392 Roman Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion the state religion
1519 1st meeting of Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II and Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico
1701 William Penn presents Charter of Privileges, guaranteed religious freedom for the colony in Pennsylvania
1734 Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in Netherlands
1863 Huang Guagcai becomes the first Chinese clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church in China.
1874 James Theodore Holly is ordained the first bishop of Haiti at Grace Church, New York City. This makes him the first African American raised to the office of missionary bishop in the Episcopal Church.
1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council under Resolution 1441 unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”
2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia, the first woman to lead an African country.
2011 The Grand Mufti of Kashmir, India, has the police arrest Anglican pastor Chandra Manni Khana on various vague religious charges. He had recently baptized seven Muslim converts.
2016 Republican Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America, defeating democrat Hillary Clinton, who received 2.9 million more votes
TODAY’S HISTORICAL EVENTS
TODAY IN FILM & TV
1966 Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California
TODAY IN MUSIC
1999 Tenor Andrea Bocelli releases his “Sacred Arias” album, the world’s best-selling classical album by a single artist
TODAY IN SPORT
2017 Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa breaks the world record for surfing the biggest-ever wave at 24.4m at Nazaré, Portugal
DO YOU KNOW THIS FACT ABOUT TODAY? DID YOU KNOW?
1602 – The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened
WOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS FACT ABOUT TODAY? WOULD YOU BELIEVE?
1974 British peer the Earl of Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London
