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31 March 1492 A.D. Ferdinand and Isabella’s Edict Against the Jews Editors. “Ferdinand and Isabella’s Edict Against Jews.” Christianity.com. May 2007. http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1201-1500/ferdinand-and-isabellas-edict-against-jews-11629894.html . Accessed 30 Mar 2015 The year 1492 is most often associated with Columbus and his discovery of America. But another event of tragic proportions developed that year. It gave the world the Sephardic Jews (so called because Sepharadh was a region of Spain where many Jews had settled). By 1492, Spain, under Ferdinand and Isabella had just emerged as a defender of the Roman Catholic faith. The marriage of the two rulers eventually united Aragon and Castile, although while she lived, Isabella did not yield her authority to her husband. In Granada, the pair defeated the Islamic Moors, who had long controlled Spain. Spurred on by the cruel Grand Inquisitor Torquemada, Ferdinand and Isabella felt they mu...

30 March 2015 A.D.   Muhammad Sven Kalisch: Quotations on Islam from Notable Non-Muslims Besides Muhammed Sven Kalisch, there are 88 additional quotes from other leaders regarding Jihadi-Reprobates, see:   http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2014/08/25-august-2014-ad-quotations-on-islam_25.html Muhammad Sven Kalisch Muhammad Sven Kalisch is a Professor at Münster University, one of Germany's oldest and most respected universities. In 2004 he went on to become Germany's first ever professor of Islamic theology. “ I said to myself: You've dealt with Christianity and Judaism but what about your own religion? Can you take it for granted that Muhammad existed? ... The more I read, the historical person at the root of the whole thing became more and more improbable. [82] “With regard to the historical existence of Muhammad ... I consider my position simply as a continuation of the most recent research results. It appears so spectacular only because it has ...

30 March 2014 A.D.   Black Death Skeletons in London Editors. “ Black Death Skeletons in London.”   Today in British History. 30 Mar 2014. http://todayinbritishhistory.com/2014/03/black-death-skeletons/ .   Accessed 3 Feb 2015. http://todayinbritishhistory.com/page/4/ <script height="478px" width="849px" src="http://player.ooyala.com/iframe.js#ec=w2NWFnbDrJ3N4mnB2gso1KCBLVF1SxUB&pbid=7dfd98005dba40baacc82277f292e522"></script> Recent forensic tests conducted on the skeletons unearthed during the London Crossrail project have revealed that the skeletons were victims of the 14th century Black Death. In all, 25 skeletons were unearthed from a 5.5m shaft beneath Charterhouse Square in March 2013. The burial site of the Black Death skeletons, found during Crossrail construction. Samples taken from 12 of the skeletons revealed that four of them contained traces of the DNA of the  Yersinia pestis,  evidence that the medi...

30 March 1981 A.D. President Reagan Shot in the Chest by John Hinckley Editors. “President Reagan Shot.” History. 2009. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-reagan-shot .   Accessed 27 Mar 2015. On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr. The president had just finished addressing a labor meeting at the Washington Hilton Hotel and was walking with his entourage to his limousine when Hinckley, standing among a group of reporters, fired six shots at the president, hitting Reagan and three of his attendants. White House Press Secretary James Brady was shot in the head and critically wounded, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy was shot in the side, and District of Columbia policeman Thomas Delahaney was shot in the neck. After firing the shots, Hinckley was overpowered and pinned against a wall, and President Reagan, apparently unaware that he’d been s...

USS Darter (SS-227) 30 March 1944 A.D. BIG DAY FOR SUBS: USS DARTER (SS-227) Drops Jap Cargo Ship; USS PICUDA (SS-382) Drops Jap Troop Transport Ship Near Guam; USS STINGRAY (SS0186) Drops Jap Troop Transport Near Saipan http://www.navy.mil/search/display_history.asp 1944 - Task Force 58 begins bombing of Japanese airfields, shipping, fleet servicing facilities, and other installations at Palau, Yap, Ulithi, and Woleai in the Carolines. 1944 - USS Darter (SS 227) sinks a Japanese army cargo ship near New Guinea, despite the presence of an escort vessel. Also on this date, USS Picuda (SS 382) attacks a Japanese convoy and sinks a transport ship near Guam while USS Stingray (SS 186) sinks a transport ship near Saipan. 1953 - During the Korean War, five enemy guns in the Wonsan area fire about 20 rounds at USS Prichett (DD 561), falling about 150 yards short. Prichett silences the enemy guns with counterbattery fire. 1973 - USS Forrestal (CVA 59) and Sixth Fleet ships p...

30 March 1927 A.D. “My Idea of God” by J. Gresham Machen The PCA historians tell the story at: http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2014/03/march-30-my-idea-of-god-by-j-gresham-machen/      30 March, 2014 Not a sermon for this Lord’s Day, but rather a testimony, this is one of Dr. Machen’s lesser known works. This brief testimony, titled “My Idea of God,” appeared in a book of the same name, a gathering of statements largely philosophical, which only served to make Machen’s testimony stand out all the more. Editor’s preface:— JOHN GRESHAM MACHEN was born in Baltimore in 1881. After graduating from Johns Hopkins and Princeton Universities and the Princeton Theological Seminary, he studied in Marburg and Gottingen Universities, and was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1914. Since 1914 he has been associate professor of New Testament literature in Princeton Seminary, doing work betimes with the French Army and the A.E.F., in France and Belgium...

30 March 1870 A.D. 15 th Amendment Adopted—Grants Rights to Vote for African or Black Americans Editors. “15 th Amendment adopted.” History. 2009. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/15th-amendment-adopted . Accessed 27 Mar 2015. Following its ratification by the requisite three-fourths of the states, the 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution. Passed by Congress the year before, the amendment reads, “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” One day after it was adopted, Thomas Peterson-Mundy of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, became the first African American to vote under the authority of the 15th Amendment. In 1867, the Republican-dominated Congress passed the First Reconstruction Act, over President Andrew Johnson’s veto, dividing the South into five ...