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Saint Mesrop Mashtots died. Mesrop played an key role in the development of Christianity in Armenia.
1111
The Sultan's Minbar in Baghdad is destroyed by Ibn Al-Khashshab.
1448
Pope Nicholas V signed the Concordat of Vienna.
1537
Pope Paul III had called for a general council to deal with the Reformation.
1540
Philipp Melanchthon published a document arguing that the papal claim of supremacy over the Christian Church and even secular kingdoms was false.
1776
The first volume of Edward Gibbon's famous book Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire was published.
1815
In the case of "Terrett v. Taylor," the United States Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a Virginia law that denied property rights to Protestant Episcopal churches in the state. The Court found that religious corporations, like other corporations, have rights to their property.
1865
Historian of religion, theologian, and philosopher Ernst Troeltsch was born in Haunstetten, Germany.
1889
The famous American evangelist Billy Sunday held his first public crusade in Chicago. Over the course of his career as a popular religious speaker, at least 100 million Americans are estimated to have attended his sermons.
1947
Dutch Roman Catholic bishops published a decree which condemned "godless communism."
1969
Golda Meir was sworn in as Israel's first female prime minister.
1997
In Tampa, Florida, the relatives of Lisa McPherson's file a wrongful death lawsuit against the Church of Scientology. McPherson had died under mysterious circumstances while in the care of Scientologists. The resulting in a seven-year long civil lawsuit that was finally settled out of court before the trial could begin in 2004.
2004
Bishop Thomas O'Brien, former head of Arizona's largest Roman Catholic diocese, was convicted of a hit and run. He thus became the first Catholic bishop in the United States to ever be convicted of a felony.
2004
According to a CNN survey, children made more than 11,000 allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic priests. The 4,450 priests involved constitute about 4 percent of the 110,000 priests who served during the 52 years covered by the study.
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