Good Morning and God Bless to All !!!
Today is December 16, the 350th day of 2013 and there are 15 days left this year and it is another blessed day here in our work for the Lord at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
It’s another beautiful day here in Albuquerque where it is presently 30 degrees outside at about 5:30 a.m. and we’re expecting the meter to break into the low 50’s today with wads and wads of God’s beautiful sunshine! It’s a good morning if you want to double-check me for typo’s …we had our ‘Children’s Christmas Play’ at our blessed church last night where we were till late in the evening watching the grandkids …very, very special watching as the next generation begins their lives in a Godly manner!!! (Can’t tell I’m a proud Grandpa – huh?)
So, What Happened Today In 1773:
The Boston Tea Party
In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. The low tax allowed the East India Company to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders, and many colonists viewed the act as another example of taxation tyranny.
When three tea ships, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver, arrived in Boston Harbor, the colonists demanded that the tea be returned to England. After Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused, Patriot leader Samuel Adams organized the “tea party” with about 60 members of the Sons of Liberty, his underground resistance group. The British tea dumped in Boston Harbor on the night of December 16 was valued at some $18,000.
Parliament, outraged by the blatant destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, in 1774. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On December 16 In History:
1707 – Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan;
1811 – 8.6 magnitude earthquake strikes Mississippi River Valley near Madrid, Missouri setting off the greatest series of quakes in history altering the topography of the region but there were no known human fatalities;
1826 – In an act that foreshadowed the American rebellions to come, Benjamin Edwards rides into Mexico-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and proclaims himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia;
1863 – Confederate President Jefferson Davis names General Joseph Johnston commander of the Tennessee army replacing General Braxton Bragg who lost all of Tennessee to the Union;
1864 – In the civil war the Battle of Nashville ends after 4,400 casualties;
1907 – 16 U.S. Navy battleships known as the “Great White Fleet” sets sail for a round-the-world voyage to demonstrate American sea power;
1914 – In WWI, German battle cruisers catch the British Navy by surprise as they begin heavy bombardment of Hartlepool & Scarborough, both English ports on the North Sea;
1915 – Albert Einstein publishes General Theory of Relativity;
1920 – 8.5 magnitude earthquake hits Gansu province in China causing an estimated 200,000 deaths;
1944 – In WWII, in the Battle of the Bulge, Adolf Hitler orders three German armies to attack Anglo-American troops closing on Germany from the west & Soviet troops approaching from the east. It was Germany’s last major offensive of the war which cost them 120,000 men, 1,600 planes & 700 tanks. American troops lost 75,000 men & there were 5,000 other troops lost;
1950 – Due to massive intervention in the Korean war President Harry S. Truman declares state of emergency proclaiming that “communist imperialism” threatened the world’s people;
1960 – Two airplanes collide over New York City killing 134 people on the planes & on the ground;
1965 – In Vietnam, General William Westmoreland sends a request for more troops asking for an additional 243,000 men to supplement 200,000 already in South Vietnam. At its highest point, troop levels were more than 540,000 U.S. troops in South Vietnam 1969;
1969 – British House of Commons votes 343-185 to abolish the death penalty;
1971 – 2 weeks after the Indian invasion of East Pakistan, 90,000 Pakistani troops surrender to Indian forces. East Pakistan was subsequently declared the independent nation of Bangladesh;
1972 – Henry Kissinger announces that North Vietnam had walked out of the private peace talks ongoing in Paris, France;
1980 – Colonel Sanders, businessman & restaurateur dies;
1998 – President Bill Clinton orders air strikes against Iraq for refusing to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors. Many in congress called the timing of the attacks “suspect” & “cursory” in their opinion feeling the strikes were designed to take attention away from his impeachment proceedings.
Now we’re off to the fun stuff!:
Today’s Founders Quote:
“History by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.” –Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
Today’s Word Of The Day:
Subliminal – is an adjective used to describe things or stimuli that work below the threshold of consciousness, thus influencing the individual without being perceived as clear thoughts or ideas. For example you can have subliminal advertising.
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Today’s Christian Thought:
The virgin birth is more than a Christmas story; it is a picture of how close Christ will come to you. The first stop on his itinerary was a womb. Where will God go to touch the world? Look deep within Mary for an answer. Better still, look deep within yourself. What he did with Mary, he offers to us! He issues a Mary-level invitation to all his children. “If you’ll let me, I’ll move in!” Proliferating throughout the scriptures is a preposition that leaves no doubt- the preposition in. Jesus lives in his children.
John was clear, “Those who obey His commands live in him, and He in them” 1 John 3:24
Christ grew in Mary until he had to come out. Christ will grow in you until the same occurs. He will come out in your speech, in your actions, in your decisions. Every place you live will be a Bethlehem, and every day you live will be a Christmas. You, like Mary, will deliver Christ into the world.
Today’s Crazy Question:
Why are bubble bath bubbles always white regardless of what color bubble bath you use ?
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UNTIL TOMORROW – GOD BLESS TO ALL !!!
