[Loch-ruadh] Today in history July 29

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Last night of no sunset in Hammerfest, Norway.
1014 Basil II captures & blinds a Bulgarian army in the Pass of Kleidion.
1030 STICKLESTAD - death of St. Olaf, King of Norway.
1095 Death of St. Ladislaus I ( Hungary).
1099 Death of St. Urban II, Pope.
1187 Sidon falls to Saladin.
1192 Saladin takes Jaffa, again.
1214 Birth of Sturla Thordsson, Law Man, and Skald.
1284 Death of Sturla Thordsson, Law Man, and Skald.
1423 CRAVANT - Scots/French defeated by English.
1432 Hamburg, Germany spared by the Hussites.
1488 SANT ALBIN AN HILIBER - Breton army defeated by French.
1492 First Almanac printed.
1506 Death of Martin Behaim, constructor of the first known world globe.
1565 Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
1567 James VI crowned King of Scots.
1588 Spanish Armada sighted from Lizard Point, England.
1588 GRAVELINES - Drake attacks the Spanish Armada