Today in history: Babe Ruth’s farewell, a mysterious gold heist and Ben Johnson’s tarnished Olympic win The Canadian Press — Calgary Herald

On this day, Sept. 24, in history: In 787, the Second Nicene Council opened under Pope Hadrian I. Numbered by some as the seventh of the church’s 21 ecumenical councils, Nicea II condemned iconoclasm, the belief that the veneration of Christian images and relics is idolatry. In 1621, the first news-sheet in English was printedOn this day, Sept. 24, in history: Read More …Read More