Today in History
• 1027 - John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor
• 1147 - Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
• 1484 - William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables
• 1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru
• 1668 - England takes control of Bombay India
• 1780 - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears
• 1790 - US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
• 1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• British Summer Time Begins
• Epilepsy Awareness / Purple Day
• Independence Day of Bangladesh
• Live Long and Prosper Day
• National Spinach Day
• Prince Kuhio Day
• Wear A Hat Day
• World Purple Day
Birthdays
• 1479 - Vasili III of Russia, Great Prince of Moscow (1505-33), son of Ivan III
• 1577 - Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I and Charlotte of Bourbon
• 1749 - William Blount, American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution
• 1753 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor
• 1821 - Earnest Angel, German statistician, Law of Angel
• 1856 - David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda
• 1863 - Henry Royce, founder, Rolls-Royce Limited in 1884
• 1868 - Fuad I, king of Egypt, 1922-36