Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is January 30, the 30th day of 2014 and there are 335 days left this year where it is another Blessed Day in the work for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
Yesterday, Pastor gave us a pretty good upcoming weather report at https://fggam.org/big-changes-on-the-way-for-new-mexico-weather/ so I’ll just give ya a reason to try to laugh about it:
So, What Happened Today In 1968?
Vietnam TET Offensive Begins
During the Vietnamese War, in coordinated attacks all across South Vietnam, communist forces launch their largest offensive of the Vietnam War against South Vietnamese and U.S. troops. At dawn on the first day of the Tet holiday truce, Viet Cong forces–supported by large numbers of North Vietnamese troops–launch the largest and best coordinated offensive of the war, driving into the center of South Vietnam’s seven largest cities and attacking 30 provincial capitals from the Delta to the DMZ.
Among the cities taken during the first four days of the offensive were Hue, Dalat, Kontum, and Quang Tri; in the north, all five provincial capitals were overrun. At the same time, enemy forces shelled numerous Allied airfields and bases. In Saigon, a 19-man Viet Cong suicide squad seized the U.S. Embassy and held it for six hours until an assault force of U.S. paratroopers landed by helicopter on the building’s roof and routed them. Nearly 1,000 Viet Cong were believed to have infiltrated Saigon, and it took a week of intense fighting by an estimated 11,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops to dislodge them.
By February 10, the offensive was largely crushed, but with heavy casualties on both sides. The former Imperial capital of Hue took almost a month of savage house-to-house combat to regain. Efforts to assess the offensive’s impact began well before the fighting ended. On February 2, President Johnson announced that the Viet Cong had suffered complete military defeat. General Westmoreland echoed that appraisal four days later in a statement declaring that Allied forces had killed more enemy troops in the previous seven days than the United States had lost in the entire war.
Militarily, Tet was decidedly an Allied victory, but psychologically and politically, it was a disaster. The offensive was a crushing military defeat for the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese, but the size and scope of the communist attacks caught the American and South Vietnamese allies by surprise. The early reporting of a smashing communist victory went largely uncorrected in the media and led to a psychological victory for the communists. The heavy U.S. and South Vietnamese casualties incurred during the offensive, coupled with the disillusionment over the earlier overly optimistic reports of progress in the war, accelerated the growing disenchantment with President Johnson’s conduct of the war. Johnson, frustrated with his inability to reach a solution in Vietnam, announced on March 31, 1968, that he would neither seek nor accept the nomination of his party for re-election.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On January 30 In History:
1349 – Jews of Freilsburg, Germany are massacred;
1649 – In London, England, King Charles I is beheaded for treason on January 30, 1649.;
1781 – Maryland becomes the 13th and final state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, almost three years after the official deadline given by Congress of March 10, 1778. The Continental Congress drafted the Article of Confederation in a disjointed process that began in 1776. Large states wanted votes to be proportional according to population, while small states wanted to continue with the status quo of one vote per state. Northern states wished to count the southern states’ slave population when determining the ratio for how much funding each state would provide for Congressional activities, foremost the war. The problematic Articles of Confederation remained the law of the land for only eight years before the Constitutional Convention rejected them in favor of a new, more centralized form of federal government. They crafted the current U.S. Constitution, which took effect in 1789, giving the federal government greater authority over the states and creating a bicameral legislature.;
1816 – Union General Nathaniel Banks is born in Waltham, Massachusetts. Banks was a political general and had few military skills, but as an anti-slave Republican from Massachusetts, he helped President Abraham Lincoln’s administration maintain support in that region.;
1835 – In the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol, President Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, survives the first attempt against the life of a U.S. president. During a funeral service honoring the late Representative Warren R. Davis of South Carolina, a man identified as Richard Lawrence discharged two separate pistols in the direction of President Jackson. Both weapons misfired, and Lawrence was promptly subdued and arrested. During the subsequent criminal investigation, the suspect was found to be insane and was sent to a mental prison. Three decades later, President Abraham Lincoln would become the first president to be assassinated.;
1844 – Richard Theodore Greener becomes the first African-American to graduate from Harvard University.;
1847 – Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco;
1862 – During the American Civil War, the ironclad USS Monitor is launched from the Continental Iron Works in Greenpoint, New York;
1882 – Future 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D Roosevelt, is born in Hyde Park, New York;
1894 – Pneumatic hammer is patented in Detroit, Michigan by Charles King;
1925 – Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople;
1933 – With the stirring notes of the William Tell Overture and a shout of “Hi-yo, Silver! Away!” The Lone Ranger debuts on a Detroit’s radio station. The creation of station-owner George Trendle and writer Fran Striker, the “masked rider of the plains” became one of the most popular and enduring western heroes of the 20th century. Joined by his trusty steed, Silver, and loyal Indian scout, Tonto, the Lone Ranger sallied forth to do battle with evil western outlaws and Indians, generally arriving on the scene just in time to save an innocent golden-haired child or sun-bonneted farm wife.;
1939 – Adolf Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews;
1943 – In World War II, the British Royal Air Force begins a bombing campaign on the German capital that coincides with the 10th anniversary of Hitler’s accession to power.;
1948 – Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.);
1962 – Two members of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance at the State Fair Coliseum in Detroit.;
1971 – In the Vietnamese War, Operation Dewey Canyon II begins as the initial phase of Lam Son 719, the South Vietnamese invasion of Laos that would commence on February 8. The purpose of the South Vietnamese operation was to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail, advance to Tchepone in Laos, and destroy the North Vietnamese supply dumps in the area. U.S. ground forces were not to enter Laos, in accordance with a U.S. congressional ban. Instead they gave logistical support, with some 2,600 helicopters on call to airlift Saigon troops and supplies. In addition, U.S. artillerymen provided long-range artillery fire into Laos from American fire-bases just inside the South Vietnamese border.;
1972 – In Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators are shot dead by British Army paratroopers in an event that becomes known as “Bloody Sunday.” The protesters, all Northern Catholics, were marching in protest of the British policy of internment of suspected Irish nationalists. British authorities had ordered the march banned, and sent troops to confront the demonstrators when it went ahead. The soldiers fired indiscriminately into the crowd of protesters, killing 13 and wounding 17. The IRA officially disarmed in September 2005, finally fulfilling the terms of the historic 1998 Good Friday peace agreement. It was hoped that the disarmament would bring with it an end to decades of politically motivated bloodshed in the region.;
1974 – President Richard Nixon delivered what would be his last State of the Union address; Nixon pledged to rein in rising prices without the “harsh medicine of recession” and establish a national health care plan that every American could afford. (We’re still working on those! – Not quite there yet!!!);
1989 – The American Embassy in Kabul Afghanistan is closed;
2000 – A Kenya Airways Airbus A-310 crashes after takeoff into the Atlantic Ocean off the Ivory Coast. Because the passengers did not have enough time to put on life jackets, only 10 people out of the 179 on board survived. Many of the victims appeared to have survived the initial crash, but subsequently drowned. The plane had been scheduled to be replaced in the coming year.;
2003 – Belgium recognizes legal same-sex marriage;
2009 – President Barack Obama signed a series of executive orders that he said should “level the playing field” for labor unions in their struggles with management.;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY!!!
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff:
Today’s Patriotic Quote:
“May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.”
– President Millard Fillmore
Today’s Thought For The Day:
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill
Today’s Quote:
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Today’s Word Of The Day:
Bipartisan (bī-pär’tĭ-zən) – is used to indicate that something is created or supported by both sides. Usually, it refers to the major political parties in a country.
Today’s Yiddish Word You Should Know:
kosher – Something that’s acceptable to Orthodox Jews, especially food. Other Jews may also “eat kosher” on some level but are not required to. Food that Orthodox Jews don’t eat – pork, shellfish, etc. – is called traif. An observant Jew might add, “Both pork and shellfish are doubtlessly very tasty. I simply am restricted from eating it.” In English, when you hear something that seems suspicious or shady, you might say, “That doesn’t sound kosher.”
Today’s ‘How The Heck Did That Happen’ Picture:
Today’s ‘Astute Visionary’:
“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?”
– David Sarnoff’s associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the1920s
Today’s ‘So Long Ago’:
Compress was something you did to garbage not to a file; And if you unzipped anything in public you’d be in jail for awhile!
Today’s ‘Dog’s Thoughts’:
Today’s Cute Animal Video:
Lili’s First Day Home – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hMIPhIvqoF0
Today’s Proverb:
Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather!
Today’s ‘This Is What Cameras Were Made For’:
Today’s Crazy Law:
The good people of Tryon, N.C., are serious about getting a good night’s sleep. It’s against the law for anyone to keep “fowl that shall cackle,” or for anyone to play the piccolo between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7:30 a.m.
Today’s Job Issue:
I tried working in a Muffler Factory, but that turned out to be just too exhausting!
Today’s Joke Of The Day:
A cleric found himself wondering whether there were any golf courses in Heaven.
He even began to ask the question in prayers.
One day, in answer to his prayers, he received a direct answer from on high.
“Yes,” said the Heavenly messenger, “There are many excellent golf courses in Heaven.
The greens are always in first class condition and the weather is always perfect,
and you always get to play with the very nicest people.”
“Oh, thank you,” said the cleric, “That really is marvelous news.”
“Yes, isn’t it?” replied the messenger, “And we’ve got you down for a foursome next Saturday!”
Today’s ‘Oops Construction Site’ Picture:
Today’s Inspirational Thought:
Jesus did not come to make God’s love possible, but to make God’s love visible.
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
He Said – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Lmi9IBP209s
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
Therefore, I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.
Give me strength and patience, dear God, that I may be as loving, gentle and patient with others as Jesus was with people during his earthly ministry and you have been with me. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – America, Bless God !!!
