(1 Thess. 5:17)
The Red Cross is recruiting additional volunteers to help
areas impacted by recent major hurricanes.
Training is at the Red Cross Portland, Oregon office on
North Vancouver Avenue from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(1 Thess. 5:17)
The Red Cross is recruiting additional volunteers to help
areas impacted by recent major hurricanes.
Training is at the Red Cross Portland, Oregon office on
North Vancouver Avenue from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Naval School was founded in Annapolis, Maryland in the wake
of a shocking scandal at sea on this day in history, Oct. 10, 1845.
The renowned military institute was renamed the U.S. Naval
Academy in 1850.
The school was established following the discovery of a planned
mutiny on the Atlantic Ocean aboard U.S. Navy brig Somers.
U.S. Naval Academy in 1853.
The 17th U.S. Secretary of the Navy
(1845 – 1846)
Civil War hero Admiral David Dixon Porter
became superintendent in 1865.
USS Constitution and Santee tied up in the background.
Other ships not identified.
Reeve’s wife, Dana, was by his side until his death.
Reeve’s widow, Dana Reeve, headed the Christopher Reeve Foundation after his death. Although a non-smoker, she
was diagnosed with lung cancer on August 9, 2005. She
died at age 44 on March 6, 2006, and the foundation was subsequently renamed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. All Reeve’s children serve on the board of
directors of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.
German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving
1,200 Jews from the Holocaust, died of liver failure on 9
October 1974 at the age of 66.
A member of the Nazi Party, he ran an enamel-works factory
in Krakow during the German occupation of Poland, employing
workers from the nearby Jewish ghetto.
When the ghetto was liquidated, he persuaded Nazi officials to
allow the transfer of his workers to the Plaszow labor camp,
thus saving them from deportation to the death camps.
In 1944, all Jews at Plaszow were sent to Auschwitz, but
Schindler, at great risk to himself, bribed officials into
allowing him to keep his workers and set up a factory in
a safer location in occupied Czechoslovakia. By the war’s
end, he was penniless, but he had saved many Jewish lives.
Schindler’s factory in Kraków, 2011.
Schindler’s grave in Jerusalem. The Hebrew inscription
reads: "Righteous Among the Nations"; the German
inscription reads: "The Unforgettable Lifesaver of 1200 Persecuted Jews."
Schindler’s memorial in Svitavy, Czech Republic, his
birthplace.