On February 28, 1983, the celebrated sitcom M*A*S*H bowed
out after 11 seasons, airing a special two-and-a-half hour
episode watched by 77 percent of the television viewing
audience. It was the largest percentage ever to watch a
single TV show up to that time.
On February 27, 1980, the long-lost glasses of rocker Buddy
Holly, who died in a deadly plane crash in 1959, were found—
filed away in a manila envelope in a court clerk’s office marked
"Charles Harden Holly".
That envelope was opened by Sheriff Jerry Allen. The glasses
were eventually returned to Holly’s widow.
A Beechcraft Bonanza carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens
and “The Big Bopper” Richardson, crashed outside Clear
Lake, Iowa, in the early morning hours of February 3, 1959.
Chafer was born in Rock Creek, Ohio.
Chafer was a theologian who co-founded Dallas Theological
Seminary with his older brother Rollin Thomas Chafer (1868–
1940), served as its first president, and was an influential
proponent of Christian Dispensationalism in the early 20th
century.
John Hannah described Chafer as a visionary Bible teacher,
a minister of the gospel, a man of prayer with strong piety.
One of his students, Charles Caldwell Ryrie, who went on to
become a theologian and scholar, stated that Chafer was an
evangelist who was also "an eminent theologian."
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Systematic Theology 8 volume set.
At 12:18 p.m., a terrorist bomb exploded in a parking garage of
the World Trade Center in New York City, leaving a massive,
multi-story crater and causing the collapse of several steel-
reinforced concrete floors in the vicinity of the blast.
Although the terrorist bomb failed to critically damage the main
structure of the skyscrapers, six people were killed and more
than 1,000 were injured, many severe.
The World Trade Center itself suffered more than $500 million in
damage. After the attack, authorities evacuated 50,000 people
from the buildings, hundreds of whom were suffering from
smoke inhalation. The evacuation lasted the whole afternoon.
Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Mississippi,
was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African
American ever to sit in Congress.
During the Civil War, Revels, a college-educated minister,
helped form African American army regiments for the Union
cause, started a school for freed men, and served as a
chaplain for the Union army.
Hiram Rhodes Revels (
September 27, 1827 – January 16, 1901)
Hiram Rhodes Revels bust by Edmond’s Bob Willis.
