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This Day in History for Wednesday 16th May 2012

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 15 of 244

955 - Alberich II, (bastard?) son of Octavianus elected pope
1165 - Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
1204 - Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1527 - Florence becomes a republic
1532 - Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor
1547 - Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg
1568 - Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England
1571 - Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
1584 - 7 Westfriese towns divide monasteries of Egmond/Blokker/St-Pietersdal
1605 - Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V
1606 - 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia
1648 - Battle at Zolty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir
1747 - Prince Willem V sworn in as admiral-general of Neth
1763 - James Boswell's 1st meeting with Samuel Johnson
1763 - Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London

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Famous Birthdays

Born Today

Actor Pierce Brosnan (1953)

Birthdays 1 - 15 of 225

1558 - Andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600)
1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
1609 - Ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands
1641 - Dudley North, financier/economist
1659 - Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist
1710 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)
1718 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
1748 - Antonius van Alphen, apostolic vicar of De Bosch
1761 - John Opie, artist
1763 - Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)
1782 - John Sell Cotman, water color artist
1788 - Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)
1801 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)
1804 - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten)
1806 - George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879

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Famous Deaths

Passed Away Today

Fairytale writer Charles Perrault (1703)

Deaths 1 - 15 of 104

583 - Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
942 - Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies
1265 - Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)
1434 - Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60
1569 - Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr
1620 - William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)
1657 - Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1667 - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
1669 - Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies
1669 - Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42
1691 - Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason
1703 - Charles Perrault, French author/fairy tale writer, dies at 75
1754 - Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer, dies at 76
1762 - Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer, dies at 86
1768 - Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81