PRAYER TODAY IN HISTORY

Lord, help us to live only one hour at a time. Thank you for keeping us focused on today. Amen. 1864: A Colorado militia killed at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre.

1910: British explorer Robert F. Scott’s ship Terra Nova set sail from New Zealand, carrying Scott’s expedition on its ultimately futile – as well as fatal – race to reach the South Pole first.

1947: The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews; 33 members, including the United States, voted in favor of the resolution, 13 voted against while 10 abstained. (The plan, rejected by the Arabs, was never implemented.)

1961: Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited earth twice before returning.

1963: President Lyndon B. Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

1981: Film star Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California, at age 43.