Pentecost/Whit Sunday/Whitsun
ROYAL BIRTHDAY
Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg {1968} [wife of Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg (son of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg & brother of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg)]
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi of Iran & Yasmine Etemad Amini {1986}
Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Parma, Prince of Piacenza, Duke of Madrid & Annemarie Gualtherie van Weezel {2010} [civil]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1922 At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded - the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales' Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
1954 Pope Pius XII canonizes Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
1997 Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1107 Emperor Gaozong of China (d.1187)
1519 Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d.1574)
DEATHS
816 Pope Saint Leo III
1418 Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France
1675 Duke Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy
1758 Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia
1818 Emperor Egwale Seyon of Ethiopia
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