International Men's Day
Feast of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary (traditional, Roman Catholic calendar 1670-1969)
Flag Day in Brazil
Liberation Day in Mali (1968)
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Antonio "Kitin" Munoz y Valcarcel {1958} [husband of Princess Kalina of Bulgaria, Duchess of Saxony (daughter of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria)]
Princess Lalla Hasna of Morocco {1967} (sister of King Mohammed VI of Morocco)
Lady Davina Lewis {1977} [daughter of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1st cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)]
Pieter Anton van Vollenhoven {2008} [son of Prince Pieter-Christiaan of Orange-Nassau (nephew of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands)]
(shown above in light blue in the arms of his mother)
Prince Gaston of Orleans {2009} [son of Prince Jean of Orleans, Dauphin of France, Duke of Vendome (son of Prince Henri of Orleans, Count of Paris, Duke of France)]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1095 The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
1794 The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems leftover from the American Revolutionary War.
1942 Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda.
1947 King George VI of the United Kingdom creates Philip Mountbatten the Duke of Edinburgh in preparation for his wedding to the king's eldest daughter, Princess Elizabeth, the next day.
1954 Tele Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1464 Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d.1526)
1597 Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress consort of Brandenburg, Duchess consort of Prussia (d.1660)
1600 King Charles I of England, Scotland & Ireland (d.1649)
1835 Lakshmi Bai, Queen of Jhansi [the Maratha-ruled princely state in northern India] (d.1858)
DEATHS
498 Pope Anastasius II
1478 Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia
1557 Bona Sforza, Queen consort of Poland, Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania, Duchess of Bari, Princess of Rossano
1581 Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia, son of Tsar Ivan IV "the Terrible" of Russia
1682 Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Count Palatine of the Rhine [as Ruprecht], Duke of Bavaria, 1st Duke of Cumberland, 1st Earl of Holderness
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