Friday, the thirteenth — oh, wow!<\/p>\n
1958<\/b> — James Roth weds Noreen Byers on Friday the thirteenth. In less than two years, they begin service in Mexico. They return to the States to live in mid-1976. After another relatively-short stint in Mexico in the early 80’s, they return to Oregon “permanently.” After a little over 25 years of service in that capacity, James recently retired as pastor and bishop of Hopewell Mennonite Church<\/a> near Hubbard, Oregon. So, now it’s Friday the thirteenth again — but fifty years later. Congratulations, Dad and Mom!<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n In other years on this day . . .<\/p>\n 1525<\/b> – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora — contrary to the RCCs celibacy rule for its priests and nuns.<\/p>\n 1757<\/b> — Pope Benedict XIV grants people throughout the world official permission to have the Bible in their own language.<\/p>\n 1774<\/b> — Rhode Island bans the importation of slaves — the first British North American colony to do so.<\/p>\n 1900<\/b> — China’s Boxer Rebellion explodes into full-scale violence — foreigners as well as Chinese Christians are targeted.<\/p>\n 1966<\/b> — The US Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona<\/i> that police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.<\/p>\n 1983<\/b> — After more than a decade in space, Pioneer 10, the world’s first outer-planetary probe, leaves the solar system.<\/p>\n 1997<\/b> — A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.<\/p>\n 2002<\/b> — The US withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.<\/p>\n 2008<\/b> — Substantial election returns show that Ireland’s voters have rejected the European Union reform treaty, a blueprint for modernizing the 27-nation bloc that cannot become law without Irish approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday, the thirteenth — oh, wow! 1958 — James Roth weds Noreen Byers on Friday the thirteenth. In less than two years, they begin service in Mexico. They return to the States to live in mid-1976. After another relatively-short stint in Mexico in the early 80’s, they return to Oregon “permanently.” After a little over … 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-643","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-an","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}