Wednesday, June 15, 2011

June 12

June 12

Pentecost/Whit Sunday/Whitsun


ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg   {1968} [wife of Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg (son of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg & brother of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg)]



ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi of Iran & Yasmine Etemad Amini   {1986}









Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Parma, Prince of Piacenza, Duke of Madrid & Annemarie Gualtherie van Weezel   {2010} [civil]







HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1922   At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded - the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales' Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

1954   Pope Pius XII canonizes Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

1997   Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.



HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1107   Emperor Gaozong of China (d.1187)

1519   Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d.1574)



DEATHS

816   Pope Saint Leo III
1418   Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France
1675   Duke Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy

1758   Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia

1818   Emperor Egwale Seyon of Ethiopia

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