What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
– Augustine of Hippo (354-430AD)
Day: April 28, 2012
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On This Day: April 28
Updated April 27, 2012, 2:28 pm
On April 28, 1947, a six-man expedition sailed from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia.
Go to article »On April 28, 1878, Lionel Barrymore, who was one of the most important American character actors in the early 1900s, was born. Following his death on Nov. 15, 1954, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
By The Associated Press
1788 Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1789 The crew of the British ship Bounty mutineed, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. 1937 Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was born near the desert town of Tikrit. 1945 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed. 1947 A six-man expedition sailed from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia. 1967 Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army. 1980 Secretary of State Cyrus Vance resigned over his opposition to the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing American hostages in Iran. 1990 The musical “A Chorus Line” closed after 6,137 performances on Broadway. 1994 Former CIA official Aldrich Ames, who had betrayed U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, pleaded guilty to espionage and tax evasion and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. 1996 President Bill Clinton gave 4 1/2 hours of videotaped testimony as a defense witness in the criminal trial of his former Whitewater business partners. 2001 A Russian rocket lifted off from Central Asia bearing the first space tourist, California businessman Dennis Tito. 2003 Apple Computer Inc. launched the iTunes store. 2004 The first photos of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal were shown on CBS’ “60 Minutes II.” 2009 Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party. 2011 President Barack Obama reshuffled his national security team, with CIA Director Leon Panetta succeeding Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Gen. David Petraeus replacing Panetta at the CIA. 2011 Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted in California in 1991 at age 11 and rescued 18 years later. (The Garridos were sentenced to up to life in prison.) Current Birthdays
By The Associated Press
Actress Penelope Cruz turns 38 years old today.
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Talk show host Jay Leno (“The Tonight Show”) turns 62 years old today.
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1926 Harper Lee, Author (“To Kill a Mockingbird”), turns 86 1930 James A. Baker III, Former secretary of state, turns 82 1941 Ann-Margret, Singer, actress, turns 71 1948 Marcia Strassman, Actress (“Welcome Back, Kotter”), turns 64 1949 Paul Guilfoyle, Actor (“CSI”), turns 63 1953 Kim Gordon, Rock musician (Sonic Youth), turns 59 1953 Mary McDonnell, Actress, turns 59 1960 Elena Kagan, Supreme Court justice, turns 52 1964 Barry Larkin, Baseball player, turns 48 1966 John Daly, Golfer, turns 46 1973 Jorge Garcia, Actor (“Lost”), turns 39 1973 Elisabeth Rohm, Actress (“Law and Order”), turns 39 1978 Nate Richert, Actor (“Sabrina the Teenage Witch”), turns 34 1981 Jessica Alba, Actress (“Dark Angel”), turns 31 1982 Harry Shum Jr., Actor (“Glee”), turns 30 1986 Jenna Ushkowitz, Actress (“Glee”), turns 26
Historic Birthdays
Lionel Barrymore 4/28/1878 – 11/15/1954 American stage and screen character actor.Go to obituary »
73 James Monroe 4/28/1758 – 7/4/1831
5th president of the United States (1817-25)47 Marie-Joseph Chenier 4/28/1764 – 1/10/1811
French poet, dramatist, politician and revolutionary75 Tobias Asser 4/28/1838 – 7/29/1913
Dutch jurist; won Nobel Prize for Peace (1911) for his role in The Hague treaties58 Erich Salomon 4/28/1886 – 7/7/1944
German photographer; a founder of photojournalism77 Johan Borgen 4/28/1902 – 10/16/1979
Norwegian novelist, dramatist, essayist and short-story writer77 Bart Jan Bok 4/28/1906 – 8/7/1983
Dutch-born American astronomer; expert on the Milky Way72 Kurt Godel 4/28/1906 – 1/14/1978
Austrian-born American mathematician and logician77 Ferruccio Lamborghini 4/28/1916 – 2/20/1993
Italian car manufacturer53 Carolyn Jones 4/28/1930 – 8/3/1983
American motion-picture, television and stage actress
April 28
MORNING
“Thou art my hope in the day of evil.”
Jeremiah 17:17The path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his seasons of darkness and of storm. True, it is written in God’s Word, “Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace;” and it is a great truth, that religion is calculated to give a man happiness below as well as bliss above; but experience tells us that if the course of the just be “As the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day,” yet sometimes that light is eclipsed. At certain periods clouds cover the believer’s sun, and he walks in darkness and sees no light. There are many who have rejoiced in the presence of God for a season; they have basked in the sunshine in the earlier stages of their Christian career; they have walked along the “green pastures” by the side of the “still waters,” but suddenly they find the glorious sky is clouded; instead of the Land of Goshen they have to tread the sandy desert; in the place of sweet waters, they find troubled streams, bitter to their taste, and they say, “Surely, if I were a child of God, this would not happen.” Oh! say not so, thou who art walking in darkness. The best of God’s saints must drink the wormwood; the dearest of his children must bear the cross. No Christian has enjoyed perpetual prosperity; no believer can always keep his harp from the willows. Perhaps the Lord allotted you at first a smooth and unclouded path, because you were weak and timid. He tempered the wind to the shorn lamb, but now that you are stronger in the spiritual life, you must enter upon the riper and rougher experience of God’s full-grown children. We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.
EVENING
“The Lord taketh pleasure in his people.”
Psalm 149:4How comprehensive is the love of Jesus! There is no part of his people’s interests which he does not consider, and there is nothing which concerns their welfare which is not important to him. Not merely does he think of you, believer, as an immortal being, but as a mortal being too. Do not deny it or doubt it: “The very hairs of your head are all numbered.” “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.” It were a sad thing for us if this mantle of love did not cover all our concerns, for what mischief might be wrought to us in that part of our business which did not come under our gracious Lord’s inspection! Believer, rest assured that the heart of Jesus cares about your meaner affairs. The breadth of his tender love is such that you may resort to him in all matters; for in all your afflictions he is afflicted, and like as a father pitieth his children, so doth he pity you. The meanest interests of all his saints are all borne upon the broad bosom of the Son of God. Oh, what a heart is his, that doth not merely comprehend the persons of his people, but comprehends also the diverse and innumerable concerns of all those persons! Dost thou think, O Christian, that thou canst measure the love of Christ? Think of what his love has brought thee–justification, adoption, sanctification, eternal life! The riches of his goodness are unsearchable; thou shalt never be able to tell them out or even conceive them. Oh, the breadth of the love of Christ! Shall such a love as this have half our hearts? Shall it have a cold love in return? Shall Jesus’ marvellous lovingkindness and tender care meet with but faint response and tardy acknowledgment? O my soul, tune thy harp to a glad song of thanksgiving! Go to thy rest rejoicing, for thou art no desolate wanderer, but a beloved child, watched over, cared for, supplied, and defended by thy Lord.
