Transcontinental Railroad Completed
1869

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Green Mountain Boys Take Ft. Ticonderoga
1775

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Jeff Davis Captured by Union Forces
1865

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Treaty Ends Franco-Prussian War
1871

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First Mother's Day Celebrated
1908

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Hoover Takes Over F.B.I.
1924

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Nazis Stage Book-Burnings
1933

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Churchill Named Prime Minister
1940

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Nazis Launch Blitzkrieg in West
1940

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Rudolf Hess Parachutes into Britain
1941

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Rural Life Sunday

This interesting holiday was founded in 1929 by a coalition of church groups in order to celebrate God's blessing of the seed, the fertile soil, and the hard working rural families who earn their living from the earth's bounty. It is a non-sectarian observance.

Today it has become a virtual impracticality for a small American farmer to make a living from the soil comparable to the many other vocational opportunities available to industrious folks. Most have to also work off the farm -- or have the family do so -- to make ends meet, and to avail themselves of self-defeating government largess.

Considering the debt we all owe the American farmer every time we pick up our fork, and considering some of the idiotic things for which we have set aside national days, weeks and months, we think this one -- along with Farmers Day in October -- deserves our reverence.

Celebrating it on a Sunday (the fifth after Easter) is indeed apropos.