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1540
With the encyclical "Regimini militantis ecclesiae," Pope Paul III gave official approval to the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
1590
Pope Urban VII died.
1660
St. Vincent de Paul, founder of the Vincentians, died.
1913
Albert Ellis was born.
1940
Walter Benjamin, literary critic and writer, died at the age of 48 when he committed suicide in an effort to avoid capture by the Gestapo.
1944
Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of the Church of the Four-Square Gospel, died.
1958
Voters in Little Rock, Arkansas overwhelmingly reject a proposal to begin reopening the city's high schools and desegregate them.
1997
The Taliban seized control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and hanged the former president Najibullah.
2004
John E. Mack, the Harvard psychiatrist who used his position to promote belief in alien abductions, died when he was hit by a car in London. A fourteen-month long investigation into his research was conducted by Harvard, but he was not censured on the grounds that his academic freedom permitted him to encourage quackery.
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