Thursday, July 28, 2022

Today in History - July 29

 587 BC - The Neo-Babylonian Empire sack Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple  (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The Destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC, by Dr. Neal Hegeman [Text: Zephaniah 2:3; Zephaniah 3:12

1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The Colonial Wars of America and Providential Significance, by Historian Bill Potter

1965 - Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay (Source)Here is what Ann Coulter has to say about the Vietnam War:

"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."

1987 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France Fracois Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

A Tribute to Baroness Margaret Thatcher, by Dr. Peter Hammond

Margaret Thatcher quote:

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." (Source unknown)

How I Found Christ?

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