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Vigilius was elected pope.
1058
Pope Stephen X (IX) died.
1772
Emanuel Swedenborg died.
1819
Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Hebrew Union College, was born.
1940
Argued: Cantwell v. Connecticut
The Supreme Court would rule that a statute requiring a license to solicit for religious purposes was a prior restraint that vested the state with excessive power in determining which groups must obtain a license.
1965
Argued: Griswold v. Connecticut
Connecticut's laws against distribution of contraceptives and contraceptive information to married couples are struck down, with the Court relying on earlier precedent involving the rights of people to make decisions about their families and procreation as a legitimate sphere of privacy.
2000
Argued: Santa Fe School District v. Doe
The Supreme Court ruled that official, student-led prayers before a school football game violated the separation of church and state.
2003
For the first time, US servicemen are killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq. The four soldiers died at a checkpoint near Najaf at the hands of someone described bas a non-commissioned officer in the Iraqi army, but they wouldn't be the last killed in such a manner over the coming years. Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan announced that they would become "routine military policy."
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