Eckhard Pfeiffer wrote: "Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history." I don't know what he means but it sounds really smart.

On this day:

1870 The first Vatican Council, also known as Vatican I, decrees the doctrine of Papal infallibility

The doctrine claims that the Pope cannot err when speaking on issues of morality and/ or faith.

1925 Nazi leader Adolf Hitler publishes the first volume of his personal manifesto, Mein Kampf which was a hateful narrative filled with anti-Semitic outpourings the blueprints for his plan of Nazi world domination.