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28 - Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome
1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1418 - An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
1442 - King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples
1523 - Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested
1534 - Turkish adm Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap & plunder Naples
1552 - Land guardians of Netherlands attack Verdun
1553 - King Edward VI accept archbishop Cranmer's "42 Articles"
1560 - Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
1653 - - 13] First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard/ Battle at North Foreland, English fleet beats the Dutch
1665 - New Amsterdam renamed New York by English after Dutch pull out
1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City
1667 - -13] Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet
1672 - French army under Gen Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith
1673 - Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral
Famous Birthdays
1107 - Emperor Gaozong of China (d. 1187)
1468 - Juan del Encina, composer
1519 - Cosimo I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and art patron of Florence (d. 1574)
1526 - Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer
1577 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
1599 - Jan W van Brederode, governor (Hertogenbosch)/fieldmarshal
1659 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (d. 1719)
1771 - Patrick Gass, Falling Springs PA, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
1775 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
1777 - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
1795 - John Marston Jr, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1885
1798 - Samuel Cooper, Sect of War/General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1802 - Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist (d. 1876)
1806 - John A. Roebling, German-America civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
1812 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
Famous Weddings
1733 - King of Prussia Frederick the Great (21) weds duchess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (18) at Schloss Salzdahlum in Wolfenbüttel, Germany
1927 - Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi (53) weds Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali
1970 - Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood (22) weds Jenny Boyd (23)
1971 - Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
1994 - Astronaut Neil Armstrong marries 2nd wife Carol Held Knight
1997 - Rapper and actor Snoop Dogg (25) weds high school sweetheart Shante Taylor at The Ritz Carlton Hotel in Marina Del Rey, California
1999 - Actor and film director David Arquette (27) weds "Friends" actress Courteney Cox (34) at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, California
1999 - Former Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller (22) weds lawyer and ophthalmologist Chris Phillips (26) at Quail Springs Baptist Church in Oklahoma City
Famous Deaths
Passed Away Today
Actor Gregory PeckActor Gregory Peck (2003)
816 - Leo III, Italian Pope (795-816), dies
918 - Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians
1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
1036 - Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo
1231 - Antonius van Padua, [Fernando M de Bulhom], Port minister, dies at 35
1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
1435 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
1490 - Adriaan Vilain II of Rassegem, peace of Tours, murdered at about 39
1560 - Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
1560 - Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
1565 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
1567 - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
1616 - Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies
1647 - Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian
1675 - Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75), dies at 40
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