by Keb » Mon Feb 11, 2013 4:22 pm
On this day in history:
1826 – Swaminarayan (pictured) wrote the Shikshapatri, a book of 212 verses that serves as the basis of Swaminarayan Hinduism.
1858 – Fourteen-year-old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous reported the first of eighteen Marian apparitions in Lourdes, France, resulting in the town becoming a major site for pilgrimages by Catholics.
1929 – To help settle the "Roman Question", Italy and the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church signed the Lateran Treaty to establish Vatican City as an independent sovereign enclave within Italy.
1938 – The BBC aired an adaptation of Karel Čapek's play R.U.R., the first science fiction television programme ever broadcast.
2008 – Rebel East Timorese soldiers invaded the homes of President José Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, seriously wounding the former.
And GOSD witnessed them all.
Happy birthday Scoots.