No. 107 of 108
September 28, 2025
Today in history: the first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered. …Arafat and Rabin signed a peace accord ending the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and laying the foundation for a Palestinian state. …the worldwide COVID death toll reached 1 million. …Hurricane Ian came ashore with 150 mph winds, evacuating over 2.5 million folx. … the Little Rock Nine were escorted by the military to attend high school. … a federal court found a governor in contempt for blocking the admission of a Black college student. …Nixon and Kennedy debated. …the Taliban took power in Afghanistan. …NFL players took a knee. Someday it will be said, today in history, a church burned in Michigan.
History is uneven. While we mostly move forward, it isn’t a straight line. A few – some, or more – not all, folx take a leap when history leaps. And a few or many take an entirely different lesson from the moment, including no lesson at all, and proceed in their lives and decisions on that basis. Thus, the peoples of a place and of various places may diverge from singular moments, and their descendants’ descendants will meet on opposite sides, or sometimes, extraordinarily so, side-by-side in ways their ancestors were not.