On this day in 1949, George Orwell's 1984 was published, but also the FBI named Hellen Keller as being a communist. Keller can be forgiven her activism .. she was deaf and blind. Orwell had no excuse. Keller could not see or hear what communists were doing around the world. Orwell was excusing it.
George Pell was born on this day. I like him, he serves God. It is nice to devote ones self to organisation and order, but as the Vikings showed at Lindisfarne on this day in 793, order can be upset by the use of force. It had been the first of many Viking incursions on English soil. Interesting, according to legend, Rollo, brother to the raiding chief, was an ancestor of todays Queen of England.
In 1789, on this day, James Maddison presented what is now known as the Bill of Rights, allowing the Supreme Court to act in 1953. But five years later, Robespierre introduced to France the cult of the Supreme Being, a state approved religion. He had never read Marx, so the FBI would have classified him a socialist. But he was deaf and blind to reason.
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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 Lý Thành Tuấn and Gary Renouf. Born on the same day, across the years. A day in which, in 1856, descendants of Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers settled on Norfolk Island, an abandoned British penal colony. In 1959, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Barbero fired a Regulus cruise missile, equipped with US Post Office Department containers, in an attempt to deliver mail via rocket. I guess rocket delivered mail is now routine. And you have had more than enough time with those Tahitian women. Enjoy the day.
- 862 – Emperor Xizong of Tang (d. 888)
- 1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1712)
- 1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
- 1724 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (d. 1794)
- 1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (d. 1856)
- 1859 – Smith Wigglesworth, English evangelist (d. 1947)
- 1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959)
- 1897 – John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (d. 1974)
- 1916 – Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist
- 1923 – Malcolm Boyd, American priest and author
- 1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
- 1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress
- 1941 – George Pell, Australian cardinal
- 1944 – Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Steve Miller Band)
- 1960 – Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter (Simply Red and Faces)
- 1975 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
- 1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
- 2002 – Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau van Amsberg, Dutch royalty
Matches
- 68 – The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
- 218 – Battle of Antioch: with the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured nearChalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
- 632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
- 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
- 1405 – Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
- 1690 – Yadi Sakat, a Siddi general, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
- 1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
- 1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
- 1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
- 1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
- 1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' – his punched card calculator.
- 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
- 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
- 1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
- 1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
- 1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
- 1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
- 1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
- 1949 – The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
- 1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
- 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
- 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
- 2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
- 2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
- 2009 – Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
Despatches
- 632 – Muhammad, Last Prophet of Islam (b. 570)
- 1042 – Harthacnut, English son of Cnut the Great (b. 1018)
- 1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
- 1476 – George Neville, English archbishop (b. 1432)
- 1809 – Thomas Paine, English-American theorist and author (b. 1737)
- 1874 – Cochise, American tribal chief (b. 1805)
- 1876 – George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
- 1924 – George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (b. 1886)
- 1969 – Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
- 1970 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
- 1984 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
Obama’s trade off kowtows to terrorism
Piers Akerman – Sunday, June 08, 2014 (7:03am)
LAME duck US President Barak Obama has dramatically increased the danger faced by all Allied troops, including Australians, in Afghanistan with his weak-kneed kowtowing to Taliban militants.
In agreeing to release five extremely dangerous top Taliban commanders held for eminently good reason at Guan-tanamo Bay for US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, whose colleagues claim is a deserter, Obama has violated one of the basic principles in the war on terror — never negotiate with terrorists.
His unmitigated stupidity will be cheered by terrorists globally because it has handed them a potent new weapon.
Undoubtedly Obama, whose rise to the presidency relied solely on vacuous hopey-feely oratory and the harnessing of anti-racist guilt, thought that recovering Bergdahl would be regarded as a political triumph akin to the 1981 release of 52 Americans who had been held hostage by Iran for 444 days, even as incoming President Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural address.
Outgoing President Jimmy Carter had been elected by voters with the same mindset as those who elected Obama and was just as great a failure to the nation and the world.
Back then, yellow ribbons were tied to trees and fences across the US as a constant reminder of the plight of the hostages as Carter hamfistedly attempted to bring about their release.
So, too, during the five years Bergdahl, 28, has been held by his captors have yellow ribbons festooned the small Idaho town of Hailey, where Bergdahl grew up and took fencing and ballet lessons before joining the military.
Less than a week after the town woke to the news of his release last Saturday, plans for a public celebration were cancelled in the interest of public safety. The town feared that the protesters would have outnumbered those who welcomed Bergdahl’s release; and with good reason.
Whatever White House advisers may have thought, those who served with Bergdahl regarded him as a deserter whose decision to walk into alone into the wilds of Afghanistan and connect with the Taleban led to the deaths of a number of US servicemen.
They don’t want to see him returned as a hero, as Obama had planned, they want to see him brought home in handcuffs from the military hospital in Germany where he was taken after his release and placed on trial.
Even former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was opposed to the deal which Obama agreed to after she left office. She wanted to impose strict conditions on the release of the Taliban commanders before agreeing to anything.
She made it clear she didn’t trust the Taliban or the Haqqani terrorist network in Pakistan which was holding Bergdahl.
Her former aides say she may never have agreed to the deal even if the Taliban accepted her terms.
The US director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, rejected out of hand the release of the Taliban captives because he believed there was too high a risk the commanders would return to the battlefield and orchestrate attacks against the Americans and their allies.
But the gut-wrenching reaction from those who actually served with Bergdahl and knew him best hangs on the fact that Obama and those around him have lied about the soldier to justify their position.
Not since Obama’s disgraceful failure to ensure the safety of Chris Stevens, the US ambassador to Libya, who died in Benghazi after the consulate was attacked by Islamic militants, has his administration attempted to avoid the truth.
US National Security Adviser Susan Rice claimed Bergdahl “served the US with honour and distinction” after the announcement of his release.
What he did, according to a man in his unit, was to walk off the base on June 30, 2009, “with a compass, a couple bottles of water and two knives and his journal. His exact intentions may never be known, but he willingly walked off Outpost MEST and was secured by enemy forces not long after”.
Because of his action Bergdahl was designated a DUSWUN (Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown), triggering a huge search and rescue operation in which numerous men were killed by the Taliban.
On Independence Day, 2009, just days after his disappearance one of those trying to find him, recalls “the enemy took advantage of Bergdahl’s capture and attacked numerous outposts that morning.
“Combat Outpost Zerok was almost overrun, multiple soldiers were wounded and PFCs Justin Casillas and Aaron Fairbairn lost their lives fighting that day. That is an Independence Day I will never forget for sure.”
Obama has now ensured that Taliban commanders will view every American and every Allied soldier as a bargaining chip as the war winds down, unresolved.
Ryan gone with the wind
Andrew Bolt June 08 2014 (5:53am)
It is certainly not a
comment I endorse or would have made, but if this is the biggest scalp
in the battle against racism we must have taken a detour:
As for being investigated for finding something humorous… A world run by Ryans would seem safer.
===Warren Ryan has sensationally handed in his resignation to long-time employer ABC, ending an association with rugby league that has stretched over five decades.Again, I do not like the comment. That said, Ryan seems to have handled this with some grace and dignity - moral qualities in too-short supply.
Ryan and fellow commentator David Morrow had been stood down pending an investigation into allegations he made a racist remark ... during the call of the recent Sydney Roosters-Canterbury match…
“The ABC has suspended me pending an investigation, so I have resigned to save them the trouble of conducting it,” Ryan said.
“...As for the injustice done to David Morrow in standing him down, he wasn’t even listening when I was comparing a blow-up on the field between the ref and a player to a scene in the film Gone with the Wind.
“David was busy retrieving other sports results from his smartphone…
“The word used to describe the character was a direct quote from the film. There was no offence intended, so I won’t be apologising. It would be insincere.
“Furthermore, there is no appeasing those who are determined to be offended. So that’s it....”
ABC management stood the veteran callers down after Ryan was heard to say: “ ‘There’s a line in a movie where the old darky says, someone says, ‘quittin’ time’.
‘’He said, ‘it’s not quittin’ time, I say quittin’ time’. Then he yells out ‘quittin’ time!’
‘’In other words, you mustn’t do that, that’s our job.’’
Morrow is being investigated over why he found the commentary humorous.
As for being investigated for finding something humorous… A world run by Ryans would seem safer.
And then there’s Turnbull
Andrew Bolt June 08 2014 (5:46am)
James Massola divides the Liberals into their various camps, stressing that all are loyal to Tony Abbott:
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Palmer twice as popular as Greens in Queensland
Andrew Bolt June 08 2014 (5:36am)
Clive Palmer’s rise is
an indictment of the Australian voters - and the media figures who have
treated Palmer as just harmless entertainment:
===The ReachTEL poll of more than 1800 Queenslanders, conducted on Thursday night after another day of brawling between Mr Palmer and the Government and two days after the State Budget, found PUP would take 13.6 per cent of the first preference vote, behind the LNP’s 40.9 per cent and Labor’s 34 per cent.
About 5 per cent of respondents said the Greens would get their first preference while the Katter party, which has three MPs in State Parliament including two elected under the party banner in 2012, was relegated to the “other” category which only attracted 6.3 per cent of first preferences.
The Bolt Report today
Andrew Bolt June 08 2014 (5:05am)
On Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm.
Clive Palmer: the most dangerous man in Parliament.
My guest: Senator-elect David Leyonhjelm, the man who could help Tony Abbott break the Palmer grip.
The panel: former Labor advisor Cassandra Wilkinson and former Victorian Liberal president Michael Kroger. Plus a message to Malcolm Turnbull.
On NewsWatch: Hedley Thomas on how Palmer was spun - and could be unspun. And the AWU slush fund scandal becomes a story the media cannot ignore.
Plus Barack Obama’s amazing surrender.
The videos of the shows appear here.
UPDATE
Jamie Briggs insists the unnamed Liberal who talked of tricking the Nats was certainly not him. And the story is wrong besides.
===Clive Palmer: the most dangerous man in Parliament.
My guest: Senator-elect David Leyonhjelm, the man who could help Tony Abbott break the Palmer grip.
The panel: former Labor advisor Cassandra Wilkinson and former Victorian Liberal president Michael Kroger. Plus a message to Malcolm Turnbull.
On NewsWatch: Hedley Thomas on how Palmer was spun - and could be unspun. And the AWU slush fund scandal becomes a story the media cannot ignore.
Plus Barack Obama’s amazing surrender.
The videos of the shows appear here.
UPDATE
Jamie Briggs insists the unnamed Liberal who talked of tricking the Nats was certainly not him. And the story is wrong besides.
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Dreaming of a holiday away from the cold? One bite of our exotic Chocolate Cinamon Babka will transport your senses.
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After the election Julia Gillard walks into the unemployment office.
She bypasses the queue and marches straight up to the counter and says, "Hi! I want to apply for the dole, I hate being on this welfare government pension and I'd much rather have a job but I have looked everywhere and just can't find anything."
The clerk behind the Centrelink desk says, "Your timing is excellent. We just got a job opening from a very wealthy old man who needs a chauffeur/bodyguard for his two twin 35 year old Lesbian daughters. You'll have to drive them around in his Mercedes to their Fabian Society meetings, but he'll supply all of your clothes. You'll have a three-bedroom apartment above the garage. Because of the long hours, meals will be provided. You'll be expected to escort his daughters on their frequent overseas holidays to Tahiti and the Bahamas. The starting salary is $250,000 a year".
Julia Gillard says, "No way misogynist, you've got be lying to me???"
The Centrelink officer says, "Yeah, well ranga, you started it"...
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A sunset worth capturing! Taken a few months ago while teaching an Aperture Academy workshop.
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Kerry quietly approves $1.3 billion in arms to Egypt
US secretary of state waives congressional restrictions on aid meant to promote democratic reforms -The Times of Israel
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The evidence keeps mounting against global warming extremism.
Award-winning NASA climate scientist Dr. Roy Spencer posted this graph which shows 73 climate computer models projecting a warmer Earth than real world observations from satellite and weather balloons show.
Share this important information with everyone who needs the facts on global warming (including delegates to the UN climate conference in Bonn):http://www.cfact.org/2013/
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When I see lovers' names carved into a tree I don't think it's cute, I just think it's strange how many people take knives on a date.
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Mare Island, CA. Shot along with my friend Miguel.— at Mare Island.
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Hezbollah-backed Syrian troops seize central villages: Assad’s forces face little resistance as they press on with an offensive on the country’s opposition heartland.
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God desires for us to be at peace. Dismiss, destroy and cancel anything that disturbs your peace of mind. You were not supposed to live life in a miserable state of mind. I pray that God releases his joy, strength, divine favor, abundant blessings and sweet peace upon you even at his very hour. Amen.
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- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, the last major battle fought on Quebec soil that was part of the American colonists' invasion of Quebec.
- 1887 – German-American statistician Herman Hollerithreceived a patent for his punch card calculator.
- 1950 – Thomas Blamey (pictured) became the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took hisPulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
- 2008 – A Japanese man drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians in theAkihabara district of Tokyo, then proceeded to stab at least 12 people before being apprehended.
Events[edit]
- 68 – The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
- 218 – Battle of Antioch: with the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured nearChalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
- 632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
- 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
- 1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
- 1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
- 1405 – Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
- 1690 – Yadi Sakat, a Siddi general, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
- 1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
- 1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
- 1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
- 1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
- 1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' – his punched card calculator.
- 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
- 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
- 1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
- 1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
- 1940 – World War II: the completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
- 1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
- 1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
- 1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
- 1949 – The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
- 1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
- 1953 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
- 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
- 1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
- 1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASApilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
- 1966 – Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
- 1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
- 1967 – Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
- 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
- 1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
- 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
- 1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
- 1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 1995 – The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
- 2001 – Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
- 2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
- 2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
- 2008 – At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in an Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
- 2008 – At least 7 people are killed and 10 injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
- 2009 – Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
Births[edit]
- 862 – Emperor Xizong of Tang (d. 888)
- 1552 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1638)
- 1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1712)
- 1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
- 1717 – John Collins, American politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1795)
- 1724 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (d. 1794)
- 1745 – Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (d. 1818)
- 1757 – Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal (d. 1824)
- 1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (d. 1856)
- 1829 – John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator (d. 1896)
- 1831 – Thomas J. Higgins, Canadian-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1917)
- 1842 – John Q. A. Brackett, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
- 1847 – Ida Saxton McKinley, American wife of William McKinley, 25th First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
- 1851 – Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physician and physicist (d. 1940)
- 1852 – Guido Banti, Italian physician (d.1925)
- 1854 – Douglas Cameron, Canadian politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (d. 1921)
- 1855 – George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (d.1924)
- 1859 – Smith Wigglesworth, English evangelist (d. 1947)
- 1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959)
- 1872 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
- 1875 – Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and children's writer (d. 1934)
- 1876 – Alexandre Tuffère, Greek-French triple jumper (d. 1958)
- 1885 – Karl Genzken, German physician (d. 1957)
- 1895 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1978)
- 1897 – John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (d. 1974)
- 1901 – Lena Baker, American maid and murderer (d. 1945)
- 1901 – Salustiano Sanchez, Spanish-American super-centenarian (d. 2013)
- 1903 – Ralph Yarborough, American colonel and politician (d. 1996)
- 1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author (d. 1987)
- 1904 – Dorothy Coburn, American actress (d. 1978)
- 1910 – C. C. Beck, American illustrator (d. 1989)
- 1910 – John W. Campbell, American author (d. 1971)
- 1910 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French-American photographer (d. 2003)
- 1911 – Edmundo Rivero, Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
- 1912 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (d. 1989)
- 1912 – Harry Holtzman, American painter (d. 1987)
- 1916 – Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
- 1917 – Byron White, American football player and judge (d. 2002)
- 1918 – George Edward Hughes, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (d. 1994)
- 1918 – Robert Preston, American actor and singer (d. 1987)
- 1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist
- 1918 – John H. Ross, American military aviator (d. 2013)
- 1919 – John R. Deane, Jr., American general (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (d. 1995)
- 1921 – Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
- 1921 – Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (d. 1986)
- 1921 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter (d. 2012)
- 1921 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1993)
- 1921 – Olga Nardone, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1923 – Malcolm Boyd, American priest and author
- 1923 – Alice Coleman, British geographer
- 1924 – Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Iain Glidewell, British judge
- 1924 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (d. 2006)
- 1924 – Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
- 1925 – Del Ennis, American baseball player (d. 1996)
- 1925 – Eddie Gaedel, American baseball player (d. 1961)
- 1925 – Charles Tyner, American actor
- 1927 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor
- 1927 – Anne Warburton, British ambassador
- 1929 – Nada Inada, Japanese psychiatrist (d. 2013)
- 1929 – Gastone Moschin, Italian actor
- 1929 – Robert Shirley, British politician (d. 2012)
- 1930 – Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 – Michael Codron, British film and theatre producer
- 1930 – Marcel Léger, Canadian politician (d. 1993)
- 1930 – Ferenc Polikárp Zakar, Hungarian monk (d. 2012)
- 1931 – James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
- 1931 – Dana Wynter, German-English actress (d. 2011)
- 1932 – Ray Illingworth, English cricketer
- 1932 – Ian Kirkwood, Scottish judge
- 1933 – Rommie Loudd, American football player and coach (d. 1998)
- 1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and author
- 1933 – Robert Stevens, British lawyer and academic
- 1934 – Millicent Martin, English actress and singer
- 1936 – James Darren, American actor, singer, and director
- 1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- 1937 – Gillian Clarke, Welsh poet
- 1938 – Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal
- 1939 – Bernie Casey, American football player and actor
- 1939 – Francis Jacobs, British judge
- 1940 – Arthur Elgort, American photographer
- 1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress
- 1940 – Jim Wickwire, American lawyer and mountaineer
- 1941 – Robert Bradford, Irish politician (d. 1981)
- 1941 – Fuzzy Haskins, American singer, guitarist, and producer (The Parliaments and Parliament-Funkadelic)
- 1941 – George Pell, Australian cardinal
- 1942 – Nikos Konstantopoulos, Greek politician
- 1942 – Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
- 1942 – Chuck Negron, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Three Dog Night)
- 1942 – Andrew Weil, American author and educator
- 1943 – Colin Baker, English actor
- 1943 – William Calley, American lieutenant
- 1943 – Willie Davenport, American hurdler (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Peter Eggert, German footballer and manager
- 1944 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
- 1944 – Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter (Renaissance and Nevada)
- 1944 – Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal
- 1944 – Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Steve Miller Band)
- 1945 – Anthony Bagnall, British Royal Air Force officer
- 1945 – Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (d. 2014)
- 1945 – Derek Underwood, English cricketer
- 1946 – Alan Scarfe, English-Canadian actor
- 1946 – Graham Henry, New Zealander rugby union player and coach
- 1947 – Julie Driscoll, English singer
- 1947 – Sara Paretsky, American author
- 1947 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1948 – Lorna Heilbron, Scottish actress
- 1949 – Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator
- 1949 – Hildegard Falck, German middle-distance runner
- 1949 – Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1950 – Kathy Baker, American actress
- 1950 – Sônia Braga, Brazilian-American actress
- 1951 – Tony Rice, American guitarist and songwriter (David Grisman Quintet and Bluegrass Album Band)
- 1951 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer-songwriter
- 1952 – Lindka Cierach, British fashion designer
- 1952 – Dave Jennings, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2013)
- 1953 – Billy Hayes, English trade unionist
- 1953 – Sandy Nairne, British museum director
- 1953 – Ivo Sanader, Croatian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Croatia
- 1953 – Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
- 1953 – Ad Tak, Dutch cyclist
- 1954 – Greg Ginn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Black Flag, Gone, Mojack, and Confront James)
- 1954 – Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (d. 2013)
- 1954 – Sergei Storchak, Ukrainian-Russian politician
- 1954 – Marios Tokas, Cypriot composer (d. 2008)
- 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, English-American computer scientist and engineer, invented the World Wide Web
- 1955 – Griffin Dunne, American actor, director, and producer
- 1956 – Udo Bullmann, German politician
- 1957 – Scott Adams, American cartoonist
- 1957 – Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress
- 1957 – Don Robinson, American baseball player
- 1958 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1958 – Cyril O'Reilly, American actor, writer and producer
- 1958 – Louise Richardson, Irish academic
- 1960 – Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter (Simply Red and Faces)
- 1960 – Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
- 1961 – Mary King, British equestrian
- 1961 – Uno Laur, Estonian punk singer
- 1962 – John Gibbons, American baseball player and manager
- 1962 – Andreas Keim, German footballer
- 1962 – Nick Rhodes, English keyboard player and producer (Duran Duran, Arcadia, and The Devils)
- 1962 – Kristine W, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1963 – Katy Garbi, Greek singer, actress, and producer
- 1963 – Frank Grillo, American actor
- 1963 – Karen Kingsbury, American author
- 1963 – Antoaneta Todorova, Bulgarian javelin thrower
- 1964 – Butch Reynolds, American runner
- 1965 – Tatanka, American wrestler
- 1965 – Kevin Farley, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1965 – Rob Pilatus, American-German singer and dancer (Milli Vanilli and Rob & Fab) (d. 1998)
- 1966 – Julianna Margulies, American actress and producer
- 1966 – Doris Pearson, English singer-songwriter and choreographer (Five Star)
- 1968 – Rob Ray, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – J.P. Manoux, American-Canadian actor
- 1969 – Marcos Siega, American director and producer
- 1969 – David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor
- 1970 – Gabrielle Giffords, American politician
- 1970 – Seu Jorge, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1970 – Kwame Kilpatrick, American politician, 68th Mayor of Detroit
- 1970 – Teresa Strasser, American television host
- 1970 – Troy Vincent, American football player
- 1970 – Kelli Williams, American actress
- 1971 – Troy Duffy, American director and screenwriter
- 1971 – Mark Feuerstein, American actor, director, and producer
- 1972 – Christian Mayrleb, Austrian footballer
- 1973 – Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
- 1973 – Shappi Khorsandi, Iranian-English comedian
- 1973 – Bryant Reeves, American basketball player
- 1973 – Lucija Šerbedžija, Croatian actress
- 1974 – Pål Arne Fagernes, Norwegian javelin thrower (d. 2003)
- 1974 – Maxim Gaudette, Canadian actor
- 1975 – Bryan McCabe, Canadian-American ice hockey player
- 1975 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
- 1976 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
- 1976 – Trish Goff, American model and actress
- 1976 – Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player
- 1976 – Catherine McKinnell, English politician
- 1977 – Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer (Child Rebel Soldier)
- 1978 – Eun Ji-won, South Korean rapper, dancer, and producer (Sechs Kies)
- 1978 – Maria Menounos, American journalist and actress
- 1979 – Alexei Kozlov, Estonian figure skater
- 1979 – Pete Orr, Canadian-American baseball player
- 1979 – Derek Trucks, American guitarist and songwriter (The Allman Brothers Band, The Derek Trucks Band, and Tedeschi Trucks Band)
- 1979 – Adine Wilson, New Zealand netball player
- 1980 – Jamie Spencer, Irish flat racing jockey
- 1980 – Gustavo Manduca, Brazilian footballer
- 1981 – Alex Band, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Calling)
- 1981 – Matteo Meneghello, Italian race car driver
- 1981 – Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actor
- 1981 – Sara Watkins, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (Nickel Creek, The Decemberists, and Works Progress Administration)
- 1981 – Jess Weixler, American actress
- 1982 – Matteo Barbini, Italian rugby player
- 1982 – Michael Cammalleri, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
- 1982 – Irina Lăzăreanu, Romanian-Canadian model and singer
- 1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
- 1983 – Gaines Adams, American football player (d. 2010)
- 1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
- 1983 – Lee Harding, Australian singer
- 1983 – Coby Karl, American basketball player
- 1983 – Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer
- 1983 – Mamoru Miyano, Japanese actor and singer
- 1984 – Andrea Casiraghi, Monacan son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover
- 1984 – Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
- 1985 – Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver
- 1986 – Patrick Kaleta, American ice hockey player
- 1987 – Coralie Balmy, French swimmer
- 1987 – Issiar Dia, Senegalese footballer
- 1987 – Samantha Saint, American pornographic actress
- 1989 – Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
- 1989 – Richard Fleeshman, English singer-songwriter and actor
- 1989 – Mitchell Schwartz, American football player
- 1990 – Mickey Bushell, English wheelchair racer
- 1990 – Alexander Yakin, Russian actor
- 1992 – Sebastião de Freita Couto Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- 1997 – Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
- 2002 – Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau van Amsberg, Dutch royalty
Deaths[edit]
- 632 – Muhammad, Last Prophet of Islam (b. 570)
- 1042 – Harthacnut, English son of Cnut the Great (b. 1018)
- 1154 – William of York, English archbishop
- 1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
- 1383 – Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros, English crusader (b. 1338)
- 1384 – Kan'ami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
- 1476 – George Neville, English archbishop (b. 1432)
- 1505 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
- 1611 – Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
- 1612 – Hans Leo Hassler, German organist and composer (b. 1562)
- 1621 – Anne de Xainctonge, French founder of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (b. 1567)
- 1628 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
- 1714 – Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
- 1716 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German son of Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1658)
- 1727 – August Hermann Francke, German-Lutheran clergyman, philanthropist, and scholar (b. 1663)
- 1768 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and scholar (b. 1717)
- 1771 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English politician (b. 1716)
- 1795 – Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
- 1809 – Thomas Paine, English-American theorist and author (b. 1737)
- 1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian economist and jurist (b. 1761)
- 1845 – Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
- 1857 – Douglas William Jerrold, English playwright (b. 1803)
- 1874 – Cochise, American tribal chief (b. 1805)
- 1876 – George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
- 1885 – Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (b. 1799)
- 1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English priest and poet (b. 1844)
- 1924 – Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer (b. 1902)
- 1924 – George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (b. 1886)
- 1929 – Bliss Carman, Canadian-American poet (b. 1861)
- 1945 – Karl Hanke, Polish-German politician (b. 1903)
- 1951 – Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1874)
- 1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
- 1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
- 1965 – Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (b. 1884)
- 1966 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
- 1968 – Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
- 1968 – Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian racing driver (b. 1933)
- 1969 – Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan colonial and politician (b. 1885)
- 1969 – Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
- 1970 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
- 1972 – Jimmy Rushing, American singer (Oklahoma City Blue Devils) (b. 1901)
- 1980 – Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (b. 1900)
- 1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
- 1984 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
- 1987 – Alexander Iolas, Egyptian-American art collector (b. 1907)
- 1992 – Atef Bseiso, Palestinian terrorist (b. 1948)
- 1993 – Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
- 1997 – George Turner, Australian author and critic (b. 1916)
- 1997 – Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and educator (b. 1948)
- 1998 – Sani Abacha, Nigerian general and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
- 1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
- 2000 – Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (b. 1948)
- 2001 – Alex de Renzy, American director and producer of pornographic movies (b. 1935)
- 2003 – Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
- 2004 – Charles Hyder, American astrophysicist (b. 1930)
- 2004 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
- 2006 – Jaxon, American illustrator and publisher, co-founded Rip Off Press (b. 1941)
- 2006 – Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
- 2006 – Matta El Meskeen, Egyptian monk (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Kenny Olsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1977)
- 2007 – Richard Rorty, American philosopher (b. 1931)
- 2008 – Šaban Bajramović, Serbian singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
- 2009 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese politician, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
- 2009 – Johnny Palermo, American actor (b. 1982)
- 2010 – Crispian St. Peters, English singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
- 2010 – Andreas Voutsinas, Greek actor and director (b. 1932)
- 2011 – Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Comoran terrorist (b. 1974)
- 2011 – Alan Rubin, American musician (b. 1943)
- 2012 – Pete Brennan, American basketball player (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Frank Cady, American actor and singer (b. 1915)
- 2012 – K. S. R. Das, Indian director (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Nikolai Petrovich Ivanov, Russian rower (b. 1949)
- 2012 – Ivan Lessa, Brazilian journalist (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Charles E. M. Pearce, New Zealand-Australian mathematician and educator (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Paul Cellucci, American politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Nathan Dean, American politician (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Niels Diffrient, American designer (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist, and critic (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Gentleman of Indonesia (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Angus MacKay, English actor (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Kyle Miller, Canadian lacrosse player (b. 1981)
- 2013 – Eugene P. Ruehlmann, American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Richard J. Seitz, American general (b. 1918)
- 2013 – Willi Sitte, German painter (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Philip White, Canadian pharmacist and politician (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Bounty Day (Norfolk Island)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Earliest day on which Queen's Birthday can fall, while June 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in June. (Australia, except Western Australia)
- Primož Trubar Day (Slovenia)
- World Brain Tumor Day
- World Oceans Day (International)
“Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.” Psalm 90:2,4 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Ye that love the Lord hate evil."
Psalm 97:10
Psalm 97:10
Thou hast good reason to "hate evil," for only consider what harm it has already wrought thee. Oh, what a world of mischief sin has brought into thy heart! Sin blinded thee so that thou couldst not see the beauty of the Saviour; it made thee deaf so that thou couldst not hear the Redeemer's tender invitations. Sin turned thy feet into the way of death, and poured poison into the very fountain of thy being; it tainted thy heart, and made it "deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." Oh, what a creature thou wast when evil had done its utmost with thee, before divine grace interposed! Thou wast an heir of wrath even as others; thou didst "run with the multitude to do evil." Such were all of us; but Paul reminds us, "but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." We have good reason, indeed, for hating evil when we look back and trace its deadly workings. Such mischief did evil do us, that our souls would have been lost had not omnipotent love interfered to redeem us. Even now it is an active enemy, ever watching to do us hurt, and to drag us to perdition. Therefore "hate evil," O Christians, unless you desire trouble. If you would strew your path with thorns, and plant nettles in your death-pillow, then neglect to "hate evil:" but if you would live a happy life, and die a peaceful death, then walk in all the ways of holiness, hating evil, even unto the end. If you truly love your Saviour, and would honour him, then "hate evil." We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like abundant intercourse with the Lord Jesus. Dwell much with him, and it is impossible for you to be at peace with sin.
"Order my footsteps by thy Word,
And make my heart sincere;
Let sin have no dominion, Lord,
But keep my conscience clear."
Evening
"Be zealous."
Revelation 3:19
Revelation 3:19
If you would see souls converted, if you would hear the cry that "the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord;" if you would place crowns upon the head of the Saviour, and his throne lifted high, then be filled with zeal. For, under God, the way of the world's conversion must be by the zeal of the church. Every grace shall do exploits, but this shall be first; prudence, knowledge, patience, and courage will follow in their places, but zeal must lead the van. It is not the extent of your knowledge, though that is useful; it is not the extent of your talent, though that is not to be despised; it is your zeal that shall do great exploits. This zeal is the fruit of the Holy Spirit: it draws its vital force from the continued operations of the Holy Ghost in the soul. If our inner life dwindles, if our heart beats slowly before God, we shall not know zeal; but if all be strong and vigorous within, then we cannot but feel a loving anxiety to see the kingdom of Christ come, and his will done on earth, even as it is in heaven. A deep sense of gratitude will nourish Christian zeal. Looking to the hole of the pit whence we were digged, we find abundant reason why we should spend and be spent for God. And zeal is also stimulated by the thought of the eternal future. It looks with tearful eyes down to the flames of hell, and it cannot slumber: it looks up with anxious gaze to the glories of heaven, and it cannot but bestir itself. It feels that time is short compared with the work to be done, and therefore it devotes all that it has to the cause of its Lord. And it is ever strengthened by the remembrance of Christ's example. He was clothed with zeal as with a cloak. How swift the chariot-wheels of duty went with him! He knew no loitering by the way. Let us prove that we are his disciples by manifesting the same spirit of zeal.
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Ahimaaz
[Ăhĭm'aăz] - a rascal, powerful brother or my brother is counselor.
[Ăhĭm'aăz] - a rascal, powerful brother or my brother is counselor.
- Father of Ahinoam, Saul's wife (1 Sam. 14:50).
- A son of Zadok the priest, who kept David informed of Absalom's revolt (2 Sam. 15:27, 36; 17:17, 20).
- One of Solomon's officers, responsible for the monthly supply of victuals for the royal household (1 Kings 4:15 ).
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Today's reading: 2 Chronicles 28-29, John 17 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: 2 Chronicles 28-29
Ahaz King of Judah
1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD. 2 He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and also made idols for worshiping the Baals. 3 He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his children in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. 4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree....
Today's New Testament reading: John 17
Jesus Prays to Be Glorified
1 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
"Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.4 I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began...."
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