Monday, May 2, 2011

April 30

April 30

Queen's Day (the Netherlands)

Walpurgisnacht/Walpurgis Night (Central & Northern Europe)

Feast of Saint Catherine of Siena (traditional)


ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven   {1939} [husband of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands)]

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden   {1946}

Miguel Urdangarin y de Borbon   {2002} [son of Infanta Cristina of Spain (daughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain)]



ACCESSION ANNIVERSARY

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands   {1980}




HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1988   Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland officially opens World Expo '88 in Brisbane, Australia.
2008   Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.
2009   Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1245   King Philippe III of France (d.1285)

1553   Louise de Lorraine-Vaudemont, Queen consort of France (d.1601)

1662   Queen Mary II of England, Scotland & Ireland (d.1694)

1909   Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d.2004)



DEATHS

1030   Mahmud of Ghazni, ruler of the Ghaznavid Dynasty of India
1063   Emperor Renzong of China
1341   Jean III, Duke of Brittany
1555   Pope Marcellus II
1632   King Sigismund I of Sweden (Sigismund III Vasa of Poland & Lithuania)
1847   Archduke Karl of Austria, Duke of Teschen

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