On March 13, 2013, Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope, choosing the name Francis. he was the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium.
Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican elected Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as the new pope, making him the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas and the first pope from outside Europe. Bergoglio chose the papal name Francis in honor of Saint Francis of Assissi.In 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
In 1925, the Tennessee General Assembly approved a bill prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. In 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot in her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, during a botched raid by plainclothes narcotics detectives; no drugs were found, and the “no-knock” warrant used to enter by force was later found to be flawed.
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