Our Lady de la Breche, Chartres, France
Feast of St CuretánFeast of St Matilda, Queen of the FranksFeast of St Leobinus, Bishop of Chartres
- 44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live.
- 840 – Einhard, biographer of Blessed Charles the Great, died
- 1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
- 1571 – John Sigismund Zápolya, Hungarian king, died (b. 1540)
- 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
- 1757 – John Byng, English admiral and politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland executed for breach of the Articles of War, which mandated capital punishment for officers who did not do their utmost against the enemy, either in battle or pursuit. (b. 1704)
- 1791 - Prime Minister Pitt's The Constitutional Act gets Royal Assent; it will divide Canada into two parts, Lower and Upper; each province to have an Executive Council crown appointed, Lower Canada to have no fewer than fifteen members and Upper Canada no fewer than seven members, and each was to have a Legislative Assembly, the members for Lower Canada to be no less than fifty and for Upper Canada to be no less than sixteen; and it will grant one-seventh of the crown lands in each province "for the support and maintenance of a Protestant clergy within the same." The Act will be proclaimed at Quebec November 18, and goes into effect December 26.
- 1820 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, Freemason and revolutionary, born (d. 1878)
- 1836 – Isabella Beeton, English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, born (d. 1865) (I have a digital copy!-JW)
- 1844 – Umberto I of Italy, born (d. 1900)
- 1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
- 1958 – His Serene Highness The Sovereign Prince of Monaco Albert II, born
- 1989 – Her Imperial and Royal Majesty Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary died (b. 1892)
- 1997 -- 68 year old Gordie Howe signs an AHL contract with the Syracuse Crunch to play one game, and add another decade to his stellar career. The Iron Man of hockey, he played professionally in six different decades!
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