Eid al-Adha (Islam)
Saint Demetrius' Day (Coptic Church & Serbian Orthodox Church following the Julian calendar)
ROYAL BIRTHDAY
Lady Louise [Mountbatten-]Windsor (technically Princess Louise of Wessex) {2003} [daughter of The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (son of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)]
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Prince Nikola/Nicholas I of Montenegro & Milena Vukotic {1860} (in 1910 they were made King and Queen consort of Montenegro)
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1745 Prince Charles Edward Stuart {aka Bonnie Prince Charlie/the Young Pretender) invades England with an army of ~5,000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
1965 The Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
1977 Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of King Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
30 Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (d.98)
1622 King Karl X Gustav of Sweden, Duke of Bremen + Verden (d.1660)
1715 Princess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Queen consort of Prussia (d.1797)
1768 Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, Princess of Hanover (d.1840)
1777 Queen consort Desideria {Desiree} of Sweden + Norway (formerly Desiree Clary, one-time fiancee of Napoleon Bonaparte) (d.1860)
1893 King Prajadhipok (Rama VII) of Siam [Thailand] (d.1941)
DEATHS
911 King Louis "the Child" of the East Franks [East Francia] (b.893)
955 Pope Agapetus II
1171 Baldwin IV, Count of Hainault
1195 Conrad Hohenstaufen, Count Palatine of the Rhine
1226 King Louis VIII "the Lion" of France, Count of Artois
1246 Princess Berengaria of Castile (Queen regent of Castile in June 6 - Aug 31, 1217; Queen consort of Leon 1197-1204)
1830 King Francesco I of the Two Sicilies
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