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1049
Leo IX was elected pope.
1130
Innocent II was elected pope.
1804
German philosopher Immanuel Kant died in Konigsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad in Russia). According to reports, his last words were "Es ist gut" (It is good).
1809
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England.
1834
Friedrich Schleiermacher died in Berlin, Germany.
1929
Pope Pius XI signed the Lateran Treaty with Mussolini. With this document, the Holy See recognized Italy as an independent state in exchange for the same recognition back.
1949
Pope Pius XII excommunicated all of the people involved with the imprisonment of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, Catholic prelate in Hungary.
1950
Senator Joe McCarthy claimed to have list of 205 communist government employees.
1953
An agreement signed between the United Kingdom and Egypt provided for the creation of self-government in the Sudan. After three years, the Sudanese people were promised the ability to choose between complete independence and some sort of political association with Egypt.
1970
In an attack on a scrap-metal processing plant outside of Cairo, Israeli fighter-bombers killed around eighty Egyptians.
1997
The 15th Khordad Foundation in Iran raises its of Salman Rushdie from USD $2 million to $2.5 million.
2004
South Korean scientists announced the world's first successfully cloned human embryo.
2004
City officials in San Francisco, California began issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples and performed the first known civil marriage of a homosexual couple in the U.S. by marrying the homosexual activists and lesbian couple, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. Over 80 couples were given quick ceremonies.
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