This afternoon my friend Philip Strubhar married his girl Pearl (Perla, actually) in Ahome, Sinaloa, Mexico.
Two or three hours later I learned that some dear friends from some twenty years ago divorced. That’s really hard on me, even though we haven’t seen them in years.
And less important than either of those two events, I added four brand new books to our bookstore. Among the authors releasing new books: John Coblentz and Pablo Yoder.
Historically, what happened on this day?
498 – After the death of Pope Anastasius II, Symmachus was elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius was elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore. 😯
1718 — English pirate Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard) was killed in battle off the coast of North Carolina.
1935 — The first trans-Pacific airmail flight began.
1954 — The Humane Society of the United States was founded.
1963 — US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by WhoKnowsWho. (In an unrelated event, C. S. Lewis also died.)
1967 — The UN Security Council approved Resolution 242, calling on Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured in 1967 as well as calling on her adversaries to recognize Israel’s right to exist.
1974 — The UN General Assembly gave the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
1993 — Mexico’s Senate overwhelmingly approved the North American Free Trade Agreement.
2005 — Microsoft’s XBOX 360 went on sale.