[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Oct 27

[STEVE K ROURKE]

1401 Birth of Catherine, wife of Henry V ( England).
1428 Thomas Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, becomes the first English
gentleman to be killed by gunfire.
1441 Margery Jourdemain burnt for witchcraft.
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/manxsoc/msvol04/v3p019.htm
1449 Ulugh Beg, who constructed observatory at Samarkand, dies at about 55.
1439 Death of Albert II ( Germany).
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articlesnew/14934.html
1553 Michael Servetus burnt for heresy.
http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/ashes.htm
1590 Death of Pope Urban VII.