April 18

April 18

Tax Day 2011 in the USA!  Hope everyone sent in their state & federal tax returns on time!

Passover begins at sundown April 18, 2011 and is celebrated until April 25/26. [Jewish]

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Sayako Kuroda   {1969} [formerly Princess Nori (Sayako) of Japan, daughter of Emperor Akihito of Japan]

Princess Annette of Oranje-Nassau   {1972}

Princess Haya bint Al Hamzah of Jordan   {2007} [daughter of Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan]


ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

King Hussein of Jordan & Sharifa Dina bint 'Abdu'l-Hamid   {1955} [divorced June 24, 1957]

Prince Rainier III of Monaco & Grace Kelly   {1956} [civil]

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1025   Boleslaw Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.

1518   Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1480   Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler & daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d.1519)

1590   Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d.1617)

1917   Princess Frederica of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (d.1981)

DEATHS

1558   Roxelana, wife of Suleiman I the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

1945   Prince Wilhelm of Wied, sovereign Prince of Albania (King Vidit I of Albania)