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Today in history

31 August 1997 - Death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales
 
Okay, this was yesterday and I missed it because of my birthday:

1535: Pope Paul II excommunicates English King Henry VIII, who had been declared by an earlier pope as "Most Christian King" and "Defender of the Faith"
 
1969 - In what some regard as the birth of the internet, two connected computers at the University of California, Los Angeles, passed test data through a 15 foot cable
 
590: Gregory I ("the Great") is consecrated pope. Historians remember him as the father of the medieval papacy and last of four Latin "Doctors of the Church." He was the first pope to aspire to secular power, the man for whom Gregorian Chant is named, and one of the main organizers of Roman liturgy and its music. He was also one of the prime promoters of monasticism.

1752: This day and the next 10 never happen in Great Britain as the kingdom adopts the Gregorian Calendar (developed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582) to replace the inaccurate calendar created by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. Riots break out as Brits argue the government just stole 11 days from their lives.
 
Janus a rare double-headed turtle celebrates 25th birthday - the animal lives in Geneva in a Museum of Natural History

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Kulindahr said:
1752: This day and the next 10 never happen in Great Britain as the kingdom adopts the Gregorian Calendar (developed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582) to replace the inaccurate calendar created by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. Riots break out as Brits argue the government just stole 11 days from their lives.
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Well, it is rather difficult for humans to take a 365 day, 5 hour, 49 minute and some-odd seconds length of year and sub-divide it somewhat equally to align with the lunar month of 29 days and a variable number of hours and minutes and come close to something useful :rotflmao:
 
Today in history 1977







NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe from Florida. It is currently the farthest man-made object in Space.


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1636: Massachusetts Puritans found Harvard College, America's first higher education institution, a mere six years after arriving from England. Two years after its founding, the college was named after John Harvard, a learned English Protestant minister who had emmigrated to America and who helped to found the institution. On his deathbed Harvard bequeathed half his estate and his entire library (400 volumes!) to the fledgling college.
 
Kulindahr said:
1535: Pope Paul II excommunicates English King Henry VIII, who had been declared by an earlier pope as "Most Christian King" and "Defender of the Faith"
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Kuli, what is your source calendar?

My sources show that Pope Clement VII initiated excommunication some years earlier, but it was not made complete and official until 1538 and that it was Pope Paul III who did it, and it was on December 17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII

I read a bit about it because I saw the papal bull in person in Memphis, TN in 2004 when the Wonders of the World exhibition series hosted The Masters of Florence, which included art by old masters as well as hundreds of artifacts, including the excommunication. It seemed surreal to be looking at the actual document after so long, and in such an humble locale.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
Kuli, what is your source calendar?

My sources show that Pope Clement VII initiated excommunication some years earlier, but it was not made complete and official until 1538 and that it was Pope Paul III who did it, and it was on December 17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII

I read a bit about it because I saw the papal bull in person in Memphis, TN in 2004 when the Wonders of the World exhibition series hosted The Masters of Florence, which included art by old masters as well as hundreds of artifacts, including the excommunication. It seemed surreal to be looking at the actual document after so long, and in such an humble locale.
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It was in a list of events of the Reformation, and also appeared on the "Today in Christian History" that Christianity Today has on their site.
 
Isn't it strange that the popes are not even the same, much less the dates? Sounds l like some researcher blundered. It's either Paul II or III, but it was formalized only once.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
Isn't it strange that the popes are not even the same, much less the dates? Sounds l like some researcher blundered. It's either Paul II or III, but it was formalized only once.
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It's not like Christianity Today to screw up. I'm going to see if I can contact their editorial people.
 
On a happy point, we revisited and remembered the history surrounding the divorce of the English Church from Rome.

So, mission accomplished.
 
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