The first Ford Model T rolls out of the factory, the Warren Commission concludes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, Ben Johnson is stripped of his Olympic gold medal, and Mark McGwire makes history, all on this day.
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1540: Pope Paul III issues a papal bull establishing the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, as a religious order. This Czechoslovakian fresco by Johann Christoph Handke from the mid-1700s shows the pope bestowing the papal bull on Saint Ignatius of Loyola.