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Updated May 21, 2012, 2:28 pm
On May 22, 1947, the Truman Doctrine was enacted as Congress appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey.
Go to article »On May 22, 1859, Arthur Conan Doyle, the British writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, was born. Following his death on July 7, 1930, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
By The Associated Press
1813 Composer Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany. 1859 Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Canon Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. 1861 In what is generally regarded as the first Union combat fatality of the Civil War, Pvt. Thornsbury Bailey Brown was shot and killed by a Confederate soldier at Fetterman Bridge in present-day West Virginia. 1868 The Great Train Robbery took place near Marshfield, Ind., as seven members of the Reno gang made off with $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds. 1907 Actor Laurence Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England. 1947 The Truman Doctrine was enacted as Congress appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey. 1960 A magnitude 9.5 earthquake, the strongest on record, struck southern Chile. Approximately 1,655 people were killed and 3,000 injured. 1972 The island nation of Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka with the adoption of a new constitution. 1990 North Yemen and South Yemen merged to form the Republic of Yemen. 1992 Johnny Carson hosted NBC’s “Tonight Show” for the last time after nearly 30 years in the job. 1998 Voters in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland cast ballots giving resounding approval to a Northern Ireland peace accord. 2002 A jury in Birmingham, Ala., convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry of murder in a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls. 2002 The remains of Chandra Levy, a federal intern who had beem more than a year, were found in a Washington, D.C., park. (An illegal immigrant from El Salvador was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to 60 years in prison.) 2011 A tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., claiming at least 159 lives and destroying about 8,000 homes and businesses. Current Birthdays
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Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens turns today.
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Speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno turns today.
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1922 Judith Crist, Film critic, turns 90 1938 Richard Benjamin, Actor, director, turns 74 1940 Bernard Shaw, Broadcast journalist, turns 72 1950 Bernie Taupin, Songwriter, turns 62 1957 Lisa Murkowski, U.S. senator, R-Alaska, turns 55 1959 Morrissey, Rock singer, turns 53 1961 Ann Cusack, Actress, turns 51 1970 Naomi Campbell, Model, turns 42 1972 Anna Belknap, Actress (“CSI: NY”), turns 40 1972 Alison Eastwood, Actress, director, turns 40 1978 Ginnifer Goodwin, Actress (“Big Love”), turns 34 1979 Maggie Q, Actress, turns 33 1987 Novak Djokovic, Tennis player, turns 25
Historic Birthdays
Arthur Conan Doyle 5/22/1859 – 7/7/1930 English writer.Go to obituary »
76 Louis de Buade Frontenac 5/22/1622 – 11/28/1698
French courtier and governor of New France (1672-82, 1689-98)77 Francois-Joachim Bernis 5/22/1717 – 11/3/1794
French statesman and cardinal69 Richard Wagner 5/22/1813 – 2/13/1883
German composer42 Albrecht von Grafe 5/22/1828 – 7/20/1870
German surgeon and pioneering ophthalmologist67 Catulle Mendes 5/22/1841 – 2/9/1909
French poet, playwright and novelist82 Mary Cassatt 5/22/1844 – 6/14/1926
American Impressionist painter and printmaker39 Giacomo Matteotti 5/22/1885 – 6/10/1924
Italian Socialist leader assassinated by the Fascists in 192467 Johannes Becher 5/22/1891 – 10/11/1958
German poet, critic, editor and government official82 Laurence Olivier 5/22/1907 – 7/11/1989
English stage and film actor, director and producer
MORNING
“The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me.”
Psalm 138:8Most manifestly the confidence which the Psalmist here expressed was a divine confidence. He did not say, “I have grace enough to perfect that which concerneth me–my faith is so steady that it will not stagger–my love is so warm that it will never grow cold–my resolution is so firm that nothing can move it”; no, his dependence was on the Lord alone. If we indulge in any confidence which is not grounded on the Rock of Ages, our confidence is worse than a dream, it will fall upon us, and cover us with its ruins, to our sorrow and confusion. All that Nature spins time will unravel, to the eternal confusion of all who are clothed therein. The Psalmist was wise, he rested upon nothing short of the Lord’s work. It is the Lord who has begun the good work within us; it is he who has carried it on; and if he does not finish it, it never will be complete. If there be one stitch in the celestial garment of our righteousness which we are to insert ourselves, then we are lost; but this is our confidence, the Lord who began will perfect. He has done it all, must do it all, and will do it all. Our confidence must not be in what we have done, nor in what we have resolved to do, but entirely in what the Lord will do. Unbelief insinuates–“You will never be able to stand. Look at the evil of your heart, you can never conquer sin; remember the sinful pleasures and temptations of the world that beset you, you will be certainly allured by them and led astray.” Ah! yes, we should indeed perish if left to our own strength. If we had alone to navigate our frail vessels over so rough a sea, we might well give up the voyage in despair; but, thanks be to God, he will perfect that which concerneth us, and bring us to the desired haven. We can never be too confident when we confide in him alone, and never too much concerned to have such a trust.
EVENING
“Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money.”
Isaiah 43:24Worshippers at the temple were wont to bring presents of sweet perfumes to be burned upon the altar of God: but Israel, in the time of her backsliding, became ungenerous, and made but few votive offerings to her Lord: this was an evidence of coldness of heart towards God and his house. Reader, does this never occur with you? Might not the complaint of the text be occasionally, if not frequently, brought against you? Those who are poor in pocket, if rich in faith, will be accepted none the less because their gifts are small; but, poor reader, do you give in fair proportion to the Lord, or is the widow’s mite kept back from the sacred treasury? The rich believer should be thankful for the talent entrusted to him, but should not forget his large responsibility, for where much is given much will be required; but, rich reader, are you mindful of your obligations, and rendering to the Lord according to the benefit received? Jesus gave his blood for us, what shall we give to him? We are his, and all that we have, for he has purchased us unto himself–can we act as if we were our own? O for more consecration! and to this end, O for more love! Blessed Jesus, how good it is of thee to accept our sweet cane bought with money! nothing is too costly as a tribute to thine unrivalled love, and yet thou dost receive with favour the smallest sincere token of affection! Thou dost receive our poor forget-me-nots and love-tokens as though they were intrinsically precious, though indeed they are but as the bunch of wild flowers which the child brings to its mother. Never may we grow niggardly towards thee, and from this hour never may we hear thee complain of us again for withholding the gifts of our love. We will give thee the first fruits of our increase, and pay thee tithes of all, and then we will confess “of thine own have we given thee.”
