1059 - Pope Nicholas II decreed that future popes could be elected by cardinals only.
1598 - The Edict of Nantes was promulgated by France's King Henry IV (of Navarre), granting his Huguenot (Protestant) subjects a large measure of religious freedom. (The Edict remained in effect for 87 years.)
1853 - Loyola College in Baltimore was chartered under Roman Catholic auspices.
1939 - Delegates from independent Baptist churches in Shafter, Oildale, Lamont and Taft organized the first association of Southern Baptists in California.
1948 - At the Antioch Baptist Church of Portland, representatives of 15 local congregations organized the Baptist General Convention of Oregon-Washington, the first organization of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.
© 1987-2009, William D. Blake. Used by permission of the author, from
Almanac of the Christian Church
