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This Day in History for Wednesday 30th April 2014
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Historical Events
Events 1 - 15 of 211311 - Emperor Galerius legally recognizes Christianity in the Roman Empire
313 - Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule.
711 - Islamic conquest of Iberia: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1064 - German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland
1315 - Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon.
1349 - Jewish community at Radolszell, Germany, exterminated
1396 - Crusaders & Earl of Nevers depart from Dijon
1483 - Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503.
1492 - Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
1492 - Spain announces it will expels all Jews
1506 - Philip of Burgundy & England sign trade agreement
1527 - England & France sign Treaty of Westminster to end the War of the League of Cognac
1562 - 1st French colonists in North America: Jean Ribault & colonists arrive in Florida
1563 - Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
1598 - 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
Famous Birthdays
Born Today
Jurist John Peters Humphrey (1905)
Birthdays 1 - 15 of 2011245 - King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
1309 - Kazimierz III de Great, King of Poland (1333-70)
1553 - Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, queen of France (d. 1601)
1602 - William Lilly, England, astrologer/author/almanac compiler
1651 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theorist/saint
1662 - Queen Mary II of England (d. 1694)
1664 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)
1710 - Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (d. 1795)
1717 - Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
1723 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806)
1743 - Robert Jasper van de Capellen, master of Marsch/politician
1767 - Jean Henri Appelius, lawyer/minister of Finance
1770 - David Thompson, English/Canadian explorer (Columbia River)
1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematician
1790 - John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrialist
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 9 of 91290 - Joan of Acre (18), daughter of Edward I marries (1) Gilbert de Clare, Duke of Hertford at Westminster Abbey.
1937 - General Douglas MacArthur (57) marries 2nd wife Jean Faircloth
1961 - Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR
1988 - Actor Tom Hanks (31) weds actress Rita Wilson (31)
1994 - Soccer great Pele (53) weds psychologist Assiria Seixas Lemos (36)
1997 - Actor Max Von Sydow (68) weds filmmaker Catherine Brelet
2007 - "Timbiriche" pop singer Paulina Rubio (35) weds Spanish public relations executive Nicolas "Colate" Vallejo Najera in Cancun, Quintana Roo
2008 - Singer-songwriter Mariah Carey (41) weds actor and rapper Nick Cannon (31) at Bahamian estate on the island of Windermere
2011 - Actor Lorenzo Lamas (53) weds model Shawna Craig at Casa Dorada Resort in Cabo, San Lucas
Famous Deaths
Passed Away Today
Impressionist painter Edouard Manet (1883)
Deaths 1 - 15 of 13065 - Lucan, Roman poet (b. 39)
313 - Gaius G V Maximus, [Daia], Emperor of Rome, dies
535 - Amalaswintha, queen of Ostrogoten, murdered
1030 - Mohammud van Ghazna, Turkish mayor (G'widen)/Islamic ruler, dies
1063 - Emperor Renzong of China (b. 1010)
1131 - Adjutor, Roman Catholic Saint
1196 - Boudouin II, bishop of Utrecht (1178-96), dies
1214 - Huguccio/Hugo van Pisa, Italian bishop, dies
1328 - ... Eckhard, German theologist/mystic, dies
1341 - John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1285)
1439 - Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (b. 1382)
1524 - Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)
1544 - Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England
1630 - Ercole Porta, composer, dies at 44
1632 - Jean de Tilly, fieldmarshal, dies
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