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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