On this day in the year 474 of the common era (CE), Zeno is crowned co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire along with his son Leo II, aged six at the time; one hundred and eighty-seven years later, the Rashidun Caliphate, then the largest empire in history, comes to an end with the death of its leader, Ali ibn Abi Talib who the cousin and son in law of the prophet Muhammad and the First Imam of the Shia tradition. Rasidun was succeeded by the Umayyad Caliphate. Two hundred and forty-three years after that, in 904 CE, Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher…and the terrible condition that afflicts the human race with religious fervor hypocrisy and duplicity continues.
On this day in the year 1845 CE the American writer Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" is first published in The Evening Mirror newspaper in New York, New York.
In the year 1907 CE, republican Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American to become a member of the United States Senate.
In 1924 CE the ice cream Cone Rolling Machine is patented by Carl Taylor of Cleveland, Ohio; twenty years later, the USS Missouri is launched, the last battleship commissioned by the United States Navy…decommissioned in the 1992.
In 1936 the first players are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner.
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