Midnight Musings

to stop.

to take a moment and affirm “Alhamdulillah” for indeed all praise is due to Allah.

to count your blessings, renew your intentions, and face tomorrow’s adversities with courage and patience. 

to relinquish all your anxieties because insha’Allah everything is going to be alright.

to remember that now’s as good a time as ever.

mohandasgandhi:

Oh, not too much… just:

• Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace in 1968.
• Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office, beating Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie in 1940.
• Ella Grasso of Connecticut became the first woman elected governor in the United States without succeeding her husband in 1974.
• President Bill Clinton won a second term over former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole in 1996.
• Walter E. Washington, became the 1st elected mayor of Washington D.C. in 1974.
• Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn, New York, becomes the first elected African American woman to serve in the House of Representatives in 1968.
• Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity in 2006.
• A shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas left 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was charged with premeditated murder and attempted murder for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base in 2009.
• Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in a presidential election in 1872.  She never paid.
• ATS-3 was launched by the United States to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk in 1967.
• Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moved overland to Dryden in 1983.
• Space probe Ulyssus completed 1st passage behind the Sun in 1994.
• STS-73 (Columbia 18), landed in 1995.
• Iranian Prime Minister Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigned to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1978.
• The Iranian government of Bazargan resigns in 1979.
• United States troops conquered Loc Ninh South Vietnam in 1967.
• Yemen president Abdullah as-Sallal flees the country in 1967.
• Afghanistan surrenders to the British army in 1840.
• General John Pershing leads U.S. troops into the first American action against German forces in 1917.
• Hitler informs his military leaders of his intentions of going to war in 1937.
• German troops blew up Heusden North Brabant city hall, killing 134 people in 1944.
• A single British plane dropped four bombs on the Vatican, destroying a mosaic studio near the Vatican railway station and breaking the windows of the high cupola of St. Peter’s, and nearly destroying Vatican Radio in 1943.
• Lord Moyne, a British official, was assassinated by the Zionist Stern gang in Cairo, Egypt in 1944.
• Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel Babbit in 1930.
• Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly in 1937.
• Supreme Court decision (Buchanan vs. Warley) strikes down Lousiville Kentucky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas in 1917.
• Chairman Henry Hyde of the Judiciary Committee asked President Clinton to answer 81 questions for the House impeachment inquiry in 1998.
• Arizona, Kansas and Wisconsin vote for female suffrage in 1912.
• Utah accepts female suffrage in 1895.
• Emperor Wilhelm II and French Jozef I establishes kingdom of Poland in 1916.
• Calbraith Rodgers arrived in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight in 1911.  He left Sheepshead Bay, New York on September 17th.
• Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation in 1838.
• French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law in 1789.
• The 1st post office in the United States colonies is set up in Massachusetts in 1639.
• In California, a grizzly bear underwent a successful cataract operation at the Zoological Garden in 1844.
• In South Africa, Goban Mbeki was released after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison in 1987. He had been sentenced to life for treason against the white minority government of South Africa.
• Scientists published a genetic study that showed strong evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child (Eston Hemings) of his slave, Sally Hemings in 1998.
• Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Kach movement, was shot to death after a speech at a New York Hotel in 1990. His assassin, Egyptian El Sayyid, was later convicted of the murder and was sentenced to life in prison for his part in the World Trade Center bombing.
• Malice Green, a black motorist, was beaten to death in Detroit during a struggle with police in 1992. Two officers were later convicted in his death and sentenced to prison. 
• Tropical Storm Thelma caused severe and massive floods in the Philippines, killing nearly 3,000 people in 1991.