Today in History - May 6

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

1542 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.

Recommended sermons: 

1. Devlish Claims of the DaVinci Code, by Rev. Ian Brown [Proverbs 12:19 (Audio)]
2. The Papacy: Its History and Nature, by Richard Bennett, a Former Catholic Priest
3. The Black Pope and His Murdermen, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014)

1659 – English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.

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:

1. Oliver Cromwell: Saint, Soldier, Statesmen, by Dr. Alan Cairns (Text: Hebrews 8)
2. Oliver Cromwell, by Dr. Peter Hammond
3. Oliver Cromwell and His Russet-Coated Heroes, by Bill Potter
4. The Life and Labors of Oliver Cromwell, by Rev. Colin Mercer
5. Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England, by Rev. Ian Goligher (Text: 1 Samuel 18:12)

1935 – New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.[6]

Recommended podcast: Texas Power, Green New Deal, Paris Climate Accord & Agenda 2030, by Jim Schneider of Crosstalk America

2010 – In just 36 minutes, the Dow-Jones average plunged nearly 1,000 points in what is known as the 2010 Flash Crash.

Michael Burry saw the financial meltdown of 2008 coming. The book The Big Short tells the story. The following quotes are from The Big Short, which told the story of the financial meltdown in 2008 and who profited from it:
“Being short in 2007 and making money from it was fun, because we were short bad guys. In 2008 it was the entire financial system that was at risk. We were still short, but you don’t want the system to crash. It's sort of like the flood’s about to happen, and you’re Noah. You’re on the ark, ya, you’re okay, but you’re not happy looking out at the flood. That’s not a happy moment for Noah.”

Second quote: “In early October 2008 after the U.S. government had stepped in to say it would...absorb all the losses in the financial system and prevent any big Wall Street firm from failing.”

Third quote: “Maybe the best definition of investing is gambling with the odds in your favor. The people on the short side of the subprime mortgage market had gambled with the odds in their favor. The people on the other side – the entire financial system, essentially – had gambled with the odds against them. What’s strange and complicated about it is that pretty much all the important people on both sides left the table rich.”

And the last quote: “The world’s most highly paid financiers had been totally discredited; without government intervention, every single one of them would have lost his job. And yet those same financiers were using the government to enrich themselves. I can understand why Goldman Sachs would want to be included in the conversation about what to do about Wall Street. What I can’t understand is why anyone would listen to them”