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Today in history

9 October 1958 - Death of Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli).

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smokeshadow said:
I probably shouldn't mention this; but, in 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain to find a Western sea route to India - along the way, he ran into the continents of North and South America, or rather some of their outling islands
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A fateful day for the Taino people, especially the kids.
 
I've come to think of this as "Bringing Diseases to Two Continents Day". Columbus & Co. didn't bring all the European diseases that would devastate the population, but they got things started.
 
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Unless North and South America were never to have received visitors from the Asian-European-African landmass prior to the advances of modern medicine, this would have happened regardless of who first came.

For that matter, the "indigenous" populations of those continents were spared the repeated outbreaks of plague in Asia and Europe.
 
1066: William the Conqueror leads the Normans to victory over the English Saxons in the Battle of Hastings. William’s victory also had great religious impact: He spent significant effort combatting paganism and bringing English Christianity into stricter conformity with Rome (in part by outlawing English Bibles and liturgy), which lasted through the English Reformation.

1656: Massachusetts enacts a law prohibiting "Quakerism" or harboring Quakers.
 
11-year-old Grace Bedell wrote to Abraham Lincoln on this day in 1860 suggesting that a beard would help him become US president. Her advice included: “. . . you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin.” Four days later, Lincoln replied, wondering whether “people would call it a silly affection”. He had a full beard by the time he began his inaugural journey to Washington DC.
 
15 October 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St Helena, a remote island in the mid-Atlantic, to start his exile, and died there on May 5, 1821.
 
Kulindahr said:
1880: Germany's Cologne cathedral is completed, 633 years after construction began.
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I've been to Cologne Cathedral (or Kolner Dom as the Germans call it) and it is magnificent. I had no idea before my visit that it was completed so recently. I'd always assumed it was entirely medieval.
 
16 October 1793: Death of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, condemned to death for treason and executed in the Place de la Revolution, previously the Place Louis XV, now the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

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Described by her brother, Emperor Joseph II, as “honest and lovable,” Marie Antoinette was an Austrian princess and the wife of King Louis XVI. She remains one of the most iconic characters in Versailles’ rich history. She arrived at the French Court aged only fifteen. From the time of her...
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1701: Unhappy with growing liberalism at Harvard, Congregationalists found Collegiate School, later known as Yale.

1859: Militant messianic abolitionist John Brown leads a group of about 20 men in a raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia). Brown believed that only violent action would end slavery and that a massive slave uprising would bring God's judgment upon unrepentant American Southerners. Furthermore, he believed that God had anointed him as the cleansing agent for his country's sin. But when the slaves around Harper's Ferry failed to rally to Brown's cause, he was overpowered. He was arrested, tried, and hanged.

1925: The Texas State Text Book Board bans evolutionary theory from all its textbooks.

1978: The Roman Catholic College of Cardinals chooses Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to be the new pope. Taking the name John Paul II, he became the first non-Italian pope in 456 years.
 
1648 - Boston shoemakers were authorized to form a guild to protect their interests. It's the first American labor organization on record.
1867 - The United States took formal posession of Alaska from Russia
1892 - the first long-distance telephone line between New York and Chicago was officially opened. Unfortunately, it could only handle one call at a time :badgrin:
1954 - Texas Instruments unveiled the Regency TR-1, the first commercially produced transistor ratio

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