1512 After four years of work, Michelangelo opens the Sistine Chapel ceiling to public view on All Saints Day. His work covers a 5,800-square-feet surface.
1716 John Gill, who will become a leading Baptist pastor in England, makes his confession of faith and is baptized.
1755 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Portugal.
1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
1815 Baptism of Edward Mote at eighteen years of age, who will write the hymn “My Hope is Built on Nothing Less.”
1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris.
1914 Beginning of the Apostolic Church of Faith in Jesus Christ when Romana Carbajal de Valenzuela, who had become Pentecostal in the Azusa Street Revival, convinces twelve Mexicans in her hometown of Chihuahua to adopt her teachings, including baptism in the name of Jesus only.
1916 Paul Miliukov delivers in the Russian State Duma the famous “stupidity or treason” speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
1926 Russian evangelists Ivan Prokhanov and Peter Deyneka meet in New York. The two will work closely to win East Europeans for Christ.
1952 “Ivy Mike”, the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean.
1990 China Cry premieres in Hollywood. It is the miracle-filled story of Nora Lam (Neng Yee), persecuted for her Christian faith in China but able to escape to Hong Kong and later to evangelize in the West and among her own people.
2012 Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe’s first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang.
Today’s Historical Events
Today in Film & TV
1997 “Titanic” directed by James Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet premieres at the Tokyo International Film Festival (Academy Awards Best Picture 1998)
Today in Music
1969 The Beatles’ “Abbey Road” album goes #1 in US & stays #1 for 11 weeks
Today in Sport
1950 Celtics’ forward Chuck Cooper becomes first African American to play in the NBA in Boston’s 107-84 loss at Fort Wayne Pistons; future Hall of Famer Bob Cousy also debuts for Celtics
Do you know this fact about today? Did You Know?
First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game), on this day in 1834
Would you believe this fact about today? Would You Believe?
Montreal Canadiens’ goal tender Jacques Plante becomes first NHL net-minder to wear a fibreglass protective face mask, on this day in 1959
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