Posted 6:25pm CT Jan 19, 2008 in Minneapolis

Researched and written by Gloriscope staff

2004: Joan Kroc, widow of Ray Kroc, the “Hamburger King” who had built up McDonald’s, donated $1.5 billion to the Salvation Army, according to an announcement on that day.

1987: Terry Waite, a special envoy of the Church of England, was kidnapped in Lebanon while trying to negotiate a release of hostages held by the Islamic Jihad group. – He remained captive for 1,763 days, the first four years in total solitary confinement. He was released November 17, 1991.

1985: President Ronald Reagan invoked God with tenderness and idealism during his second inaugural address. – President Reagan said in his speech:

It is the American sound. It is hopeful, big-hearted, idealistic, daring, decent, and fair. That’s our heritage; that is our song. We sing it still. For all our problems, our differences, we are together as of old, as we raise our voices to the God who is the Author of this most tender music. And may He continue to hold us close as we fill the world with our sound—sound in unity, affection, and love—one people under God, dedicated to the dream of freedom that He has placed in the human heart, called upon now to pass that dream on to a waiting and hopeful world.

1981: President Ronald Reagan said in his inaugural address for his first presidential term: “We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free.”

1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his inaugural address that democracy rests on faith. – He also said that “we have no promise from God that our greatness will endure. We have been allowed by Him to seek greatness with the sweat of our hands and the strength of our spirit.”

1961: President John F. Kennedy said in his inaugural address that “the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.” – He ended his speech by saying that “here on earth God’s work must truly be our own”

1949: President Harry S. Truman invoked God in his inaugural address. – He said:

The American people stand firm in the faith which has inspired this Nation from the beginning. […] We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God. From this faith we will not be moved.” He added in the same speech: “Steadfast in our faith in the Almighty, we will advance toward a world where man’s freedom is secure.

1905: Revival spirit gripped thousands of people in Denver, Colorado. – Between noon and 2 p.m., thousands of people interrupted their worldly life, stopped shopping, and dedicated themselves to prayer and meditation, often at public meetings around the city. The Denver Post reported that it was possible to see “en entire great city, in the middle of a busy weekday, bowing before the throne of heaven and asking and receiving the blessings of the King of the Universe.”

1606: Death of the Italian Jesuit Alessandro Valignano, a Catholic missionary to Japan and the man who sent the Jesuit missionary and cartographer Matteo Ricci to his famous mission to the Emperor of China

250: Fabianus, the bishop of Rome, became a martyr for the Christian faith during the persecution of Christians under the Roman emperor Decius.

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