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1096
Crusaders moving through the Rhine Valley massacre Jews in Speyer. This is the first major slaughter of a Jewish community by Crusaders marching to the Holy Land.
1191
Richard I Lionheart's Crusader fleet arrives in the port of Lemesos (now Limassol) in Cyprus where he begins his conquest of the island. Richard had been traveling from Sicily to Palestine but fierce storm scattered his fleet. Most of the ships collected at Rhodes but a couple, including those carrying the bulk of his treasure and Ferengaria of Navarre, the future Queen of England, were blown to Cyprus. Here Isaac Comnenus treated them shabbily - he refused to allow them to come ashore for water and the crew of one ship that wrecked was imprisoned. Richard demanded the release of all prisoners and all stolen treasure, but Isaac refused - to his later regret.
1312
Pope Clement V closed the Council of Vienne after the Knights Templar were found guilty of heresy and disbanded.
1501
Marcello Cervini, who would become Pope Marcellus II, was born.
1527
Under the command of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, German, French and Spanish troops sacked Rome. The soldiers wanted to make Martin Luther their new pope, but Charles permitted Pope Clement VII to retain his secular powers. Upwards of two-thirds of the houses were destroyed while both clergy and laity were butchered. Pope Clement VII was forced to flee, disguised as a gardener. Many historians treat this as the end of the golden age of the Renaissance.
1542
Saint Francis Xavier, a Jesuit missionary, arrived at Goa, the capital of the Portuguese colonies in India. While here Xavier would establish a successful and growing Christianizing movement, especially among the lower castes.
1883
Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset was born in Madrid, Spain.
1890
The Mormon Church officially renounced polygamy.
1942
Argued: Skinner v. Oklahoma
An Oklahoma law providing for the sterilization of people found to be "habitual criminals" would be struck down, based on idea that all people have a fundamental right to make their own choices about marriage and procreation.
1945
Abraham Maslow started writing his "good human being" notebook, in which he recorded the characteristics of some of the exceptionally well-adjusted college students he observed. This, in turn, led him to his hierarchical theory of self-actualization.
1972
Three members of the Japanese terrorist group Sekigunha (United Red Army), working at the behest of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, attacked the passenger terminal at Lydda Airport in Tel Aviv, killing 25 people - including 16 Puerto Ricans on a pilgrimage. Two of the terrorists were killed there and a third declared later that the Palestinian struggle was theirs as well.
2003
President Bush announces the appointment of L. Paul Bremer III as his special envoy to Iraq. Bremer is a retired diplomat and an expert on counter-terrorism.
2004
The UN General Assembly votes 140-6, with 11 abstentions, for resolution affirming Palestinians' right of sovereignty over territories taken by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. President George W. Bush also calls upon Israel to withdraw to its pre-war of 1967 and to give the occupied territories to the Palestinians for a homeland.
2004
John Negroponte is approved by the U.S. Senate 95-3 to become head of the U.S. embassy in Iraq. Negroponte is believed by many to have been involved in campaigns of terror and human rights abuses while he was ambassador to Honduras during the 1980s.
2004
The UN General Assembly votes 140-6 in favor of a resolution supporting Palestinian claims to territory seized by Israel during the Six Day War of 1967. Both the U.S. and Israel vehemently objected to this resolution.
2004
An official government report reveals that the Israeli Housing Ministry secretly funneled US$ 6.5 million to illegal settlement expansions in the occupied West Bank territory between 2000 and 2003. At the same time that the Housing Ministry was funding the settlements, the Israeli government had been promising to move them.
2004
At the age of 68, Hamas co-founder Mohammad Taha is released from an Israeli prison.
2004
In an unexpected announcement, President George W. Bush calls on Israel to withdraw to the borders that had been in place before the Six Day War of 1967 and give the occupied territories to the Palestinians.
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