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According to the estimates of some scholars, Jesus would have been crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem on this date.
1506
Saint Francis Xavier, one of the first members of the Jesuits, was born.
1541
Saint Francis Xavier, one of the first members of the Jesuits, set sail from Lisbon, Portugal with three friends. They would become the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.
1652
Pope Clement XII is born.
1655
Alexander VII was elected pope.
1761
English clergyman and mathematician Thomas Bayes died.
1836
English political philosopher William Godwin died.
1884
Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski was born in Krakow, Poland.
2002
Kurt Van Gorden and Melvin Heath distributed Baptist pamphlets on a plaza parkway near the Conference Center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where the Mormon church was holding a semiannual conference. The men were told that they were trespassing on private property, even though it should have been a public street. The problem is that the street used to be public, but Salt Lake City sold it to the Mormon church in 1999.
2004
Represented by the ACLU, New York State Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell and his partner are joined by 12 other gay couples in a lawsuit against the New York Department of Health. Their goal: to strike down a state law defining marriage as only existing between "a man and a woman."
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