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597 BCE
According to some calculations, the first conquest of Jerusalem by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar occurred.
1079
Iran adopted the solar Hijrah calendar.
1190
Jews in York England committed mass suicide in order to avoid having to submit to baptism.
1190
Jews in York are massacred by Crusaders preparing to set off for the Holy Land. Many killed themselves rather than fall into the hands of the Christians.
1244
Montsegur, the largest Cathar stronghold, falls after a nine month siege.
1925
Argued: Pierce v. Society of Sisters
A case deciding that parents may not be forced to send their children to public rather than private schools, based on the idea that, once again, parents have a fundamental liberty in deciding what happens to their children.
1988
Protestants in North Ireland fire on Catholic funeral, killing three.
2001
Decided: ACLU v. Ohio
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Ohio motto, "With God All Things Are Possible" is indeed a religious slogan and, hence, a violation of the separation of church and state.
2003
Catholic archbishop Oscar Lipscomb of the Mobile, Alabama archdiocese admitted that he permitted Rev. J. Alexander Sherlock to remain in the pulpit at a church in Montgomery even after he admitted in 1998 to sexual abuse of a teenage boy in the 1970s.
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