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0431
The Council of Ephesus opened. It would denounce the teachings of Nestorius (d. 451), who argued that Christ had completely separate human and divine natures.
0816
Stephen IV is elected pope.
1212
Almohad forces under the command of the 4th Almohad Caliph Muhammad al-Nasir set out from Seville to meet the Christian forces riding south towards them.
1276
Pope Innocent V dies.
1750
Jonathan Edwards was dismissed from his post as minister of the Congregational church in Northampton, MA. He had been there fore 23 years, but his ultra-conservative theology never wavered and over time both it and his inflexibility on administrative matters had become too much for the congregation.
1844
Joseph Smith, accused of instigating a riot when Mormons smashed the presses of a newspaper critical of his secret doctrines on polygamy, fled from arrest.
1920
Sigmund Freud's book General Introduction to Psychoanalysis was first published in the United States.
1936
Austrian philosopher F. A. Moritz Schlick dies.
1981
Iranian President Abolhassan Bani Sadr was forcibly removed from office and fled to France.
2006
Feast Day of Saint Alban, supposedly first Christian martyr of Britain, at least according to legend.
2006
Litha (Summer Solstice) is celebrated by Wiccans.
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