Saturday, August 17, 2019

This Weekend in History - August 17 & 18

August 17

1668 - A magnitude 8.0 earthquake causes 8,000 deaths in Anatolia, Ottoman Empire (Source)
1717 - Austro-Turkish War of 1716-1718: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops capturing the city from the Ottoman Empire (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Jews Under the Ottoman Empire, by Daniel E. Woodhead

1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader moisei uritsky is assassinated (Source)

The Failure of Atheism in the Soviet Union, by Peter Hammond

A musical comparison of America and the old Soviet Union...

Don McClean - American Pie Explained
The Complete History of the USSR Set to the Music of Tetris

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

1945 - The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Animal Farm Apocalypse, by Jim McCarthy [Text: Daniel 7:1-9]

1998 - Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Still more recommended reading:


Excerpt from this last article:

"Former president took 26 trips on the 'Lolita Express'"


August 18


1572 - Marriage in Paris, France, of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

1612 - The trial of the Pendle witches, one of England's most famous witch trials, begins at Lancaster, Assizes (Source)

Recommended reading:
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How I Found Christ?

 How I Found Christ? by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)