On this day in the year 1506 of the common era (CE), the first contingent of Swiss Guards, one hundred-fifty men-at-arms, arrives at the Vatican to begin their centuries long tradition of service as the private security of the pope, the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church; three hundred and thirty six years later, author Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine arrive in Boston, Massachusetts.
On this day in the year 1877 CE, Anglican clergyman Arthur Tooth is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices; thirty-one years later Katie Mulcahey is taken into custody for lighting a cigarette in violation of the one-day-old "Sullivan Ordinance" banning women from smoking in public. She says to tells the judge, “I’ve got as much right to smoke as you;” he fines her five dollars.
On this day in 1951 CE. Fidel Castro, suiting up with the Washington Senators, is ejected from a Winter League baseball game after intentionally hitting a batter, bringing his prospects as a major league baseball player to an end, allowing him to devote the rest of his life to the Cuban Revolution and politics; eight years later Buddy Holly makes his last recordings in his NYC apartment including "Peggy Sue" and "Crying, Waiting, Hoping", which were embellished, overdubbed, and released posthumously by Coral Records.
In 1973 CE, the United States Supreme Court legalizes most abortions through its opinion in the case Roe v. Wade. Writing for majority, Justice Harry Blackmun states that the criminalization of abortion does not have "roots in the English common law tradition."
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