Today is the First Day of Spring (the Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere)
Purim ends at sundown
Norouz, Persian New Year (celebrated in Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia)
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Barbara Cano y de la Plaza {1972} [wife of Bruno Gomez-Acebo y de Borbon (nephew of King Juan Carlos I of Spain)]
Count Rodolphe de Limburg-Stirum {1979} [husband of Archduchess Marie Christine of Austria (granddaughter of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg & niece of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg)]
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
King Peter II of Yugoslavia & Princess Alexandra of Greece & Denmark {1944}
Princess Margaretha of Luxembourg & Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein {1982}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
235 Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed Roman emperor, the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.
1815 After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1848 Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
1974 Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap The Princess Anne of Great Britain & her husband Captain Mark Phillips on The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1469 Princess Cecily of York (d.1507)
1725 Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d.1789)
1737 King Buddha Yodfa Chulalok of Thailand (d.1809)
1811 Napoleon II of France (d.1832)
DEATHS
1390 Alexios III, Emperor of Trebizond
1413 King Henry IV of England
1549 Lord High Admiral Thomas Seymour, widower of Queen Catherine of England (Catherine Parr)
1568 Duke Albrecht of Prussia
1619 Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor
1934 Queen Emma of the Netherlands
2004 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
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