Feast of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (Roman Catholic)
World Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Independence Day in Suriname (1975)
National Day [Statehood Day] in Bosnia + Herzegovina
Teacher's Day {Hari Guru} in Indonesia
ROYAL BIRTHDAY
Infante Dinis, Duke of Porto {1999} (son of Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza)
(the shortest son, pictured in front of his mother, next to his sister)
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
571 BC Servius Tullius, King of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
1034 Mael Coluim mac Cinaeda {Malcolm II}, King of Scots, dies. Donnchad, the son of his daughter Bethoc and Crinan of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
1120 The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adeline, Duke of Normandy, son of King Henry I of England.
1177 King Baldwin IV "the Leper" of Jerusalem and Raynald [Renaud/Reynaud] of Chatillon defeat Saladin [Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub], Sultan of Egypt + Syria, at the Battle of Montgisard.
1755 King Fernando VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Campania de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
1795 Partitions of Poland: King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski of Poland, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
1905 Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1454 Queen Catherine/Caterina Cornaro of Cyprus (d.1510)
1609 Queen consort Henrietta Maria of England, Scotland + Ireland, Princess of France (d.1669)
1638 Queen consort Catherine of England, Scotland + Ireland, Infanta [as Catarina of Braganza] of Portugal, Princess of Beira (d.1705)
1868 Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (d.1937)
1876 Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg + Gotha [until 1893 Princess of Edinburgh, Princess of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland, Duchess of Saxony], then Grand Duchess consort of Hesse and by Rhine (1894-1901), and lastly Grand Duchess Viktoria Feordorovna of Russia (d.1936)
1881 Pope John XXIII (d.1963)
1920 King Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamallulail of Malaysia {reigned 1960-1965}, Raja of Perlis (d.2000)
DEATHS
1034 King Malcolm II of Scotland {Mael Coluim mac Cinaeda}
1120 William Adelin, Duke of Normandy, son of King Henry I of England
1185 Pope Lucius III
1326 Prince Koreyasu of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan
1374 Emperor Philip II of Constantinople, Prince of Taranto + Achaea
1885 King Alfonso XII of Spain
1957 Prince George of Greece + Denmark
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