3:00 pm, Monday, September 11, 2001 – Gander, Newfoundland: Flight 49 was enroute from Paris to Dallas when captain Beverly Bass called for the head flight attendant. Bass handed her a printed message from the American Airlines office in Dallas. It read, “All airways...
1951 – A hospital in Sydney Australia: After four grueling hours, doctors successfully removed a diseased lung from 14-year-old James Harrison. The following three days were touch and go for James; he required 13 units of blood to stay alive. His first recollection...
1952 – Bell Fountaine, Ohio: Although his church congregation stood behind him, the 54-year-old minister was so upset by the negative reaction to his new book that he penned his letter of resignation. But before he quit the ministry, he took the train to visit...
Noon – Wednesday, September 23, 1857 – New York City: Jeremiah Lanphier waited in a small room on the third floor of the consistory building at the rear of the North Dutch Reform Church. The grand old church sat in the heart of the business district, just...
1904, Strasbourg, France: Albert Schweitzer, a 30-year-old Lutheran minister and theology professor at the University of Strasbourg, was paging through a Paris Missionary Society publication when he read an article by a doctor about the dire medical needs of people in...
March 20, 1998 – Walnut Creek, California: John and Aileen Crowley were on top of the world. Thirty-year-old John had graduated from Georgetown University then received a Juris Doctor degree from Notre Dame Law School before earning an MBA from Harvard Business...
