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Updated April 24, 2012, 2:28 pm
On April 25, 1945, the United Nations Conference on International Organization began in San Francisco.
Go to article »On April 25, 1908, Edward R. Murrow, the influential American radio and television broadcaster during the industry’s early years, was born. Following his death on April 27, 1965, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1792 Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by guillotine. 1859 Ground was broken for the Suez Canal. 1874 Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy. 1898 The United States declared war on Spain. 1901 New York became the first state to require automobile license plates. 1915 Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Turkish Empire out of World War I. 1945 U.S. and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, in central Europe, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany. 1945 Delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations. 1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping. 1972 Polaroid Corp. introduced its SX-70 folding camera, which ejected self-developing photographs. 1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was inaugurated as president of Nicaragua, ending 11 years of leftist Sandinista rule. 1990 The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the space shuttle Discovery. 1992 Islamic forces took control of most of the Afghan capital Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government. 2007 The Dow Jones industrial average topped 13,000 for the first time, ending the day at 13,089.89. 2011 President Bashar Assad of Syria sent the military into the southern city of Daraa, where an anti-government uprising had begun the previous month. Current Birthdays
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Actor Al Pacino turns 72 years old today.
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Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. turns 70 years old today.
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1930 Paul Mazursky, Actor, director, turns 82 1932 Meadowlark Lemon, Basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), turns 80 1945 Bjorn Ulvaeus, Singer (ABBA), turns 67 1946 Talia Shire, Actress, turns 66 1964 Hank Azaria, Actor, turns 48 1967 Jane Clayson, TV host, turns 45 1969 Gina Torres, Actress, turns 43 1969 Renee Zellweger, Actress, turns 43 1970 Jason Lee, Actor (“My Name is Earl”), turns 42 1976 Tim Duncan, Basketball player, turns 36 1988 Sara Paxton, Actress, turns 24
Historic Birthdays
Edward R. Murrow 4/25/1908 – 4/27/1965 American radio and television broadcaster.Go to obituary »
59 Oliver Cromwell 4/25/1599 – 9/3/1658
English soldier and statesman; Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (1653-8)53 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky 4/25/1840(O.S.) – 10/25/1893(O.S.)
Russian composer90 John Frank Stevens 4/25/1853 – 6/2/1943
American chief civil engineer of the Panama Canal (1905-7)89 Howard Garis 4/25/1873 – 11/6/1962
American creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children’s stories63 Guglielmo Marconi 4/25/1874 – 7/20/1937
Italian Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor (1909)58 Wolfgang Pauli 4/25/1900 – 12/15/1958
Austrian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1945)91 William Brennan 4/25/1906 – 7/24/1997
American associate justice of the Supreme Court (1956-90)82 Claude Mauriac 4/25/1914 – 3/22/1996
French novelist, journalist and critic79 Ella Fitzgerald 4/25/1917 – 6/15/1996
American jazz singer
MORNING
“This do in remembrance of me.”
1 Corinthians 11:24It seems then, that Christians may forget Christ! There could be no need for this loving exhortation, if there were not a fearful supposition that our memories might prove treacherous. Nor is this a bare supposition: it is, alas! too well confirmed in our experience, not as a possibility, but as a lamentable fact. It appears almost impossible that those who have been redeemed by the blood of the dying Lamb, and loved with an everlasting love by the eternal Son of God, should forget that gracious Saviour; but, if startling to the ear, it is, alas! too apparent to the eye to allow us to deny the crime. Forget him who never forgot us! Forget him who poured his blood forth for our sins! Forget him who loved us even to the death! Can it be possible? Yes, it is not only possible, but conscience confesses that it is too sadly a fault with all of us, that we suffer him to be as a wayfaring man tarrying but for a night. He whom we should make the abiding tenant of our memories is but a visitor therein. The cross where one would think that memory would linger, and unmindfulness would be an unknown intruder, is desecrated by the feet of forgetfulness. Does not your conscience say that this is true? Do you not find yourselves forgetful of Jesus? Some creature steals away your heart, and you are unmindful of him upon whom your affection ought to be set. Some earthly business engrosses your attention when you should fix your eye steadily upon the cross. It is the incessant turmoil of the world, the constant attraction of earthly things which takes away the soul from Christ. While memory too well preserves a poisonous weed, it suffereth the rose of Sharon to wither. Let us charge ourselves to bind a heavenly forget-me-not about our hearts for Jesus our Beloved, and, whatever else we let slip, let us hold fast to him.
EVENING
“Blessed is he that watcheth.”
Revelation 16:15“We die daily,” said the apostle. This was the life of the early Christians; they went everywhere with their lives in their hands. We are not in this day called to pass through the same fearful persecutions: if we were, the Lord would give us grace to bear the test; but the tests of Christian life, at the present moment, though outwardly not so terrible, are yet more likely to overcome us than even those of the fiery age. We have to bear the sneer of the world–that is little; its blandishments, its soft words, its oily speeches, its fawning, its hypocrisy, are far worse. Our danger is lest we grow rich and become proud, lest we give ourselves up to the fashions of this present evil world, and lose our faith. Or if wealth be not the trial, worldly care is quite as mischievous. If we cannot be torn in pieces by the roaring lion, if we may be hugged to death by the bear, the devil little cares which it is, so long as he destroys our love to Christ, and our confidence in him. I fear me that the Christian church is far more likely to lose her integrity in these soft and silken days than in those rougher times. We must be awake now, for we traverse the enchanted ground, and are most likely to fall asleep to our own undoing, unless our faith in Jesus be a reality, and our love to Jesus a vehement flame. Many in these days of easy profession are likely to prove tares, and not wheat; hypocrites with fair masks on their faces, but not the true-born children of the living God. Christian, do not think that these are times in which you can dispense with watchfulness or with holy ardour; you need these things more than ever, and may God the eternal Spirit display his omnipotence in you, that you may be able to say, in all these softer things, as well as in the rougher, “We are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”
