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1131
Death of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem; Count Fulk of Anjoy is named his successor. With this, the first generation of Crusaders effectively ends.
1165
Philip II Augustus of France is born. Philip would be one of the leaders of the Third Crusade.
1995
A suicide bomber killed himself and five others when he set off an explosion that affected two Israeli commuter buses.
2003
Because Roy Moore refused to remove his Ten Commandments monument by the August 20th deadline, the associate Justices of Alabama Supreme Court unanimously overruled Moore and ordered the monument removed by the building's manager. The eight justices wrote that they are "bound by solemn oath to follow the law, whether they agree or disagree with it."
2003
Hamas and Islamic Jihad, two of the most prominent groups of Palestinian militants, announce an end to their cease-fire with the Israeli government. An attack in Gaza City by an Israeli helicopter that killed senior Hamas leader Ismail Abu Shanab prompted the decision.
2006
Feast Day for Pius X. Pius' opposition to modern philosophies and political movements garnered him a reputation as being a fundamentally anti-modernist pope.
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