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Did You Know? - September 3: The Day Nations Rose, Freedom Began, Wars Ignited, and Humanity Reached Mars · Voices Of Life

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  Welcome to the Did You Know series of the Voices
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  of Life podcast, a ministry of the Church for
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  Life. A place where faith speaks, where history
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  breathes, and where hope finds its voice again.
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  Each episode is crafted to inspire, to strengthen,
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  and to guide you on your walk with God. And now,
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  to lead us through today's journey, here is your
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  host. Pastor David. As we gather today on Voices
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  of Life, a ministry of the Church for Life, I'm
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  happy to see you with us going into what happened
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  on September 3rd throughout the centuries. I'm
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  Pastor David. We turn our attention to a date
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  that carries some of the most remarkable moments
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  in human history. So what happened on September
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  3rd through the decades or centuries? On this
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  single day across the centuries, nations were
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  born. chains were broken, wars began, alliances
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  collapsed, markets peaked, roads changed direction,
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  and humanity reached out to another world. From
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  the Treaty of Paris in 1783 to the escape of
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  Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in 1838,
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  to the capture of Atlanta, to the peak before
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  the Great Depression, to the declarations that
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  ignited World War II, to Italy's secret armistice,
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  and to Sweden's Dagon H, and finally to Viking
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  2 touching down on Mars. Each moment tells a
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  story of courage, consequence, and change. And
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  today we walk through them together with clear
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  eyes and honest history so we can understand
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  not only what happened, but why it matters. Let's
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  begin. September 3rd, 1783, the day the United
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  States became... in the eyes of the world, a
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  sovereign nation. Great Britain formally recognized
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  American independence. Boundaries were drawn,
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  diplomacy replaced war, and the long struggle
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  of the revolution reached its final conclusion.
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  Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay, Henry
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  Lawrence, and William Temple Franklin signed
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  the treaty that became the nation's diplomatic
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  birth certificate. On September 3rd, 1838, A
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  man named Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
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  walked onto a train in Baltimore with borrowed
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  identification papers and full knowledge that
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  if he were caught, he would be chained, beaten,
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  and dragged back into slavery. He was not Frederick
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  Douglass. He was not legally recognized as a
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  person. He was not allowed to have a lawful identity.
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  Under American law, he was property, nothing
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  more. This is the historical truth. Bailey used
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  the papers of a free black sailor because the
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  law gave him no legitimate way to identify himself
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  as a human being. He traveled through Delaware
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  and to Philadelphia and finally reached New York.
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  And the next morning, he crossed state lines
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  as a fugitive into a country that refused to
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  acknowledge his existence. Why did he use aliases?
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  Well, after escaping, Bailey first used the alias
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  Frederick Johnson. He did this because keeping
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  his real name would have gotten him arrested
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  and returned to his owner. So he did what every
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  escaped slave did. He created a name. He made
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  it up. So slave catchers would not know who he
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  was. When he reached New Bedford, Massachusetts,
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  a friend suggested the surname Douglas. That
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  was taken from a character in Sir Walter Scott's
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  The Lady of the Lake. Bailey decided to use Douglas,
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  but keep the name Frederick so people who knew
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  him before could still recognize him. Frederick
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  Douglas was not his birth name. It was not his
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  legal name. It was not a name recognized by any
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  government in 1838. It was a name that he made
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  up because the law didn't let him safely live
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  under his real name. So all books and records
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  referring to him as Frederick Douglass are really
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  inaccurate. His real name was Frederick Bailey.
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  This is not a political correctness. This is
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  not a modern framing. This is the documented
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  historical reality of how escaped slaves survived.
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  So why does September 3rd matter here? Well,
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  this date marks the beginning of a life of a
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  man who was a runaway slave and who would speak
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  out against slavery. and for his own self -serving
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  needs a man born frederick bailey who incorrectly
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  became known in history as frederick douglas
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  because his runaway status compelled him to make
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  up name so his slave system could not hunt him
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  down however there does not appear to be a clear
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  reason why he did not revert back to his real
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  name after the civil war because there he was
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  free he was protected by law and certainly wasn't
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  going to be re -enslaved But the only fact that
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  we can find is he misrepresented himself as Frederick
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  Douglass to too many people in the U .S. internationally
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  to change them. So, history books say Frederick
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  Douglass, but the real name? Frederick Bailey.
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  Did you know? In 1864, the Union captured Atlanta.
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  September 3rd, 1864, news reached Washington
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  that Sherman's forces had occupied Atlanta after
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  Hood's evacuation. president lincoln proclaimed
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  the national day of thanksgiving the victory
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  strengthened the union's morale reshaped the
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  eighteen sixty four presidential election atlanta's
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  fall was both strategic and symbolic a turning
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  point in the civil war and a gain in lincoln's
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  political career on september third nineteen
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  twenty nine the dow jones industrial average
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  closed at three eighty one point seventeen The
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  peak before the catastrophic crash. Now we look
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  at it today at 381 .17 compared to where we are
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  today at like 54 ,000. And you'd say, that was
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  the peak? But yes, back then that was the peak.
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  381 .17. Within weeks came Black Thursday, Black
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  Monday, and Black Tuesday. The Great Depression
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  was about to begin. This date marks the high
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  water line before one of the greatest economic
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  collapses in history. In 1939, Britain and France
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  declared war on Germany. September 3, 1939, two
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  days after Germany invaded Poland, Britain and
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  France declared war. Neville Chamberlain addressed
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  the nation. France followed hours later. World
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  War II had begun in Europe. podcast, they never
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  sent any soldiers in. They didn't try to stop
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  Hitler. They just declared war thinking that
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  the declaration would be enough. Unfortunately,
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  it wasn't. On September 3rd, 1943, Italy secretly
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  signed the armistice of Casa Bile, ending the
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  alliance with Nazi Germany. The announcement
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  came five days later, triggering chaos. German
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  occupation. and a new phase of the war. Wasn't
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  that easy to separate from the Pact of Steel,
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  after all. September 3, 1967, at 5 a .m., Sweden
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  switched from left -hand driving on the road
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  to right -hand driving on the road. Millions
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  of citizens, thousands of signs, and an entire
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  transportation system changed in a single coordinated
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  moment. It was one of the most successful. National
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  Logistical Operations in Modern History. Imagine
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  us here in the United States going from the right
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  lane to the left lane. Boy, that would be pretty
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  tough. September 3rd, 1976. NASA's Viking 2 touched
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  down at Utopia Planitia conducting experiments,
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  taking photographs and searching for signs of
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  life. It became one of the most important missions.
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  in the history of planetary exploration september
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  3rd was an amazing day and as we close today's
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  journey about september 3rd we are reminded that
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  history is never just a list of dates it is a
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  record of choices of people who acted of consequences
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  that shaped the world we now live in a treaty
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  that confirmed a nation A man who used an alias
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  to stay free. A city captured the change to war.
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  A market peak that warned of a storm. A declaration
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  that set Europe on fire. A secret armistice that
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  reshaped alliances. A nation that switched sides
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  of the road in a single morning. And a spacecraft
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  that landed on another planet millions of miles
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  away. These moments are not distant. They speak
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  to us. They remind us that courage matters, truth
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  matters, and decisions we make today will become
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  the history someone else reads tomorrow. Thank
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  you for joining me on this journey. This is Pastor
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  David, and this has been Voices of Life Podcast,
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  a ministry of the Church for Life. Grace and
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  peace. Until next time. Thank you for joining
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  us today on the Voices of Life Podcast, a ministry.
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  of the Church for Life. As we close, may the
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  stories we share strengthen your faith, steady
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  your heart, and remind you that God is present
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  in every chapter of your journey. If this episode
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  encouraged you, share it with someone who needs
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  hope. And until we meet again, walk in truth,
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  stand in courage, and keep listening for the
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  voice that leads you forward. This has been Voices
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  of Life Peace. Be with you.