Feast Day of Saints Peter & Paul (Roman Catholic Church)
ROYAL BIRTHDAY
Prince Aristidis-Stavros of Greece + Denmark {2008} [son of Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, Prince of Denmark (son of King Constantine II of Greece)]
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
Princess Caroline of Monaco & Philippe Junot {1978} [religious] (divorced October 9, 1980; annulled 1992)
Fumihito, Prince Akishino of Japan & Kiko Kawashima {1990}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1194 Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1644 The English Civil Wars: King Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Copredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English king on English soil.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1397 King John II "the Faithless" of Aragon (d.1479)
1482 Queen consort Maria of Portugal + the Algarves, Infanta of Spain (d.1517)
1596 Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d.1680)
1911 Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Prince consort of the Netherlands, Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld (d.2004)
1926 Sheikh Jaber III Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d.2006)
1946 Prince Egon of Furstenberg (d.2004)
(pictured at left with his then-wife, Diane)
DEATHS
226 Cao Pi, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (China)
1059 Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
1252 King Abel of Denmark, Duke of Schleswig
1509 Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond + Derby, mother of King Henry VII of England
1875 Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, Croatia, Dalmatia, Slavonia, Galicia, + Illyria, King of Lombardy-Venetia, King of Jerusalem, Archduke of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany + Krakow, Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Silesia, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, + Teschen, Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia, Princely Count of Habsburg + Tyrol, etc etc (abdicated 1848)
1977 Elena "Magda" Lupescu, sometimes aka Princess Elena of Romania as the third wife of former King Carol II of Romania
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