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Battle of Guadalete: Tariq ibn Ziyad kills King Rodrigo (or Roderic), Visigoth ruler of Spain, at the Guadalete River in the south of the Iberian peninsula. Tariq ibn Ziyad had landed at Gibraltar with 7,000 Muslims at the invitation of heirs of the late Visigoth King Witica (Witiza) who wanted to get rid of Rodrigo (this group includes Oppas, the bishop of Toledo and primate of all Spain, who happens to be the brother of the late king Witica). Ziyad, however, refuses to turn control of the region back over to the heirs of Witica. Almost the entire Iberian peninsula would come under Islamic control by 0718 CE.
1525
Catholic princes of Germany formed the Dessau League to combat the Reformation.
1825
Liberal members of Congregational churches in New England founded the American Unitarian Association.
1900
New York City police chief William S. Devey announces that "all American flags, whether of cotton, silk, printed, painted, illuminated in electric lights, or of any other kind which contain anything in the way of an inscription or advertisement will be hauled down by the police department." Barber shop poles were exempted, though.
1996
The Food and Drug Administration's Reproductive Health Advisory Committee recommended that the FDA give approval to the marketing of RU 486 for women up to the 49th day of pregnancy.
2002
In his regular column for the National Catholic Reporter, John L. Allen, Jr. quotes unidentified Vatican officials who suggest that Jewish bias against the Roman Catholic Church is partially responsible for the widespread media coverage and bias in the sexual abuse scandal: "In part, the hypothesis reflects the pro-Palestinian slant of much European public opinion, which has long vilified America's 'Jewish Lobby.' In part, it reflects the strained Catholic/Jewish relationship in the wake of the beatification of Pope Pius IX, the acrimonious debate over Pope Pius XII and his alleged 'silence' during the Holocaust, and the collapse of a Jewish-Catholic scholarly commission empanelled by the Vatican to investigate its World War II archives."
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