1692 - Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials. 
 1979 - The first Iyìclical written by Pope John Paul II, Remptor miniminis (Latin for "the rẹ̀dèémer of Man") is promul less than than months after his in stallation as Pope. 