On this day in 1961, President Dwight D Eisenhower delivers an ominous farewell address to the American people. During the 16-minute televised speech, Ike describes the rise of "a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions" and warns of the threat it poses to democracy.

Take me back to these days please

🎉🇬🇧 D-Day veteran Norman Powell, one of just six remaining British men who took part in the Normandy landings, celebrated his 100th birthday! Norman served in the engine room of a landing craft that carried Canadian and French troops to the beaches on D-Day. Despite his incredible achievements and the honour of receiving France’s Legion d’Honneur, Norman has spoken openly about the loneliness he still feels today, saying he often feels “very isolated” in his bungalow. However, he has celebrated his birthday surrounded by friends at Royal British Legion Club in Wollaton. Royal British Legion representatives have now pledged to help Norman attend the club regularly, ensuring he’s not left feeling forgotten. Join us in wishing him a very happy birthday! 🎉🎈 📰 Source: Nottinghamshire Live

The coffin of the Unknown Warrior lying in state in Westminster Abbey, London, on 7th November 1920.

The five galaxies of Stephan’s Quintet are also known as the Hickson Compact Group 92 (HCG 92). Although called a “quintet,” only four of the galaxies are truly close together and caught up in a cosmic dance. The fifth and leftmost galaxy, called NGC 7320, is well in the foreground compared with the other four. NGC 7320 resides 40 million light-years from Earth, while the other four galaxies (NGC 7317, NGC 7318A, NGC 7318B, and NGC 7319) are about 290 million light-years away. This is still fairly close in cosmic terms, compared with more distant galaxies billions of light-years away. This image was taken with the James Webb telescope. “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” Psalm 19:1-4

War poet Wilfred Owen died on the Sambre Canal #OTD in 1918, along with many others in that final great battle of the First World War.

Captain Jennifer Harris, 28, was supposed to touch down in California after completing her third combat tour as the lone female pilot of the Marines's legendary Purple Foxes helicopter squadron. Rest peacefully, Marine. #USMC #RIP

In 1940, C.S. Lewis listened to a speech by Adolf Hitler on the radio. Shortly after, he wrote a letter to his brother, commenting on the power of Hitler's rhetoric: "Statements which I know to be untrue all but convince me, at any rate for the moment, if only the man says them unflinchingly." He then shared his idea for a book in which a demon seeks to lull people into Hell through sly manipulation.

Mystic Mountain in the Carina Nebula (image taken by the Hubble Telescope) “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” - Psalm 19:1-4

Please help me honor Marine Cpl. Ramona M. Valdez, a brave Marine who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. On June 23, 2005—just three days shy of her 21st birthday-her convoy was hit by a su*cide car bomber near Fallujah, killi*g her and five others while severely injuring seven more. She was buried with full military honors and posthumously honored. God bless this Marine hero!

“Who but a Washington, inspired by Heaven, could have struck out the mighty thought of crossing the Delaware at midnight in a storm of snow and ice?… The Lord hath done great things for us in this Revolution" -Pastor Ezra Stiles, 1783

Thoughts with those trapped & hurt on yesterday’s Cambridgeshire train incident. Being stuck in an enclosed space with those welding a weapon & wishing you harm must have been utterly terrifying. Miraculous no one killed & stories of huge bravery. Every day my country becomes less safe.

Let no incident of life, pleasing or painful, injure the prosperity of my soul, but rather increase it. —The Valley of Vision, 257

"The saints are the sinners who keep on trying." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw (1872)