Today In History – Nov. 7 – Saying, “Heaven, Heaven, My True Home,” Chinese Convert Peter Wu Guosheng Is Executed

1492 Ensisheim Meteorite strikes a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact.

1814 Saying, “Heaven, heaven, my true home,” Chinese convert Peter Wu Guosheng is executed. He had led 128 family and friends to Christ.

1841 Marie Rafaravavy, a staunch Christian who had been severely persecuted and forced to flee Madagascar because of her faith, leaves England in the hope of returning to her homeland. Because persecution is ongoing, she will have to settle in Mauritania, where she will preach until she passed on seven years later.

1872 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later

1880 Baptism of twenty-year-old Edgar Young Mullins. At birth his parents had dedicated him to God, praying that he might become a minister; however he had not become a Christian until shortly before his baptism. He will go on to become a Baptist minister and president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, which he will greatly expand.

1931 Chinese People’s Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong

2000 Controversial US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore is inconclusive; the result, in Bush’s favor, is eventually resolved by the Supreme Court

2020 Former Vice-President Joe Biden declared the winner of the US Presidential race, four days after the US election, defeating sitting President Donald Trump

Today’s Historical Events
Today in Film & TV
1932 1st broadcast of “Buck Rogers in the 25th century” on CBS-radio

Today in Music
1786 The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded in Boston, Massachusetts as the Stoughton Musical Society

Today in Sport
1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from LA Lakers

Do you know this fact about today? Did You Know?
1874 – 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast

Would you believe this fact about today? Would You Believe?
2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas