Monday, October 21, 2024

Today in History - October 22

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

1724J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul) in Leipzig on the 20th Sunday after Trinity, based on the communion hymn of the same name.[5]

Recommended sermons and podcasts: How We Got from Bach to Rape Rap - Worldview and Music, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

1790Northwest Indian War: Native American forces defeat the United States, ending the Harmar Campaign.[6]

Recommended sermons and podcasts: 

1844 – The Millerites (followers of Baptist preacher William Miller) anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day becomes known as the Great Disappointment.

Recommended sermons and podcasts: Cult of Ellen G White, by Larry Wessels

1962Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.

Recommended reading: 95 Years Ago, The USSR Was Formed. Let's Look at the Numbers - dailycaller.com

Excerpt from this article: "According to “The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression,” a text considered the standard recollection of the USSR’s atrocities, 20 million perished as a result of Stalin’s targeted killings, forced labor, famine, and collectivization. These numbers were confirmed by a major Soviet newspaper in 1989...An estimate cited by the libertarian magazine Reason puts the total number of people killed because of communism from 1900 to 2000 at a staggering 94 million — making it by far the bloodiest ideology in recent history."
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For further study...

  1. I Feel Like Communism is Better - Millennial Worldviews (Podcast), by Pastor Kevin Swanson
  2. Cuba, Castro, and Communism (Podcast), by Dr. Peter Hammond
2019Same-sex marriage is legalized, and abortion is decriminalized in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored.[14]

Recommended sermons and podcasts: 

Meet the Richest Men and Woman in the U.S., and the Rest of the Top 50 Women

  Ranking the 15 Richest Men in America (and Jeff Bezos is not #1) - msn.com Meet the Richest Woman in the U.S., and the Rest of the Top 50...