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0708
Pope Sisinnius died.
0999
Pope Gregory V may have died (February 18 also sometimes listed as the date of his death).
1194
Richard I Lionheart is freed from captivity and allowed to return home after a massive ransom is paid.
1441
Pope Eugene IV published the encyclical "Cantante domino, " declaring that the biblical canon consisted of the 66 protocanonical books and 12 deuterocanonical (Apocrypha) books, for a total 78 writings.
1846
Mormon settlers leave Nauvoo, Missouri, to begin the settlement of the West.
1866
Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, allegedly cures her injuries by opening a Bible.
1906
German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is born in Breslau, Germany (now Poland).
1949
Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi of Iran was shot and wounded in an attempted assassination.
2004
The Massachusetts high court rules that only full, equal marriage rights for gay couples, not civil unions, would be constitutional. "The history of our nation has demonstrated that separate is seldom, if ever, equal," an advisory opinion from the four justices who ruled in favor of gay marriage stated. A bill creating only civil unions, not full marriage rights, would be "unconstitutional, inferior, and discriminatory status for same-sex couples."
2005
The New York State Supreme Court rules that the state's ban on same-sex marriages violates the state's constitution, but they place a 30-day stay on this ruling.
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