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Today in history

1885: The Salvation Army is officially organized in the USA. 5 years earlier Commissioner George Scott Railton and seven female Salvation Army officers arrived in New York City to begin expanding the organization in America. Though they were initially met with hostility and occasional violence, by 1883 the Army had expanded into 12 states. In 1886 the organization was endorsed by President Grover Cleveland during a visit to the White House by a Salvation Army delegation.


1937: Billy Graham gets his first opportunity to preach when his teacher John Minder unexpectedly assigns him the Easter evening sermon. Graham tried to get out of it, saying he was unprepared, but Minder persisted. Desperately nervous, Graham raced through four memorized sermons, originally 45 minutes each, in eight minutes
 
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1865 - Union forces occupied the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia
1882 - outlaw Jesse James was shot to death in St. Joseph, Missouri by Robert Ford, a member of the James' gang
1942 - during World War II, Japanese forces began their final assault on Bataan against American and Filipino troops who surrendered 6 days later. The capitulation was followed by the notorious Bataan Death March
1944 - the U. S. Supreme Court, in Smith vs. Allwright, struck down a Democratic Party of Texas rule that allowed only white voters to participate in Democratic primaries
1948 - President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan, designed to help European allies rebuild after World War II and to resist Communism
1968 - civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered what turned out to be his final speech, telling a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis that "I've been to the mountaintop" and "seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will bet to the Promised Land." About 20 hours later, King was felled by an assassin's bullet at the Lorraine Motel.
1996 - Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his remote Montana cabin
 
Okay, technically this was yesterday, but I haven't gone to bed yet, so--

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.
 
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1961 - some 1,500 CIA trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whos forces crushed the incursion by the third day
1961 - The Apartment won the Academy Award for best picture, Burt Lancaster was named best actor for Elmer Gantry, while best actress award went to Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8
1964 - Ford Motor Company unveiled the Mustang at the New York World's Fair
1969 - a jury in Los Angeles convicted Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy
1970 - Apollo 13 astronauts James Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert splashed down safely in the Pacific, four days after a ruptured oxygen tank crippled their spacecraft while en route to the Moon
1972 - the Boston Marathon allowed women to compete for the first time. Nina Kuscsik was the first officially recognized women's champion, with a time of 3:10:26
1973 - Federal Express (later FedEx) began operations as 14 airplanes carrying 186 packages took off from Memphis International Airport, bound for 25 United States cities
 
18 April 1689 - Death of George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jeffreys,_1st_Baron_Jeffreys
 
Can't believe I missed this one yesterday....

1944: In "United States v. Ballard," the Supreme Court ruled that no governmental agency can determine "the truth or falsity of the beliefs or doctrines" of anyone—even if the beliefs "may seem incredible, if not preposterous to most people." But the court also reiterated its position that while freedom of belief is absolute, the freedom to act on those beliefs is not.
 
304: The last and most punishing anti-Christian edict during Roman Emperor Diocletian's reign is published. The ensuing carnage was so horrific that it was said even the coliseum lions got tired. The man behind the edict, Augustus Galerius, finally issued an edict of toleration on April 30, 311—just Days before dying of a disease known as "being eaten with worms"
 
1707 - The Kingdom of Great Britain was created as a treaty merging England and Scotland took effect
1866 - 3 days of race-related rioting erupted in Memphis, Tennessee, as white mobs targeted blacks, 46 of whom were killed, along with 2 whites. The violence spurred passage of the 14th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution defining American citizenship and equal protection under the law
1960 - the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers
1963 - James W. Whittaker became the first American to conquer Mount Everest as he and his Sherpa guide Nawang Gombu reached the summit
1964 - the computer programming language BASIC - Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code - was created by Dartmouth College professors John G. Kennedy and Thomas E. Kurtz
1991 - pitcher Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers threw his seventh no-hitter at age 44, shutting out the Toronto Blue Jays, 3-0
 
1493: In the bull "Inter caetera," Pope Alexander VI sets the boundary between Spanish and Portuguese lands in the New World.

It's amazing that the Pope had that kind of power.
 
553: The Second Council of Constantinople convenes under the presidency of Eutychius, the city's new patriarch. The council, loaded with bishops from the Eastern church, attacked Nestorianism (a "heresy"—many have questioned that anathema—that overemphasizes Christ's dual nature as God and man). Nestorian Christians exist to this Day

1260: Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire

1494: Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica, which he names Santa Gloria.

1816: The American Bible Society (ABS) organizes in New York to distribute the Bible throughout the world.

1912: Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing.

1917: Eugene Jacques Bullard becomes the first African-American aviator when he earns a flying certificate with the French Air Service.

1925: Dayton, Tennessee, teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching evolution in his classroom. (He volunteered to admit violating a recent statute prohibiting such teaching so that the law could be tested in court.) The resulting trial—the first "trial of the century"—led to public mockery of fundamentalist Christians, driving them into a more self-contained subculture

1961: Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space. The suborbital flight, which lasted 15 minutes and reached a height of 116 miles into the atmosphere, was a major triumph for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

1965:173rd Airborne Brigade arrives in Bien Hoa-Vung, Vietnam, the first regular U.S. Army unit deployed to that country.

2000: The Sun, Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn align - Earth's moon is also almost in this alignment - leading to Doomsday predictions of massive natural disasters, although such a 'grand confluence' occurs about once in every century.
 
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May 6, 1527: An army of barbarians who had been sent—but were no longer controlled—by Emperor Charles V sacks Rome. Many Protestants interpreted the attack as a divine rebuke, and some Catholics agreed: "We who should have been the salt of the earth decayed until we were good for nothing," wrote Cardinal Cajetan, Luther's adversary. "Everyone is convinced that all this has happened as a judgment of God on the great tyranny and disorders of the papal court.
 
1983: Pope John Paul II speaks before a gathering of 200 scientists and apologizes for the suffering that Galileo Galilei had endured at the hands of the church when he was forced to recant his views of a heliocentric universe under threat of torture in 1633. John Paul II indicated that the church had reviewed of the matter, which eventually led to a reversal of the Catholic Church's condemnation of Galileo in 1992.
 
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