History for January 26

History for January 26 - On-This-Day.com
Douglas MacArthur 1880, Paul Newman 1925, Bob Uecker 1935



Eddie Van Halen 1955 - Guitar player (Van Halen), Ellen DeGeneres 1958 - Actress-comedian. Television series: Ellen. She is famous for "coming out" on the television show Ellen, judge on "American Idol", Wayne Gretzky 1961 - Hockey hall-of-famer. He is known as "The Great One". He won four Stanley Cups.

1784 - In a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed unhappiness over the eagle as the symbol of America. He wanted the symbol to be the turkey.


1788 - The first European settlers in Australia, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, landed in what became known as Sydney. The group had first settled at Botany Bay eight days before. This day is celebrated as Australia Day.


1837 - Michigan became the 26th state to join the United States.


1875 - George F. Green patented the electric dental drill for sawing, filing, dressing and polishing teeth.


1911 - Inventor Glenn H. Curtiss flew the first successful seaplane.


1959 - "Alcoa Presents" debuted on ABC-TV. The show would later be renamed "One Step Beyond".


1996 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury concerning the Whitewater probe.


1998 - U.S. President Clinton denied having an affair with a former White House intern, saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."


2009 - The Icelandic government and banking system collapsed. Prime Minister Geir Haarde resigned.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/01/freedomand-liberty-bytammy-derouin-itsa.html

Freedom and Liberty

By Tammy Derouin

It's a new day. There is optimism that the damage intentionally inflicted upon our country by a traitorous former president and his equally traitorous administration will be reversed, mended and healed. We finally stood up to the evil which had infiltrated our government and kicked it out the door. Four years was too much. Eight years of "hope and change" was paving a way to self-destruction as many Americans began to believe the propaganda being churned out by the Left. But, a second administration of unconscionable corruption and anti-American policies would have truly been suicide.

The flag seems a little brighter and waves a little higher as we begin reversing our course and moving our country back to center. We will attempt to right the wrongs committed against the American people and our homeland. The corrective course will only work if we follow the guide, brilliantly drafted, by our founding fathers.

The U.S. Constitution is a document of liberty and freedom. It was designed to restrain the government as a whole, as well as the individual branches, preventing any one entity from becoming too powerful. It protects the people and the individual states from a federal overreach of power. But, our Constitution is only as strong as the people demand its enforcement......... 

Queen's chaplain resigns over cathedral Koran reading row

Queen's chaplain resigns over cathedral Koran reading row:
"With all this election stuff going the Religion of Peace™ must be feeling a bit left out.

Queen's chaplain resigns over cathedral Koran reading row saying he has a 'duty' to defend Christianity

A chaplain to the Queen has resigned after publicly criticising a church that allowed a Koran reading during its service as part of an interfaith project. The Rev Gavin Ashenden, who until this week was one of the 33 special chaplains to the Queen, said the reading was “a fairly serious error” and one which he had a duty to speak out about. “There are things we should not tolerate because they are destructive,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Sunday programme.“I don’t accept the rather feeble accusation that intolerance is a bad thing.”

During a service at St Mary's Episcopal in Glasgow earlier this month to mark the feast of the Epiphany, there was a reading of a passage from the Koran which said that Jesus was not the son of God.

When first reading about this I instantly thought of life imitating art, as in the old "Not The Nine O'clock News" sketch, "The Devil - Is He All Bad?" 

They nearly got it right too, except for the "Pope not being Too Keen" bit. But I very much doubt that when it was made, Pope John Paul II would have been too keen.