Feast of Pope Saint Leo I "the Great" (Roman Catholic calendar post-1969)
Heroes' Day in Indonesia (1945)
World Immunization Day
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Prince Leopold of Belgium, Duke of Brabant & Princess Astrid of Sweden {1926} [religious] (the future King Leopold III & Queen consort Astrid of the Belgians)
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1293 Raden Wijaya is crowned the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.
1444 Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna {aka King Wladyslaw III of Poland, King Ulaszlo of Hungary, King Vladislav of Croatia} are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
1520 King Christian II of Denmark executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
2007 "Por que no te callas? [Why don't you just shut up?]" incident between King Juan Carlos I of Spain and President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1433 Duke Charles "the Bold/the Rash" of Burgundy (d.1477)
1480 Princess Bridget of York, daughter of King Edward IV of England (d.1517)
1668 Louis III, Prince of Conde, Duke of Bourbon (d.1710)
1683 King George II of Great Britain + Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Archtreasurer & Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire (d.1760) {Nov. 9 is the New Style date; Old Style date in Oct. 30}
DEATHS
901 Queen consort Adelaide of the West Franks {West Francia}
1241 Pope Celestine IV
1444 King Vladislaus of Varna, King of Poland, Hungary + Croatia {Wladyslaw/Ulaszlo/Vladislav}
1549 Pope Paul III
1673 King Michal of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania [as Mykolas], Grand Duke of Ruthenia, Prussia, Livonia, Smolensk, + Kiev
1964 Prince Pierre of Monaco, Duke of Valentinois, Count of Polignac
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