[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Nov 18

[Steve Rourke]

Births:
1522 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)

Deaths:
1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
1559 - Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
1590 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)

Other Events:
326 - The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending
the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam ("The One
Holy").
1307 - According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
1421 - A seawall at the Zuider Zee dike breaks, flooding 72 villages and
killing about 10,000 people in the Netherlands.
1477 - William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the
first book printed on a printing press in England.
1493 - Christopher Columbus first sights what is now Puerto Rico.