My wife and I have relatives coming to the area to visit/vacation beginning tomorrow. So next week I will be only be posting a Daily Thread and Prayer Requests so I can spend time with them. Everything will be back to normal on Monday July 1st. Until then you will still be able to chat and keep in touch, as well as share prayer needs. And you can always share news stories on the Daily Thread too.
On this day in 1782 the U.S. Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States.
In 1793 Eli Whitney applied for a cotton gin patent.
In 1863 West Virginia became the 35th state.
In 1941 the U.S. Army Air Force was established, replacing the Army Air Corps.
In 1950 Willie Mays graduated from high school and immediately signed with the New York Giants.
In 1967 Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court.
And in 1983 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers must treat male and female workers equally in providing health benefits for their spouses.
On this day in 1778 U.S. General George Washington’s troops finally left Valley Forge after a winter of training.
In 1846 the New York Knickerbocker Club played the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field, Hoboken, NJ. It was the first organized baseball game.
In 1862 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in U.S. territories.
In 1910 the first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
In 1912 the U.S. government established the 8-hour work day.
In 1934 the U.S. Congress established the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
In 1958, in Washington, DC, nine entertainers refused to answer a congressional committee’s questions on communism.
And in 1961 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland’s constitution that required state officeholders to profess a belief in God.
“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”
“There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.”
On this day in 1775 the Continental Army was founded by the Second Continental Congress for purposes of common defense. This event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army.
In 1777 the Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the “Stars and Stripes” as the national flag of the United States. The Flag Resolution stated “Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.” On May 20, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson officially proclaimed June 14 “Flag Day” as a commemoration of the “Stars and Stripes.”
In 1789 Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrived in Timor in a small boat. That was mutiny Mr. Christian!
In 1841 the first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston.
In 1846 a group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California.
In 1900 Hawaii became a U.S. territory.
In 1943 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schoolchildren could not be made to salute the U.S. flag if doing so conflicted with their religious beliefs. That’s some irony there huh?
In 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an order adding the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.
And in 1954 Americans took part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack.
“25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”
On this day in 1777 the Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the America to help with the rebellion against the British.
In 1789 ice cream was served to General George Washington by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton.
In 1825 Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. Hunt then sold the rights for $400.
In 1866 the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by Congress. It was ratified on July 9, 1868.
In 1888 Congress created the Department of Labor.
In 1900 China’s Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted into violence.
In 1920 the U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post. 😯 I’m shocked that they even had too say it was. 😦
In 1922 Charlie Osborne started the longest attack of hiccups ever. He hiccupped over 435 million times before stopping. He died in 1991, 11 months after his hiccups ended. 😦 Poor guy.
In 1966 the “Miranda vs. Arizona” decision was issued by the U.S. Supreme Court.
And in 1967 Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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