[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Nov 6

[STEVE K ROURKE]

2948BC Birth of Noah.
1282 MENAI STRAIT (English army destroyed by Llywelyn II).
1289 The son of Edward I (England) is betrothed to the Maid of Norway.
1315 Dante Alighieri sentenced to death by Florence, in absentia.
1406 Death of Pope Innocent VII.
1429 Coronation of Henry VI ( England).
1460 Death of Sir John Falstaff.
1479 Birth of Joanna "the Mad," Queen of Castile.
1521 Magellan's fleet reaches the Moluccas.
1558 Birth of Thomas Kyd, dramatist.
1605 Appointed day for the blowing up of Parliament in the "Gunpowder Plot".