Feast of Saint Gertrude "the Great" [aka St. Gertrude of Helfta] (Roman Catholic)
International Day for Tolerance
Day of Declaration of Sovereignty in Estonia (1989)
Day of Repentance & Prayer (Protestant churches including Lutheran & Reformed/Calvinist; a school holiday in Saxony & Bavaria, Germany)
Icelandic Language Day in Iceland
ROYAL ENGAGEMENT ANNIVERSARY
Prince William of Wales & Catherine "Kate" Middleton {2010}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENT
1532 Francisco Pizzaro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
42 BC Tiberius Julius Caesar, 2nd Emperor of the Roman Empire (d.37 AD)
1436 Leonardo Loredan, Doge of the Republic of Venice (d.1521)
1836 King Kalakaua of Hawai'i, "The Merry Monarch" (d.1891)
DEATHS
1093 Queen Saint Margaret of Scotland
1272 King Henry III of England
1328 Prince Hisaaki of Japan (son of Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan)
1797 King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia, Elector of Brandenburg
1878 Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (b.1874) [granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland]
1907 Roberto I, Duke of Parma
1977 Princess Charlotte of Monaco, Duchess of Valentinois
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