W. Gunther Plaut, the Reform rabbi who edited the movement's widely used single-volume Torah commentary, was born in Munster, Germany.

Birth of Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut

Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere was elected pope and took the name Julius II in what is recorded as the shortest papal conclave.

Election of Pope Julius II

Michelangelo's frescoed ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was shown publicly for the first time at the All Saints' Day Mass celebrated by Pope Julius II.

Sistine Chapel ceiling first shown to the public

Alfred Wegener, the geophysicist who first assembled the evidence for continental drift and the ancient supercontinent he named Pangaea, was born in Berlin.