron Falls, Cairns, Australia
Today’s Crazy Law:
In Alaska – Kangaroos are not allowed in barber shops at any time.
Today’s ‘Astute Visionary’:
“So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or, we’ ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And, they said, ‘No.’ So then, we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.'”
– Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s personal computer.
Today’s ‘Let’s Be Friends’ Picture:
Today’s ‘Product Warning Label’:
On Marks and Spencer Bread Pudding – Product will be hot after heating !
Today’s Lexophile Word Play:
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
Today’s ‘Love Is’ Picture:
Today’s ‘Signs Of Maturity’ Picture:
Today’s Magical And Inspirational Video:
Young girl discovers ‘RAIN’; Adorable – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCRqNsRflHM&feature=player_embedded
Today’s Inspiration Music Video:
Card Board Testimonies – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RvDDc5RB6FQ
Today’s Inspirational Image:
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
He who pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity, and honor.
– Proverbs 21:21
Dear God, giver of every good and perfect gift, I ask today that you give me a chance to serve you and others in a way which shows your kingdom and its glory. If in the process you choose to meet the needs in my own heart, then I thank you. In your precious Son’s name Jesus I pray. Amen.
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Now It’s Time For My Nap:
So, Until Tomorrow – America, BLESS GOD !!!