April 24
Easter
ROYAL BIRTHDAY
Princess Iman bint Al Hussein of Jordan {1983} (half-sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan)
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, King of Bohemia and Croatia, Apostolic King of Hungary & Duchess Elisabeth "Sisi" in Bavaria {1854}
Princess Alexandra of Kent & The Hon. Angus Ogilvy {1963}
Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands, Prince of Oranje-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg & Mabel Wisse Smit {2004}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut.
1558 Mary, Queen of Scots marries the Dauphin of France, Francois, at Notre Dame de Paris.
2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2006 King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTH
1533 Willem I "The Silent" of Orange (d.1584)
DEATHS
1185 Emperor Antoku of Japan
1338 Theodore I of Montferrat
1342 Pope Benedict XII
1736 Prince Eugene of Savoy
1986 Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
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