Today in History on This Day Saturday 30th November 2013 Historical Events Events 1 - 15 306 - St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 722 - Pope Gregory II names Boniface as missionary bishop 1016 - Cnut (or Canute), king of Denmark, claims the English throne the death of Edmund Ironside. 1215 - Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen 1406 - Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII 1523 - Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics 1554 - England reconciles with Pope Julius III 1630 - 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague 1648 - English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I 1678 - Roman Catholics banned from English parliament 1700 - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia at Narva [NS] 1700 - Turkey declares war on Russia 1700 - Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/IJsselstein go on Gregoria calendar 1731 - Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die 1735 - States of Holland forbid Free Masonry Todays Historical Events » Famous Birthdays Born Today Chronicler/Bishop Gregory of ToursChronicler/Bishop Gregory of Tours (538) Birthdays 1 - 15 538 - St Gregory of Tours, Auvergne, Gaul, chronicler/bishop (Historia Francorum), (d. 594) 1340 - John duke of Berry, captain of Paris/art collector 1364 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390) 1373 - Ferdinand I, the Righteous, king of Aragon/Sicily 1427 - Kazimierz IV, king of Poland (1447-92) 1466 - Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman/admiral 1485 - Veronica Gambara, Italian poetess 1498 - Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568) 1508 - Andrea Palladio, [Andrea di Pietro della Gondola], architect 1554 - Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia) 1593 - Johann Dilliger, composer 1594 - John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672) 1622 - Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized 1625 - Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696) 1634 - Andres de Sola, composer Todays Famous Birthdays » Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 6 1940 - I Love Lucy actress Lucille Ball (28) weds actor Desi Arnaz (23) in Greenwich, Connecticut 1973 - Science fiction author Issac Asimov marries 2nd wife psychoanalyst and science fiction author Janet Jeppson 1973 - Sci-fi author Isaac Asimov (53) weds author Janet Jeppson (47) 1996 - Multimillionaire and top-selling female suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark (67) weds Merrill Lynch Futures retired CEO John Conheeney (67) in Saddle River, New Jersey 1996 - All My Children actress-model Eva LaRue (29) weds John Callahan (42) under a 500-year-old banyan tree at Koele in Lanai, Hawaii 2005 - Only Fools and Horses actor David Jason (65) weds Gill Hinchcliffe at Buckingham Palace in London Todays Famous Weddings » Famous Deaths Passed Away Today Writer/Poet Oscar WildeWriter/Poet Oscar Wilde (1900) Deaths 1 - 15 1016 - Edmund II, Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27 1519 - Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85 1528 - Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded 1580 - Richard Farrant, English composer 1626 - Thomas Weelkes, English composer 1631 - Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels, dies 1646 - John C Lichthart, admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45 1654 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (b. 1584) 1675 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605) 1678 - Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71), dies at 67 1679 - Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45 1694 - Marcello Malpighi, father of microscopic anatomy, dies 1700 - Artus II Quellinus [Quellien/the Young], Flemish sculptor, dies at 75 1703 - Nicolas de Grigny, composer, dies at 31 1705 - Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
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