Today in Religion

In 1856, the steam packet-ship John Rutledge, on a trip from Liverpool to New York, hit an iceberg and sank, leaving Thomas Nye as the […]

In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson had former United States Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason. Born in 1756 in New Jersey, Aaron […]

In 1478, King Edward IV of England convicted his younger brother, George the Duke of Clarence, of treason against him. He has the Duke privately […]

In 2017, The research journal “GSA Today” announced the discovery of a new mostly underwater continent in the South Pacific named Zealandia. Through many years […]

In 1923, Howard Carter opened the inner burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb and finds the sarcophagus. Though many archeologists had invaded the Valley […]

In 399 B.C. The city of Athens sentenced Socrates, a philosopher, to death for corrupting the minds of the youth and for impiety. Socrates lived […]

In 1349, the people of Strasbourg burned alive 900 Jews then banned the rest from the city to stop the spread of the Black Death. […]

In 1633, Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition for professing the belief that earth revolves around the Sun. Galileo was born […]

In 1502, the monarchy forced Muslims in Granada to convert to Catholicism or leave. For hundreds of years, the Moors held Granada. Then in 1492 […]

In 1858 Bernadette Soubirous saw her first vision of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France at the age of 14. Young Bernadette spent her young […]