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0636
Battle of Yarmuk (also: Yarmuq, Hieromyax): Following the Muslim capture of Damascus and Edessa, Byzantine Emperor Heraclius organizes a large army which manages to take back control of those cities. However, Byzantine commander, Ba¨a;nes is soundly defeated by Muslim forces under Khalid ibn Walid in a battle in the valley of the Yarmuk River outside Damascus. This leaves all of Syria open to Arab domination.

1153
St. Bernard of Clairvaux dies. Bernard had founded the famous abbey at Clairvaux and was largely responsible for inspiring many Europeans to set off on the Second Crusade. The failures of the Second Crusade deeply troubled Bernard and he had blamed them on the sins of the Crusaders themselves.

1205
Henry of Flanders is crowned Emperor of the Latin Empire, formerly the Byzantine Empire, after the death of Baldwin I.

1854
German philosopher Friedrich Schelling died in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland.

1884
Rudolf Karl Bultmann was born. Bultmann was a German theologian and scholar in New Testament studies who, due to his research, concluded that nothing could reliably concluded about the historicity of the gospel stories of Jesus.

1886
Protestant theologian Paul Tillich was born in Starzeddel, Germany.

1914
Pius X died. Pius' opposition to modern philosophies and political movements garnered him a reputation as being a fundamentally anti-modernist pope.

1940
Rudolf Karl Bultmann died.

1978
In London, an El Al Israel Airlines crew bus is attacked by Palestinian terrorists. One stewardess is killed and nine others are wounded.

1999
Decided: Koenick v. Felton
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that there was no impermissible establishment of religion in creating a public holiday at the same time as the Christian holy day of Good Friday.

2003
This is the deadline given to Roy Moore to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building, but he refused to act. A crowd of monument supporters grows at the building over the course of several days and some are arrested for refusing to leave the monument.

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