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Pope Pius I died.
1174
Amalric I, king of Jerusalem, dies and is succeeded by his son, Baldwin IV. Baldwin, unfortunately, is only thirteen years old and had been showing signs of leprosy since he was nine - so no one was very confident that he would be able to truly take control of the kingdom.
1191
Saladin launches a final assault on the 50,000 strong Crusader army besieging Acre but fails to break through.
1244
Khorezmian Turkish horsemen launch an attack on Jerusalem. Khwarezmia is at this time a state located around the Aral Salt Flats near the Caspian Sea.
1533
Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII, a key step in the English Reformation.
1742
Pope Benedict XIV formally suppressed the practice of Chinese rites used by Jesuit missionaries in China.
1997
Scientists in Gainsville, Florida, successfully transfer fetal tissue into the spine of a person suffering from syirngomyelia. This rare spinal condition normally leads to a degeneration of motor and physical functions.
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