"Why should I care about dates and dead people?" 
Frequently we hear expressions of exasperation against the teaching of history.
"What possible relevance could all those events of long ago have for me today?" ​

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United Nations Resolution
18 July, is according to the United Nations General Assembly declared, "Nelson Mandela International Day"! This they said is "in recognition of the former South African president's contribution to the culture of peace and freedom." 

14 July is celebrated in France as Bastille Day. It commemorates the storming of the Bastille and the launch of The French Revolution.
 
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​While some trace the history of terrorism to the Sicarii Zealots in 1st century Judea, the term terrorism was originally used to describe the actions of the Jacobins during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution (1789-1793). Maximilien Robespierre advocated terrorism as a tool of the Revolution. In 1795 Edmund Burke denounced the French Revolutionary Jacobins for letting “thousands of those hell-hounds called terrorists… loose on the people of France.” Anarchists in Russia targeted and assassinated leaders for “armed propaganda.” The Irish Republican Brotherhood, founded in 1858, initiated bombing campaigns to achieve their political aims.

"And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the Judgment." Hebrews 9:27

Cuban Communists in Angola
On 12 September 1977, Cuban troops interrupted the service at Chilleso Evangelical Church in Angola. They desecrated the church with the heads of cattle and murdered Pastor Aurelio Saunje in front of his congregation. As the church members fled, they were shot in the back. About 150 were killed that day. The Cuban communists then roasted the meat of the cattle using church benches, the pulpit and hymn books as fire wood. They also burned down the church building. ​