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Pope John I died.
1024
Benedict VIII was installed as pope.
1048
Persian poet Umar Khayyam is born. His poem The Rubaiyat became popular in the West because of its use by Victorian Edward Fitzgerald.
1096
Crusaders massacre Jews in Worms, Germany. The Jews in Worms had heard about the massacre in Speyer and try to hide - some in their homes and some even in the bishop's palace, but they are unsuccessful.
1189
Frederick I Barbarossa captures the Seljuk city of Iconium (Konya, Turkey, located in central Anatolia).
1268
The Mamluks of Egypt under the command of Sultan Baibars take the city of Antioch and kill most of its inhabitants. The physical destruction of the city is so extensive that it would never again play an important strategic or commercial role in the region, eventually being overtaken by the port city of Alexandretta (Iskenderun).
1274
The Second Council of Lyon issues its Crusade decree, Constitutiones Pro Zelo Fidei. At this same Council Michael VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor, agreed to a unification of the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Churches.
1291
Acre, the last territory in Palestine taken by the first Crusaders, falls to invading Muslim forces. Around 60,000 Christians are believed to have perished. This is the end of a Christian military presence in the Near East and the task of spreading Christianity is left to friars who preach among the people.
1631
The General Court of the Massachusetts issued the decree that "no man shall be admitted to the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits" of the colony.
1872
British philosopher Bertrand Russell was born in Ravenscroft, Wales.
1891
German philosopher and mathematician Rudolf Carnap was born in Ronsdorf, Germany.
1898
Morton Prince first reported his "Sally Beauchamp" case of multiple personalities.
1920
Pope John Paul II was born.
1925
At the age of 34, American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared while on a trip to the beach. She reappeared five weeks later, claiming to have been kidnapped and held prisoner, before managing to escape.
1947
Irgun Zvai Leumi, one of the more aggressive and violent Zionist terrorist groups active in Palestine against British authority, announces that they would halt all terrorist activities during the UN's inquiry in the region - but only if British forces agree to stop hunting them down during the same period.
1973
Watergate co-conspirator Walter McCord testifies before a Senate committee that a former White House aide, John Caulfield, offered him executive clemency in exchange for his silence to spy on the Democrats on behalf of Richard Nixon's campaign.
1982
Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder and leader of the Unification Church, is found guilty in federal court of four separate counts of income tax evasion.
2001
Pope John Paul II issues a "motu proprio" entitled Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela. With this, the pope assigns exclusive canonical authority to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith over cases where a priest is accused of sexual abusing a minor. Bishops are required to report any credible cases of sexual abuse to the congregation which would decide whether the allegations should be handled in Rome or left to a local tribunal. Strict secrecy over all allegations and proceedings was required. This document would not be made public until December of the same year.
2002
According to Father Gianfraco Ghirlanda, dean of the canon law department of Rome's Gregorian University, when a bishop decides to reassign a priest who had sexual abused a child but it does not appear as though the priest will reoffend, then the new congregation should be told nothing about the crime. This position was asserted in Civilta Cattolica, a twice-monthly journal edited by the Jesuit order and reviewed by the Secretariat of State prior to publication. The statement could, therefore, be treated as the official Vatican position on the matter.
2003
Following a series of triple suicide bombings in a 12-hour period, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon puts a halt to the Mideast peace process.
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