[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Nov. 30

[STEVE K ROURKE]

St. Andrew's Day
30BC Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, commits suicide.
70 Death of St. Andrew the Apostle.
538 Birth of St. Gregory of Tours.
722 Boniface invested as Bishop of Germany.
1016 Death of Edmund "Ironside" ( England).
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon15.html
1216 Pope Innocent III orders Jews to wear a special badge.
1253 William of Rubrick reaches Kopal, in Semiretchinsk. (The best I can
determine is this man was a Friar who had be sent to the Mongol Court.)
1292 Coronation of John Baliol ( Scotland).
1420 Marriage of Gilles de Rais to Catherine de Thonars.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.ping.be/chaos
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1433 Council of Basle splits the Hussites.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02334b.htm
1466 Birth of Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman, admiral.
1485 Coronation of Henry VII ( England).
1521 Death of Pope Leo X.
1554 Birth of Philip Sidney, English poet, statesman, soldier.