On this day…

325 – The Council of Nicaea—the first ecumenical council of the Christian church, called by the emperor Constantine I—brought to an end the controversy of Arianism, concluding that God the Father was of equal status with God the Son.

1609 – Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

1900 – German Classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture Friedrich Nietzsche died at age 55.

1944 – Some two months after the Allied invasion of Normandy, Pariswas liberated from German occupiers as the Free French 2nd Armoured Division under General Jacques-Philippe Leclerc entered the city.

1990 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq

2000 – Hitachi releases world’s first video equipment to use Digital Versatile Disk (DVD) technology.

2018 – American politician John McCain—who developed a reputation as a political maverick while serving in Congress for some 35 years and during his failed bid for the presidency in 2008—died at age 81.

Via On This Day / Britannica / 

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