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2013 Event - Harper Lee, author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird', faces a court battle in a lawsuit claiming a literary agent tricket her into giving up the copyright to her world-famous book

2013 Event - Malawi President Joyce Banda accuses singer Madonna of 'bullying state officials' after exaggerating the contributions of her charity and complaining about her treatment during a recent visit to the country

2013 Event - Queen Elizabeth of the U.K. is named 'the most memorable Bond girl' for her appearance at the London Olympics. BAFTA, gave her the honorary award for her support of British film and television

2013 Event - A 2-year old Mississippi girl born with HIV/AIDS is pronounced HIV negative after receiving treatment for the virus within 30 hours after her birth

2013 Event - Germany's Federal Minister of Education and Research, Annette Schavan, resigns after she is stripped of her doctorate degree for plagiarism by the University of Dusseldorf

2013 Event - U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton steps down from her post; she is succeeded by Senator John Kerry

2013 Event - A court grants Iceland's Blaer Bjarkardottir the right to use her own name; after previously ruling Blaer was only a man's name, the Reykjavik court rules it could also be used as a girl's name

2013 Event - Beatrix of the Netherlands announces she will abdicate her throne to her son, Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, on April 30, 2013

2012 Event - Queen Elizabeth II shares her Christmas Message with her Commonwealth subjects, referencing the 'humbling' experience of her diamond jubilee celebrations and the 2012 Summer Olympics;the speech is the first to be broadcast in 3D

2012 Event - United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II attends a meeting of the Cabinet for the first time, receiving a gift honoring her Diamond Jubilee; this was first time a Cabinet meeting was attended by a British monarch since the reign of Queen Victoria

2012 Event - Hilary Clinton, the U.S. Secretary of State, fainted from dehydration and sustained a concussion after falling in her home

2012 Event - The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., announces a successful artificial insemination as Mei Xiang gives birth to her second giant panda cub

2012 Event - In Egypt, protesters throw tomatoes and shoes at U.S. Secretary of State's motorcade during her first visit to the country since President Mohamed Mursi was elected

2012 Event - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina, announces she will switch her personal savings from the U.S. dollar to the Argentine peso

2012 Event - Madonna begins her MDNA Tour in Tel Aviv, Israel, the first of more than 65 cities she will perform at worldwide

2012 Event - Imprisoned Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is moved to a hospital after a political compromise, ending her hunger strike

2012 Event - Author JK Rowling announces that the Pottermore website, her version of the Harry Potter universe will launch in early April, 2012

2012 Event - Queen Elizabeth II marks her 60th anniversary of becoming monarch of the U.K and seven sovereign states in the Commonwealth of Nations

2011 Event - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promotes democratic reforms in her meeting with Burma's top pro-democracy activist, Aung San Suu Kyi

2011 Event - The music video for the single, 'Marry the Night' is released by pop singer Lady Gaga; the song is from her 2011 album 'Born This Way'

2011 Event - Queen Elizabeth II makes her 16th visit to Australia, commencing in the capital city of Canberra

2011 Event - Musician Katy Perry wins the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards for Video for the Year award for her song 'Firework'

2011 Event - Casey Anthony, cleared of murdering her daughter Caylee and set to be released from the Orange County, Florida jail, attracts major crowds unhappy with the judgement

2011 Event - Famed 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling leaves her agent, Christopher Little, ending their 15-year working relationship

2011 Event - Prince Albert II of Monaco weds Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock at the royal palace; Wittstock is now known as Her Serene Highness, Princess Charlene

2011 Event - French Minister of Finance, Christine Lagarde, declares her candidacy as head of the International Monetary Fund

2011 Event - American actress Zsa Zsa Gabor undergoes a life-saving operation and has her leg amputated

2010 Event - For the first time in ten years, Burmese pro-Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is reunited with her son

2010 Event - Queen Elizabeth II launches a page on Facebook; no one is allowed to 'poke' or 'befriend' her

2010 Event - Model Naomi Campbell confirms former President of Liberia Charles Taylor gave her diamonds she described as 'dirty looking stones'

2010 Event - German Chancellor Angela Merkel agrees to spread $80 million pounds in savings across four years with her coalition cabinet

2010 Event - The Queen Mary 2 makes her first port call in China at the Port of Shanghai, since her maiden voyage in 2004

2004 Event - Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Cara Black and her brother Wayne Black beat Todd Woodbridge and Alicia Molik

2003 Event - Wimbledon Women's Finals, Serena Williams beat her sister Venus Williams

2002 Event - Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Venus Williams and her sister Serena Williams Paola Suarez and Virginia Ruano

2002 Event - Wimbledon Women's Finals, Serena Williams beat her sister Venus Williams

1999 Death - Hazel Frederick, face in a crowd, faced the camera when Mary Tyler Moore tossed her hat in the opening credits of her show, dies at 91

1998 Event - After months of wrangling, Lewinsky and Starr announce a full immunity agreement for Lewinsky and her parents

1998 Event - Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years

1997 Event - New York Ranger Wayne Gretsky wife Janet is knocked unconcious and gets 2 stitches while watching the game as a plexiglass falls on her

1997 Event - Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000

1997 Event - Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop

1997 Event - Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom

1997 Event - Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm

1997 Event - Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish

1996 Event - Alanis Morissette ends her 1st U.S. tour (Houston Texas)

1996 Event - Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence

1995 Event - Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup

1995 Event - Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41)

1995 Event - Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis

1995 Event - Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in South Carolina

1995 Event - Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce

1994 Event - Susan Smith who claimed her 2 kids were carjacked arrested for murder

1994 Event - Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them)

1994 Event - "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 50 performances

1994 Event - Sharon Stone files $12m suit against her jeweler

1994 Event - "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 50 performances

1994 Event - Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist

1993 Event - Barbra Striesand does her 1st live public concert in 20 years

1993 Event - Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment

1992 Event - Tipper Gore (wife of future Vice President) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink

1992 Event - Madonna premieres her "Erotica" video on MTV

1992 Event - Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents

1992 Event - England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war

1992 Event - Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support

1992 Event - Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse

1992 Death - Ruth Hammond, dies in her sleep at 96

1992 Event - Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee

1992 Event - President candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair

1992 Event - Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride

1991 Event - News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby

1991 Event - Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her

1991 Event - Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her

1991 Event - Pamela Smart (High School teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband

1990 Event - Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later

1990 Event - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister

1990 Event - Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts

1990 Event - 8 KS and OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad

1990 Birthday - Emma Watson, born in Paris, France, British actress, model, known for role as Hermione in 'Harry Potter' film series, earning her more than $10 million pounds

1990 Event - Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident

1990 Event - Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident

1990 Event - On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children and no man can stand her for long

1989 Event - Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st and last U.S. Tennis Open singles victory

1989 Death - Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest), dies

1989 Event - Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone

1988 Event - Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks

1988 Event - Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister

1988 Death - Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11

1988 Event - Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's had an affair with her

1988 Event - Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her

1987 Event - Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel

1986 Death - Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM New York City helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes

1986 Event - Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks and her single

1986 Death - Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, (Edward abdicated for her), dies at 89

1985 Death - Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88

1985 Event - Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday

1984 Death - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards at age 66

1984 Event - Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match

1984 Event - Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win)

1984 Death - Flora Robson, actress (Great Day, Frieda), dies in her sleep at 82

1984 Death - Ethel Merman, singer and actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76

1984 Event - TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV

1982 Event - Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel

1982 Event - Chris Evert wins her 6th and final U.S. Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY

1982 Event - Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster

1982 Event - Tracy Caulkins, 19, wins her 36th U.S. swimming title

1981 Event - Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony

1981 Event - Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story

1980 Event - Gabriella Brum, 18, of W Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns the next day, because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend

1980 Event - Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks and her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks

1980 Event - Turner's painting "Juliet and Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million

1980 Event - J Turners "Juliet and Her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in New York City

1980 Death - Joy Adamson, author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69

1979 Death - Ann Dvorak, actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface), dies at 67

1979 Event - Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st

1978 Birthday - Ayumi Hamasaki, also known as "Ayu" by her fans, Japanese Musician

1977 Event - Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter)

1976 Birthday - Vanessa Kerry, born in Boston, Massachusetts, medical resident, daughter of John Kerry, campaigned with her father in the 2004 Presidential election

1976 Event - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter

1976 Event - 90th U.S. Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight U.S. Open Final (Evert wins)

1976 Event - Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec national figure skating champions

1974 Event - Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways

1974 Event - Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly and dies 14 months later

1973 Death - Constance Talmadge, U.S. comedienne (Her Primitive Lover), dies at 75

1973 Event - Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm

1973 Death - Max Adrian, actor (Boy Friend, Her Favorite Husband), dies at 69

1972 Event - Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire

1970 Event - Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try

1970 Event - Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try

1970 Event - Dolle Mina's burns her bra in Amsterdam

1968 Event - "Her First Roman" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 17 performances

1968 Event - "Her 1st Roman" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 17 performances

1968 Event - Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV

1967 Birthday - Lorraine Pearson, born in Romfod, United Kingdom, born Lorraine Samantha Jean Pearson, singer, rocker, writer, member of pop group Five Star, published novel 'Her, Me and Reality", 1989

1967 Event - Bobby Gentry releases her only hit "Ode to Billy Joe"

1966 Death - Bobby Fuller, rocker, singer, guitarist, most famous single titled, I Fought the Law, written by Sonny Curtis, first top 40 hit, Let Her Dance, influences include The Beatles, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, found dead at 22

1966 Birthday - Irene Jacob, born in Suresnes, France, actress, famous for lead role in film 'The Double Life of Veronique', 'Three Colores: Red', considered one of the preeminent French actresses of her generation

1966 Event - Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig in San Francisco

1964 Event - Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend

1963 Event - Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There"

1963 Event - Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina

1962 Event - Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)

1961 Birthday - Susan Boyle, born in Blackburn, Scotland, Scottish singer, gained international attention, audience ovation, on television contest, Britain's Got Talent with Les Miserables song, 'I Dreamed a Dream', and 'Cry Me a River', plain appearance contrasts with her powerful voice

1961 Event - Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised

1961 Event - Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads"

1960 Event - "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK

1960 Event - Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal

1960 Death - Arthur Benjamin, Austral composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at 66

1959 Event - Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse

1959 Birthday - Gary Springer, born in New York City, actor, Bernice Bobs Her Hair

1958 Birthday - Lea DeLaria, born in Belleville, Illinois, actress, jazz musician, comedienne, prominent lesbian stand-up comic, known for her raunchy persona

1957 Birthday - Carole Bouquest, Paris, actress, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1957 Event - Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher

1957 Event - Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship

1956 Event - Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister

1956 Birthday - Darius Rucker, lead vocalist, Hootie and the Blowfish-Let Her Cry

1956 Event - Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco

1955 Event - Jill Kinmont hits a tree and breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race

1951 Birthday - Chris Smith, born in Barnet, London, Christopher Robert 'Chris' Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, politician, Labor Party, Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury, Cabinet minister, first openly gay MP member, HIV positive

1951 Birthday - Sonia Braga, born in Maringa, Brazil, actress, Dona Flor and Her 2 Husbands

1950 Event - Mother Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India

1950 Event - Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry

1948 Death - Charles D Brown, actor (Eve Knew Her Apples), dies at 61

1948 Birthday - Dianne Wiest, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actress, Hannah and Her Sisters, Footloose

1946 Birthday - Sally Field, born in Pasadena, California, we really like her, Gidget, Flying Nun

1946 Birthday - Sammy Johns, rocker, Politics, Religion and Her

1943 Event - France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government

1942 Birthday - Rex Thompson, New York City, actor, Young Bess, King and I, Her 12 Men

1942 Birthday - Bobby Fuller, born in Baytown, Texas, rocker, singer, guitarist, most famous single titled, I Fought the Law, written by Sonny Curtis, first top 40 hit, Let Her Dance, influences include The Beatles, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran

1942 Birthday - Mel McDaniel, born in Checotah, Oklahoma, singer, Baby's got her Blue Jeans On

1942 Event - Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family and 4 other Jews

1942 Event - Anne Frank begins her diary

1942 Event - Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present, Amsterdam

1942 Birthday - Willy Bogner, Jr., Munich, director, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1939 Birthday - Ray Peterson, born in Denton, Texas, singer, Tell Laura I Love Her

1938 Event - Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles U.S. tennis title

1938 Birthday - Jeff Barry, born in Brooklyn, New York, rock writer, Tell Laura I Love Her

1938 Birthday - Jock Slater, born in the United Kingdom, admiral, Royal Navy, served 1958 - 1998, Equerry to Her Majesty The Queen, 1968 1971

1937 Event - Mae West performs Adam and Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio

1937 Event - Maribel Vinson wins her 9th U.S. figure skating championship

1935 Birthday - Paul J M Beers, Dutch actor, Mother Courage and Her Children

1935 Birthday - Renata Scotto, born in Savona, Italy, singer, soprano, performed La Traviata at age 18, received 15 curtain calls performing Walter in La Wally at La Scala, 1953, directs opera and teaches at her opera academy in Italy, New York

1934 Event - Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship

1934 Birthday - Eileen Atkins, born in London, England, actress, Equus, Devil Within Her

1934 Event - Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up and Cheer"

1933 Death - Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47

1932 Death - Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday

1932 Event - Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title

1931 Event - Operetta "Victoria and Her Husband," premieres in London

1931 Event - Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS

1930 Birthday - Nathaniel Branden, born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, psychotherapist, known for work in psychology of self-esteem, writer, associate of novelist Ayn Rand, promoted her philosophy, idea of Objectivism, profiled in movie, 'The Passion of Ayn Rand'

1927 Death - Isadora Duncan, dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel

1927 Birthday - Cecil Bodker, born in Fredericia, Denmark, writer, won Mildred L. Batchelder Award for her book titled, The Leopard, considered the most outstanding book originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, then published in the United States

1920 Birthday - Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author, Anna and her Father

1917 Birthday - Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes

1917 Event - James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her," premieres in London

1912 Birthday - Ann Dvorak, McKim, New York City, actress, G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface

1911 Event - Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize

1907 Death - Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahlers eldest daughter, dies of scarlet fever and diptheria at 4 years and 7 months of age in Maiernigg, Austria, five days after her father, Gustav Mahler's 47th birthday. She is buried at Grinzing Cemetery, Vienna.

1907 Birthday - Eleni Gatzoyiannis, heroine, saved her kids

1907 Event - Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)

1906 Birthday - Belle Stewart, born near Bloirgowrie, Scotland, Scottish traditional singer, led life of a Scottish Traveler, daughter Sheila Stewart wrote her biography 'Queen Amang the Heather; the Life of Belle Stewart'

1905 Event - Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him

1904 Event - GB Shaw's "How He Lied to Her Husband," premieres in New York City

1902 Birthday - Jan Kiepura, Sosnowiec Poland, vocalist/actor, Her Wonderful Lie

1901 Death - Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever

1901 Event - Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast

1896 Event - Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook

1894 Death - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76

1892 Birthday - Mae West, Brooklyn, actress, Go Up and See Her Sometime, Klondike Annie

1892 Event - Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite

1889 Event - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, by finishing trip following January in 72 days, 6

1880 Birthday - Grantland Rice, sportswriter, New York Her Trib 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37

1876 Event - Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother

1866 Birthday - Harry Davenport, New York City, actor and director, Her Unborn Child, My Sin

1853 Event - Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape

1843 Event - Sojourner Truth leaves New York to begin her career as antislavery activist

1842 Event - Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach

1841 Death - Catherine McAuley, founder, the Sisters of Mercy, established 12 foundations in Ireland, 2 in England, inherited fortune from father, used money to care for, educate, homeless women and children, dies at her House of Mercy

1840 Event - British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg

1838 Birthday - Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist, Stranger in Her Native Land

1829 Event - Britain abolished "suttee" in India, widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre

1818 Birthday - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons

1803 Event - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France

1777 Event - Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from New York to Ct rallying her fathers militia

1729 Event - Sister St. Stanislas Hachard, 1st U.S. nun, takes her vows, N Orleans

1656 Event - All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her)

1631 Death - Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal)

1570 Event - Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance

1565 Event - Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley

1504 Event - Queen Isabella I of Spain signs her testament

1503 Birthday - Il Bronzino, Florentine painter, Eleanor de Toledo and her Son

1418 Event - Jacoba van Bayern marries her cousin John IV van Brabant

1349 Event - Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand

1040 Event - Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes













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