[Loch-ruadh] Today in History

[STEVE K ROURKE]

1284 - The Pied Piper lured 130 children of Hamelin away and they were never
seen again. Although the fact is true, the reasons behind it are obscured by
legend and the story that he did it in revenge for not being paid for
clearing the town of rats was a fiction added later.

1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, was assassinated in his
palace in Lima.