1252-Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull Ad Extirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition
1618-German astronomer Johannes Kepler discovers the third of his three planetary laws, the "harmonic law"
1841-First emigrant wagon train to reach California leaves Independence, Missouri, on a 1,730-mile journey over the Sierra Nevada
1869-National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1940-Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California
1951-AT&T becomes the first U.S. corporation to have a million stockholders after young car salesman Brady Denton purchases seven shares worth $1,078
1988-The Soviet Union begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan
Source: Korea Times News
