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American History, June Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen June 24, 1803 Signer Matthew Thornton passed away Matthew Thornton (1714 – June 24, 1803), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New...Read more... Read more... -->

June Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen June 19, 1811 Samuel Chase, signer of the Declaration of Independence, passed away Samuel Chase (April 17, 1741 – June 19, 1811) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and earlier was a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland. Early in life, Chase was a "firebrand" states-righter and...Read more... Read more... -->

American History, Christian History, June Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen June 19, 1794 Richard Henry Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, passed away Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794) was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and his famous resolution of June 1776 led to the United States Declaration of Independence, which Lee...Read more... Read more... -->

Christian Calendar (Holidays), June

Listen June 19, 1910 First Father's Day observance Father's Day in America arose as a response of one Christian effort to another Christian effort. Early in the twentieth century, Anna Jarvis, with the help of fellow evangelical Christian, John Wanamaker, initiated Mother's Day in response to the Christian life and service of Anna's mother, Ann Jarvis. Influenced by the raise of Mother's Day, Sonora Smart Dodd initiated the first attempts to formally establish a day to recognize the importance of fathers in the life of the family. This first observance occurred in Spokane, Washington on...Read more... Read more... -->

Christian Calendar (Holidays), June Articles, Schedule Post

ListenFather's Day in America Third Sunday in June Historically, one of the first objectives of a conquering nation was to re-write the history of the conquered nation, thereby erasing the values and history of the conquered nation along with its national fathers and its heroes and heroines. Since the early part of the twentieth century, secularists, Marxists, and the irreligious have been attempting to re-write America's history to minimize or completely eliminate public knowledge of the formative influence Christianity has exercised over America's national character.[1] Just as...Read more... Read more... -->