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October 27, 1838

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Joel Byers

On October 27, 1838, Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issued his famous ‘Extermination Order”. This was the official order that told all Mormons to leave the state or to be killed. When asked why he was picking on the Mormons… Continue reading →

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October 8, 1996

Posted on October 8, 2020 by Joel Byers

On October 8, 1996, Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix. The ‘laying on of hands’ and prayer didn’t work, so Johnny Boy had to rely upon medical science to save his life. Good thing… Continue reading →

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November 13, 1956

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Joel Byers

On November 13, 1956, the US Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses. They refused to rule on religious segregation as the Baptists were going to sit in the back anyway, while the Catholics would be upfront and the Episcopalians would claim the middle.

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January 30, 1661

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Joel Byers

On January 30, 1661, England executed Oliver Cromwell, former Lord Protector and Ruler of the Commonwealth of England for regicide. The common people of England didn’t really care that he had Charles I executed on January 30, 1649, twelve years earlier, it was because he had been a Puritan and when he took over the … Continue reading →

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August 25, 2008

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Joel Byers

On this date in Twisted-History.com in 2008, Father Antonio Rungi of the Passionists order in the town of Mondragone, Italy proposed on his blog to hold a “Beauty Contests for Nuns” where the nuns would send him photos and people would vote for who was the most lovely. He envisioned that the Sisters would be … Continue reading →

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July 10, 1609

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1609 the Catholic states in Germany created the Catholic League to counteract the Protestant Union, which had been formed in 1608. One important difference between the two separate Leagues was that the Catholic League (the Junior Circuit) allowed a designated hitter, i.e., a priest or saint, to act as … Continue reading →

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May 23, 1618

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1618, The Thirty Years War began when three opponents of the Reformation were thrown through a window from the upper floors of the Hradcany Castle in Prague by a mob of Protestants. They fell 70 feet to the ground and surprisingly survived. This was known as the Second Defenestration … Continue reading →

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December 8, 1854

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. This theory holds that Mary, mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment she was conceived. It was later learned from her diary, “The Life and Times of a Good Girl Born to be Better”, … Continue reading →

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July 30, 1419

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Joel Byers

On THIS DAY IN HISTORY in 1419, Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of the executed dictionary reformer, Jan Hus, stormed into Prague and threw all seven members of the Catholic Dictionary Council out the window of the Council House, killing most from the fall, with the rest being torn apart by the waiting crowd below. Jan Hus … Continue reading →

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July 18, 1870

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Joel Byers

On This Day in HISTORY in 1870 – The First Vatican Council decreed the dogma of papal infallibility. Immediately afterwards Pope Pius IX walked into one of the free-standing marble pillars in the Vatican while walking and talking with Don Joao Carlos de Saldanha Oliveria e Daun, the Prime Minster of Portugal and promptly broke … Continue reading →

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