Events in history
The death of kings, queens and great men and women
- Feb 13 1542, the fifth wife of England's King Henry the Eighth, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery. - Uranus/Regulus
- Feb 12 1554, Lady Jane Grey, who'd claimed the throne of England for nine days, was beheaded after being charged with treason. - Neptune /Regulus
- Marie Antoinette guillotined, Oct 16th 1793 - Uranus/Regulus
- April fourth, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior, 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee. - Pluto/Denebola
- April 4th 1841, President William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first US chief executive to die in office. - SNode/Alterf
- Jan 21 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 54. - Neptune /Ras Elased Aust
- February sixth, 1952, Britain's King George the Sixth died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth the Second. - Pluto/Ras Elased Aust
- Jan 2nd 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. - Uranus /Ras Elased Bore
- John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Nov 22 1963 0.30PM Dallas - Uranus /Zosma
- May 8th 1978, the bullet-riddled body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, who'd been abducted by the Red Brigades, was found in an automobile in the center of Rome. - Saturn /Subra
- May 5th 1980, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia, died three days before his 88th birthday. Tito had kept Yugoslavia together, after his death, the country became divided due to racial violence. - Mars and Jupiter/Regulus
Royal events and elections of heads of state
- May 10th 1774, Louis the 16th ascended the throne of France. - Saturn and Neptune/Denebola
- Hirohito became emperor of Japan Dec 25 1926 - Neptune/Al Jabbah
- Jan 30th 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. - Neptune /Zosma
- May 10th 1978, Britain's Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon announced they were divorcing after 18 years of marriage. - Saturn/Subra
- April 29th 1993 Britain's Queen Elizabeth the Second announced that for the first time, Buckingham Palace would be opened to tourists to help raise money for repairs at fire-damaged Windsor Castle. - Chiron/Alterf
- Lady Diana Spencer. Mother to the future King of England - NNode/Regulus
- Rescue of Alexander of Selkirk (the real "Robinson Crusoe"), Feb 2 1709 - Pluto/Regulus
Unearthing tombs of kings
- Oct 28th 1998 A granite sphinx with the head of Ptolemy XII, Cleopatra's father emerged from the waters of Alexandria harbor after 1,600 years under water - NNode occulting/Regulus
Royal wars
- Battle of St. Albans begins War of the Roses, May 22 1455 - Pluto/Alterf
- Storming of the Tuileries, Aug 10th 1792 - Uranus/Ras Elased Bore
Events
- April 23rd 1348, King Edward the Third of England established the Order of the Garter. - NNode/Alterf
- Order of the Legion of Honor created, May 19th 1802 - Jupiter/Regulus
- April 2nd 1792, Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized establishment of the US Mint. - Uranus/Alterf
- May 17th 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree located on what is now Wall Street. - Uranus/Alterf
- May 17th 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree located on what is now Wall Street. - Mars/Zosma
- April 9th 1942, American and Philippine defenders on Bataan capitulated to Japanese forces; the surrender was followed by the notorious "Bataan Death March" which claimed nearly ten-thousand lives. - Pluto/Alterf
- April 19th 1943, during World War Two, tens of thousands of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but futile battle against Nazi forces. - Chiron and NNode/Subra
- March 16th, 1968, during the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre. - Pluto/Zosma
- May 13th 1993 In suburban Paris, a masked man armed with dynamite took a roomful of nursery school children hostage, demanding $18.5 million. (The man was shot to death by a crack police unit two days later). - Chiron/Alterf
- May 14th 1988 Twenty-seven people, most of them teenagers, were killed when their church bus collided with a pickup truck - SNode/Zosma
Jan 7th 1953, President Truman announced in his State of the Union address that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb. - Pluto/Subra
- Mar 25th 1957, the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community. - Pluto/Regulus
- North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) signed at Washington, April 4 1949 - Saturn/Regulus
- Feb 11th 1929, the Lateran Treaty was signed, with Italy recognizing the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City. - Neptune/Regulus
- Second Vatican Council opens, Oct 11th 1962 and brought changes to Catholicism - Pluto/Zosma