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Pope Boniface III died.
1815
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born.
1817
Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i faith, was born.
1908
Harry Blackmun, author of the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade decision, was born..
1927
Leon Trotsky was ejected from Soviet Communist Party.
1968
Decided: Epperson v. Arkansas
The Supreme Court found that Arkansas' law prohibiting the teaching of evolution was unconstitutional because the motivation was based on a literal reading of Genesis, not science.
1973
The Supreme Court heard the first of two days of oral arguments in the case of Smith v Goguen. Can the government criminalize "misuse" of the American flag, acts which treat the flag "contemptuously?" In Smith v Goguen, the Supreme Court had to decide whether a Massachusetts teenager could be convicted for wearing a patch of the American flag on the seat of his pants.
1997
Ramzi Yousef and Eyad Ismoil are found guilty of involvement in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City.
2003
The headquarters of Italian forces in Iraq are attacked by a suicide bomber. At least 28 are killed, including 19 Italians and 9 Iraqis.
2004
Yasser Arafat's funeral procession is held in Cairo, Egypt, where he is given full military honors.
2005
Baha'is celebrate the anniversary of the Birth of Baha'u'llah.
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