August 22nd, 2008

Today in History

2004:
The Scream, the painting by Edvard Munch, is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

1968:
Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America

1846:
The United States annexes New Mexico

1642:
Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War

1559:
Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy

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