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1980<\/b><\/font> — Ruby and I say “I do” and were declared Mr. & Mrs. Mark Roth, which we still are.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in other August 1 “news” you may have forgotten….<\/p>\n

1492<\/b> — Spain drives out its Jews.<\/p>\n

1619<\/b> — Jamestown, Virginia “welcomes” their first African slaves.<\/p>\n

1774<\/b> — The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time. Huh?!<\/i><\/p>\n

1834<\/b> — Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.<\/p>\n

1876<\/b> — Colorado becomes the 38th US state.<\/p>\n

1902<\/b> — France sells the United States the rights to the Panama Canal.<\/p>\n

1914<\/b> — Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.<\/p>\n

1941<\/b> — The first Jeep rolls off the assembly line.<\/p>\n

1944<\/b> — Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.<\/p>\n

1966<\/b> — Charles Whitman kills 15 people at The University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n

1967<\/b> — Israel annexes East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

1988<\/b> — Rush Limbaugh hits the national airwaves with his radio show.<\/p>\n

2008<\/b> — George W. Bush is still President of the United States, so he signs a sweeping global AIDS relief bill that includes language repealing the US ban on HIV-positive foreign visitors and immigrants.<\/p>\n

2009<\/b> — At 10:46 pm I spotted some friends<\/a> who also attend our home congregation<\/a>! If it weren’t so late, I’d make it a separate post here. The lady in the foreground is ITF<\/a>‘s sister Hope! I’ve eaten in that café — I even posted about it<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1980 — Ruby and I say “I do” and were declared Mr. & Mrs. Mark Roth, which we still are. Meanwhile, in other August 1 “news” you may have forgotten…. 1492 — Spain drives out its Jews. 1619 — Jamestown, Virginia “welcomes” their first African slaves. 1774 — The element oxygen is discovered for the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-this-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-qW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}