Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Princess Maria of Bulgaria, Princess of Vidin {1970} [wife of Prince Konstantin-Assen of Bulgaria, Prince of Vidin (son of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria)]
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Dom Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza & Isabel de Castro Curvelo de Heredia {1995}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1497 Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
1515 Mary Tudor, former Queen consort of France & Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich (after their secret marriage in France on March 3, 1515).
1568 Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
1861 America Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the Nazi invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1981 Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1254 Marie of Brabant, Queen consort of France (d.1321)
1655 Pope Innocent XIII (d.1724)
1717 Queen Maria Theresia of Hungary & Bohemia, Holy Roman Empress (d.1780)
1742 Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, Duchess of Teschen (d.1798)
1792 Blessed Pope Pius IX (d.1878)
1822 Francis, Duke of Cadiz, King consort of Spain (d.1902)
DEATHS
1176 Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine
1312 Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine
1742 Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
2008 Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir Father Sheikh of Kuwait
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