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1189
Conflict between Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of Germany and Pope Clement III were settled when the Peace of Strasbourg was signed.
1287
Pope Honorius IV died.
1507
Martin Luther was ordained as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church.
1528
German reformer Adolf Clarenbach was arrested in Cologne, Germany, for teaching Protestant (possibly Anabaptist or Waldensian) ideas. Clarenbach was burned at the stake the next year, becoming an early Protestant martyr.
1949
Representatives of Transjordan and Israel met in Rhodes to sign an armistice.
1962
Argued: Engel v. Vitale
The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 1 that it is unconstitutional for a government agency like a school or government agents like public school employees to require students to recite prayers.
1992
Cardinal John O'Connor, in a speech before the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, stated that: "The fact is that attacks on the Catholic church's stance on abortion, unless they are rebutted effectively, erode church authority in all matters, indeed the authority of God himself."
1996
Mullah Mohammed Omar Akhunzada, leader of the Taliban, was proclaimed by a loya jirga (assembly) of 1,000 Muslim clerics to be the "Amirul-Mumimeem," or Supreme Leader of the Muslims in Afghanistan.
2003
American troops of the 3rd Infantry Division capture Saddam Hussein international airport, located just 10 miles from the center of Baghdad, Iraq.
2004
Mahavir Jayanti: Jain festival honoring Lord Mahavira on his birthday.
2004
At least three suspects from the March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings blow themselves up in the Madrid suburb Leganés when police officers try to arrest them. In addition to the suspects, one police officer is killed and 11 are injured.
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