Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is February 8, the 39th day of 2014 and there are 326 days left this year where it is another Blessed Day in the work for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
So, What Happened Today In 1949 ?
Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is convicted and sentenced for treason
Following the end of World War II and during the ‘Cold War’, Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, the highest Catholic official in Hungary, is convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Communist People’s Court. Outraged observers in Western Europe and the United States condemned both the trial and Mindszenty’s conviction as “perversions” and “lynchings.”
Mindszenty was no stranger to political persecution. During World War II, Hungary’s fascist government arrested him for his speeches denouncing the oppression of Jews in the nation. After the war, as a communist regime took power in Hungary, he continued his political work, decrying the political oppression and lack of religious freedom in his nation. In 1948, the Hungarian government arrested the cardinal. Mindszenty, several other Catholic Church officials, a journalist, a professor, and a member of the Hungarian royal family were all found guilty of various crimes during a brief trial before the Communist People’s Court in Budapest. Most had been charged with treason, trying to overthrow the Hungarian government, and speculation in foreign currency (illegally sending money out of the country). All but Mindszenty received prison sentences ranging from a few years to life.
Mindszenty was the focus of the trial. During the proceedings, the prosecutors produced several documents implicating Mindszenty in anti-government activities. The Cardinal admitted that he was “guilty in principle and in detail of most of the accusations made,” but he vigorously denied that his activities were designed to overthrow the Hungarian government. Nevertheless, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The reaction to Mindszenty’s conviction was swift and indignant. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin declared that the trial was an affront to Britain’s understanding of liberty and justice. The Vatican issued a statement proclaiming that the Cardinal was “morally and civilly innocent.” In the United States, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (Democrat-Texas) stated that the “Christian world cannot help but be shocked over the verdict.” Protests were held in a number of U.S. cities, but the protests did not change the verdict.
The case was significant in demonstrating the depth of the anticommunist movement in Hungary. In 1956, Mindszenty was released when a reformist government took power in Hungary. Shortly thereafter, Soviet troops entered Hungary to put down anticommunist protests. Mindszenty took refuge in the U.S. embassy in Budapest and stayed inside the embassy grounds until 1971. That year he was recalled by the Vatican and settled in Vienna, where he died in 1975.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On February 8 In History:
1587 – After 19 years of imprisonment, Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded for treason at Fotheringhay Castle in England and her complicity in a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I. Her son, King James VI of Scotland, calmly accepted his mother’s execution, and upon Queen Elizabeth’s death in 1603 he became king of England, Scotland, and Ireland;
1699 – A meteorite estimated to weigh over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico;
1725 – Peter the Great, emperor of Russia, dies and is succeeded by his wife, Catherine. The reign of Peter, who became sole czar in 1696, was characterized by a series of sweeping military, political, economic, and cultural reforms based on Western European models. In 1721, Peter abandoned the traditional Russian title of czar in favor of the European-influenced title of emperor. Four years later, he died;
1777 – In the American Revolutionary War with England, just six months after his release as a prisoner-of-war, Major Timothy Bigelow becomes colonel of the 15th Massachusetts Colonial Line of the Continental Army;
1862 – In the Civil War, Union General Ambrose Burnside scores a major victory when his troops capture Roanoke Island in North Carolina. It was one of the first major Union victories of the Civil War and gave the Yankees control of the mouth of Albemarle Sound, allowing them to threaten the Rebel capital of Richmond, Virginia, from the south. The victory came two days after Union General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Henry in northern Tennessee, and, for the first time in the war, the North had reason for optimism;
1887 – President Grover Cleveland signs the Dawes Severalty Act into law. The act split up reservations held communally by Native American tribes into smaller units and distributed these units to individuals within the tribe. Also called the General Allotment Act, the law changed the legal status of Native Americans from tribal members to individuals subject to federal laws and dissolved many tribal affiliations The Dawes Severalty/General Allotment Act constituted a huge blow to tribal sovereignty. The well-meant but ultimately flawed act was finally abolished in 1934, during President Franklin Roosevelt’s first term;
1904 – Following the Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea into spheres of influence, Japan launches a surprise naval attack against Port Arthur, a Russian naval base in China. The Russian fleet was decimated. Japan emerged from the conflict as the first modern non-Western world power and set its sights on greater imperial expansion. However, for Russia, its military’s disastrous performance in the war was one of the immediate causes of the Russian Revolution of 1905;
1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated;
1922 – President Warren G. Harding has a RADIO installed in the White House;
1923 – In Dawson, New Mexico, Stag Canyon Mine No. 1 suffered an explosion when a mine car derailed and ignited coal dust in the mine. 123 men were killed in the explosion. Many of those were children of men who died in a mine explosion in Dawson in 1913;
1924 – The first execution by gas in the United States took place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City as Gee Jon, a Chinese immigrant convicted of murder, was put to death;
1931 – Gas explosion and fire in Fushun coal mine in Manchuria kills 3,000;
1942 – During World War II, Congress advises FDR that Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn’t interfere with the US war effort;
1943 – In World War II, Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, leaving the island in Allied possession after a prolonged campaign. On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines landed on the island. A series of bloody battles ensued in the debilitating tropical heat as Marines sparred with Japanese troops on land, while in the waters surrounding Guadalcanal, the U.S. Navy fought six major engagements with the Japanese between August 24 and November 30. Both sides suffered heavy losses of men, warships and planes in the battle for Guadalcanal. An estimated 1,600 U.S. troops were killed, over 4,000 were wounded and several thousand more died from disease. The Japanese lost 24,000 soldiers;
1943 – In World War II, under the command of Major General Orde Wingate, the 77th Indian Brigade, also called the Chindits, launch guerrilla raids behind Japanese lines in Burma. Wingate was an eccentric British officer famous both for quoting the Bible and advocating irregular warfare tactics. In 1941, Wingate led a mixed Ethiopian and Sudanese force in retaking Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, from the Italians, who had invaded in 1935. One of the Chindits most effective attacks was against the Mandalay-Myitkina railway, when they blew up three bridges while also beating back Japanese troops determined to stop the demolitions;
1962 – During the Vietnamese War, the United States Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), headed by Gen. Paul D. Harkins, former U.S. Army Deputy Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, is installed in Saigon as the United States reorganizes its military command in South Vietnam;
1971 – In the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese army forces invade southern Laos. Dubbed Operation Lam Son 719, the mission goal was to disrupt the communist supply and infiltration network along Route 9 in Laos, adjacent to the two northern provinces of South Vietnam;
1974 – The last three-man crew of the Skylab space station, consisting of Jerry Carr, Bill Pogue and Edward Gibson, returned to Earth after spending 84 days in space. Skylab remained in orbit another five years before plunging to its destruction in 1979;
1975 – 1800 Unification Church couples’ wed in Korea;
1978 – A classic “Nor’easter” storm that brought a severe blizzard to New England finally subsides on this day in 1978, and the region begins to dig out from under several feet of snow. Over the previous 72 hours, some areas of Rhode Island and Massachusetts had received as many as 55 inches of snow. In the end, 56 deaths between February 5 and February 8 were attributed to the blizzard. Thousands more people were left homeless. In one tragic incident, a young child died after becoming lost in the snow–although he was only yards from his home, he could not be located;
2011 – The head of the Taiwanese Army’s electronic communications and information department, Major General Lo Hsien-che is arrested for leaking secrets to China;
2012 – Europe’s cold wave continues, with over 400 dead; the Danube River freezes over for 105 miles;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY !
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff !!!
Today’s Patriotic Quote:
“Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don’t ever apologize for anything.”
– Harry Truman
Today’s Quote For The Day:
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying”
– Oscar Wilde
Today’s ‘Dogs Thoughts’:
Dear God: Why do humans smell the flowers, but seldom, if ever, smell one another? 
Today’s Inspirational Video:
Tommy’s Story – https://blog.petflow.com/this-dogs-human-passed-away-what-happened-next-is-unbelievable/
Today’s Funny Animal Video:
One of the better one’s that I’ve found – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeCekZfiekY&feature=player_embedded
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Great Falls Park, Potomac River, Virginia
Today’s Warning Label:
On Boot’s CHILDREN’s Cough Medicine – Do not drive car or operate machinery.
Today’s ‘Astute Visionary’:
“Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.”
– Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
Today’s ‘Can You Find The Hiding Animal?’:
Today’s Crazy Law:
In Hollywood, California – It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time.
Today’s Lexophile Word Play:
When you’ve seen one shopping Center you’ve seen a mall.
Today’s Love Is Picture:
Today’s Inspirational Thought:
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.
– Matthew 5:43-45
My Dear Father God, thank you for loving me when I was still an enemy to you. Thank you for risking the death of your Son to offer me the chance to accept or reject your love. As you have promised, please pour your love into my heart so I may love even my enemies as you have loved me. In the name of your ultimate Gift of love, Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen.
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
This is Freedom – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VjJKZIxwATU
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Now, Off For My Nap:
Until Tomorrow- America, BLESS GOD !!!
