The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition was founded in 1542 to defend those points of Christian tradition which seemed in danger because of new and unacceptable doctrines." (isn't "new and  unacceptable"  redundant in this context? Asking for a friend.)  The inquisitors proved their mettle on June 22, 1633 when they forced Galileo Galilei to recant his scary and dangerous heliocentric theory of the universe in favor of their divinely revealed geocentric one. In the decades since, despite the fact that his theory was merely based on actual observation of real phenomena, it has somehow managed to take the ascendancy over god's holy truth.  The inquisitors did, however, put up a good fight.

On this day in history:

1633 – The Roman Inquisition forced Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe
1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot were assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
1870 – The United States Department of Justice was created by the U.S. Congress.
1940 – France signed the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany
1941 – Nazi Germany invadedhe Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
1942 – The Pledge of Allegiance was formally adopted by US Congress.
1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill into law
1969 – The Cuyahoga River caught fire
1978 – Pluto's moon, Charon, was first seen
1990 – Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin.

Born this day in:

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

  ~Erich Maria Remarque

1000 – Robert I, duke of Normandy
1510 – Alessandro de' Medici, duke of Florence
1684 – Francesco Manfredini,violinist and composer
1757 – George Vancouver, lieutenant and explorer
1837 – Paul Morphy, chess player
1856 – Henry Rider Haggard, novelist
1864 – Hermann Minkowski, mathematician and academic
1887 – Julian Huxley, biologist and academic
1894 – Bernard Ashmole, archaeologist and art historian (
1898 – Erich Maria Remarque, soldier and author
 
1899 – Richard Gurley Drew, engineer, invented Masking tape
1903 – John Dillinger, businessman, carver
1906 – William Kneale, logician and philosopher
1906 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, pilot and author
1910 – Anne Ziegler, singer
1910 – Konrad Zuse,  computer scientist and engineer, invented the Z3 computer 
1915 – Randolph Hokanson, pianist
1920 – James H. Pomerene, computer scientist and engineer
1936 – Kris Kristofferson, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1937 – Chris Blackwell, record producer, co-founded Island Records
1937 – Bernie McGann, saxophonist and composer 
1944 – Peter Asher, singer, guitarist, and producer
1946 – Eliades Ochoa, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947 – Howard Kaylan, singer, songwriter, and musician (The Turtles; Flo & Eddie)
1948 – Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1949 – Larry Junstrom, bass player
1949 – Alan Osmond, singer and producer
1951 – Craig Gruber, bass player
1953 – Cyndi Lauper, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress
1955 – Green Gartside, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1956 – Derek Forbes, bass player and guitarist
1957 – Garry Gary Beers, bass player, songwriter, and producer
1961 – Jimmy Somerville, singer and songwriter
1962 – Bobby Gillespie, musician, singer, and songwriter

Died this day in:

It's a big club and you ain't in it

1101 – Roger I of Sicily, Norman nobleman
1429 – Jamshid al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician
1664 – Katherine Philips, Anglo-Welsh poet
1874 – Howard Staunton, English chess player
1892 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic
1925 – Felix Klein, German mathematician and academic
1936 – Moritz Schlick, physicist and philosopher (Vienna Circle)
1956 – Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer and novelist
1969 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer
1977 – Peter Laughner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu)
1988 – Dennis Day, American singer and actor
1997 – Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter
2008 – George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author
2018 – Vinnie Paul, American musician

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Take Your Cat to Work Day
National Chocolate Eclair Day

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