[Loch-ruadh] Today in History Dec 20

[STEVE K ROURKE]

1192 Capture of Richard I, "the Lion Hearted" (England), by Austria.
1223 Ursid (Umid) meteor shower, radiant near á Ursa Minor.
1334 Election of Pope Benedict XII.
1355 Death of Stephen Urosh IV, Emperor of the Serbs.
1566 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, tries tenderness towards the Protestants.
1579 Birth of John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist (baptized).
1590 Death of Ambrose Pare, surgeon.