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Agapitus II was elected pope .
1267
Church officials in Vienna ordered all Jews to begin wearing distinctive clothing.
1278
Government officials in England began arresting and imprisoning Jews on charges of coining.
1427
Jews were expelled from Berne, Switzerland.
1529
Suleiman the Magnificent sets off with 250,000 soldiers and hundreds of canon to lay siege to Vienna, capital of Charles V's Holy Roman Empire.
1886
Swiss theologian Karl Barth was born in Basel, Switzerland.
1925
John Scopes attended a preliminary hearing over his violation of the Butler Act's prohibition against teaching evolution in public schools. The date for his trial was scheduled in August.
1933
In the Opera Square in Berlin, Germany, Nazis burned at least 20,000 of books by Jewish authors, including Sigmund Freud.
1939
After a separation of 109 years, the Methodist Episcopal Church in the U.S. was reunited. The Methodist Protestant Church had broken away in 1830 and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South had broken away in 1844.
1963
Pope John XXIII received the Balzan Peace Prize, worth $230,000.
1997
Pope John Paul II visits Lebanon, his first trip to the Middle East. The next day, he would celebrate mass for a crowd in Beirut numbering around 300,000.
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