Today in History - September 1

      A special thanks to Wikipedia.com for following historical information. The sermons I have chosen from Sermonaudio.com

1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.

Recommended sermons and podcasts: English Reformation: Anne Boleyn, by J.H. Merle D'Aubigne

1645 – English Civil War. Scottish Covenanter forces abandon their month-long Siege of Hereford, a Cavalier stronghold, on news of Royalist victories in Scotland.[7]

Recommended sermons and podcasts: Oliver Cromwell the Protector and the English Civil War, by Peter Hammond

1939 – J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder publish the Oppenheimer–Snyder model, proving for the first time in contemporary physics how black holes could develop.[16]

Recommended sermons and podcasts: 

• Oppenheimer, Trump and the Bomb - The Wrong Worldview, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
• Were the Atom Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Justified? by Peter Hammond
• Hiroshima, Scorched Earth, and Nuclear Warfare - Why We Don't Kill Women and Children, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

 The following quotes are from Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's book, Killing the Rising Sun:

1. "In the blast that follows, a fireball spreads out over the target zone. It travels at one hundred times the speed of sound, rendering it silent. One-millionth of a second later, the people of Hiroshima began to incinerate."
2. "But Enola Gay is safe. All twelve men on board are alive. In six hours they will celebrate with whiskey and lemonade and spend the night far from the hell they have just created."
3. "The next day the chilling results of what the young officer saw from the air are reported on Japanese radio: 'Practically all living things, human and animal, were literally seared to death."
4. "[President] Truman's face lights up. 'This is the greatest thing in history...'"
5. "'Thank God for the atomic bomb' is a common refrain among American soldiers and sailors, who have been dreading the blood-bath sure to come if American troops invade the beaches of Japan. To many of them, the bombing of civilians is not an issue - it's payback for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor."
6. "Oppenheimer soon leaves the stage, but not before bringing the house down with his final comment: 'My only regret is that we didn't develop the bomb in time to use it against the Germans.'"