July 10
1584 - William of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gerard (Source)
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1645 - English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
I think it was Oliver Cromwell who said:
"You need not hope in order to undertake, and you need not succeed in order to persevere." The following sermons and podcasts are on Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War:
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Centenary of Northern Ireland, by Dr. Ian Brown [Text: Deuteronomy 16]
1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act (Source)
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July 11
1576 - While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existing) island of Frisland (Source)
Recommended missionary hymn:
From Greenland's IFrom Greenland's Ice Mountains
1922 - The Hollywood Bowl opens (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts
Should Christians Watch Movies? by Dr. David P. Murray
"And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, my people, that ye be not partaker of her sins, and that ye share not in her plagues."