1564

Michelangelo died in Rome at age 88.

1885

Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was published in the United States for the first time (after being published in Britain and Canada).

1970

The “Chicago Seven” defendants were found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention; five were convicted of violating the Anti-Riot Act of 1968 (those convictions were later reversed).

1984

Italy and the Vatican signed an accord under which Roman Catholicism ceased to be the state religion of Italy.