[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Nov 28

[Steve Rourke]

Births:
1489 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)
1570 - James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)
1598 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)

Deaths:
741 - St. Gregory III
1170 - Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd
1262 - Shinran, Japanese religious leader (b. 1173)
1290 - Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I of England (b. 1241)
1574 - Georg Major, German protestant theologian (b. 1502)
1585 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)

Other Events:
1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints
Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First
Crusade to the Holy Land.
1443 - Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja, in Middle Albania and raise
the Albanian flag.
1520 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under
the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific
Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the
Pacific.
1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a
£40 bond for their marriage licence.