Bill Gates left the Microsoft board after founding the company four decades prior.
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Pope Leo XII renewed the prohibition of members of the Catholic Church from joining the Freemasons.
Itza, the last Mayan kingdom, was conquered by Spanish forces.
Sixteen primary school children and one teacher were killed in a mass shooting in Dunblane, Scotland.
American baseball catcher Wilbert Robinson tried to claim a record by catching a ball dropped from a plane 525 feet above him.
Earmuffs were patented.
