Thursday passed with little to note.

Before 5:30 PM, I was stepping onto No. 17 for the main bus terminal downtown to grab No. 12 for the short trip to the Chinese buffet. The food seemed unsatisfactory to me and I took leave to saunter along the main thoroughfare of Fifth Street in The Oregon District where I grabbed some photos.

There is little on the docket for today and I anticipate little to no excitement. That is well with my soul!

On this date in history: (2010) U.S. President Barack Obama signed legislation to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the policy regarding the service of homosexuals in the military; it took effect the following year. (2001) British Islamist militant Richard Reid attempted—by trying to ignite explosives hidden in the soles of his high-top basketball shoes—to blow up an airplane on which he and some 200 other passengers were traveling; he was restrained by other passengers, and a U.S. court later sentenced him to life without parole. (1989) The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin was reopened, signifying the reunification of East and West Germany. (1984) Bernhard Goetz, an American electrician, shot four African American males on a New York City subway train, alleging that they were mugging him; the incident triggered widespread debate about race and crime in the United States. (1965) The American movie Doctor Zhivago, David Lean’s adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s novel, had its world premiere; the hugely popular drama, which starred Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, became one of cinema’s highest-grossing films. (1941) U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met in Washington, D.C., to discuss World War II. (1894) On this day in 1894, based on specious evidence and anti-Semitism, French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was sentenced to life in prison for treason, sparking a controversy that divided France for 12 years. (1856) Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. secretary of state from 1925 to 1929 who negotiated the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928—a multilateral agreement designed to prohibit war as an instrument of national policy—and won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1929, was born.

Make it a great day!