Independence Day in Sri Lanka (1948)
ROYAL BIRTHDAY
Princess Marie Helene "Marilene" of Orange-Nassau {1970} [wife of Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau (nephew of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands)]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
211 Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarreling sons.
960 The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song China takes place, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
DEATHS
211 Emperor Septimius Severus of the Roman Empire
708 Pope Sisinnius
1694 Tsaritsa consort Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina of Russia
2002 Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg {previously Prince of Sweden, Duke of Uppland}
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