1. 1806: Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emporer, abdicates, ending, the Holy Roman Empire (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Holy Roman Empire and Monasteries, by Dr James White
Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire, by Brian Borgman
The Emergence of the Holy Roman Empire, by Pastor Errol Hale
2. 1913: British Parliament considers building a tunnel under the English Channel (Chronicle of the 20th Century)
3. 1600: Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588 (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
The French Huguenots, by Dr. Peter Hammond
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Holy Roman Empire and Monasteries, by Dr James White
Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire, by Brian Borgman
The Emergence of the Holy Roman Empire, by Pastor Errol Hale
2. 1913: British Parliament considers building a tunnel under the English Channel (Chronicle of the 20th Century)
3. 1600: Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588 (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
The French Huguenots, by Dr. Peter Hammond
Killing God's Saints for Worship: Saul and King Louis XIV, by Keith Dewell
Battling for the Reformation in France, by Rev. David Mook
4. 1945: An atomic bomb was used containing more power than 12,000 tons of TNT and producing more than 2,000 times the blast of any bomb ever dropped before, was dropped on the city of Hiroshima (Source)
On March 14, 1958, former President Harry Truman explained why he dropped the bomb:
"1.5 million soldiers would have been needed to invade the Japanese islands and that at least 250,000 of those men, plus 250,000 Japanese, would have died. 'The need for such a fateful decision,' he added, 'never would have arisen had we not been shot in the back by Japan at Pearl Harbor in December 1941."
Recommended podcast:
Were the Atom Bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima Justified? by Dr. Peter Hammond
Recommended video:
Weird Al's Its Christmas at Ground Zero
Recommended sermon:
Serious Preaching in a Comedy Culture, by Dr. David P. Murray
The text for this sermon is 1 Corinthians 5:10,11 (Audio):
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men..."
Battling for the Reformation in France, by Rev. David Mook
4. 1945: An atomic bomb was used containing more power than 12,000 tons of TNT and producing more than 2,000 times the blast of any bomb ever dropped before, was dropped on the city of Hiroshima (Source)
On March 14, 1958, former President Harry Truman explained why he dropped the bomb:
"1.5 million soldiers would have been needed to invade the Japanese islands and that at least 250,000 of those men, plus 250,000 Japanese, would have died. 'The need for such a fateful decision,' he added, 'never would have arisen had we not been shot in the back by Japan at Pearl Harbor in December 1941."
Recommended podcast:
Were the Atom Bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima Justified? by Dr. Peter Hammond
Recommended video:
Weird Al's Its Christmas at Ground Zero
Recommended sermon:
Serious Preaching in a Comedy Culture, by Dr. David P. Murray
The text for this sermon is 1 Corinthians 5:10,11 (Audio):
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men..."
