[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Nov 19

[Steve Rourke]

Births:
1464 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
1563 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)
1600 - King Charles I of England (d. 1649)
1600 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d. 1669)

Deaths:
498 - Pope Anastasius II
1478 - Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
1492 - Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
1557 - Bona Sforza, Queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)
1577 - Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)

Other Events:
461 - St. Hilarius becomes Pope.
1493 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day
before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).