Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 04. Check what happened ...

Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII. 1610: Sigmund III’s Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats ...

1868 – The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the Federal government. 1868 – ...

While the NBA world watched the Finals, the league's hierarchy shifted. Is OKC already looking over its shoulder in the West?

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Pope Francis’s birth date, 17/12/1936, broken into 17, 12, 19, and 36, sums to 84, which is also 21 × 4—the product of the day and month numbers of his passing.

The longest one ever, in the 13th century, took almost three years to choose Pope Gregory X. The shortest conclave on record, in 1503, took just 10 hours to choose Pope Pius III.

When the Associated Press reported on Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio's election as Pope Francis, they noted that Bergoglio was first non-European to have served as pope since Gregory III, who ...

The shortest conclave on record was in 1503, when it took the cardinals only 10 hours to choose Pope Pius III as the new pontiff. The longest conclave on record took nearly three years.