TODAY IN HISTORY
In 1491, King Henry VIII was born. He was married six times and died in 1547. (NOTE FOR TRIVIA BUFFS: Henry VIII was reputed to have loved beef so much he knighted it “Sir Loin.” The more likely source of the name “sirloin” is from the French word surlonge (sir-lawn), which literally means over the loin.) In 1577, Peter Paul Rubens, the renowned Flemish painter, was born. His most famous canvasses include “Descent from the Cross” and “Erection of the Cross.”
In 1838, Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
In 1886, the first throughtrain of the Canadian Pacific Railway left Montreal for the B.C. coast near Vancouver.
In 1914, Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, heirs apparent to the Austro-hungarian throne, were assassinated in Sarajevo, an act which precipitated the First World War.
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