[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Sept. 15

[STEVE K ROURKE]

533 Carthage falls to Belisarus.
668 Constans II Pogonatus, Byzantine Emperor assassinated in Sicily.
863 Iwashimizu Shrine holds it's first Festival.
1128 Hugh de Payens, Master of the Templars, receives the "Relief des St.
Omer' from the father of Geoffrey de St. Omer.
1159 Coronation of Alexander III as Pope.
1492 Columbus saw a meteor fall into the sea.
1510 Death of St. Catherine of Genoa.
1588 The Armada returns to Spain.
1596 Cadiz, Spain plundered by the Earl of Essex.
1597 Cervantes thrown into Seville jail, where he gets idea for "Don
Quixote".