0870 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople.

0870 The Fourth Constantinople Council closed, under Pope Adrian II in the West and Emperor Basil I in the East. The council had condemned iconoclasm, and became the last ecumenical council held in the Eastern Mediterranean area.

1066 Westminster Abbey opens

1638 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convenant, Greyfriars, Edinburgh

1646 Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church

1692 Salem witch hunt begins

1759 Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages

1784 John Wesley charters Methodist Church

1873 The Society of Mary, founded in 1816, was officially recognized by Pope Pius IX. This religious order seeks to combine the work of education with foreign missions.

1947 U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: ‘Let not the past ever be so dear to us as to set a limit to the future. Give us the courage to change our minds when that is needed.’

Religious Observances

Christian : Feast of St Romanus

Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Hilarius, pope (461-68), calendar reformer (non-leap years)

Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Gabriel Possenti (leap years)