Monday, November 17, 2025

Today in History - November 18

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

1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.

Recommended sermons and podcasts: What if Ezra Had a Smartphone? by Pastor Joel Overduin [Text: Ezra 7:10: "For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments."]

1978 – In Jonestown, GuyanaJim Jones leads his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.

Recommended sermons and podcasts: The Jim Jones Cult - An Education on Cults, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

2003 – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4–3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.

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