What a difference the year makes.

October 3, 2007 by Pastor Dan.

Somehow I stumbled on to one of those sites to tell you waht important things happened on every day of the year.  Here is a sampling for today, October 3.  Some of these are pretty amazing, others really frightening:

 1430 Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia

1789 Washington proclaims the First national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26

1863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day

1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)

1922 First facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC

1940 Anti-Jewish laws are passed by the Vichy government in France.

1951 Battle of Maryang-San, Korea starts  (not the beginning of the Korean War, which began June 25, 1950)

1952 First video recording on magnetic tape, Los Angeles, CA

1967 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72.  (Pete Knight was to figure enormously in the passage of Proposition 22, which our present Governor uses to argue against same-gender marriage.)

1974 Watergate trial begins

1990 East Germany and West Germany merge to become Germany.

 Is history moving in the right direction?  In every century fools, tirants, inventors, reformers and bigots seems to have free rein.  God have mercy on us, and upon our history. 

—Pastor Dan Hooper, Los Angeles

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