On this day in the year 1129 of the common era (CE), at the Council of Troyes Pope Honorius II pens the Bull: Omne Datum Optimum granting formal approval to the Order of Templars. The Poor Knights of Christ proceeded to run amuck through Europe and the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Near East until it was dissolved on March 22nd, 1312 CE by Pope Clement V with his Bull: Vox in Excelso. With the aid of King Phillip IV of France its members were arrested and tried for heresy, its leaders including the last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, were burned at the stake on March 18th, 1314 CE.
On this day in the year 1699 CE Massachusetts holds a day of fasting to acknowledge its fault for wrongly persecuting "witches." Between 1692 and 1693, over two-hundred people were accused of practicing witchcraft, leading to thirty convictions and twenty people put to death by the state.
In 1814 CE with the Treaty of Kiel, King Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of Norway to King Charles XIII of Sweden
In 1938 CE the National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia is founded in the State of New York; twenty-two years later the United States Army promotes Elvis Presley to the rank of Sergeant.
In 1963 CE George Wallace is sworn in as Governor of Alabama; in his acceptance address he coins the phrase: "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!" On this same day The Bell Jar is published by Heinemann in the United Kingdom (UK); its author, Sylvia Plath, commits suicide on the eleventh day of the following month.
In 1972 CE the television show Sanford & Son starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC.
In 1977 CE, RCA releases David Bowie's 11th studio album, Low; the album is the first collaboration with Brian Eno, in what becomes known as his “Berlin trilogy”; one year later the Sex Pistols hold their final concert at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California.
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