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1256
Pope Alexander IV founded the Roman Catholic religious order of the Augustine Hermits.
1493
Pope Alexander VI issued the bull "Inter caeterea II," formally dividing possession of the New World between Spain and Portugal along a longitudinal line than runs 250 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands.
1824
Thomas Henry Huxley was born.
1895
Cornelius van Til is born in Grootegast, Netherlands.
1910
The city of Tel Aviv was founded in Palestine.
1925
George W. Rappleyea and others begin to conspire to put their town of Dayton, Tennessee, "on the map" by using it as a site to test the Butler Acts' prohibition on teaching evolution in order to attract business, tourism, and attention. This test case would become the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial. Rappleyea's interest was not merely financial, however - he was also strongly opposed to fundamentalists and what he regarded as an excessively narrow and harsh vision of Christianity.
1970
Argued: Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of NY
With the majority opinion written by Chief Justice Burger, the Supreme Court upheld the tax exemption for churches by a vote of 8-1.
1994
Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat, Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, sign accords allowing Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and in Jericho on the West Bank.
2003
Idaho Gem was born, becoming the first successful clone of any member of the horse family . He would be followed followed by siblings Utah Pioneer on June 9 and Idaho Star on July 27. These clonings were created by the Northwest Equine Reproduction Laboratory at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho and were born to surrogate mares from embryos cloned from eggs from horses and cells taken from the 45-day-old fetus of a mule.
2004
Meeting in Pittsburgh, the highest court of the United Methodist Church ruled that it had no authority to review a lower court decision which allowed a lesbian pastor to retain her office. According to the Judicial Council, though, no bishop is permitted to appoint as pastor anyone who has been found by a trial court to be a "self-avowed practicing homosexual." This would indicate that while Rev. Karen T. Dammann can remain where she is, she won't be able to go to any other diocese.
2004
Meeting in Pittsburgh, delegates to the United Methodist Church's highest legislative body approved a statement that opposed the inclusion of gays and lesbians as ministers: "The practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching. Therefore, self-avowed practicing homosexuals are not to be accepted as candidates, ordained as ministers or appointed to serve in the United Methodist Church." Regional bodies within the church were also denied the authority to make their own decisions on how to deal with gay pastors.
2004
Christian farmers in the central Nigerian town of Yelwa slaughter hundreds of Muslim cattle herders.
2004
William Krar, a Texan with ties to white supremacist groups, is sentenced to 11 years in prison. He had pled guilty to creating chemical weapons in one of the most serious cases of domestic terrorism since the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004
Christian farmers in the central Nigerian town of Yelwa massacre hundreds of Muslim cattle herders.
2004
In Chicago, a laboratory announces that they have successfully used genetic tests to choose specific embryos that could donate stem cells to sick siblings.
2004
A court in Egypt rejects the appeal of a movie producer hoping to create an Egyptian-Israeli friendship organization. Despite the state of peace between the two nations, the court's ruling states: "Egyptian society does not need a friendship association with Israel. The Egyptian public and Arabs do not need such false friendships, as demonstrated by the attacks on the Palestinian people."
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