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Pope Boniface IV died.
1085
Pope Gregory VII died.
1148
Crusaders set out to capture Damascus. The army consists of forces under the command of Baldwin III, survivors of Conrad III's trip across Anatolia, and the cavalry of Louis VII which had sailed directly to Jerusalem (his infantry was supposed to march to Palestine, but they were all killed along the way).
1261
Pope Alexander IV died.
1521
The Diet of Worms ended.
1521
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V officially declared Martin Luther a criminal and heretic for refusing to recant at the Diet of Worms.
1913
A secret committee of loyal followers, created by Sigmund Freud after the "defections" of Alfred Adler, Wilhelm Stekel, and Carl Jung, met for the first time.
1925
Fearing that the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, might be able to initiate a test case of the Butler Act first and thereby steal away all of the media attention, a judge John T. Raulston called a special grand jury session to have Dayton's case (the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial) scheduled earlier.
1946
William J. Murray III, son of Madalyn Murray (later O'Hair) and William J. Murray, Jr., was born. Madalyn and William had met while both were serving with the United States Army in Italy and both were married to other people at the time.
1970
William Masters and Virginia Johnson, researchers who did important work on human sex behavior, appeared on the cover of Time magazine.
2006
Feast Day of Pope Boniface IV.
2006
Ascension of Christ: Orthodox Christians celebrate the Feast of the Ascension, which commemorates Christ's return to heaven forty days after the Resurrection. This is marked as the final event in his ministry on Earth.
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