[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Sept. 6

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Osiris's Birthday (Ancient Egypt)
972 Death of Pope John VIII.
1298 CURZOLA (Venice defeats Genoa; Marco Polo taken prisoner).
1390 Geoffrey Chaucer robbed of 10 pounds belonging to the King, at
Westminister.
1390 Geoffrey Chaucer robbed, a third time by the same gang, of 10 pounds
belonging to the King, at Hatcham.
1422 Sultan Murat II ends a siege of Constantinople.
1522 Return of Magellan's fleet.
1565 Spanish land at St. Augustine, Florida.
1566 Death of Suliman, "the Lawgiver," called "the Magnificent"; Selim II
"the Sot" becomes Sultan of Turkey.