Once Upon A Time – Jan. 15 – 1943 – World’s Largest Office Building, The Pentagon Is Completed To House The US Military

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588 BC Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah’s reign. The siege lasts until July 23, 586 BC.

1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church in England

1559 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey

1759 British Museum opens in Montague House, London

1902 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud leads 40 men over the walls of Riyadh and takes the city, marking the beginning of the Third Saudi State

1904 Chukwujindu “Sampson” Anene brings Christianity to his village of Ohita, Nigeria, which still practiced traditional African religion. The first church service is held in the shade of a big tree in the center of the town. He will see most of his generation converted, establish churches, and start schools.

1910 Alice Wood, a Canadian Methodist Holiness missionary, arrives in Argentina where she will become one of the first missionaries to establish a permanent Pentecostal presence in Buenos Aires. By about the middle of the twentieth century, Pentecostals will have converted as many as one tenth of Argentina’s people.

1955 Stanley Tam, internationally successful Christian businessman, gives his business to God and will have legal documents drawn up confirming it.

1998 Passing on of Harold Lindsell at Lake Forest, California. A fundamentalist controversialist, he was well-known for his book The Battle for the Bible.

2001 Wikipedia a free Wiki or content encyclopedia is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger

2015 Muslims in Niger throw Molotov cocktails through the windows of sixty-eight churches, burning them to the ground in an effort to eliminate the Christian presence from the nation. The Christians, however, will regroup, pray for their attackers, and with the help of the Samaritan’s Purse organization rebuild fifty of their churches within two years, many of them stronger and in more defensible locations.

HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY

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1961 Berry Gordy signs The Supremes with Motown Records

1981 “Hill Street Blues” premieres on NBC-TV

TODAY IN SPORT

1892 Basketball rules first published in Triangle Magazine, written by James Naismith

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1943 World’s largest office building, the Pentagon is completed to house the US military

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1919 Two million gallons of molasses flood Boston Massachusetts in the “Great Molasses Flood” when a storage tank burst, drowning 21 and injuring 150

January 15 Is Armed Forces Remembrance Day In Nigeria