On this day in the year 60 of the common era (CE), Saul of Tarsus (also known as Saint Paul, the apostle to the gentiles) is shipwrecked on the isles of Malta; 1475 years later twelve Anabaptists run naked through the streets of Amsterdam. Four hundred and eighty-four years after that, a sexual abuse investigation into United States Southern Baptist churches reveals that four hundred church members had been implicated in crimes against over 700 victims, according to the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News.
On this day in the year 1635 CE the Académie Française is formed in Paris by Cardinal Richelieu; two hundred and seven years later the Moreton Bay Penal Colony in Australia is abolished and opened for free settlement, ultimately to become the city of Brisbane. Seven years after that United States citizenship laws are amended so that all children of U.S. parents who born abroad, are automatically granted citizenship.
On this day in 1863 CE the first fire extinguisher patent in the United States is granted to Alanson Crane of Virginia.
In 1870 CE the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) forms in New York, New York; forty-seven years later Johanna Westerdijk is installed at the University of Utrecht as a professor of plant pathology; she is the first female professor in the Netherlands'.
In 1904 CE, Japan and Russia declare war on each other.
In 1920 CE Major League Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball; fifty-one years later Bill White becomes first African American baseball announcer, calling games for the New York Yankees.
In 1933 CE the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company of New York City delivers the first singing telegram; seven years later the first Tom and Jerry cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot, is created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and released in theaters by MGM
In 1942 CE, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra are awarded the first-ever gold record for selling one million copies of Chattanooga Choo Choo; two years later, Charles "Lucky" Luciano is deported to Italy and never returns to the United States.
In 1954 CE United States president Dwight Eisenhower warns against military intervention in Vietnam; thirteen years later the twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (concerning Presidential Disability & Succession) is ratified; four years after that American Mensa Ltd incorporates in New York, New York.
In 1972 CE the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) bans Give Ireland Back to the Irish, written and performed by Sir Paul McCartney and Wings.
In 1972 CE the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan, and do it again on this same day in 1985; four years later the United States performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
In 1989 CE the World Wrestling Federation (now the WWE) admits in a New Jersey court that pro-wrestling is an exhibition and not a sport, ostensibly to gain deregulation; three years later Mike Tyson is convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana.
In 1996 CE, IBM chess-playing computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against the reigning human chess champion, Garry Kasparov.
In 2021 CE a seventeen thousand-year-old conch shell is found to be oldest known wind instrument yet discovered, originally unearthed in the Marsoulas Cave, in the Pyrenees, on the border between France and Spain; on that same day astronomers confirm the planetoid named Farfarout as the most distant object orbiting the Sun, almost four times more distant than the planetesimal (and one time planet) Pluto
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