303: After consulting the oracle of Apollo, Emperor Diocletian issued the first official Roman edict for the persecution of Christians.
1387: King Charles III of Naples and Hungary died from an assassin’s wounds. The queen dowager of Hungary, Elizabeth of Bosnia, ordered the execution so her daughter Mary could resume the throne.
1868: The U.S. House of Representatives resolved to impeach President Andrew Johnson because he attempted to replace Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton without senate approval. The U.S. Senate later acquitted Johnson.
1875: The SS Gothenburg hit the Great Barrier Reef and sank off the east coast of Australia. Approximately 100 people were killed due to cyclone-like conditions and poor judgment in the wheelhouse.
1924: Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail after serving two years for sedition—protesting the British colonial government in India.
1945: Mahmoud El Essawy killed Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha in Parliament after the premier declared war against the Axis powers and issued a fatwa against the Muslim Brotherhood.
1981: A Westchester county jury convicted Jean Harris of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower.
1984: A disturbed man named Tyrone Mitchell fired shots from the window of his home across the street from the 49th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles. He killed a student and a passerby and injured 12 others before killing himself during a standoff with police.
1988: The U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of Hustler magazine that its parody ad of Rev. Jerry Falwell was protected speech.
1989: 12 people were killed and 40 wounded in Bombay when police fired at Muslims rioting against Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses.
1996: The Cuban Air Force shot down two private civilian planes of "Brothers to the Rescue," an activist group that supports Cuban refugees. All four pilots were killed. The action taken by the Cuban government was universally condemned.
1999: The State of Arizona executed Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in a deadly armed robbery, in spite of Germany's appeal through the International Court of Justice to save him. Capital punishment is prohibited in Germany.
2019: Pope Francis ended a 4-day "Meeting on the Protection of Minors in the Church" attended by 190 church leaders promising more action and calling those who sexually abuse children "tools of Satan."
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