It’s finally Friday!
On this day in 1865 the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. It was ratified by the necessary number of states on December 6, 1865. The amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
Also in 1865, General Robert E. Lee was named general-in-chief of the Confederate armies.
In 1876 all Native American Indians were ordered to move into reservations.
In 1940 the first Social Security check was issued by the U.S. Government.
And in 1950 President Truman announced that he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb.
Quote of the Day
“It helps if the hitter thinks you’re a little crazy.”
Today is Franz Schubert’s birthday.
It’s also Peter Dawson’s.
Anyone have a QoD?
Who would like to share a request or praise with us today?
¹In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
4 The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
5 The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
7 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
On this day in 1798 the first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives took place. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor.
In 1847 the town of Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco.
In 1862 the U.S. Navy’s first ironclad warship, the “Monitor”, was launched.
In 1911 the first airplane rescue at sea was made by the destroyer “Terry.” Pilot James McCurdy was forced to land in the ocean about 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
In 1933 “The Lone Ranger” was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955.
And in 1972, in Northern Ireland, British soldiers shot and killed thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers. The day is known as “Bloody Sunday.”
Quote of the Day
“I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should, or as our forefathers did.”
Today is the birthday of Johann Joachim Quantz. A very nicely done “Trio Sonata in C Minor”
Today is also Phil Collins’ birthday. I always preferred him on drums more than when he was singing, so I found both.
Anyone have a QoD?
Anyone have a request or praise they’d like to share?
¹Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
12 Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
16 The Lord is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
On this day in 1802 John Beckley became the first Librarian of Congress.
In 1820 Britain’s King George III died insane at Windsor Castle.
In 1845 Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” was published for the first time in the “New York Evening Mirror.”
In 1936 the first members of major league baseball’s Hall of Fame were named in Cooperstown, NY.
In 1949 “The Newport News” was commissioned as the first air-conditioned naval ship in Virginia.
And in 1990 Joseph Hazelwood, the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, went on trial in Anchorage, AK, on charges that stemmed from (what was at the time) America’s worst oil spill. Hazelwood was later acquitted of all the major charges and was convicted of a misdemeanor.
Quote of the Day
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
Today is the birthday of Frederick Delius. Given the weather most of us are having, a reminder of what’s to come seems appropriate. So here’s Delius’ “On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring” From George Morton, who I believe is the conductor. It’s the Sheffield University Orchestra, and they do a very nice rendition. 🙂
And this one makes me feel a little better about the weather. Kings College Choir, who never disappoints, with “In the Bleak Midwinter”. From Suila2007
Anyone have a QoD?
Who would like to share a request or praise today?
And as always on Wednesdays, please remember The Gambia.
¹I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
7 But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
11 Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
16 The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
19 Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
20 Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
On this day in 1521 the Diet of Worms began, at which Protestant reformer Luther was declared an outlaw by the Roman Catholic church.
In 1878 the first telephone switchboard was installed in New Haven, CT.
In 1915 the Coast Guard was created by an act of Congress to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
In 1980 six Americans who had fled the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 1979, left Iran using false Canadian diplomatic passports. The Americans had been hidden at the Canadian embassy in Tehran.
And in 1986 the U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff. All seven of its crew members were killed.
Quote of the Day
“Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.”
Today is the birthday of composer Johann Ernst Bach. From Ria Brezova
It’s also Arthur Rubenstein’s. So here he is from 1964, in Moscow. via SProkofieff
Anyone have a QoD for us today?