Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is March 27, the 86th day of 2014 and there are 279 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 !!!
For the one or two of you who actually read my silly little post, I apologize for missing you yesterday morning! Although we’re 6 months out from my rather massive chemo and radiation treatments last year there are days that are just a little too much for me still and it’s everything I’ve got just to get through the day and sitting down to concentrate on writing is way too far beyond my abilities. Yesterday was one of those days and regret not getting the post out. For those of you who’ve been through this process I know you understand and pray anyone who hasn’t, never has to, and will try to understand. Although still under the weather this morning, it is a little better and I promise to try to stay on top of it as best I can.
So, What Happened Today In 1836?
Mexicans execute defenders of Goliad in Texas
In a disastrous setback for the Texans resisting Santa Anna’s dictatorial regime, the Mexican army defeats and executes 417 Texas revolutionaries at Goliad.
Long accustomed to enjoying considerable autonomy from their Mexican rulers, many Anglo Texan settlers reacted with alarm when Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna proclaimed himself dictator of Mexico in 1835. Santa Anna immediately imposed martial law and attempted to disarm the Texans. Yet, this move merely fed the flames of Texan resistance.
In November 1853, Texan leaders proclaimed their resistance to Santa Anna’s dictatorship, though they stopped short of calling for independence. The next month, the Texans managed to defeat 800 Mexican soldiers stationed in San Antonio. However, the rebel leaders remained deeply divided over what to do next, making them vulnerable to Santa Anna’s ruthless determination to suppress dissension.
While the Texas rebels dallied, Santa Anna moved decisively. In mid-February he led a massive Mexican army across the Rio Grande, and after a 13-day siege of the Alamo, crushed the rebels in San Antonio. Meanwhile, to the south, Santa Ann’s chief lieutenant, General Urrea, moved to destroy another faction of the rebel army attempting to defend the town of Goliad.
Disagreements among the Texans had led to a division of the rebel forces. James W. Fannin was left with only slightly more than 300 Texans to protect Goliad, a position the rebels needed in order to maintain their supply routes to the Gulf Coast. As Urrea’s much larger 1400-man army approached, Fannin acted with indecision, wondering if he should go to the aid of the besieged men at the Alamo.
Belatedly, Fannin attempted to fall back from the approaching Mexican army, but his retreat order came too late. On March 19, Urrea surrounded the small column of rebel soldiers on an open prairie, where they were trapped without food, water, or cover. After repulsing one Mexican assault, Fannin realized there was no chance of escape. Rather than see his force annihilated, Fannin surrendered.
Apparently, some among the Texans who surrendered believed they would be treated as prisoners of war. Santa Anna, however, had clearly stated several months before that he considered the rebels to be traitors who would be given no quarter. In obedience to Santa Anna’s orders, on this day in 1836 Urrea ordered his men to open fire on Fannin and his soldiers, along with about 100 other captured Texans. More than 400 men were executed that day at Goliad.
Ironically, rather than serving to crush the Texas rebellion, the Goliad Massacre helped inspire and unify the Texans. Now determined to break completely from Mexico, the Texas revolutionaries began to yell “Remember Goliad!” along with the more famous battle cry, “Remember the Alamo!” Less than a month later, Texan forces under General Sam Houston dealt a stunning blow to Santa Anna’s army in the Battle of San Jacinto, and Texas won its independence.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On March 27 In History:
1513- Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted present-day Florida;
1775 – Future President Thomas Jefferson is elected to the second Continental Congress. Jefferson, a Virginia delegate, quickly established himself in the Continental Congress with the publication of his paper entitled A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Throughout the next year, Jefferson published several more papers, most notably Drafts and Notes on the Virginia Constitution. Jefferson served as vice president under President John Adams from 1797 to 1801 and afterwards was elected the third president of the United States, a position he held for two terms from 1801 to 1809. After his presidency ended, Jefferson retired from public life to his home, Monticello, in Virginia. Jefferson died on July 4, 1826–50 years to the day after the signing of The Declaration of Independence. He was 83 years old;
1794 – Congress approved “An Act to provide a Naval Armament” of six armed ships turning them into frigates;
1802 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed, ending the French Revolutionary War;
1814 – U.S. troops under Gen. Andrew Jackson inflict a crushing defeat on the Creek Indians at Horshoe Bend in Northern Alabama;
1829 – President Andrew Jackson defies Washington society matrons and appoints scandal-plagued John Eaton as his secretary of war. Earlier that year, Eaton had married a former tavern maid with a supposedly lurid past. By 1831, an Eaton Affair had proved immensely divisive and politically damaging to Jackson. In response, Eaton and Secretary of State Martin Van Buren who sided with Eaton, resigned in order to give Jackson the opportunity to overhaul his cabinet with new members and protect his presidency from further scandal;
1865 – Near the end of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln meets with Union generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman at City Point, Virginia, to plot the last stages of the Civil War. After meeting with Admiral David Dixon Porter on March 28, the president and his two generals went their separate ways. Less than four weeks later, Grant and Sherman had secured the surrender of the Confederacy;
1866 – In what men consider one of the worlds greatest inventions, Andrew Rankin patents the urinal;
1905 – The neighbors of Thomas and Ann Farrow, shopkeepers in South London, discover their badly bludgeoned bodies in their home. Thomas was already dead, but Ann was still breathing. She died four days later without ever having regained consciousness. The brutal crime was solved using the newly developed fingerprinting technique. Only three years earlier, the first English court had admitted fingerprint evidence in a petty theft case. The Farrow case was the first time that the cutting-edge technology was used in a high-profile murder case;
1912 – In Washington, D.C., Helen Taft, wife of President William Taft, and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant two Yoshina cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River, near the Jefferson Memorial. The event was held in celebration of a gift, by the Japanese government, of 3,020 cherry trees to the U.S. government. The blossoming trees proved immediately popular with visitors to Washington’s Mall area, and in 1934 city commissioners sponsored a three-day celebration of the late March blossoming of the trees, which grew into the annual Cherry Blossom Festival. After World War II, cuttings from Washington’s cherry trees were sent back to Japan to restore the Tokyo collection that was decimated by American bombing attacks during the war;
1918 – In World War I, in the wake of Russia’s withdrawal from the war and its acceptance of the humiliating peace terms set by the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk, the Balkan republic of Romania annexes Bessarabia, a strategically important area of land located on its eastern border and bounded on the south by the Danube River and the mouth of the Black Sea. After World War II ended, the majority of Bessarabia was joined to the soviet republic of Moldavia; the northernmost area and the coastal strip to the south along the Black Sea became part of Ukraine. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldavia changed its name to Moldova and, along with Ukraine, joined the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), an association of 12 former republics of the USSR;
1941 – In World War II, Tokeo Yoshikawa, ‘The spy who doomed Pearl Harbor’, arrives in Oahu, Hawaii, to begin spying for Japan on the U.S. Naval Fleet;
1944 – During World War II, while thousands of Jews leave Drancy, France for the Auschwitz concentration camp, thousands of Jews are murdered in Kaunas, Lithuania and the Gestapo shoots forty Jewish policemen in the Riga, Latvia ghetto;
1945 – Near the end of World War II, in a last-ditch effort to deploy their remaining V-2 missiles against the Allies, the Germans launch their long-range rockets from their only remaining launch site, in the Netherlands. Almost 200 civilians in England and Belgium were added to the V-2 casualty toll. By the end of the war, more than 2,700 Brits had died because of the rocket attacks, as well as another 4,483 deaths in Belgium. After the war, both the United States and the Soviet Union captured samples of the rockets for reproduction. Having proved so extraordinarily deadly during the war, the V-2 became the precursor of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) of the postwar era;
1952 – During the Korean War, elements of the U.S. Eighth Army reach the 38th parallel in Korea, the original dividing line between the two Koreas;
1958 – Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nicolay Bulganin as Soviet premier, becoming the first leader since Joseph Stalin to simultaneously hold the USSR’s two top offices;
1964 – The strongest earthquake in American history, measuring 8.4 on the Richter scale, slams southern Alaska, creating a deadly tsunami. Some 125 people were killed and thousands injured. The massive earthquake had its epicenter in the Prince William Sound, about eight miles northeast of Anchorage, but approximately 300,000 square miles of U.S., Canadian, and international territory were affected. Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, sustained the most property damage, with about 30 blocks of dwellings and commercial buildings damaged or destroyed in the downtown area. Fifteen people were killed or fatally injured as a direct result of the three-minute quake, and then the ensuing tsunami killed another 110 people. The tidal wave, which measured over 100 feet at points, devastated towns along the Gulf of Alaska and caused carnage in British Columbia, Canada; Hawaii; and the West Coast of the United States, where 15 people died. Total property damage was estimated in excess of $400 million. The day after the quake, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared Alaska an official disaster area;
1965 – In the Vietnam War, following several days of consultations with the Cambodian government, South Vietnamese troops, supported by artillery and air strikes, launch their first major military operation into Cambodia. The South Vietnamese encountered a 300-man Viet Cong force in the Kandal province and reported killing 53 communist soldiers. Two teams of U.S. helicopter gunships took part in the action. Three South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and seven wounded;
1973 – During the Vietnam War, the White House announces that, at the request of Cambodian President Lon Nol, the bombing of Cambodia will continue until communist forces cease military operations and agree to a cease-fire. When the U.S. forces departed South Vietnam in 1973, both the Cambodians and South Vietnamese found themselves fighting the communists alone. Without U.S. support, Lon Nol’s forces succumbed to the Khmer Rouge, surrendering to the communists in April 1975. The victorious Khmer Rouge evacuated Phnom Penh and began reordering Cambodian society, which resulted in a killing spree and the notorious “killing fields.” Eventually, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were murdered or died from exhaustion, hunger, and disease;
1977 – Two 747 jumbo jets crash into each other on the runway at an airport in the Canary Island of Tenerife, killing 582 passengers and crew members;
1990 – The U.S. government begins the operation of TV Marti, which broadcast television programs into communist Cuba. The project marked yet another failed attempt to undermine the regime of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Despite the fact that TV Marti was a dismal failure in terms of weakening the Castro regime, it continues to receive funding and is still in operation;
2009 – The main suspect in the Phoenix serial shooter attacks, Dale Hausner, was sentenced to death for six murders that had put the city on edge for nearly two years. Hausner committed suicide in an isolation cell in June 2013;
2013 – It was one year ago Today!
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff!!!
Today’s Computer Humor Picture:
Today’s ‘Funny Animal’ Video:
Cats Can Be Funny Too – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IoZo43bO_5o
Today’s ‘Least We Forget’ Music Video:
Far Away – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iyXYot6wHuE
Today’s ‘Adorable Baby’ Picture:
Today’s Thought For The Day:
“A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.”
– Eudora Welty, American author (1909-2001)
Today’s Quote For The Day:
“Justice without force is impotent, [and] force without justice is tyranny.”
– French mathematician & philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Today’s ‘Will You Be My Pillow’ Picture:
Today’s Founders Quote:
“We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country’s Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions.”
– George Washington, General Orders, 1776
Today’s ‘It’s Just An Observation’:
“Never in my lifetime have I seen a law that is helping so many people be so vilified,” complained Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). “This is a huge success, this law.” How successful? Well, a report released in time for ObamaCare’s four-year anniversary Sunday indicates just the opposite. The American Action Forum sums it up: “From a regulatory perspective, the law has imposed more than $27.2 billion in total private sector costs, $8 billion in unfunded state burdens, and more than 159 million paperwork hours on local governments and affected entities. What’s more troubling, the law has generated just $2.6 billion in annualized benefits, compared to $6.8 billion in annualized costs. In other words, the ACA has imposed 2.5 times more costs than it has produced in benefits.” I’d say the law is doing a fine job of vilifying itself.
Today’s ‘Try Not To Smile’ Picture:
Today’s ‘Daily Motivator’:
Make this day about fulfilling your possibilities, not about satisfying your ego. Make this day about being your authentic best, not about appearing to be impressive. Free yourself from the burden of worrying about what others might think of you. Use all that liberated energy to make a real, substantive difference in the world. Do what you’re most passionate about doing. Let go of all the things you do to merely keep up appearances. There is immense value in the unique, authentic person you are. Today, and every day, generously share that value with all of life.
Today’s Word For The Day:
Mendacious (men·da·cious) adj Not telling the truth; lying: “A mendacious politician;” “A mendacious defendant.”
Today’s ‘Impeccable Timing’ Picture:
Today’s Trivia:
Robert E. Lee was buried barefoot as the coffin was too small to allow for his boots.
Today’s ‘Just Incase You Forgot’:
Today’s ‘AWE of God’:
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge.
– Psalm 62:7
Father God, I place myself in your care. Take charge of my future and use me for your glory. In you I take refuge and on your strength I rely to make my days worthwhile. In the precious name of Jesus I pray. Amen
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
Not For A Moment – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XD0cvWImVjA
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – America, Bless GOD!!!