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Today in history

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1925: Austin Peay, governor of Tennessee, signs the "Butler Bill," prohibiting any teaching that contradicted the Genesis creation story. By July, John Scopes was on trial for violating the legislation and the "trial of the century" had begun

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1872: Journalist Henry Stanley and explorer-missionary David Livingstone part company, having spent the last five months in Africa together. Stanley returned to England to write his bestseller, How I Found Livingstone. Livingstone, in the meantime, got lost again—in a swamp literally up to his neck.

1937: Pope Pius XI issues an encyclical against the Nazi "cult": "Race, nation, state . . . all have an essential and honorable place within the secular order," he wrote. "To abstract them, however, from the earthly scale of values and make them the supreme norm of all values, including religious ones, and divinize them with an idolatrous cult, is to be guilty of perverting and falsifying the order of things created and commanded by God".
 
1517: Needing money to rebuild St. Peter's basilica, Pope Leo X announces a special sale of indulgences. A Dominican named Johann Tetzel led the way in promoting the sale in Germany and erroneously declared that indulgences would cover future sins (Leo's forgave all past sins). The teaching angered monk Martin Luther, who soon posted his 95 Theses in response

1953: Billy Graham holds his first integrated revival in Chattanooga, TN. Up to this point Graham accommodated southern whites by holding segregated revivals when in the South.
 
24 March 1603 - Death of Queen Elizabeth I.

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1911 - fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York, killing 148 people, mostly young female immigrants. This was one of the events that led to the writing of the three national building codes in the United States (Uniform Building Code, Southern Building Code and the Building Officials and Code Administrators Code) which all merged in 2000 to become the International Building Code
1931 - in the so-called "Scottsboro Boys" case, nine young black men were taken off a train in Alabama, accused of raping two white women. After years of convictions, death sentances and imprisonment, the nine were eventually vindicated
1954 - RCA announced that it had begun producing color television sets at its plant in Bloomington, Indiana
 
1249: Muslims take King Louis IX of France prisoner during the seventh crusade, which was supposed to overcome the Muslim political center in Egypt. After showing bravery in the face of torture, he was allowed to buy his freedom for a huge sum in gold—and the city of Damietta.

1801: The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church recognizes the new African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). Blacks who were denied membership and/or recognition within white Methodist churches, particularly in Philadelphia and New York, formed the original AME.

1932: Eric Liddell, the Olympic athlete featured in the film Chariots of Fire, makes his evangelistic debut by sharing his testimony to a group of men in Armadale, Scotland. Liddell later returned to the mission field in China, where he was born, and ministered in an internment camp following the Japanese invasion. He died in 1945 from a massive brain tumor.
 
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of one of the most important Spanish and universal artists of all time,
Pablo Ruiz Picasso,
a genius born in Malaga at the beginning of the 20th century.

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1947 - the SS Grandcamp, a cargo ship loaded with amonium nitrate exploded in Galveston Bay, setting off a chain reaction amongst nearby ships, like the SS High Flyer, also carrying amonium nitrate; and warehouses ashore containing fertilizer. The devastation claimed 405 dead that were identified and, an additional 63 dead never identified. Nearly 5,000 were injured.

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1521: German reformer Martin Luther arrives at the Diet of Worms, convinced he would get the hearing he requested in 1517 to discuss the abuse of indulgences and his "95 Theses." He was astounded when he discovered it would not be a debate, but rather a judicial hearing to see if he wished to recant his words. In defending himself the next day, Luther said, "Unless I can be instructed and convinced with evidence from the Holy Scriptures or with open, clear, and distinct grounds of reasoning . . . then I cannot and will not recant, because it is neither safe nor wise to act against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me! Amen!" When negotiations over the next few days failed to reach any compromise, Luther was condemned.
 
smokeshadow said:
1947 - the SS Grandcamp, a cargo ship loaded with amonium nitrate exploded in Galveston Bay, setting off a chain reaction amongst nearby ships, like the SS High Flyer, also carrying amonium nitrate; and warehouses ashore containing fertilizer. The devastation claimed 405 dead that were identified and, an additional 63 dead never identified. Nearly 5,000 were injured.

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I've been to the spot. In a warped sort of way some people there seemed proud of the historical distinction.
 
40 years ago the german magazine "Stern" announced they had found Hitlers diaries.
Only 10 days later tests found out they were faked.

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300 years ago today Johann Sebastian Bach became leader of the famous Thomas Choir, a choir of then 55 boys,
he stayed in this position until he died in 1750, writing timeless music.
Today Bach is regarded as one of the greatest composers and musician of all times.

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^ Yet Bach found time to father 20 children. Sadly, only 10 survived to adulthood.
 
gsdx said:
^ Yet Bach found time to father 20 children. Sadly, only 10 survived to adulthood.
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He needed them all. One of the selling points he used in his application to the Leipzig Town Council for the position was that he could provide half of an orchestra just from his own family.
 
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