Thursday, July 25, 2013
George Washington and Queen Elizabeth II
How I'm related to George Washington and Queen Elizabeth II
Because of the birth this week of Prince George, I am publishing this post in a somewhat incomplete condition. I plan to add dates, pictures, and other information.
Finding how one is connected to famous people is one of the fun parts of searching a family tree, even if the connection may be a little distant.
Because of the marriage of my uncle, Clair Seaton, to Gladys Joplin, many of the present and former residents of Coulee City can also be linked through these lines, although even more distantly.
Here is the sequence of relatives:
I am the son of Margaret Seaton,
who was the daughter of Samuel Jones Seaton,
who was the son of Thomas B. Seaton,
who was the son of Hiram "Pegleg" Seaton,
who was the son of James C. Seaton,
who was the son of Francis Seaton,
who was the son of Elizabeth Kenner,
who was the daughter of Margaret Eskridge,
who was the daughter of Col. George Eskridge,
who was the father of Elizabeth Eskridge (half sister of Margaret Eskridge)
who was the mother of Anne Aylett, (who married Richard Henry Lee)
who was the mother of Hanna Lee, (who married Corbin Washington)
who was the mother of Bushrod Corbin Washington (my 3rd cousin 5x removed)
who was the son of Corbin Washington,
who was the son of John Augustine Washington (younger brother of George Washington)
who was the son of Augustine Washington,
who was the son of Mildred Warner,
who was the daughter of Augustine Warner, Jr.,
who was the father of Mary Warner,
who was the mother of Mildred Smith,
who was the mother of Robert Porteus,
who was the father of Mildred Porteus,
who was the mother of Robert Hodgson,
who was the father of Henrietta Mildre Hodgson,
who was the mother of Frances Dora Smith
who was the mother of Claude George Bowes-Lyon (14th Earl of Strathmore)
who was the father of Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon,
who was the mother of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
(4th cousin 5x removed of Bushrod Corbin Washington)
who is the mother of Charles, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales,
who is the father of His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales,
who is the father of Prince George of Cambridge
(4th cousin 8x removed of Bushrod Corbin Washington)
Here are a coupel of sites in connection with the above:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324783204578624044226676364.html?mod=e2fb#project%3DUKROYALS%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive
Peerage:
http://thepeerage.com/p10083.htm#i100830
Saturday, July 13, 2013
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Friday, July 12, 2013
COMING EVENTS
Selected church, community, cultural, educational, religious, and social events
See also http://www.spokane7.com/calendar/
posted June 10, 2013:
The Spokane Valley Heritage Museum, 12114 E. Sprague Ave., is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors, $4 for students and $4 for children 18 and younger. The museum is looking for volunteers, donations and historical photos. Contact the museum at (509) 922-4570 or visit the Website www.valleyheritagecenter.org.
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Free Access Day at Washington State Parks: All day Saturday and Sunday, Washington State Parks. No Discovery Pass needed for National Get Outdoors Day and Department of Fish and Wildlife Free Fishing at Washington State Parks. (360) 902-8844.
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First Friday on Garland Visit your favorite Garland District stores and watering holes, featuring local artists all month. Meet the artist, mingle with other creatives and enjoy the district’s nightlife. Today, 5-9 p.m., Garland Business District, east of Monroe on Garland Avenue. Free. (509) 216-4300.
Bird Walk and Talk Come listen to and look for spring birds in their breeding plumage on a walk around the Pine Lakes and Headquarters Pond. Please bring binoculars and water. For more information or reservations, call Marian Frobe at (509) 328-0621. Saturday, 8 a.m., Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, 26010 South Smith Road, Cheney. $5 suggested donation.
Spokane Felts Field Neighbor Day Third annual event. Bring the family for a fun day celebrating aircraft and historic Felts Field (est. 1927). Tour classic airplanes, marvel at pilots’ skills in formation flyovers, view lots of aircraft, even take a biplane ride for a fee. Food is available at EAA hangar and The Skyway Cafe. In the 1930s and 1940s Felts Field served as Spokane’s municipal airport. The terminal and other buildings on the grounds are on the National Register of Historic Places. Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Felts Field, 6105 E. Rutter Ave., Spokane. Free. (800) 493-7515
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‘Somethin’ ’bout an Old Farm Truck’
What: An exhibit of photography by Jonathan Sachs, including aerial photographs of the Palouse and images of Dave Jones’ old trucks in Sprague, Wash. A book about the project, “Dave’s Old Truck Rescue,” will be available for sale.
When: Through June 30.
Where: Artisans at the Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way, Uniontown, Wash.
Call: (509) 229-3414
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Lind’s combine demolition derby returns
The Lind Combine Demolition Derby is an unmatched tradition in the area.
For more than two decades the farm implements that once worked the local fields and eventually fell victim to age or technology, have been converted into racing machines. The event attracts a dedicated fan base along with those interested in seeing what has been featured on national television as an alternative to the more traditional automobile carnage.
Spurred by a local farmer who hoped to get one last hurrah out of his equipment, the derby is organized by the Lind Lions Club and is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Adams County with more than 5,000 in attendance. The combine demolition derby is Saturday. This year’s event also features an automobile demo derby tonight and wraps up on Sunday afternoon with a soap box derby at Smart’s Hill.
Pushing for glory and trophies is nice but for this unique style of motor sports, a payout of more than $10,000 is an added reason to convert a combine into a stunning piece of racing hardware. Style is also part of the game as combines are displayed for fan support in a best-decorated contest.
Additional festivities include grain truck and pickup truck racing inside the Lind Arena, which is located one mile off Highway 395. For tickets and other information go online towww.lindwa.com.
Today: Automobile Demolition Derby, 6 p.m.
Saturday: Pick-up and Grain Truck races, Combine Demolition Derby, 2 p.m.
Sunday: Soap Box Derby, 2 p.m.
26th Combine Demolition Derby Today and Saturday. Saturday morning includes a kiddie parade, grand parade and barbecue. Afternoon events begin at 1:30 p.m. with pick-up races followed by the annual Combine Demolition Derby, grain truck races and pickup finals. Soap box races conclude the weekend activities Sunday afternoon. $15. (509) 660-0275.
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Free Museum Admission for Military Families Active duty military personnel and their families enjoy free admission to more than 1,800 Blue Star museums across America through Sept. 2. Participating local museums include: Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 W. First Ave., Spokane, (509) 456-3931; Cheney Historical Museum, 420 First St., Cheney, (509) 235-9015; Post Falls Historical Society, 101 E. Fourth Ave., Post Falls; Museum of North Idaho, 115 Northwest Blvd., Coeur d’Alene, (208) 755-1308. The complete list of participating museums is available at www.arts.gov/bluestarmuseums. Free.
Grand Coulee Dam featured
Exhibit at Valley museum focuses on history of the region and dam
‘Misquoting Jesus’
Author and scholar Bart D. Ehrman lectures on inconsistencies in the New Testament; includes time for a question-and-answer session and book signing, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23 at Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. Free
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May 24-26
Friday -- Bullarama @ 7pm.
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May 25
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June 7, 8 & 9, 2013
Soap Lake Powwow
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August 8-11, 2013
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continuing
Free Museum Admission for Military Families Active duty military personnel and their families enjoy free admission to more than 1,800 Blue Star museums across America through Sept. 2. Participating local museums include: Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 W. First Ave., Spokane, (509) 456-3931; Cheney Historical Museum, 420 First St., Cheney, (509) 235-9015; Post Falls Historical Society, 101 E. Fourth Ave., Post Falls; Museum of North Idaho, 115 Northwest Blvd., Coeur d’Alene, (208) 755-1308. The complete list of participating museums is available at www.arts.gov/bluestarmuseums. Free.
Grand Coulee Dam featured
Exhibit at Valley museum focuses on history of the region and dam
The exhibit opens Friday (March 15) at the Spokane Valley Heritage Museum. Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors, $4 for children 7 to 17, children 6 and younger are free. The museum, located at 12114 E. Sprague Ave., is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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through August 25
The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture has won an Award of Excellence from the Washington Museum Association for its “David Douglas: A Naturalist at Work” exhibit.
According to a MAC news release, the winning museum “must have exhibited the ability to set standards of leadership through outstanding service, established precedent, fulfilled mission and purpose, showed marked improvement, and provided an extended level of service to the community served.”
The award will be presented at the association’s conference in June, in Ellensburg.
The exhibit, which runs through Aug. 25, was created by senior curator of history Marsha Rooneyand guest curators Jack and Claire Nisbet. After its run at the MAC concludes, the exhibit will travel to the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma, where it will be on display from Sept. 21 through Feb. 23, 2014.
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through August 25
The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture has won an Award of Excellence from the Washington Museum Association for its “David Douglas: A Naturalist at Work” exhibit.
According to a MAC news release, the winning museum “must have exhibited the ability to set standards of leadership through outstanding service, established precedent, fulfilled mission and purpose, showed marked improvement, and provided an extended level of service to the community served.”
The award will be presented at the association’s conference in June, in Ellensburg.
The exhibit, which runs through Aug. 25, was created by senior curator of history Marsha Rooneyand guest curators Jack and Claire Nisbet. After its run at the MAC concludes, the exhibit will travel to the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma, where it will be on display from Sept. 21 through Feb. 23, 2014.
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Sunday Street Market - Open-air market with vendors. Sundays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 2302 N. Argonne Road, Millwood. Free admission. (509) 217-4381.
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Scholar to discuss views on inadequacies, realities of Scriptures
Tracy Simmons
Sunday Street Market - Open-air market with vendors. Sundays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 2302 N. Argonne Road, Millwood. Free admission. (509) 217-4381.
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Scholar to discuss views on inadequacies, realities of Scriptures
Tracy Simmons
‘Misquoting Jesus’
Author and scholar Bart D. Ehrman lectures on inconsistencies in the New Testament; includes time for a question-and-answer session and book signing, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23 at Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. Free
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May 24-26
Coulee City Last Stand Rodeo
Friday -- Bullarama @ 7pm.
Saturday -- Cowboy Breakfast @ 7am / Cowpie Jog @ 8am / Parade down Mainstreet @ 11am / PRCA RODEO @ 7pm.
Sunday -- Slack @ 8am / PRCA RODEO @ 2pm.
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May 25
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June 7, 8 & 9, 2013
Soap Lake Powwow
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August 8-11, 2013
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July 12 in history
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Birthdays
Notable
Henry David Thoreau (1817, d.1862)
Family
Henry Taschereau (1900, d. 1976)
Coulee City
In memoriam
Anniversaries
Henry Taschereau (1900, d. 1976)
Coulee City
In memoriam
Anniversaries
Thursday, July 11, 2013
July 11 in history
472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in the St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
911 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.
1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) – a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army.
1346 – Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans.
1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1476 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
1740 – Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
1750 – Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.
1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established by an act of Congress. They had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1804 – A duel occurs at Weehawken, N.J. in which the U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds longtime political foe Alexander Hamilton, the former first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
1833 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
1847 – Songwriter Stephen Foster's first major hit, "Oh! Susanna," was performed for the first time, in a Pittsburgh saloon. It soon became a standard for minstrel shows.
1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens.
1859 – Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities was published.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
1882 – The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.
1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
1895 – Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists.
1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
1906 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox.
1914 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched.
1919 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
1921 – A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
1921 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
1921 – Former President of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1924 – Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday
1930 – Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.
1934 – Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
1940 – World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
1941 – The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
1943 – World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
1950 – Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
1952 – U.S. Army Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was nominated as the Republican presidential candidate, with Richard Nixon as his running mate. They were elected that November.
1955 – The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado was dedicated, with 300 cadets in its first class.
1957 – Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai'li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
1960 – France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger.
1960 – Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
1971 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
1973 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking on flights.
1977 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1978 – Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
1979 – America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean after six years in orbit, scattering tons of debris across the Australian desert.
1990 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
1991 – Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killing all 261 passengers and crew on board
1995 – The Srebrenica massacre is carried out by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić.
1995 – The United States resumed diplomatic relations with Vietnam.
2006 – Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
2010 – July 2010 Kampala attacks: At least 74 people are killed in twin suicide bombings at two locations in Kampala, Uganda.
2011 – An overloaded Russian cruise ship with a malfunctioning engine capsized in the Volga River during a thunderstorm and quickly sank, killing 122 people. There were 79 survivors.
2011 – Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion: Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus.
2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1997 is adopted, authorising the withdrawal of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) by August 31, 2011.
2012 – Astronomers announce the discovery of Styx, the fifth moon of Pluto.
2013 – Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane said she wouldn't defend the state's ban against same-sex marriage. Kane, a Democrat, said, "It is now the time here in Pennsylvania to end another wave of discrimination." In May 2014, a federal judge struck down the Pennsylvania ban.
2014 – NBA superstar LeBron James, who left Cleveland for Miami in 2010 and led the Heat to two titles, announced he was returning to the Cavaliers. James, who grew up in Akron, Ohio, said on Sports Illustrated's website: "My relationship with northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now."
2014 – NBA superstar LeBron James, who left Cleveland for Miami in 2010 and led the Heat to two titles, announced he was returning to the Cavaliers. James, who grew up in Akron, Ohio, said on Sports Illustrated's website: "My relationship with northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now."
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Cyril, Bishop of Moravia, and Methodius, Bishop of Kieff, Confessors. Double.
Commemoration of St. Pius I, Pope and Martyr.
Commemoration of St. Pius I, Pope and Martyr.
Contemporary Western
Benedict of Nursia
Olga of Kiev
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Great martyr Euphemia the All-praised (451)
Blessed Equal-to-the-Apostles Olga, princess of Russia, named Helen in holy baptism (969)
Hieromartyr Cindeus of Pamphylia (4th century)
Saint Nicodemus of Vatopedi on Mount Athos (14th century)
Martyr Nicodemus of Mt. Athos (1722)
Martyr Nectarius of St. Anne's Skete on Mount Athos
Saint Leo of Mandra, monk
Martyr Martyrocles
Blessed Equal-to-the-Apostles Olga, princess of Russia, named Helen in holy baptism (969)
Hieromartyr Cindeus of Pamphylia (4th century)
Saint Nicodemus of Vatopedi on Mount Athos (14th century)
Martyr Nicodemus of Mt. Athos (1722)
Martyr Nectarius of St. Anne's Skete on Mount Athos
Saint Leo of Mandra, monk
Martyr Martyrocles
Pre-Schism Western Saints
St. Drostan, founder and first Abbot of Deer in Aberdeenshire.
He is counted amongst the Apostles of Scotland
St. Thurketyl, the brother of King Edred of England who restored
Crowland Abbey and then served as its abbot
He is counted amongst the Apostles of Scotland
St. Thurketyl, the brother of King Edred of England who restored
Crowland Abbey and then served as its abbot
Other commemorations
Repose of cave dweller Anastasia of St. Cornelius of Padan
Hermitage in Olonets (1901)
Hermitage in Olonets (1901)
July 10 in history
48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
138 – Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
645 – Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
988 – The Norse King Glun Iarainn recognises Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark killed by rebellious peasants.
1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
1499 – The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
1519 – Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhengde a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
1553 – Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed the successor to King Edward VI on this day in 1553, beginning her reign as the "Nine Days' Queen".
1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
1832 – The U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1850 – U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming President upon Zachary Taylor's death.
1869 – Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
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1913 – The Treaty of Versailles is delivered to the Senate by President Woodrow Wilson.
1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
1925 – Scopes Trial: The so-called Monkey Trial, in which John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, was accused of teaching evolution in violation of state law (Butler Act), began in Dayton, Tennessee, featuring a classic confrontation between William Jennings Bryan, the three-time presidential candidate and fundamentalist hero, and legendary defense attorney Clarence Darrow.
1927 – Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
1940 – World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain: The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested).
1941 – Jedwabne Pogrom: The massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
1942 – Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
1942 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
1943 – World War II: The Allies launched the invasion of Sicily, also known as Operation Husky.
1946 – Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit, and begins relaying TV pictures between the United States and Europe.
1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
1967 – Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1967 – New Zealand adopts decimal currency.
1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
1973 – John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1976 – The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1978 – ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
1985 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
1985 – An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
1985 – Coca-Cola, besieged by consumers dissatisfied with the new Coke introduced in April, dusted off the old formula and dubbed it "Coca-Cola Classic."
1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
1991 – Boris Yeltsin is inaugurated as the first freely elected president of the Russian republic.
1992 – In Miami, Florida, the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1997 – In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1998 – Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
1999 – The U.S. team won the Women's World Cup in soccer, defeating China in the final on penalty kicks.
2000 – EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
2007 – Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
2009 – General Motors completed its race through bankruptcy with the signing of a contract with the U.S. government, which got 61 percent of the company. The recovery plan included considerable shrinkage, including the closing of factories and layoffs of 21,000 union workers.
2011 – Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths.
2011 – Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, Britain's best-selling weekly newspaper, abruptly ceased publication amid allegations that its reporters and investigators had hacked into telephones of royalty, politicians, celebrities, homicide victims, families of fallen soldiers and others to illegally gain material for stories.
2012 – An Israeli court acquitted former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of corruption but found him guilty of breach of trust. The charges stemmed from a period before he was PM.
2014 – Hamas, responding to Israeli airstrikes against Palestinian militants in Gaza, released a video saying it would carry out terrorist attacks in Israel. The narrator said, "Wait for suicide attacks on every bus, cafe and street."
2012 – An Israeli court acquitted former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of corruption but found him guilty of breach of trust. The charges stemmed from a period before he was PM.
2014 – Hamas, responding to Israeli airstrikes against Palestinian militants in Gaza, released a video saying it would carry out terrorist attacks in Israel. The narrator said, "Wait for suicide attacks on every bus, cafe and street."
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
The Seven Brethren and the Holy Virgins Rufina and Secunda, Martyrs. Semi-double.
Contemporary Western
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Venerable Anthony of the Caves, Founder of Monasticism in Russia (1073)
Martyr Nicodemus the Albanian of Elbasan
Martyrs Leontius, Maurice, Daniel, Anthony, Alexander, Anicetus, Sisinius,
Meneus, Belerad (Verelad), and 44 others at Nicopolis in Armenia (319)
Martyrs Bianor and Silvanus of Pisidia (4th century)
Martyr Apollonius of Sardis, Lydia (3rd century)
10,000 Fathers of the desert and caves of Scetis martyred by the impious
Patriarch Theophilus of Alexandria (398)
Saint Joseph of Damascus (1860)
Martyr Nicodemus the Albanian of Elbasan
Martyrs Leontius, Maurice, Daniel, Anthony, Alexander, Anicetus, Sisinius,
Meneus, Belerad (Verelad), and 44 others at Nicopolis in Armenia (319)
Martyrs Bianor and Silvanus of Pisidia (4th century)
Martyr Apollonius of Sardis, Lydia (3rd century)
10,000 Fathers of the desert and caves of Scetis martyred by the impious
Patriarch Theophilus of Alexandria (398)
Saint Joseph of Damascus (1860)
Other commemorations
The placing of the Precious Robe of the Lord at Moscow (1625)
"Konevits" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
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