Thursday, December 8, 2011

December 7

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day  (USA)


International Civil Aviation Day


Feast of Saint Ambrose  (Roman Catholic)


Armed Forces Flag Day in India  (1949)



Student Day in Iran



ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Queen Consort Tuanku Nur Zahirah [born Rozita] of Malaysia, Sultanah of Terengganu   {1973} (wife of King Mizan Zainal Abidin of Malaysia, Sultan of Terengganu)


Princess Bajrakitiyabha of Thailand   {1978} [daughter of Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand (son of King Bhumibol Adulyadej {Rama IX} of Thailand)]


Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands, Hereditary Princess of Orange, Princess of Orange-Nassau   {2003} [daughter of Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange (son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands)]



ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Prince Bertil of Sweden, Duke of Halland & Lilian [born Lillian] Davies Craig   {1976}










HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1962   Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils. 

1965   Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1545   Henry Stewart/Stuart, Lord Darnley, 1st Duke of Albany, Earl of Ross, King consort of Scotland, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, father of King James I/VI of England + Scotland (d.1567)


1724   Princess Louise/Louisa of Great Britain, Queen consort of Denmark + Norway (d.1751)


1803   Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, Queen consort of Spain (d.1829)



DEATHS

283   Pope Saint Eutychian


983   Otto II "the Red", Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, King of Italy


1254   Pope Innocent IV

1279   Boleslaw V "the Chaste/the Shy", High Duke of Poland, Duke of Sandomierz

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