[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Nov 10

[Steve Rourke]

Births:
745 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d. 799)
1341 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
1433 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1477)
1483 - Martin Luther, German protestant reformer (d. 1546)
1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d.
1646)
1566 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (d. 1601)
1577 - Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (d. 1660)

Deaths:
627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
1444 - King Vladislaus III of Varna is killed in battle (b. 1424)
1549 - Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
1596 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)

Other Events:
1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna
(aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the
Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
1520 - Danish King Christian II executes 82 in the Stockholm Bloodbath.