[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Nov 6

[Steve Rourke]

Births:
1391 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
1479 - Joanna of Castile, wife of Philip I of Castile (d. 1555)
1494 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
1510 - John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)

Deaths:
1231 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
1406 - Pope Innocent VII
1492 - Antoine Busnois, French composer
1550 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1487)

Other Events:
355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II raises his cousin Julian to the rank of
Caesar, entrusting him of the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes
the first known European to set foot on Texas.