[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History June 9

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:

Deaths:
68 Nero Roman Emperor commits suicide
597 Death of St. Columba (born 521), pioneer missionary to Scotland. From
the Isle of Iona, Columba evangelized the mainland of Scotland and
Northumbria

Other Events:
1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1534 Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
1549 In England, Parliament established a uniformity of religious services
and the first Book of Common Prayer, as Anglicanism became the newly
established national faith.



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