History of 11th October
BORN THIS DAY
1942 Amitabh Bachchan
1919 Art Blakey
1849 William Knox D'Arcy
1844 H. J. Heinz
1887 Willie Hoppe
1896 Roman Jakobson
1885 François Mauriac
1918 Jerome Robbins
1884 Eleanor Roosevelt
1897 Nathan F. Twining
DIED THIS DAY
2 Alp-Arslan
1896 Anton Bruckner
1963 Jean Cocteau
1919 Karl Adolph Gjellerup
1889 James Joule
1965 Dorothea Lange
1809 Meriwether Lewis
1347 Louis IV
1967 Stanley Morison
1648 Nakae Toju
1963 Edith Piaf
1962 Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg
1531 Huldrych Zwingli
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Pope John XXIII opens Vatican II
Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council in 92 years. Pope John reached the papacy from simple, peasant beginnings and his tolerance and disregard for protocol earned him a reputation for being the sympathetic pope. In summoning an ecumenical council, a general meeting of the bishops . . .
Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council in 92 years. Pope John reached the papacy from simple, peasant beginnings and his tolerance and disregard for protocol earned him a reputation for being the sympathetic pope. In summoning an ecumenical council, a general meeting of the bishops of the church, he hoped to bring spiritual rebirth to Catholicism and greater unity with other branches of Christianity.
When Vatican Council II opened in the autumn of 1962, he invited Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant observers to attend the proceedings. Pope John XXIII died the following year, but the council continued under his successor, Paul VI, until 1965
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BORN THIS DAY
1942 Amitabh Bachchan
1919 Art Blakey
1849 William Knox D'Arcy
1844 H. J. Heinz
1887 Willie Hoppe
1896 Roman Jakobson
1885 François Mauriac
1918 Jerome Robbins
1884 Eleanor Roosevelt
1897 Nathan F. Twining
DIED THIS DAY
2 Alp-Arslan
1896 Anton Bruckner
1963 Jean Cocteau
1919 Karl Adolph Gjellerup
1889 James Joule
1965 Dorothea Lange
1809 Meriwether Lewis
1347 Louis IV
1967 Stanley Morison
1648 Nakae Toju
1963 Edith Piaf
1962 Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg
1531 Huldrych Zwingli
Want More
Pope John XXIII opens Vatican II
Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council in 92 years. Pope John reached the papacy from simple, peasant beginnings and his tolerance and disregard for protocol earned him a reputation for being the sympathetic pope. In summoning an ecumenical council, a general meeting of the bishops . . .
Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council in 92 years. Pope John reached the papacy from simple, peasant beginnings and his tolerance and disregard for protocol earned him a reputation for being the sympathetic pope. In summoning an ecumenical council, a general meeting of the bishops of the church, he hoped to bring spiritual rebirth to Catholicism and greater unity with other branches of Christianity.
When Vatican Council II opened in the autumn of 1962, he invited Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant observers to attend the proceedings. Pope John XXIII died the following year, but the council continued under his successor, Paul VI, until 1965
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