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  Great leader passed away.
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  Pope puts the Unam Sanctum into action
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  His reign of 72 years and 110 days is one of the longest in French and European history.
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  Charles was born
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  Columbus discovers tobacco then takes ot to Europe.
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  Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan enters the Pacific Ocean with three ships, becoming the first European explorer to reach the Pacific from the Atlantic.
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  King James learned that a plot to explode the Parliament building had been foiled
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  A plague killed many people.
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  Blood can now be transferred from dog to dog.
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  British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first souls to enter King Tut's tomb.
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  German Nazis launch a campaign of terror against Jewish people
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  President Rooselvelt ran for presiden and won again.
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  The United Nations General Assembly makes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calling on all its members to end economic and military relations with the country.
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  Emperor Theodosius had been tolerant of most pagan practices, but then in 393 he sanctioned the destruction of the Serapeum
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  A leader passes away.
