[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Oct 18

[Steve Rourke]

Births:
1127 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
1405 - Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
1517 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570)
1547 - Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606)
1569 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625)
1595 - Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)

Deaths:
707 - Pope John VII
1035 - Sancho III of Navarre
1101 - Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)
1141 - Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
1417 - Pope Gregory XII
1503 - Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
1545 - John Taverner, English composer
1558 - Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505)
1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b.
1520)
1570 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)

Other Events:
1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is
completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks
the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1016 - The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV
1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi
Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts