July 4
Independence Day (aka The Fourth of July), USA
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Queen Sonja of Norway {1937} (wife of King Harald V of Norway)
Prince Michael of Kent {1942} (1st cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)
Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand {1957} (daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej "Rama IX" of Thailand)
Princess Rayet bint Al Hashim of Jordan {2008} [daughter of Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein of Jordan (half-brother of King Abdullah II of Jordan)]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1120 Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
1187 The Crusades: Battle of Hattin - Saladin (Sultan of Egypt + Syria, etc) defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
1253 Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes, Count of Hainaut defeats Guy of Dampierre, Count of Flanders.
1534 Christian III is elected King of Denmark + Norway in the town of Rye.
1918 Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
1918 [July 4 - Julian calendar date] Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife and children.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1546 Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d.1595)
1799 King Oscar I of Sweden + Norway (d.1859)
1918 King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (d.2006)
DEATHS
907 Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
943 Emperor Taejo of the Goryeo Dynasty (Korea)
965 Pope Benedict V
1780 Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine
1931 Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy-Aosta, 2nd Duke of Aosta
2011 Archduke Otto of Austria, Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary, Croatia + Bohemia, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary, Croatia + Bohemia, etc.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
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