[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Nov.18

[STEVE K ROURKE]

942 Death of St. Odo of Cluny.
1095 The Council of Clermont begins.
http://crusades.boisestate.edu/1st/01.htm
1188 Richard, "the Lion Hearted," heir to England, does homage to Philip
Augustus, King of France, for his French possessions.
1210 Excommunication of Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1247 Death of Robin Hood, according to Bulfinch.
1307 William Tell shoots the apple off his son's head.
1414 Coronation of Sigsimund ( Germany).
1441 Roger Bolingbroke, astrologer, hanged, drawn and quartered.
1477 1st dated book printed in English, "Sayenges of the Phylosophers".
1497 Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope.
1518 Cortez sets out from Cuba to conquer Mexico.
1557 John Hallingdale, William Sparrow and Richard Gibson tortured and
executed for heresy.