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1592
Clement VIII elected pope. The last pope of the Counter-Reformation, Clement recognized Henry IV as king of France, helping secure the peace of the French Wars of Religion - but he also instituted the several year trial against Giordano Bruno.
1648
The Treaty of Westphalia was signed, officially ending the Eighty Years' War between Catholic Spain and Dutch Protestants and Thirty Years' War Catholics and Protestants in Germany.
1846
English idealist Francis Herbert Bradley was born in Clapham, near London.
1891
British freethinker Charles Bradlaugh died.
1973
G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord, Jr., both former officials with President Nixon's reelection campaign, are found guilty of attempting to spy on the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building complex.
1995
As part of the ongoing conflict between the military-backed government and Muslim fundamentalists seeking an Islamic theocracy, a car filled with explosives detonates in downtown Algiers, capital of Algeria, killing 42 people.
2003
Richard C. Reid is sentenced to life in prison by Federal District Court Judge William G. Young. Reid had been accused of being a member of the al-Qaeda terrorist group and of attempting to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight in December, 2001, with explosives hidden in his shoe.
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