June 30
1548: The Interim of Augsburg becomes the imperial law within the Holy Roman Empire, which obliges the Protestants to adopt the Roman Catholic forms and doctrine, but grants the right of Protestant clergy to marry and the laity to receive both bread and wine.
1607: Demise of Cesar Baronius in Rome, a leading Roman Catholic historian.
1688: A jury acquits seven bishops – who refused to sign King James II of England’s “Declaration for Liberty of Conscience” and were held in the tower of London on a charge of seditious libel for declaring that Parliament, not the king, had power to make such a grant.
1780: Benjamin Randall initiates a new fellowship of churches known as Free Will Baptists in New Hampshire.
1849: French president Louis Napoleon sends troops to regain Rome from Italian revolutionaries. Pope Pius IX, who had fled Rome in 1848, was able to return the following year.
1860: The famous exchange between Bishop Samuel Wilberforce and biologist Thomas Huxley regarding evolution.
1882: Passing away of Bishop Nestor The Orthodox bishop of San Francisco and Alaska, who had been active and dedicated to his people, overseeing the translation of the Bible into the Eskimo language and making extensive visitations throughout his see.
1909: The Catholic Pontifical Biblical Commission in Rome issues a decree interpreting the first 11 chapters of Genesis as history and not a myth.
1973: The Far Eastern Broadcasting Co. from Korea, began transmitting the Gospel from HLAZ, its first radio station in this country. FBEC is active even today.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org