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1124
Tyre is starved into submission with the aid of a Venetian sea blockade. This means that most of the Mediterranean coast is now in the hands of the Crusaders and under the control of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1304
Benedict XI died, possibly due to poison.
1456
Joan of Arc was formally acquitted, even though she had already been executed.
1925
William Jennings Bryan arrived in Dayton, Tennessee, a day before the Scopes Monkey Trial was to start.
1934
In response to pressure from Catholic bishops, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America adopted a strict policy that barred filmmakers from depicting "excessive and lustful kissing, ... methods of crime, ... seduction or rape, ... profanity, ... illegal drug traffic, ... sex perversion, (or) miscegenation," i.e., interracial romance. Religious leaders were not to be portrayed as "comic characters or as villains." The censorship office was run by Joseph I. Breen, a moralistic, anti-Semitic Catholic from Philadelphia who had previously served commissioner of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Breen once declared that "I am the code!" and he described himself as the only person "who could cram decent ethics down the throat of the Jews" who controlled the major movie studios
1959
The American Lutheran Church is formed when the Evangelical Lutherans and the United Evangelical Lutherans unite.
1973
Max Horkheimer died.
1981
President Reagan announced that he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.
2004
The Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, files for bankruptcy in the wake of massive payouts to settle sexual abuse claims by people who were molested by priests when they were boys.
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