On January 3, 1521, Pope Leo X issued a papal bull titled Decet Romanum Pontificem, Latin for “It Befits the Roman Pontiff.” The document formally excommunicated Martin
At 16:41 Greenwich Mean Time on January 2, 1959, a rocket lifted off from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the vast steppe of Kazakhstan. The rocket was a Luna 8K72, a modifi
On the morning of September 2, 1864, Atlanta Mayor James M. Calhoun rode out with a small delegation to meet the advancing Union forces. He carried a formal note of surrender: R
On September 2, 1789, the First Congress of the United States passed an act creating the Department of the Treasury, the third executive department of the new federal government. P
Shortly after midnight on Sunday, September 2, 1666, a fire broke out at the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane in the City of London, near London Bridge. The Farriner famil
In the early hours of August 2, 1943, in the profound darkness of Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands, a twenty-six-year-old naval lieutenant named John F. Kennedy stood in the
On August 2, 1939, Albert Einstein signed a letter addressed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from his summer cottage at Nassau Point in Peconic, Long Island. The letter was rela
At 9:00 in the morning on August 2, 1934, German President Paul von Hindenburg died at his country estate in Neudeck, East Prussia. He was eighty-six years old, and had been suffer
On August 2, 1776, in the assembly room of the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, the president of the Continental Congress, John Hancock of Massachusetts, stepped forward a
On the morning of August 2, 216 BC, the largest army the Roman Republic had ever assembled marched toward battle on the plain near the village of Cannae in Apulia, in the heel of s
