One can understand why so called moderates in the Islamic community have failed to speak out over their communities atrocities committed around the world on everyone, including other Islamic peoples. Speaking out can have one killed by stoning, hanging, crucifixion, disembowelling and result in the slaughter of their families and loved ones. It is gratifying to hear of a doctor asking for those who know of their loved ones involved in local shootings to speak out, because it is better to be in prison than dead. Quite so.
It is heartbreaking to see little weight given a victim impact statement. Killing someone is a serious crime even if life for the killer was hard. It doesn't excuse AGW believers either, even though they have silenced their critics after stealing $trillions from the world economy and thrown the poorest deeper into poverty. Many will have died from deprivation as a result of their actions, and none saved for their belief. A very poor return from their religion.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Lucidel Resto and Dean Koenig born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 1341 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1408)
- 1483 – Martin Luther, German monk and priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation (d. 1546)
- 1697 – William Hogarth, English painter (d. 1764)
- 1810 – George Jennings, English plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet (d. 1882)
- 1919 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general, designed the AK-47
- 1923 – Hachikō, Japanese dog (d. 1935)
- 1924 – Bobby Limb, Australian bandleader and comedian (d. 1999)
- 1925 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
- 1941 – John Geoghegan, American lieutenant (d. 1965)
- 1944 – Tim Rice, English songwriter
- 1947 – Greg Lake, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (King Crimson,Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Emerson, Lake & Powell,The Gods, and Asia)
- 1974 – Chris Lilley, Australian comedian, actor, and producer
- 1985 – Ricki-Lee Coulter, New Zealand singer-songwriter (Young Divas)
- 2000 – Mackenzie Foy, American actress
Matches
- 1202 – Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threateningexcommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of the Catholic city of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).
- 1619 – René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
- 1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
- 1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
- 1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
- 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
- 1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history.
- 1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario, and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
- 1951 – Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
- 1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
- 1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children'stelevision program Sesame Street.
- 1975 – United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).
- 2007 – ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.
Despatches
- 461 – Pope Leo I (b. 400)
- 627 – Justus, Italian-English archbishop
- 1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish army officer and politician, 1st President of Turkey (b. 1881)
- 1982 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet general and politician (b. 1906)
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I know what I sound like .. even so ..
[Chorus]
Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name
The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning
It's time to sing Your song again
Whatever may pass, and whatever lies before me
Let me be singing when the evening comes
[Chorus]
Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name
You're rich in love, and You're slow to anger
Your name is great, and Your heart is kind
For all Your goodness I will keep on singing
Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find
[Chorus]
Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name
And on that day when my strength is failing
The end draws near and my time has come
Still my soul will sing Your praise unending
Ten thousand years and then forevermore
[Chorus x2]
Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name
Jesus, I'll worship Your holy name
Lord, I'll worship Your holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name
Jesus, I'll worship Your holy name
I'll worship Your holy name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Redman
Matt Redman (born 14 February 1974[1]) is an English Christian worship leader, songwriter and author based in Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom.
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Miranda Devine – Saturday, November 09, 2013 (11:40pm)
WHAT a delicious decision of the Abbott government not to send a minister to the latest U¬N climate-change conference.
‘VICTIM’ HICKS JUST A SAD EXCUSE FOR A SOLDIER
DAVID Hicks is not a victim - he is the opposite.
But the convicted terrorist, aka one-time Muslim convert Mohammed Dawood, is trying to ‘’clear my name” by appealing against his 2007 conviction by a US military commission.
“Informally it’s already been recognised that my conviction is null and void. To have it done formally will help me move on with my life.”
Informally recognised? Pull the other one.
By September 2001, Hicks had been trained by terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and groomed by Osama bin Laden. His traitor’s reaction to the 9/11 attacks which killed 3000 people, including 11 Australians, was to hotfoot it to Afghanistan to fight alongside his jihadi pals.
Just because he was ineffectual doesn’t reduce his culpability.
It just means he was a useless soldier.
But the convicted terrorist, aka one-time Muslim convert Mohammed Dawood, is trying to ‘’clear my name” by appealing against his 2007 conviction by a US military commission.
“Informally it’s already been recognised that my conviction is null and void. To have it done formally will help me move on with my life.”
Informally recognised? Pull the other one.
By September 2001, Hicks had been trained by terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and groomed by Osama bin Laden. His traitor’s reaction to the 9/11 attacks which killed 3000 people, including 11 Australians, was to hotfoot it to Afghanistan to fight alongside his jihadi pals.
Just because he was ineffectual doesn’t reduce his culpability.
It just means he was a useless soldier.
GP AIMS TO BREAK CODE OF SILENCE
VICTIMS of southwestern Sydney’s organised crime wave were unfairly blasted by NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell for keeping silent in the face of threats from gangsters who thumb their noses at our feeble courts.
But now they’re fighting back.
Belmore GP Dr Jamal Rifi has organised a Facebook page called “Dob in a Gun”.
He tells patients: “Your son is better off in jail than in Rookwood Cemetery.”
But now they’re fighting back.
Belmore GP Dr Jamal Rifi has organised a Facebook page called “Dob in a Gun”.
He tells patients: “Your son is better off in jail than in Rookwood Cemetery.”
ONCE AGAIN VICTIM IS FORGOTTEN
WHAT’s the point of a victim impact statement if it just gives the court
the opportunity to identify remorse in an offender?
Sentencing Thomas Kelly’s killer, Justice Campbell said he “could not help noticing” him weeping during the Kelly family’s anguished statements. Cruel irony that he factored those tears into what I believe was an unspeakably lenient sentence.
the opportunity to identify remorse in an offender?
Sentencing Thomas Kelly’s killer, Justice Campbell said he “could not help noticing” him weeping during the Kelly family’s anguished statements. Cruel irony that he factored those tears into what I believe was an unspeakably lenient sentence.
G'DAY,
YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY STRUCK ME ABOUT THIS DISGUSTINGLY LIGHT SENTENCE FOR THE DELIBERATE MURDER (MANSLAUGHTER MY ASS) OF A WONDERFUL YOUNG MAN AT THE START OF HIS LIFE WAS....... I WAS NOT TOO SURPRISED!
YOU KNOW THIS YOUNG MAN , THOMAS KELLY WAS A FELLOW STUDENT WITH MY SON.
NOW MY 18 YEAR OLD SON HAS JUST FINISHED HIS HSC AT THE KINGS SCHOOL AND HAS HIS WHOLE EXCITING LIFE AHEAD OF HIM......... YET, I STILL CAN'T BEGIN TO IMAGINE THE HORROR THAT THE KELLY FAMILY ARE DEALING WITH.
THERE GO US ALL BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD.
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WE NEED VIDEO
Tim Blair – Sunday, November 10, 2013 (5:52pm)
Fairfax’s daily hate session
Andrew Bolt November 10 2013 (6:49am)
Get the impression the Fairfax papers are a bit manic in their AbbottAbbottAbbott hatred?
Today:
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A Liberal PM should let MPs hire who they like
Andrew Bolt November 10 2013 (6:02am)
This is unwarranted interference in an MP’s right to hire and fire:
MPs should be perfectly entitled to hire a wife or husband. If my wife were an MP and hired me to run her office, she’d know she’d have someone she could rely on completely to have her best interests in mind. Plus it would be great to have your spouse share your career.
===AN order from Prime Minister Tony Abbott for MPs to “sack your wives” from their offices to stop them double dipping has sparked warnings that some will defy the edict.
After previously issuing a warning to ministers not to rehire family members, Mr Abbott yesterday announced sweeping changes to parliamentary entitlements, including fines for MPs who pay back money they were not entitled to and an instruction to sack wives, children and in-laws on the taxpayer-funded payroll by January 1.
MPs should be perfectly entitled to hire a wife or husband. If my wife were an MP and hired me to run her office, she’d know she’d have someone she could rely on completely to have her best interests in mind. Plus it would be great to have your spouse share your career.
WA Labor Senator Glenn Sterle said he has no intention of sacking his wife, Fiona.Abbott should not give in like this to the populists. If MPs hire relatives who can’t actually do the job, they will be the first to suffer.
“I won’t be sacking any of my staff,’’ he said.
“My wife worked for a state MP for years and is more than qualified for the job.
‘’And you know what else? I like keeping our marriage together...”
Too disadvantaged for much jail
Andrew Bolt November 10 2013 (5:38am)
Parents despair:
THE parents of Thomas Kelly, the teenager killed by a random king hit during a night out, have questioned why a 25-year maximum jail term exists for manslaughter after their son’s killer got just four years.The Australian:
Angry at the light sentence given to 19-year-old Kieran Loveridge [above] by NSW Supreme Court Judge Stephen Campbell, Thomas’s parents Ralph and Kathy Kelly told 60 Minutes in an interview to air on Channel 9 tonight that the legal system is geared around “protecting the criminal”.
The lenient punishment prompted questions about why the murder charge that Loveridge, 19, had originally faced—which normally attracts at least 20 years in jail—was downgraded.The judge:
Mother Kathy Kelly howled with grief as judge Stephen Campbell passed the sentence in the NSW Supreme Court, saying it reflected Loveridge’s genuine remorse, his youth, early guilty pleas and social disadvantage—the latter a factor he said could be attributed in part to Loveridge’s Aboriginal heritage.
The offender was born on 9th March 1994. He was nearly eighteen years and four months old at the date of his offending, and is now nineteen years and eight months. Both parents are of Aboriginal heritage. I bear that in mind only for the purpose of reminding myself that it may be a circumstance relevant to a degree of social disadvantage in the offender’s upbringing.No further mention is made by the judge about Aboriginality or why that is a factor.
31The offender’s father was involved in criminal activities and his mother had separated from the father at the time of the offender’s birth. The offender’s father was in gaol during the offender’s infancy. After his release, the offender’s parents attempted to reconcile and during that time the offender’s mother fell pregnant with his sister. However, his father abused drink and illicit drugs. He was occasionally violent and certainly abusive. On one occasion during the offender’s childhood, his father struck him across the face with a bamboo cane as punishment for a trivial misdemeanour.
32The offender grew up in his mother’s care and without the benefit of love, support and guidance from his father. He is apparently a talented junior rugby league player. He formed a close relationship with his football coach, and I infer from his mother’s statement, that man may have been something of a father figure to the offender. Unfortunately he died of cancer, which the offender’s mother states was very confronting for the offender.
33The offender completed primary school at Toongabbie without much trouble. His high school education has been fractured, partly due to an expulsion for his involvement in his juvenile criminal activities.
The monstrous ego of David Suzuki
Andrew Bolt November 10 2013 (5:34am)
Money quote:
===The real lesson of this mockery of a mock trial was what it said about the objectivity and openness of Suzuki nation… They claim persecution while suggesting their opponents should be silenced.
Obamacare: a great way to demonstrate to millions Obama lied
Andrew Bolt November 10 2013 (5:29am)
I don’t think lying when that many people know you’re lying is a smart move:
===Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that tens of millions of people actually could lose those their policies.James Taranto:
“If you like your private health insurance plan, you can keep your plan. Period,” Obama said as he pitched the plan, the unqualified promise he made repeatedly.
Yet advisers did say in 2010 that there were large caveats and that anyone whose insurance plan changed would lose the promised protection of being able to keep existing plans. And a report in 2010 said that as many as 69 percent of certain employer-based insurance plans would lose that protection, meaning as many as 41 million people could lose their plans even if they wanted to keep them and would be forced into other plans. Another 11 million who bought their own insurance also could lose their plans. Combined, as many as 52 million Americans could lose or have lost old insurance plans.
There is ample evidence that the plans to be sold on the vaporware exchanges will frequently, perhaps usually, be poorer values than the canceled ones. And the 5% figure is very much a lowball estimate. Among others, it excludes people who’ll lose employer-provided insurance or see it downgraded as a result of ObamaCare’s mandates and incentives, as well as those affected by Medicare cuts.(Via Instapundit.)
But for the sake of argument, let’s accept the 5% figure as the number of Americans Obama now acknowledges having victimized with his “If you like your plan, you can keep it” swindle. The U.S. population is just over 317 million (that includes children, but so does the population affected by the ObamaCare cancellations). Five percent of 317 million is just under 16 million people.
Imagine if Bernie Madoff had swindled 16 million people.
No, that doesn’t quite do it justice. Imagine if Bernie Madoff had swindled 16 million people, many of whom never agreed, or had any desire, to do business with him in the first place.
The Bolt Report today
Andrew Bolt November 10 2013 (12:37am)
On The Bolt Report on Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm.
With Christopher Pyne, John Roskam and former Labor Senator John Black.
And the rudest tweet of the week.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
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And the rudest tweet of the week.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
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Lol US broadcasting standards - ed
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TALKING TOUGH IS NOT ENOUGH
Tony Abbott: "... and if any boat ever set out from Australia to Indonesia to enter that country illegally, we would do our damnedest to stop it." Well that’s pretty tough talk to a Liberal Party Conference but did the Indonesians hear that expression of gross unfairness?
The Fairfax press this morning is still insisting this boat debacle was a “mid-ocean” backdown. It was certainly a backdown but it was not “mid-ocean” and that’s what makes the difference.
We have international maritime obligations on the open sea, but not within Indonesian waters once we have established that a distress call was a sham and we have informed Indonesian authorities.
Although within sight of their shoreline, the Indonesians chose not to respond to the distress call, leaving the onus on Australia to deal with the false mayday.
HMAS Ballarat determined that the boat was not in distress and left the scene, as it should have done.
Upon responding to a further call, HMAS Ballarat found the boat’s engine had been disabled. [Indonesian search and rescue vessels had still not arrived, nor did they intend to.]
We again informed the Indonesians of the situation and again they refused to act, saying they would not accept the boat being returned to an Indonesian port.
Okay, this is what should have happened:
There is little doubt the people on this boat were the very same people who had been returned to Indonesia on two previous occasions.
We had no right to be in Indonesian waters without reason. It was found that the boat’s distress call was false and we quite properly departed the scene after again informing the Indonesians of the situation.
Responding to a second call the Australian crew discovered the boat’s engine had been sabotaged. This was also reported to the Indonesians who continued to ignore the call.
As there were no lives at risk and the boat was seaworthy, our responsibility had ended there as would have an Indonesian patrol boat attending a false distress call from a boat off the Gold Coast.
HMAS Ballarat should then have drained the fuel, leaving sufficient only to return to shore if the engine had miraculously become serviceable, and left. But they didn’t leave and the Indonesians knew they wouldn’t.
This petty game of brinkmanship has to stop. As The Pickering Post has reported ad nauseam, this is not a regional problem, it is an Indonesian Immigration and Customs problem.
They know who these people are and what their intentions are. It’s a problem of bribery within the Indonesian system, including the military.
The Daily Telegraph tried to justify Abbott’s capitulation suggesting he needed focus on the Carbon Tax Repeal Bill. Instead Fairfax and the ABC have been handed the opportunity to re-state their case that a naive Abbott cannot turn boats around.
He can, he should and he must! We have no reason to fear Indonesia, no other country will side with them in this matter, but our allies will side with us.
It’s time Abbott righted the wrong of this Rudd inspired treachery and Indonesian bastardry.
Thank Christ he is now making noises in that direction... albeit to a Liberal Party Conference.
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It was wonderful to see so many inspiring and patriotic Iowans tonight at the Faith & Freedom Coalition dinner. They join other hard working Americans as the wind beneath the wings of our great republic, and their hard work and activism make a difference!
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LOCAL PHILIPPINE OFFICIALS say that as many as 10,000 people could be dead, mostly by drowning and from collapsed buildings, after one of the strongest typhoons on record devastates central Philippines.
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November 10: Remembrance Sunday in theCommonwealth (2013); Remembrance of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (09:05 EET/07:05 UTC, Turkey)
- 1202 – The first major action of theFourth Crusade and the first attack against a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, the Siege of Zara, began in Zadar, Croatia.
- 1766 – William Franklin, the last Royal Governor of New Jersey, signed the charter establishing Queen's College, now known as Rutgers University.
- 1871 – Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanleylocated missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone (both pictured, left and right respectively)in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.
- 1969 – The first episode of the children's television series Sesame Street premiered on public broadcastingtelevision stations in the United States, to adulatory reviews, some controversy, and high ratings.
- 2007 – At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez "Why don't you shut up?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech bySpanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
Events[edit]
- 1202 – Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threateningexcommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of the Catholic city of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).
- 1293 – Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.
- 1444 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungaryand Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
- 1520 – Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
- 1580 – After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland.
- 1619 – René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
- 1659 – Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh. This is also recognised as the first defence of Swarajya
- 1674 – Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
- 1702 – English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.
- 1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
- 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
- 1793 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette.
- 1821 – Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which lead to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia
- 1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
- 1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
- 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
- 1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history.
- 1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
- 1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario, and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
- 1919 – The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.
- 1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.
- 1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with theAllies in North Africa.
- 1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
- 1945 – Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated asHeroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
- 1951 – Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
- 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
- 1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children'stelevision program Sesame Street.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
- 1970 – The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.
- 1971 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
- 1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed byFidel Castro.
- 1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
- 1975 – United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).
- 1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails inMississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
- 1984 – The first Breeders' Cup takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
- 1989 – The longtime leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
- 1989 – German citizens begin to bring the Berlin Wall down
- 1995 – In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
- 1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
- 2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
- 2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush and announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal of Honor in Quantico, Virginia.
- 2007 – ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.
- 2007 – 10,000–40,000 people march toward the royal palace of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur to hand over a memorandum to the King demanding electoral reform.
- 2008 – Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the landerwere lost.
- 2009 – Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
Births[edit]
- 1341 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1408)
- 1433 – Charles the Bold, Burgundy son of Philip the Good (d. 1477)
- 1480 – Bridget of York (d. 1517)
- 1483 – Martin Luther, German monk and priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation (d. 1546)
- 1565 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
- 1566 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English general and politician (d. 1601)
- 1577 – Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (d. 1660)
- 1620 – Ninon de l'Enclos, French author and courtier (d. 1705)
- 1668 – François Couperin, French composer (d. 1733)
- 1668 – Louis, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
- 1695 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
- 1697 – William Hogarth, English painter (d. 1764)
- 1710 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish politician and diplomat (d. 1792)
- 1728 – Oliver Goldsmith, English playwright (d. 1774)
- 1735 – Granville Sharp, English activist and scholar, co-founded the Sierra Leone Company (d. 1813)
- 1755 – Franz Anton Ries, German violinist (d. 1846)
- 1759 – Friedrich Schiller, German poet, playwright, and historian (d. 1805)
- 1801 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
- 1801 – Samuel Gridley Howe, American physician and activist (d. 1876)
- 1810 – George Jennings, English plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet (d. 1882)
- 1834 – José Hernández, Argentine journalist, poet, and politician (d. 1886)
- 1844 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American educator and theologian (d. 1932)
- 1845 – John Sparrow David Thompson, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1894)
- 1848 – Surendranath Banerjee, Indian politician (d. 1925)
- 1850 – Arthur Goring Thomas, English composer (d. 1892)
- 1851 – Richard Armstedt, German historian (d. 1931)
- 1868 – Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1957)
- 1869 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American assassin of Umberto I of Italy (d. 1901)
- 1871 – Winston Churchill, American author (d. 1947)
- 1873 – Henri Rabaud, French conductor and composer (d. 1949)
- 1874 – Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (d. 1954)
- 1878 – Cy Morgan, American baseball player (d. 1962)
- 1879 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet (d. 1931)
- 1879 – Patrick Pearse, Irish activist (d. 1916)
- 1880 – Jacob Epstein, American-English sculptor (d. 1959)
- 1886 – Edward Joseph Collins, American pianist, conductor, and composer (d. 1951)
- 1887 – Arnold Zweig, German author (d. 1968)
- 1888 – Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer and designer, founded the Tupolev Company (d. 1972)
- 1889 – Claude Rains, English actor (d. 1967)
- 1891 – Carl Stalling, American composer (d. 1972)
- 1893 – John P. Marquand, American author (d. 1960)
- 1894 – Boris Furlan, Slovenian jurist and politician (d. 1957)
- 1895 – József Mátyás Baló, Hungarian physician (d. 1979)
- 1895 – Jack Northrop, American businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (d. 1981)
- 1896 – Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
- 1896 – Olga Grey, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1973)
- 1906 – Josef Kramer, German SS officer (d. 1945)
- 1907 – Jane Froman, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
- 1907 – John Moore, English author (d. 1967)
- 1908 – Charles Merritt, Canadian army officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 2000)
- 1909 – Paweł Jasienica, Polish journalist, historian, and soldier (d. 1970)
- 1909 – Johnny Marks, American songwriter (d. 1985)
- 1912 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
- 1913 – Karl Shapiro, American poet (d. 2000)
- 1916 – Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter (d. 2012)
- 1916 – Billy May, American trumpet player and composer (d. 2004)
- 1916 – Dr. Tangalanga, Argentine comedian
- 1917 – S. Thambirajah, Sri Lankan Tamil politician
- 1918 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
- 1919 – George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (d. 1997)
- 1919 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general, designed the AK-47
- 1919 – François Périer, French actor (d. 2002)
- 1919 – Michael Strank, American marine, member of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1945)
- 1919 – Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (d. 1969)
- 1920 – Jennifer Holt, American actress (d. 1997)
- 1920 – Rafael del Pino, Spanish businessman, founded the Ferrovial Company (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Hachikō, Japanese dog (d. 1935)
- 1924 – Russell Johnson, American actor
- 1924 – Bobby Limb, Australian bandleader and comedian (d. 1999)
- 1925 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
- 1926 – Rossella Falk, Italian actress (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer and conductor
- 1929 – Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter
- 1929 – W. E. B. Griffin, American author
- 1931 – Lilly Pulitzer, American fashion designer (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Don Henderson, English actor (d. 1997)
- 1932 – Roy Scheider, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1932 – Arthur K. Snyder American politician (d. 2012)
- 1933 – Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
- 1934 – Lucien Bianchi, Italian-Belgian race car driver (d. 1969)
- 1934 – A. Thurairajah, Sri Lankan Tamil engineer and academic (d. 1994)
- 1935 – Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist (d. 2004)
- 1935 – Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
- 1937 – Albert Hall, American actor
- 1937 – Zdeněk Zikán, Czech footballer (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Anscar Chupungco, Filipino monk and theologian (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Russell Means, American actor and activist (d. 2012)
- 1939 – Allan Moffat, Canadian-Australian race car driver
- 1940 – Screaming Lord Sutch, English singer-songwriter and politician (d. 1999)
- 1941 – John Geoghegan, American lieutenant (d. 1965)
- 1941 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1985)
- 1942 – Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942 – James Hood, American activist (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss politician, President of the Swiss Confederation
- 1943 – Saxby Chambliss, American politician
- 1944 – Silvestre Reyes, American politician
- 1944 – Tim Rice, English songwriter
- 1944 – Mark E. Neely, Jr., American author and historian
- 1945 – Donna Fargo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1947 – Glen Buxton, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1997)
- 1947 – Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese military commander (d. 1982)
- 1947 – Greg Lake, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (King Crimson,Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Emerson, Lake & Powell,The Gods, and Asia)
- 1947 – Dave Loggins, American singer-songwriter
- 1948 – Aaron Brown, American journalist
- 1948 – Shigesato Itoi, Japanese video game designer, voice actor, and author
- 1948 – Hugh Moffatt, American singer-songwriter
- 1948 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1948 – Steven Utley, American author and poet (d. 2013)
- 1949 – Ann Reinking, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
- 1949 – Don Saleski, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1950 – Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2005)
- 1950 – Bob Orton, Jr., American wrestler
- 1950 – Jack Scalia, American actor
- 1951 – Viktor Sukhorukov, Russian actor
- 1952 – Gerry DiNardo, American football player and coach
- 1953 – Les Miles, American football player and coach
- 1954 – Bob Stanley, American baseball player
- 1955 – James Chapman, American author
- 1955 – Jack Clark, American baseball player
- 1955 – Roland Emmerich, German director and producer
- 1956 – Sinbad, American comedian and actor
- 1956 – Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian businessman and activist
- 1957 – Nigel Evans, British politician
- 1958 – Stephen Herek, American director
- 1958 – George Lowe, American voice actor
- 1958 – Massimo Morsello, Italian singer-songwriter and activist (d. 2001)
- 1958 – Brooks Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1958 – Omar Minaya, American manager
- 1959 – Linda Cohn, American sportscaster
- 1959 – Mike McCarthy, American football player and coach
- 1959 – Mackenzie Phillips, American actress and singer
- 1959 – Michael Schröder, German footballer
- 1960 – Neil Gaiman, English author, illustrator, and screenwriter
- 1960 – Dan Hawkins, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1961 – Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physicist
- 1961 – John Walton, English darts player
- 1963 – Hugh Bonneville, English actor
- 1963 – Tommy Davidson, American comedian and actor
- 1964 – Kenny Rogers, American baseball player
- 1964 – Magnús Scheving, Icelandic gymnast, actor, and producer
- 1965 – Jamie Dixon, American basketball coach
- 1965 – Sean Hughes, English-Irish comedian and actor
- 1965 – Eddie Irvine, Irish race car driver
- 1966 – Vanessa Angel, English actress
- 1966 – Bill DeMott, American wrestler and agent
- 1967 – Michael Jai White, American actor
- 1968 – Steve Brookstein, English singer
- 1968 – Tracy Morgan, American comedian and actor
- 1968 – Tom Papa, American comedian, actor, television and radio host
- 1969 – Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer
- 1969 – Jens Lehmann, German footballer
- 1969 – Ellen Pompeo, American actress
- 1970 – Warren G, American rapper and producer (213)
- 1970 – Tay Ping Hui, Singaporean actor
- 1970 – Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian footballer
- 1970 – Freddy Loix, Belgian race car driver
- 1970 – Vince Vieluf, American actor
- 1971 – Holly Black, writer and editor, best known for writing The Spiderwick Chronicles
- 1971 – Walton Goggins, American actor
- 1971 – Terry Pearson, American baseball player
- 1971 – Niki Karimi, Iranian actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1971 – Magnus Johansson, Swedish footballer
- 1972 – DJ Ashba, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Guns N' Roses, Sixx:A.M., BulletBoys, and Beautiful Creatures)
- 1972 – Isaac Bruce, American football player
- 1972 – Lou Brutus, American radio host, musician and photographer
- 1972 – Virág Csurgó, Hungarian tennis player
- 1972 – Shawn Green, American baseball player
- 1972 – Greg LaRocca, American baseball player
- 1973 – Patrik Berger, Czech footballer
- 1973 – Marco Antonio Rodríguez, Mexican football referee
- 1974 – Niko Hurme, Finnish bass player (Lordi and Stala & so.)
- 1974 – Chris Lilley, Australian comedian, actor, and producer
- 1975 – Diplo, American DJ, songwriter, and producer (Major Lazer)
- 1975 – Markko Märtin, Estonian rally driver
- 1976 – Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer
- 1976 – Shefki Kuqi, Finnish footballer
- 1976 – Martin Åslund, Swedish footballer
- 1976 – Sergio González, Spanish footballer
- 1976 – Mike Leclerc, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 – Josh Barnett, American mixed martial artist and wrestler
- 1977 – Erik Nevland, Norwegian footballer
- 1977 – Won Bin, South Korean actor
- 1977 – Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer (d. 2009)
- 1977 – Matthew Cepicky, American baseball player
- 1978 – Eve, American rapper, producer, and actress
- 1978 – David Paetkau, Canadian actor
- 1978 – Jorge De Paula, Dominican baseball player
- 1978 – Kyla Cole, Slovak porn actress and model
- 1978 – Drew McConnell, Irish bass player (Babyshambles, Mongrel, and Elviss)
- 1978 – Kristian Huselius, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1979 – Chris Joannou, Australian bass player (Silverchair)
- 1979 – Anthony Réveillère, French footballer
- 1979 – Ragnvald Soma, Norwegian footballer
- 1979 – Nina Mercedez, American pornographic actress, director and producer
- 1979 – Harsh Mankad, Indian tennis player
- 1980 – Troy Bell, American basketball player
- 1980 – Matt Mullins, American actor
- 1980 – Calvin Chen, Taiwanese singer and actor (Fahrenheit)
- 1980 – Donté Stallworth, American football player
- 1980 – Danilo Belić, Serbian footballer
- 1980 – Jeroen Ketting, Dutch footballer
- 1980 – Yevhen Lutsenko, Ukrainian footballer
- 1980 – Agustín De La Canal, Argentine footballer
- 1981 – Ryback, American wrestler
- 1981 – Tony Blanco, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 – Brett Tamburrino, Australian baseball player
- 1981 – Jason Dunham, American marine, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004)
- 1981 – Miroslav Slepička, Czech footballer
- 1981 – Ezequiel Garré, Argentine footballer
- 1981 – Paul Kipsiele Koech, Kenyan runner
- 1981 – Marko Tomasović, Croatian boxer
- 1982 – Heather Matarazzo, American actress
- 1982 – Matt Pagnozzi, American baseball player
- 1982 – Chris Canty, American football player
- 1982 – Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, Australian footballer
- 1982 – Clayton Fortune, English footballer
- 1983 – Miranda Lambert, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pistol Annies)
- 1983 – Craig Smith, American basketball player
- 1983 – Ryan Mattheus, American baseball player
- 1983 – Brian Dinkelman, American baseball player
- 1983 – Dinko Felic, Norwegian footballer
- 1983 – Marius Žaliūkas, Lithuanian footballer
- 1984 – Britt Irvin, Canadian actress, musician and voice artist
- 1984 – Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player
- 1984 – Ludovic Obraniak, Polish footballer
- 1984 – Jarno Mattila, Finnish footballer
- 1984 – Jean-Martial Kipre, Ivorian footballer
- 1985 – Ricki-Lee Coulter, New Zealand singer-songwriter (Young Divas)
- 1985 – Giovonnie Samuels, American actress
- 1985 – Krystian Trochowski, German rugby player
- 1985 – Daan Huiskamp, Dutch footballer
- 1985 – Aleksandar Kolarov, Serbian footballer
- 1985 – Cherno Samba, Gambian footballer
- 1986 – Ilias Iliadis, Greek judoka
- 1986 – Eric Thames, American baseball player
- 1986 – Aaron Crow, American baseball player
- 1986 – Josh Peck, American actor
- 1986 – Will Hendry, English footballer
- 1986 – Goran Jerković, French footballer
- 1986 – Stanislav Namaşco, Moldovan footballer
- 1986 – Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan runner (d. 2011)
- 1987 – Jessica Tovey, Australian actress
- 1987 – Theo Peckham, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 – Sam Malsom, English footballer
- 1987 – Edi Maia, Portuguese pole vaulter
- 1988 – Massimo Coda, Italian footballer
- 1989 – Daniel Agyei, Ghanaian footballer
- 1989 – Matt Magill, American baseball player
- 1989 – Luke Daley, English footballer
- 1989 – Adrian Nikçi, Swiss footballer
- 1990 – Aaron Murray, American football player
- 1990 – Marcus Browne, American boxer
- 1990 – Andre Blackman, English footballer
- 1990 – Robert Primus, Trinidadian footballer
- 1990 – Kristina Vogel, German track cyclist
- 1991 – Genevieve Buechner, Canadian actress
- 1992 – Wilfried Zaha, English footballer
- 1992 – Dimitri Petratos, Australian footballer
- 1992 – Rafał Wolski, Polish footballer
- 1992 – Marek Frimmel, Slovak footballer
- 1992 – Marko Blaževski, Macedonian swimmer
- 1994 – Zoey Deutch, American actress
- 1994 – Claudio Dias, English footballer
- 1999 – Kiernan Shipka, American actress
- 2000 – Mackenzie Foy, American actress
Deaths[edit]
- 461 – Pope Leo I (b. 400)
- 627 – Justus, Italian-English archbishop
- 901 – Adelaide of Paris (b. 853)
- 1241 – Pope Celestine IV
- 1444 – Władysław III of Poland (b. 1424)
- 1549 – Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
- 1617 – Barnabe Rich, English soldier and author (b. 1540)
- 1624 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English businessman (b. 1573)
- 1644 – Luis Vélez de Guevara, Spanish author and playwright (b. 1579)
- 1659 – Afzal Khan, Indian general
- 1673 – Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland, husband of Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (b. 1640)
- 1727 – Alphonse de Tonty, French-American explorer (b. 1659)
- 1728 – Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (b. 1661)
- 1772 – Pedro Correia Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
- 1777 – Cornstalk, American tribal chief (b. 1720)
- 1808 – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, Irish-English general and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1724)
- 1865 – Henry Wirz, Swiss-American army officer (b. 1823)
- 1869 – John E. Wool, American army officer (b. 1822)
- 1887 – Louis Lingg, German-American activist (b. 1864)
- 1891 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (b. 1854)
- 1909 – George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
- 1912 – Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
- 1917 – Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (b. 1866)
- 1936 – Louis Gustave Binger, French army officer and explorer (b. 1856)
- 1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish army officer and politician, 1st President of Turkey (b. 1881)
- 1940 – Ilie Pintilie, Romanian activist (b. 1903)
- 1946 – Louis Zutter, Swiss gymnast (b. 1856)
- 1956 – Gordon MacQuarrie, American author and journalist (b. 1900)
- 1962 – Julius Lenhart, Austrian gymnast (b. 1875)
- 1964 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1968 – Adolf Möller, German rower (b. 1877)
- 1971 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American author (b. 1909)
- 1973 – David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player (b. 1915)
- 1975 – Ernest M. McSorley, Canadian-American captain (b. 1912)
- 1981 – Abel Gance, French actor, director, and producer (b. 1889)
- 1982 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet general and politician (b. 1906)
- 1984 – Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
- 1986 – Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
- 1986 – Gordon Richards, English jockey (b. 1904)
- 1987 – Noor Hossain, Bangladeshi pro-democracy activist (b. 1961)
- 1990 – Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban baseball player (b. 1943)
- 1990 – Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
- 1991 – William Afflis, American football player and wrestler (b. 1929)
- 1992 – Chuck Connors, American actor (b. 1921)
- 1994 – Carmen McRae, American singer, pianist, and actress (b. 1920)
- 1995 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and activist (b. 1941)
- 1997 – Tommy Tedesco, American guitarist (b. 1930)
- 1998 – Mary Millar, English actress (b. 1936)
- 2000 – Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician, 171st Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
- 2000 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
- 2001 – Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
- 2002 – Michel Boisrond, French director (b. 1921)
- 2003 – Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
- 2003 – Irv Kupcinet, American columnist and talk show host (b. 1912)
- 2004 – Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
- 2006 – Diana Coupland, English actress (b. 1932)
- 2006 – Fokko du Cloux, Dutch mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1954)
- 2006 – Gerald Levert, American singer-songwriter and producer (LeVert and LSG) (b. 1966)
- 2006 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
- 2006 – Jack Williamson, American science fiction author (b. 1908)
- 2007 – Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2007 – Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician (b. 1907)
- 2007 – Norman Mailer, American author (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer-songwriter, actress, and activist (b. 1932)
- 2008 – Arthur Shawcross, American serial killer (b. 1945)
- 2008 – Wannes Van de Velde, Flemish singer (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Gheorghe Dinica, Romanian actor (b. 1934)
- 2009 – Robert Enke, German footballer (b. 1977)
- 2009 – Tomaž Humar, Slovenian mountaineer (b. 1969)
- 2009 – John Allen Muhammad, American sniper (b. 1960)
- 2010 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
- 2010 – Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
- 2010 – Nicolo Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian mobster (b. 1924)
- 2011 – Peter J. Biondi, American politician (b. 1942)
- 2011 – Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Mynavathi, Indian actress (b. 1935)
- 2012 – John Louis Coffey, American judge (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Eric Day, English footballer (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Mitsuko Mori, Japanese actress (b. 1920)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Cry of Independence Day (Panama)
- Day of Remembrance of Ataturk (Turkey)
- Day of Russian Militsiya (Russia)
- Day of Tradition or Día de la Tradición, celebrated on the birthday of José Hernández (Argentina, especially San Antonio de Areco)
- Heroes' Day or Hari Pahlawan (Indonesia)
- United States Marine Corps birthday ball (United States)
““Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” Isaiah 1:18 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"So walk ye in him."
Colossians 2:6
Colossians 2:6
If we have received Christ himself in our inmost hearts, our new life will manifest its intimate acquaintance with him by a walk of faith in him. Walking implies action. Our religion is not to be confined to our closet; we must carry out into practical effect that which we believe. If a man walks in Christ, then he so acts as Christ would act; for Christ being in him, his hope, his love, his joy, his life, he is the reflex of the image of Jesus; and men say of that man, "He is like his Master; he lives like Jesus Christ." Walking signifies progress. "So walk ye in him"; proceed from grace to grace, run forward until you reach the uttermost degree of knowledge that a man can attain concerning our Beloved. Walking implies continuance. There must be a perpetual abiding in Christ. How many Christians think that in the morning and evening they ought to come into the company of Jesus, and may then give their hearts to the world all the day: but this is poor living; we should always be with him, treading in his steps and doing his will. Walking also implies habit. When we speak of a man's walk and conversation, we mean his habits, the constant tenor of his life. Now, if we sometimes enjoy Christ, and then forget him; sometimes call him ours, and anon lose our hold, that is not a habit; we do not walk in him. We must keep to him, cling to him, never let him go, but live and have our being in him. "As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him"; persevere in the same way in which ye have begun, and, as at the first Christ Jesus was the trust of your faith, the source of your life, the principle of your action, and the joy of your spirit, so let him be the same till life's end; the same when you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, and enter into the joy and the rest which remain for the people of God. O Holy Spirit, enable us to obey this heavenly precept.
Evening
"His place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure."
Isaiah 33:16
Isaiah 33:16
Do you doubt, O Christian, do you doubt as to whether God will fulfil his promise? Shall the munitions of rock be carried by storm? Shall the storehouses of heaven fail? Do you think that your heavenly Father, though he knoweth that you have need of food and raiment, will yet forget you? When not a sparrow falls to the ground without your Father, and the very hairs of your head are all numbered, will you mistrust and doubt him? Perhaps your affliction will continue upon you till you dare to trust your God, and then it shall end. Full many there be who have been tried and sore vexed till at last they have been driven in sheer desperation to exercise faith in God, and the moment of their faith has been the instant of their deliverance; they have seen whether God would keep his promise or not. Oh, I pray you, doubt him no longer! Please not Satan, and vex not yourself by indulging any more those hard thoughts of God. Think it not a light matter to doubt Jehovah. Remember, it is a sin; and not a little sin either, but in the highest degree criminal. The angels never doubted him, nor the devils either: we alone, out of all the beings that God has fashioned, dishonour him by unbelief, and tarnish his honour by mistrust. Shame upon us for this! Our God does not deserve to be so basely suspected; in our past life we have proved him to be true and faithful to his word, and with so many instances of his love and of his kindness as we have received, and are daily receiving, at his hands, it is base and inexcusable that we suffer a doubt to sojourn within our heart. May we henceforth wage constant war against doubts of our God--enemies to our peace and to his honour; and with an unstaggering faith believe that what he has promised he will also perform. "Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief."
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Today's reading: Jeremiah 46-47, Hebrews 6 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 46-47
A Message About Egypt
1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations:
2 Concerning Egypt:
This is the message against the army of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
3 “Prepare your shields, both large and small,
and march out for battle!
4 Harness the horses,
mount the steeds!
Take your positions
with helmets on!
Polish your spears,
put on your armor!
5 What do I see?
They are terrified,
they are retreating,
their warriors are defeated.
They flee in haste
without looking back,
and there is terror on every side,” declares the LORD.
6 “The swift cannot flee
nor the strong escape.
In the north by the River Euphrates
they stumble and fall....
and march out for battle!
4 Harness the horses,
mount the steeds!
Take your positions
with helmets on!
Polish your spears,
put on your armor!
5 What do I see?
They are terrified,
they are retreating,
their warriors are defeated.
They flee in haste
without looking back,
and there is terror on every side,” declares the LORD.
6 “The swift cannot flee
nor the strong escape.
In the north by the River Euphrates
they stumble and fall....
Today's New Testament reading: Hebrews 6
1 Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, 2 instruction about cleansing rites, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3And God permitting, we will do so.
4 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age6 and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. 7 Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God. 8 But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned....
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Abdon
[Ăb'dŏn] - servile, service or cloud of judgment.
[Ăb'dŏn] - servile, service or cloud of judgment.
- A son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, Abdon judged Israel for eight years, and because of a plurality of wives, had forty sons and thirty nephews, who rode seventy ass colts (Judg. 12:13-15). Perhaps the same as Bedan in 1 Samuel 12:11.
- A Benjamite in Jerusalem (1 Chron. 8:23).
- The first-born of Jehiel from Maachah (1 Chron. 8:30; 9:36).
- A son of Micah sent with others by king Josiah to Huldah the prophetess to enquire of Jehovah regarding the Book of the Law found in the Temple (2 Chron. 34:20). Called Achbor in 2 Kings 22:12. Also the name of a Levitical city in Asher (Josh. 21:30; 1 Chron. 6:74).
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