1853 - Crimean War: Battle of Sinop: The imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a se port in northern Turkey (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Florence Nightengale, by BJU Students and Faculty
1972 - Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels a re now down to 27,000 (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
"Vietnam is the Left's favorite war because America lost."
"Historical accounts of the Vietnam War are incomprehensible because liberals refuse to admit the failure of their national security strategy. The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars."
"In the great Democratic tradition of taking the nation to war without a plan to win, only the Democrats could have produced Vietnam."
"President Lyndon Johnson, who inherited the war when Kenedy was assassinated, viewed the Vietnam War as a method of proving the Democrats could be trusted with foreign policy, which they cannot."
"Nixon had been elected in part based on his promise to end the war honorably. He would have done so, too, but for Democrats in Congress,"
"A Republican President either wouldn't have started that war, or would have won it pretty fast."
1982 - Michael Jackson's sixth solo studio album, Thriller, is released worldwide, ultimately to become the best selling record album in history (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
The Coming Death of Just About All Rock and Roll Legends, by Dr. Paul J. Dean, Jr
Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Michael Jackson - Are the Beatles Bigger Than Jesus? by Pastor Kevin Swanson
