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Stephen II was elected pope, but he lived just a couple of days and died before he could be consecrated.
1527
The First Diet of Nuernberg began. The Diet was called by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V for the primary purpose of dealing with the growing religious crisis.
1540
Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last monastery in England to transfer its allegiance from the Roman Catholic Church to the newly created Church of England under the leadership of King Henry VIII.
1555
Pope Julius III died at the age of 67.
1869
Friedrich Nietzsche received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig.
1877
John Doyle Lee, a Mormon fanatic, was executed by a firing squad, Lee had masterminded a massacre of Arkansas Methodist emigrants in 1857. In the "Mountain Meadows Massacre," a wagon train of 127 died at Mountain Meadows (near Cedar City), Utah.
1900
Erich Fromm was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
1949
Lebanon and Israel signed an armistice.
1966
Archbishop of Canterbury Arthur Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI met in Rome. This was the first official meeting between heads of the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches after more than 400 years of division.
1980
The deposed Shah of Iran traveled from Panama to Cairo, accepting an invitation for medical treatment and sanctuary by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
1992
Economist and political philosopher Friedrich A. von Hayek died in Freiburg, Germany.
1997
Thirty-nine members of the Heaven's Gate cult in California began committing mass suicide in anticipation of the arrival of comet Hale-Bopp. The suicides would take place in three groups over the course of three days.
2001
The remains of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, her son Jon Garth, and her son Robin O'Hair are laid to rest in an unmarked grave in an unknown cemetery. That's the way her son, William Murray, wants it.
2005
According to the College of Bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, being a "practicing homosexual" does not constitute "a bar to the exercise of an ordained ministry."
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