It is wrong to bully the weak. Good leadership that builds involves building the whole community, creating a cohesiveness. There is an order. Young people respect older ones. Police, teachers, doctors are respected for their service, not their pay. Critical thinking is important, but so is recognition of cultural assets. The death of an elder statesman is not as sad as the death of a child, but their legacy is broader, and it becomes an opportunity to celebrate their life. Alternatively, we embrace bullying. We divide into the weak and strong, and dispose of those that are not straight. And we chop .. but there is no end to division .. and we continue to chop. And each time we lop off the weak, we also become .. weaker. While some point to Germany and ask what they might have achieved had they not persecuted the Jews, the truth is the path of division follows that direction. And note, both the US and Britain were divided too, the US imprisoning Japanese Americans and Britain locking down whole communities. Churchill famously remarked that if we weren't fighting for art funding, what were we fighting for?
Remember the holocaust. When division rules, we are diminished.
For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Janet Diane and Guy Buchanan. Born on the same day, across the years. The same date when in 1810 Beethoven composed "Für Elise" aka "Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor." A day of beauty. Thank you.
- 1650 – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1714)
- 1737 – Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (d. 1794)
- 1755 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836)
- 1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English author and philosopher (d. 1797)
- 1791 – Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code (d. 1872)
- 1822 – Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
- 1904 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish-English poet and author (d. 1972)
- 1913 – Irving Adler, American mathematician, scientist, and author (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Martin Gray, Polish-French holocaust survivor and author
- 1922 – Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1932 – Casey Kasem, American radio host and voice actor, co-created American Top 40
- 1942 – Ruth Glick, American author
- 1942 – Jim Keltner, American drummer (Traveling Wilburys, Plastic Ono Band, and Delaney & Bonnie and Friends)
- 1944 – Cuba Gooding, Sr., American singer and actor (The Main Ingredient)
- 1947 – Ann Peebles, American singer-songwriter
- 1959 – Sheena Easton, Scottish singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1963 – Russell T Davies, Welsh screenwriter and producer
- 1986 – Jenna-Louise Coleman, English actress
- 1994 – Elmo Magalona, Filipino actor and singer
Matches
- 33 BC – Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother to the future emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania.
- 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
- 629 – Shahrbaraz is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire.
- 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
- 1509 – Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
- 1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
- 1565 – Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
- 1595 – The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade by the Ottomans, where today the largest Orthodox church building in the world stands
- 1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
- 1749 – First performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
- 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn).
- 1810 – Beethoven composes Für Elise.
- 1813 – War of 1812: American troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
- 1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
- 1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
- 1865 – The steamboat SS Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of theAndersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
- 1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
- 1950 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
- 1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by U.S. General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots in the Korean War.
- 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
- 1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
- 1986 – The City of Prypiat as well as the surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl Disaster
- 1987 – The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
- 1989 – The April 27 Demonstration,a student-led protest responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- 2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
- 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
Despatches
- 630 – Ardashir III of Persia (b. 621)
- 1272 – Zita, Italian saint (b. 1212)
- 1404 – Philip the Bold, French son of John II of France (b. 1342)
- 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
- 1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet (b. 1803)
- 1896 – Henry Parkes, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1815)
- 1965 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) begins in the evening of Sunday, 27 April 2014, and ends in the evening of Monday, 28 April 2014
How tragically pathetic were those who weren't Jew who participated in the bullying? Not solely Nazis, or Germans, or Italians or Japanese. How pathetic was the British King, Roosevelt and the British government for not intervening sooner, more decisively. They all had been approached. They all knew what was happening. And it is contemptible when they fail to acknowledge it. - ed
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It’s time to get tough if Australia is to survive and prosper in the future
Piers Akerman – Saturday, April 26, 2014 (11:31pm)
TREASURER Joe Hockey has embarked on the annual pre-Budget scare campaign, warning of dire consequences if steps aren’t taken to rein in government spending.
Continue reading 'It’s time to get tough if Australia is to survive and prosper in the future'Kate has put class back into sexy
Miranda Devine – Saturday, April 26, 2014 (11:30pm)
IN this era of butt selfies and slut walks, Kate Middleton, aka the Duchess of Cambridge, is a revolutionary.
Continue reading 'Kate has put class back into sexy'DON’T STOP THINKING ABOUT YOUR PENSION
Tim Blair – Sunday, April 27, 2014 (2:35am)
Democrats made a big deal about Republican candidate John McCain’s age during the 2008 presidential campaign:
McCain’s age is no joke. He will turn 72 on Friday and would be halfway to 73 if elected and sworn in on January 20. That would make him the oldest first-term President ever, two years older than Ronald Reagan …The United States cannot afford the risk that McCain would die suddenly in the middle of an international crisis.
Just a theory, but age might be an issue avoided by Democrats during the 2016 campaign:
Clinton will be 69 years old on inauguration day 2017, nearly the oldest president ever. She has had a few health scares. By all accounts, she left her previous four-year stint in government service exhausted. She might not run, and the Democrat in second place in the polls, Vice President Joe Biden — 74 on inauguration day — is too old to be president. Beyond them, Democrats have nobody — except Elizabeth Warren … She will be 67 on Inauguration Day 2017. (Has any party ever fielded a group as old as Clinton, Biden and Warren?)
Look for “experience” to be a theme. By the way, McCain is now 77 and still functioning as a senator.
IS DON, IS DOOMED
Tim Blair – Sunday, April 27, 2014 (2:21am)
It’s rare that a team kicks the first six goals of a match but still manages to lose. Then again, Essendon is no ordinary team. They’re an extremely ordinary team:
ABC DONKEY SQUAD
Tim Blair – Saturday, April 26, 2014 (4:07pm)
Tens of thousands of Australians marked yesterday’s Anzac Day commemoration with solemn attendance at dawn services and street marches.
The ABC’s taxpayer-funded fact-checking unit, however, marked the day by attempting to debunk what it described as “five common Anzac Day myths”.
Continue reading 'ABC DONKEY SQUAD'The Bolt Report today
Andrew Bolt April 27 2014 (6:09am)
On Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm today.
Bill Shorten’s real problem.
Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles on budgets, boats and more.
Our hot-shot panel - Peter Costello and Michael Costa on the Budget crisis and Tasmanian Governor Peter Underwood’s attack on the Anzac legend.
And on NewsWatch: BBC presenter and Spectator chairman Andrew Neil. How did the royals charm the media? Why is there no ABC Andrew Neil?
Your Say and more.
The videos appear here.
UPDATE
From my interview with Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles:
Continue reading 'The Bolt Report today'
===Bill Shorten’s real problem.
Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles on budgets, boats and more.
Our hot-shot panel - Peter Costello and Michael Costa on the Budget crisis and Tasmanian Governor Peter Underwood’s attack on the Anzac legend.
And on NewsWatch: BBC presenter and Spectator chairman Andrew Neil. How did the royals charm the media? Why is there no ABC Andrew Neil?
Your Say and more.
The videos appear here.
UPDATE
From my interview with Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles:
ANDREW BOLT, PRESENTER: Bill Shorten says Labor must give members more say and unions less when choosing who represents it in Parliament. Joining me is Labor’s Immigration Spokesman, Richard Marles, who used to be a Transport Workers Union official and former assistant secretary of the ACTU. Thanks for joining me…The full interview:
ANDREW BOLT: You went straight from the ACTU into Parliament. What’s Bill Shorten got against the system that got you where you are?
RICHARD MARLES: Well, it’s not about having anything against that system. It’s about modernising our party and it’s about opening it up. And in doing that, acknowledging the incredible role that the union movement has played in Australian society, and does today, and the wonderful role it’s played in our history, but saying that we need to be more than that…
ANDREW BOLT: But it is against the system. It was specifically about getting union officials straight from unions into Parliament, like Joe Bullock in Western Australia, and that’s exactly the system that brought you there. What’s the problem with that?
RICHARD MARLES: Well, I’m not sure that’s how the system was necessarily designed but we do need to have a broader gene pool within the Parliament.
ANDREW BOLT: So not people like you?
RICHARD MARLES: Well, people like me, but more than just people like me....
ANDREW BOLT: Well, let me put a question to you. What cost you most votes at the last election? Was it – was it your party rules or the carbon tax?
RICHARD MARLES: Well, I - the point you make is that we need to be very focussed on the matters - on the issues that matter to people. And that ultimately is not the rules of the Labor Party…
ANDREW BOLT: Well, tell me about the carbon tax, then. Tell me about the carbon tax.
RICHARD MARLES: We’re talking a lot about jobs and the fact during the global economic crisis we added almost a million jobs to our economy…
ANDREW BOLT: There’s a story in the paper today ... suggesting the Government might have a Budget deficit levy to try and fix this problem. Would you be against that?
RICHARD MARLES: Oh, well, this is - Yes. And this is a – this is a Government which said before it was elected to office that they would be a government of no excuses and no surprises. And yet now we’re talking about a Budget deficit levy in the same context as paying millionaires $75,000 in order to have a baby. A Government of no excuses and no surprises and we hear a surprise every day. ...
ANDREW BOLT: Can I just turn quickly, lastly, to boats? In four months, not one has arrived, right? And a key to that success has been turning boats around, which you opposed. Last November you said that policy was, quote: “inevitably going to fail”. Why did you get that so wrong?
RICHARD MARLES: Well, firstly, we don’t know what is going on on the high seas.
ANDREW BOLT: We know the boats are not arriving. Why did you think they – this policy would fail?
RICHARD MARLES: The single biggest issue in the reduction in the flow of boats – and I know this, but Scott Morrison knows this as well - is the arrangement that the Rudd Government entered into with Papua New Guinea. It has done more than anything.
ANDREW BOLT: And turning back the – turning back the boats has helped, hasn’t it? Hasn’t it?
RICHARD MARLES: Well, by the Government’s own measure - well, we don’t know what is going on out there.
ANDREW BOLT: They’re turning back boats.
Continue reading 'The Bolt Report today'No boats for more than four months
Andrew Bolt April 27 2014 (5:42am)
Again, why couldn’t Labor fix the mess it created?:
===NO people-smuggling venture had succeeded in landing asylum seekers on Australia for more than four months…(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday that vigorous border protection activities was deterring illegal boat arrivals, even into the post-monsoon period when weather conditions usually improve…
Mr Morrison said no one had reached Australia since December 19 and that continued this month. But 3351 on 47 boats arrived in April 2013 under the former Labor government....
Since Operation Sovereign Borders started on September 18, 220 asylum seekers have voluntarily returned to their home countries.
Would Gambaro really have sued her fellow students? If not, her argument falls
Andrew Bolt April 27 2014 (5:25am)
I don’t for an instant
that racial abuse hurts, as do most kinds of abuse. But does
Queensland MP Teresa Gambaro, one of the Liberals criticising the Abbott
Government’s free speech reforms, really think we need laws that would have let her sue the children who teased her at school?
And if playground insults are evidence for needing such laws, why not extend these protections to cover insults lite “fatty”, “shorty”, “loser” and other kinds of abuse so damaging to children?
===“Until you’ve experienced racism, you can’t imagine what it’s like,” said Ms Gambaro when asked about her opposition to the government’s changes.If Gambaro seriously saying she would have used those protections? In her case, wasn’t success really the best revenge?
“Growing up, I received racist taunts . . . when you’re Italian, they call you a wog. I remember when I was made school prefect, people were saying it’s not fair a wog being made prefect.
“We’ve come a long way since then but we need to have protections against race hate speech...”
And if playground insults are evidence for needing such laws, why not extend these protections to cover insults lite “fatty”, “shorty”, “loser” and other kinds of abuse so damaging to children?
A deficit levy proves the Government is too soft on spending
Andrew Bolt April 27 2014 (5:16am)
The Abbott Government’s fix to the problems caused by unrestrained spending includes lifting taxes?
That just proves they haven’t cut hard enough.
===WORKERS will be forced to dig into their own pockets to pay off the country’s debt ... as the Abbott government struggles to reduce the nation’s deficit…A tax rise?
Any decision to impose a new deficit levy in the Abbott government’s first term is politically risky and will be seized upon by Labor leader Bill Shorten as a breach of faith after the Prime Minister’s pledge to be a government of “no surprises, no excuses’’. But it would likely be dumped before the next election…
A final decision on tax thresholds for the proposed new deficit levy will become clearer when final revenue figures are in with the budget deficit likely to be finalised only in the week before the May 13 budget.
Any temporary levy will be targeted at high-income earners. For example, wealthy workers earning $200,000 a year contributed nearly half the $1.8 billion raised by Julia Gillard’s flood levy; those earning less than $50,000 paid nothing under Labor’s levy.
That just proves they haven’t cut hard enough.
Ricky Muir will look after the country this carefully, too
Andrew Bolt April 27 2014 (5:05am)
No one hurt and he says
it was a controlled environment. Even so, I wish I had more confidence
Ricky Muir had what it takes to help run our country:
===His political party wants to have a “national conversation” about safer driving. But federal senator-elect Ricky Muir, who represents the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party, might be starting this conversation sooner than he wanted.The problem is that the crossbenchers have such power that Parliament won’t be able to fix the voting system that had them win the Senate lucky-dip.
Mr Muir, in the news last year when an online video showed him participating in a backyard kangaroo-poo fight, posted another video showing his eight-year-old daughter driving a car and doing “burnouts”. It was subsequently taken down.
The video was titled “8 year old girl smoking tyres”.
“Ever since my princess was a baby she has had a huge interest in watching myself compete in drag racing, burnouts competitions, rally, riding dirtbikes etc,” Mr Muir wrote.
“She is always keen to get in the car to learn how to drive, wanting to race in the future etc. So I thought ill [sic] get her behind the wheel bright and early to have a little fun in a controlled environment.
“Needless to say she was VERY proud of her first smokey [sic] burnout.”
Mr Muir, who won his Victorian Senate seat in the 2013 election on a record low primary vote of 0.51 per cent, will help Clive Palmer control the balance of power in the new federal Senate.
Would Simpson have bothered saving an ABC donkey?
Andrew Bolt April 27 2014 (4:56am)
How the ABC’s Fact Check squad marked Anzac Day - by checking whether Simpson was actually useless and his donkey a loafer.
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Andrew Bolt April 26 2014 (2:15pm)
Conrad Black in praise of Mark Steyn, sued for mocking the very mockable Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann:
===Mann became one of the stars of the global warming movement by advocating this so-called “hockey stick” graph, which claims that the world’s average temperature remained more or less flat over the past thousand years until it suddenly shot upward around 1900—like a hockey stick laid on the ground, the blade shooting up from the shaft. It was a simple image that caught on, but the reliability of the data on which it is based has been called into question by many in the scientific community, including proponents of anthropogenic climate change such as Hans von Storch of the University of Hamburg, who has called the stick model quatsch, or “nonsense.”Go here to support Steyn.
In the fifteen years since Mann stepped onto the rink with his stick in hand, data suggests that there has been no change in world temperature. Over the last seventy years, temperatures have risen by about one degree centigrade. But the alarmists, who have embarrassed themselves with their “end is nigh” scenarios, are unrepentant. Unsurprisingly a great deal of scorn has been heaped upon the whole global warming fraternity… But these jabs are generally endured as fair comment, especially in the United States. Mann’s lawsuit, then, is (to continue the sports analogy) something of a last stand by a group of struggling players at the crease in front of their goalie…
But anyone who thinks that facts and the First Amendment trump all here is unfamiliar with the American legal system…
Mark Steyn has displayed in the Mann case similar courage and principle, fighting a battle for freedom of expression in keeping with the greatest traditions of the West and of all democratic countries. He must succeed as he soldiers on against the evils of oppression slouching in the dark corners of the tenebrous American legal system. Many of his seeming friends have slunk out the back door into the tall grass, as they always do, especially when the law gets involved. (I have some experience of this.) He is paying counsel himself, even doing his own legal work where he can. Yet he remains jaunty. If not a Happy Warrior, he is at least a stoically determined one.
Turney and his other voyage - for a £3.5 million grant
Andrew Bolt April 26 2014 (2:00pm)
The astonishing rise of Professor Chris Turney - until, of course, his Ship of Fools got trapped in the ice Turney’s team swore was vanishing.
Just follow the money:
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The Turney consortium seems more or less certain that they can get £3.5 million from the NERC; their main stumbling block was that their apparent difficulty in figuring out a coherent rationale for the funding.(Thanks to reader Chris.)
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Andrew Bolt April 27 2013 (7:18am)
Joseph Curl went to a gathering of the five living US presidents and saw one outclass the others:
Shortly after Barack Obama was elected in 2008, a fellow reporter who’d covered President George W. Bush all eight years told me she’d had enough of the travel and stress and strain of the White House beat, that she was moving on…UPDATE
I asked her if she’d miss covering President Obama.
“Not at all. He’s an inch deep. Bush is a bottomless chasm, a deep, mysterious, emotional, profound man. Obama is all surface — shallow, obvious, robotic, and, frankly, not nearly as smart as he thinks. Bush was the one.”
...By the way, she’s a hardcore Democrat.
But she was right. And that contrast was apparent to all who watched Thursday’s ceremonial event to open W’s new presidential library in Dallas....
Jimmy Carter ... was first to speak. But he was, as always, befuddled.
...he opened with, “In 2000, as some of you may remember, there was a disputed election for several weeks.” Nice way to start. He then took credit for giving W the idea to intercede in Sudan… He never mentioned 9-11 and the war on terror, or the commander in chief’s leadership during America’s most trying hour. Which is why his comments lasted just 3¼ minutes.
Bill Clinton followed. He, of course, spoke twice as long, filling his speech with jokes and faux humility. He was his usual affable self… But… Mr. Clinton, for all his prodigious gifts, will always be the class clown…
George H.W. Bush, turning 90 in June, was a welcome respite. Somewhat frail now, he spoke only briefly from his wheelchair, but garnered two standing ovations — and the biggest laugh of the day from his oldest son. After his remarks, just 24 seconds, he shook his boy’s hand and said, deadpan, “Too long?”
President Obama took the podium next. Every bit as cunning as Slick Willy, his speech too was filled with fake self-effacing insights, including one on “the world’s most exclusive club,” which he said “is more like a support group."… Then, on a day that was intended to be without politics, he hawked his push for amnesty…
Mr. Obama skipped the praise he had laid on W the night before. “Whatever our political differences, President Bush loves this country and loves its people and shares that same concern and was concerned about all people in America, not just those who voted Republican. I think that’s true about him, and I think that’s true about most of us.”
Except it’s not. Especially not this president. He has made his presidency about dividing America — along lines of class, sex, race, sexuality, you name it…
Then, finally, W took the podium.... He gave a profound lesson to his successor and his predecessor: “In democracy, the purpose of public office is not to fulfill personal ambition. Elected officials must serve a cause greater than themselves…
“As president, I tried to act on these principles every day. It wasn’t always easy and it certainly wasn’t always popular … And when our freedom came under attack, we made the tough decisions required to keep the American people safe,” he said to loud applause.
But it was the end that gave us the truest glimpse of the man… With tears in his eyes, his voice breaking, he said: “It’s the honor of a lifetime to lead a country as brave and as noble as the United States....” By the end he was in tears, barely able to creak out: “God bless.”.. But there was one last classy move not many saw. The program nearly over, Sgt. 1st Class Alvy R. Powell Jr. came to the side of the stage to perform the “Star Spangled Banner.” A big, powerful black man, Mr. Powell belted out the anthem. With the crowd applauding, the sergeant moved along the line of people, shaking hands with all. After greeting W, he turned to go. But the 43rd president put his hand on the sergeant’s arm and said, “Stay,” just as a chaplain stepped forward to give a benediction.
Peggy Noonan saw the same ceremony and is more gracious to Carter ("gracious and humorous") and Clinton ("generous to others” and “funny"). But on Obama she is agreed:
This week something changed. George W. Bush is back, for the unveiling of his presidential library. His numbers are dramatically up. You know why? Because he’s the farthest thing from Barack Obama.
Obama fatigue has opened the way to Bush affection.
In all his recent interviews Mr. Bush has been modest, humorous, proud but unassuming, and essentially philosophical: History will decide. No finger-pointing or scoring points. If he feels rancor or resentment he didn’t show it. He didn’t attempt to manipulate. His sheer normality seemed like a relief, an echo of an older age.
And all this felt like an antidote to Obama—to the imperious I, to the inability to execute, to the endless interviews and the imperturbable drone, to the sense that he is trying to teach us, like an Ivy League instructor taken aback by the backwardness of his students. And there’s the unconscious superiority…
Here’s a hunch: The day of the opening of the Bush library was the day Obama fatigue became apparent as a fact of America’s political life.
When Bush left office, his approval rating was down in the 20s to low 30s. Now it’s at 47%, which is what Obama’s is. That is amazing, and not sufficiently appreciated… The headline of the Bush Library remarks is that everyone was older and nicer… (But) President Obama was more formal than the other speakers and less confident than usual, as if he knew he was surrounded by people who have something he doesn’t… He veered into current policy disputes, using Mr. Bush’s failed comprehensive immigration reform to buttress his own effort. That was manipulative, graceless and typical.
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Spanish national anthem has no lyrics .. and so crosses language barriers
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Last night's full moon started out pink and quickly transitioned to yellow once it cleared a cloud layer. I accidentally caught it in both colors at the same time.
And the first person who says this is photoshopped gets bopped on the head because 1) I suck at Photoshop, and 2) Seriously, I suck at Photoshop.
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A new "nanosponge" could soak up toxins ranging from anthrax to snake venom by camouflaging as a red blood cell, new research suggests.http://oak.ctx.ly/r/4ew2
Here, a cross section of nanosponge that may be able to protect against infections and venoms.
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LORD, You Alone are my portion and my cup; You make my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. I will Praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I keep my eyes Always on the LORD. With Him at my right hand, I will Not be shaken. -Psalm 16:5-8
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A recently excavated plaza and pyramid, which would have likely served as a solar observatory for rituals, is the oldest ancient Maya ceremonial compound ever discovered in the Central American lowlands and dates back 200 years before similar sites pop up elsewhere in the region, archaeologists announced yesterday (April 25). http://oak.ctx.ly/r/4dwf
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animal story!!
During a California wildfire rescue workers ran out of crates to place rescued animals, forcing them to put a fawn and a bobcat kitten in an office together. When they got back they found that fawn and the bobcat cuddling and the pair became inseparable.
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April 27: Divine Mercy Sunday (Roman Catholicism, 2014); Yom HaShoah begins at sunset in Israel (2014)
- 629 – Shahrbaraz usurped the throne of the Sasanian Empire from Ardashir III, but was himself deposed only forty days later.
- 1521 – Filipino natives led by chieftain Lapu-Lapu(statue pictured) killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and more than forty Spanish soldiers at theBattle of Mactan.
- 1865 – An explosion destroyed the steamboat SS Sultana on theMississippi River, killing an estimated 1,800 of the 2,400 passengers.
- 1961 – Milton Margai took office as the first Prime Minister of Sierra Leone upon the nation's independence from the United Kingdom.
- 2005 – The Airbus A380, the largest passenger airliner in the world, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.
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- 33 BC – Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother to the future emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania.
- 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
- 629 – Shahrbaraz is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire.
- 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
- 1509 – Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
- 1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
- 1522 – Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
- 1539 – Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
- 1565 – Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
- 1578 – Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
- 1595 – The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade by the Ottomans, where today the largest Orthodox church building in the worldstands
- 1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
- 1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
- 1749 – First performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars atRidgefield, Connecticut.
- 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn).
- 1810 – Beethoven composes Für Elise.
- 1813 – War of 1812: American troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
- 1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
- 1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
- 1865 – The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
- 1865 – The steamboat SS Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of theAndersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
- 1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
- 1909 – Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
- 1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
- 1914 – Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
- 1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
- 1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
- 1941 – World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.
- 1945 – World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
- 1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
- 1950 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
- 1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by U.S. General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots in the Korean War.
- 1960 – Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
- 1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
- 1967 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
- 1974 – Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon
- 1977 – Twenty-eight people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
- 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
- 1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
- 1986 – The City of Prypiat as well as the surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl Disaster
- 1987 – The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
- 1989 – The April 27 Demonstration,a student-led protest responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- 1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
- 1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
- 1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
- 1993 – All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
- 1994 – South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
- 1996 – The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
- 2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
- 2005 – The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
- 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
- 2007 – Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
- 2011 – The April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, andTennessee. 205 tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
Births[edit]
- 1650 – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1714)
- 1701 – Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
- 1718 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-American surveyor and lawyer (d. 1790)
- 1737 – Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (d. 1794)
- 1748 – Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar (d. 1833)
- 1755 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836)
- 1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English author and philosopher (d. 1797)
- 1791 – Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code (d. 1872)
- 1806 – Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (d. 1878)
- 1812 – William W. Snow, American politician (d. 1886)
- 1812 – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)
- 1820 – Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1903)
- 1822 – Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
- 1840 – Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (d. 1911)
- 1848 – Otto of Bavaria (d. 1916)
- 1850 – Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (d. 1921)
- 1853 – Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (d. 1914)
- 1857 – Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian painter (d. 1914)
- 1862 – Rudolph Schildkraut, Turkish-American actor (d. 1930)
- 1866 – Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (d. 1916)
- 1876 – Con Leahy, Irish athlete (d. 1921)
- 1878 – Frank Gotch, American wrestler (d. 1917)
- 1878 – John Rimmer, British runner (d. 1962)
- 1880 – Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian composer, organist and choir conductor (d. 1958)
- 1882 – Jessie Redmon Fauset, editor, poet, essayist and novelist (d. 1961)
- 1887 – Warren Wood, American golfer (d. 1926)
- 1888 – Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917)
- 1893 – Draža Mihailović, Serbian general (d. 1946)
- 1893 – Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1939)
- 1894 – George Petty, American painter (d. 1975)
- 1894 – Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian pianist, composer, conductor, and author (d. 1995)
- 1896 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1963)
- 1896 – William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (d. 1978)
- 1898 – Ludwig Bemelmans, Italian-American author and illustrator (d. 1962)
- 1899 – Walter Lantz, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and actor (d. 1994)
- 1900 – August Koern, Estonian diplomat and politician (d. 1989)
- 1902 – Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté, Malian educator and activist (d. 1942)
- 1903 – Horace Stoneham, American businessman (d. 1990)
- 1904 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish-English poet and author (d. 1972)
- 1904 – Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician (d. 1973)
- 1905 – John Kuck, American athlete (d. 1986)
- 1906 – Yórgos Theotokás, Greek author (d. 1966)
- 1910 – Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, 3rd President of the Republic of China (d. 1988)
- 1911 – Bruno Beger, German anthropologist (d. 2009)
- 1911 – Chris Berger, Dutch sprinter (d. 1965)
- 1912 – Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (d. 2001)
- 1912 – Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress and dancer
- 1913 – Philip Abelson, American physicist (d. 2004)
- 1913 – Irving Adler, American mathematician, scientist, and author (d. 2012)
- 1913 – Luz Long, German long jumper (d. 1943)
- 1916 – Robert Hugh McWilliams, Jr., American judge (d. 2013)
- 1916 – Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
- 1917 – Roman Matsov, Estonian conductor (d. 2001)
- 1918 – Sten Rudholm, Swedish lawyer and jurist (d. 2008)
- 1920 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
- 1920 – Mark Krasnosel'skii, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
- 1920 – James R. Mann, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 2010)
- 1920 – Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (d. 2010)
- 1921 – Robert Dhéry, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1921 – John Stott, English clergyman and theologian (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Martin Gray, Polish-French holocaust survivor and author
- 1922 – Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Vernon B. Romney, American lawyer and politician, 14th Attorney General of Utah (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Derek Chinnery, British radio executive
- 1926 – Tim LaHaye, American minister and author
- 1926 – Basil Paterson, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
- 1926 – Alan Reynolds, English painter
- 1927 – Tato Bores, Argentinian actor (d. 1996)
- 1927 – Charlie Fonville, American shot putter (d. 1994)
- 1927 – Coretta Scott King, American activist and author (d. 2006)
- 1927 – Joe Moakley, American politician (d. 2001)
- 1927 – Sheila Scott, English pilot (d. 1988)
- 1929 – Nina Ponomaryova, Soviet discus thrower
- 1931 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
- 1932 – Anouk Aimée, French actress
- 1932 – Pik Botha, South African politician
- 1932 – Maxine Brown, American singer (The Browns)
- 1932 – Casey Kasem, American radio host and voice actor, co-created American Top 40
- 1932 – Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
- 1933 – Peter Imbert, British Lord–Lieutenant for Greater London
- 1934 – Brennan Manning, American priest and author (d. 2013)
- 1934 – Jean Valentine, American poet
- 1935 – Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
- 1935 – Ron Morris, American pole vaulter
- 1936 – Geoffrey Shovelton, English singer and illustrator
- 1937 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
- 1937 – Robin Eames, Irish archbishop
- 1937 – Richard Perham, British Master of St John's College, Cambridge
- 1938 – Earl Anthony, American bowler (d. 2001)
- 1938 – Alain Caron, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
- 1939 – Judy Carne, English actress
- 1939 – Stanisław Dziwisz, Polish cardinal
- 1939 – Jerry Mercer, Canadian drummer (Mashmakhan and April Wine)
- 1941 – Jennings Michael Burch, American author (d. 2013)
- 1941 – Pat Choate, American economist
- 1941 – Lee Roy Jordan, American football player
- 1942 – Ruth Glick, American author
- 1942 – Jim Keltner, American drummer (Traveling Wilburys, Plastic Ono Band, and Delaney & Bonnie and Friends)
- 1943 – Helmut Marko, Austrian race car driver
- 1944 – Stoker Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire
- 1944 – Michael Fish, English meteorologist
- 1944 – Cuba Gooding, Sr., American singer and actor (The Main Ingredient)
- 1944 – Herb Pedersen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Desert Rose Band)
- 1945 – Jack Deverell, Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe
- 1945 – Helen Hodgman, Australian author
- 1945 – August Wilson, American author and playwright (d. 2005)
- 1945 – Martin Chivers, English footballer
- 1946 – Nicholas Serota, English art director
- 1946 – Franz Roth, German footballer
- 1947 – G. K. Butterfield, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
- 1947 – Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (Badfinger) (d. 1975)
- 1947 – Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2003)
- 1947 – Ann Peebles, American singer-songwriter
- 1948 – Frank Abagnale, American security consultant
- 1948 – Amrit Kumar Bohara, Nepalese politician
- 1948 – Josef Hickersberger, Austrian footballer, coach, and manager
- 1948 – Kate Pierson, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The B-52's and NiNa)
- 1948 – Si Robertson, American television personality
- 1949 – Grant Chapman, Australian politician
- 1950 – Paul Lockyer, Australian journalist (d. 2011)
- 1951 – Ace Frehley, American guitarist and songwriter (Kiss, Wicked Lester, and Frehley's Comet)
- 1952 – Larry Elder, American talk show host
- 1952 – George Gervin, American basketball player
- 1952 – Ari Vatanen, Finnish race car driver and politician
- 1953 – Arielle Dombasle, French-American singer, actress, and director
- 1954 – Frank Bainimarama, Fijian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Fiji
- 1954 – Herman Edwards, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1955 – Gudrun Berend, German hurdler (d. 2011)
- 1955 – Eric Schmidt, American software engineer and businessman, Google
- 1956 – Bryan Harvey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (House of Freaks) (d. 2006)
- 1956 – Bridget Kendall, English television journalist
- 1956 – Kevin McNally, English actor
- 1956 – Douglas P., English-Australian singer, producer, and actor (Death in June and Crisis)
- 1956 – Jeff Probyn, English rugby player
- 1957 – Willie Upshaw, American baseball player
- 1959 – Sheena Easton, Scottish singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1959 – Louis Lortie, Canadian-German pianist
- 1959 – Neil Pearson, English actor
- 1960 – Mike Krushelnyski, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1961 – Andrew Schlafly, American lawyer and activist, founded Conservapedia
- 1962 – Ángel Comizzo, Argentinian footballer and manager
- 1962 – James LeGros, American actor
- 1962 – Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor
- 1962 – Seppo Räty, Finnish javelin thrower
- 1962 – Im Sang-soo, South Korean director and screenwriter
- 1962 – Andrew Selous, English politician
- 1963 – Russell T Davies, Welsh screenwriter and producer
- 1963 – Cali Timmins, Canadian actress
- 1964 – Michael Mahonen, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1964 – Lisa Wilcox, American actress
- 1965 – Anna Chancellor, English actress
- 1966 – Vyacheslav Oliynyk, Ukrainian wrestler
- 1966 – Matt Reeves, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1966 – Yoshihiro Togashi, Japanese illustrator
- 1967 – Aki Avni, Israeli actor
- 1967 – Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
- 1967 – Tommy Smith, Scottish saxophonist, composer, and educator
- 1967 – Erik Thomson, Scottish-New Zealand actor
- 1967 – Jason Whitlock, American journalist
- 1968 – Dana Milbank, American journalist
- 1969 – Cory Booker, American Senator
- 1969 – Darcey Bussell, English ballerina
- 1969 – Grahame Cheney, Australian boxer
- 1969 – Vladimir Kozlov, Ukrainian-American wrestler and actor
- 1969 – Mica Paris, English singer and actress
- 1969 – Tess Daly, English television host and model
- 1970 – Kylie Travis, English-Australian actress
- 1971 – Olari Elts, Estonian conductor
- 1972 – Nigel Barker, English photographer
- 1972 – Almedin Civa, Bosnian footballer and coach
- 1972 – Mehmet Kurtuluş, Turkish-German actor
- 1972 – David Lascher, American actor
- 1972 – Maura West, American actress
- 1973 – Duško Adamović, Serbian footballer
- 1973 – Andre Gower, American actor
- 1973 – Sébastien Lareau, Canadian tennis player
- 1974 – Frank Catalanotto, American baseball player
- 1974 – Johnny Devine, Canadian wrestler
- 1974 – Richard Johnson, Australian footballer
- 1975 – Rabih Abdullah, American football player
- 1975 – Chris Carpenter, American baseball player
- 1975 – Pedro Feliz, Dominican baseball player
- 1976 – Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter and cellist (Belle & Sebastian)
- 1976 – Sally Hawkins, English actress
- 1976 – Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer
- 1976 – Faisal Saif, Indian director, screenwriter, and critic
- 1976 – Olaf Tufte, Norwegian rower
- 1977 – Khalid Zoubaa, French runner
- 1979 – Will Boyd, American bass player (Evanescence, American Princes, and The Visitors)
- 1979 – Natasha Chokljat, Australian netball player
- 1980 – Sybille Bammer, Austrian tennis player
- 1980 – Talitha Cummins, Australian journalist
- 1980 – Christian Lara, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1980 – Ananda Mikola, Indonesian race car driver
- 1981 – Fabrizio Faniello, Maltese singer-songwriter
- 1981 – Joey Gathright, American baseball player
- 1981 – Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer
- 1982 – Katrina Johnson, American actress
- 1982 – François Parisien, Canadian cyclist
- 1982 – Alexander Widiker, German rugby player
- 1983 – Ari Graynor, American actress
- 1983 – Martin Viiask, Estonian basketball player
- 1984 – Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984 – Daniel Holdsworth, Australian rugby player
- 1984 – Patrick Stump, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Fall Out Boy and Arma Angelus)
- 1985 – José António de Miranda da Silva Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 – Meselech Melkamu, Ethiopian long-distance runner
- 1986 – Jenna-Louise Coleman, English actress
- 1986 – Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer-songwriter
- 1986 – Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player
- 1987 – Taylor Chorney, American ice hockey player
- 1987 – William Moseley, English actor
- 1987 – Elliott Shriane, Australian speed skater
- 1987 – Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Canadian actress
- 1988 – Kris Thackray, English footballer
- 1988 – Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1989 – Lars Bender, German footballer
- 1989 – Sven Bender, German footballer
- 1989 – Maksym Bilyi, Ukrainian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1989 – Emily Rios, American actress
- 1990 – Austin Dillon, American race car driver
- 1990 – Martin Kelly, English footballer
- 1991 – Jennifer Braun, German singer
- 1991 – Isaac Cuenca, Spanish footballer
- 1992 – Allison Iraheta, American singer-songwriter (Halo Circus)
- 1994 – Elmo Magalona, Filipino actor and singer
Deaths[edit]
- 630 – Ardashir III of Persia (b. 621)
- 1272 – Zita, Italian saint (b. 1212)
- 1404 – Philip the Bold, French son of John II of France (b. 1342)
- 1463 – Isidore of Kiev (b. 1385)
- 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
- 1599 – Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)
- 1605 – Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)
- 1613 – Robert Abercromby, Scottish missionary (b. 1532)
- 1625 – Mōri Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553)
- 1656 – Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
- 1694 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
- 1695 – John Trenchard, English politician (b. 1640)
- 1702 – Jean Bart, French admiral (b. 1651)
- 1782 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)
- 1813 – Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (b. 1779)
- 1873 – William Macready, English actor (b. 1793)
- 1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet (b. 1803)
- 1896 – Henry Parkes, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1815)
- 1915 – John Labatt, Canadian businessman (b. 1838)
- 1915 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1872)
- 1932 – Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
- 1936 – Karl Pearson, English mathematician (b. 1857)
- 1937 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (b. 1891)
- 1938 – Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (b. 1859)
- 1952 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
- 1961 – Roy Del Ruth, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1893)
- 1962 – A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali politician (b. 1873)
- 1965 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
- 1967 – William Douglas Cook, New Zealand founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum (b. 1884)
- 1969 – René Barrientos, Bolivian politician, 55th President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
- 1970 – Arthur Shields, Irish-American actor (b. 1896)
- 1972 – Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana (b. 1909)
- 1973 – Carlos Menditeguy, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1914)
- 1977 – Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1915)
- 1977 – Scott Bradley, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1891)
- 1981 – Münir Nurettin Selçuk, Turkish tenor and actor (b. 1900)
- 1988 – David Scarboro, English actor (b. 1968)
- 1988 – Fred Bear, American hunter (b. 1902)
- 1989 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (b. 1894)
- 1992 – Olivier Messiaen, French organist and composer (b. 1908)
- 1992 – Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (b. 1927)
- 1995 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch author (b. 1921)
- 1996 – William Colby, American diplomat, 10th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1920)
- 1996 – Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
- 1998 – John Bassett, Canadian journalist (b. 1915)
- 1998 – Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American author (b. 1925)
- 1998 – Anne Desclos, French journalist and author (b. 1907)
- 1998 – Browning Ross, American runner (b. 1924)
- 1999 – Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1922)
- 1999 – Dale C. Thomson, Canadian historian and educator (b. 1923)
- 2000 – Vicki Sue Robinson, American actress and singer (b. 1954)
- 2002 – George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
- 2002 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, created the Barbie doll (b. 1916)
- 2002 – Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Dutch-Swiss businessman (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Red Horner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1909)
- 2006 – Julia Thorne, American author (b. 1944)
- 2007 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Al Ashton, English actor and script writer (b. 1957)
- 2008 – Marios Tokas, Cypriot composer (b. 1954)
- 2009 – Frankie Manning, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1914)
- 2009 – Feroz Khan, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1939)
- 2009 – Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress (b. 1983)
- 2011 – Marian Mercer, American actress and singer (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Daniel E. Boatwright, American politician (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Anatoly Lebed, Estonian-Russian military figure (b. 1963)
- 2012 – Harold Pupkewitz, Lithuanian-Namibian businessman (b. 1915)
- 2012 – Bill Skowron, American baseball player (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Aída Bortnik, Argentinian screenwriter (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Tony Byrne, Irish boxer (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Antonio Díaz Jurado, Spanish footballer (b. 1969)
- 2013 – Aloysius Jin Luxian, Chinese bishop (b. 1916)
- 2013 – Mutula Kilonzo, Kenyan politician (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Brad Lesley, American baseball player and actor (b. 1958)
- 2013 – Arthur Joseph O'Neill, American bishop (b. 1917)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Day of the Uprising Against the Occupying Forces (Slovenia)
- Freedom Day, (South Africa)
- UnFreedom Day (South Africa, unofficial)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Sierra Leone from United Kingdom in 1961.
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Togo from France in 1960.
- King's Day (Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten) (celebrated on April 26 if April 27 falls on a Sunday)
- National War Veterans' Day (Finland)
“Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.” - Hebrews 7:25
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"This do in remembrance of me."
1 Corinthians 11:24
1 Corinthians 11:24
It seems then, that Christians may forget Christ! There could be no need for this loving exhortation, if there were not a fearful supposition that our memories might prove treacherous. Nor is this a bare supposition: it is, alas! too well confirmed in our experience, not as a possibility, but as a lamentable fact. It appears almost impossible that those who have been redeemed by the blood of the dying Lamb, and loved with an everlasting love by the eternal Son of God, should forget that gracious Saviour; but, if startling to the ear, it is, alas! too apparent to the eye to allow us to deny the crime. Forget him who never forgot us! Forget him who poured his blood forth for our sins! Forget him who loved us even to the death! Can it be possible? Yes, it is not only possible, but conscience confesses that it is too sadly a fault with all of us, that we suffer him to be as a wayfaring man tarrying but for a night. He whom we should make the abiding tenant of our memories is but a visitor therein. The cross where one would think that memory would linger, and unmindfulness would be an unknown intruder, is desecrated by the feet of forgetfulness. Does not your conscience say that this is true? Do you not find yourselves forgetful of Jesus? Some creature steals away your heart, and you are unmindful of him upon whom your affection ought to be set. Some earthly business engrosses your attention when you should fix your eye steadily upon the cross. It is the incessant turmoil of the world, the constant attraction of earthly things which takes away the soul from Christ. While memory too well preserves a poisonous weed, it suffereth the rose of Sharon to wither. Let us charge ourselves to bind a heavenly forget-me-not about our hearts for Jesus our Beloved, and, whatever else we let slip, let us hold fast to him.
Evening
"Blessed is he that watcheth."
Revelation 16:15
Revelation 16:15
"We die daily," said the apostle. This was the life of the early Christians; they went everywhere with their lives in their hands. We are not in this day called to pass through the same fearful persecutions: if we were, the Lord would give us grace to bear the test; but the tests of Christian life, at the present moment, though outwardly not so terrible, are yet more likely to overcome us than even those of the fiery age. We have to bear the sneer of the world--that is little; its blandishments, its soft words, its oily speeches, its fawning, its hypocrisy, are far worse. Our danger is lest we grow rich and become proud, lest we give ourselves up to the fashions of this present evil world, and lose our faith. Or if wealth be not the trial, worldly care is quite as mischievous. If we cannot be torn in pieces by the roaring lion, if we may be hugged to death by the bear, the devil little cares which it is, so long as he destroys our love to Christ, and our confidence in him. I fear me that the Christian church is far more likely to lose her integrity in these soft and silken days than in those rougher times. We must be awake now, for we traverse the enchanted ground, and are most likely to fall asleep to our own undoing, unless our faith in Jesus be a reality, and our love to Jesus a vehement flame. Many in these days of easy profession are likely to prove tares, and not wheat; hypocrites with fair masks on their faces, but not the true-born children of the living God. Christian, do not think that these are times in which you can dispense with watchfulness or with holy ardour; you need these things more than ever, and may God the eternal Spirit display his omnipotence in you, that you may be able to say, in all these softer things, as well as in the rougher, "We are more than conquerors through him that loved us."
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Ahijah
[Ăhī'jah] - a brother in jehovah.
- A prophet belonging to Shiloh, who foretold to Jeroboam the revolt of the ten tribes. This Ahijah was the champion of the rights of the people in the face of the oppression of Solomon and Rehoboam and led the revolt that rent the kingdom of David asunder (1 Kings 11:26-12:20).
- Father of Baasha, king of Israel who conspired against Nadab son of Jeroboam and reigned in his stead (1 Kings 15:27,33;&21:22;&2 Kings 9:9).
- Son of Jerahmeel, a Judahite (1 Chron. 2:25).
- A Pelonite, and one of David's thirty heroes (1 Chron. 11:36).
- A Levite who had charge of the Tabernacle treasures (1 Chron. 26:20).
- A Levite who, with Nehemiah, sealed the covenant (Neh. 10:26).
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Today's reading: 2 Samuel 23-24, Luke 19:1-27 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: 2 Samuel 23-24
David's Last Words
1 These are the last words of David:
"The inspired utterance of David son of Jesse,
the utterance of the man exalted by the Most High,
the man anointed by the God of Jacob,
the hero of Israel's songs:
the utterance of the man exalted by the Most High,
the man anointed by the God of Jacob,
the hero of Israel's songs:
2 "The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me;
his word was on my tongue.
3 The God of Israel spoke,
the Rock of Israel said to me:
'When one rules over people in righteousness,
when he rules in the fear of God,
4 he is like the light of morning at sunrise
on a cloudless morning,
like the brightness after rain
that brings grass from the earth.'
his word was on my tongue.
3 The God of Israel spoke,
the Rock of Israel said to me:
'When one rules over people in righteousness,
when he rules in the fear of God,
4 he is like the light of morning at sunrise
on a cloudless morning,
like the brightness after rain
that brings grass from the earth.'
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 19:1-27
Zacchaeus the Tax Collector
1 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. 4So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today." 6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, "He has gone to be the guest of a sinner."
8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount."
9 Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost...."
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