On July 18, 1536, the English Parliament passed an act declaring the authority of the pope void in England.

In 1925, Adolf Hitler published the first volume of his autobiographical manifesto, “Mein Kampf.”

In 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed a Presidential Succession Act that placed the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.

In 1994, a bomb hidden in a van destroyed a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 85.

In 2005, an unrepentant Eric Rudolph was sentenced in Birmingham, Alabama, to life in prison for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off- duty police officer and maimed a nurse.

In 2013, Detroit became the biggest U.S. city ever to file for bankruptcy.