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0527
Byzantine Emperor Justin I named his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor.

1081
Alexius I Comnenus is Byzantine emperor.

1204
Eleanor of Aquitaine (also: Eleanor of Guyenne, Eleonore d'Aquitaine, Alienor d'Aquitaine), Queen of France and later Queen of England, dies in a convent at the age of 82. She is often called the most powerful women of medieval Europe. Daughter of William X, Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitiers, Eleanor controlled a lands more exensive than those of the king of France.

1205
Death of Amalric II, king of both Jerusalem and Cyprus. His son, Hugh I, assumes control of Cyprus while John of Ibelin becomes regent for Amalric's daughter Maria for the kingdom of Jerusalem (even though Jerusalem is still in Muslim hands).

1605
Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici is elected Pope Leo XI.

1693
The four-day-old son of Cotton Mather died. Mather, who had written about the existence of demonic and spectral phenomena in the world, suspected that witchcraft might have been the cause of his first-born son's demise.

1754
Theocrat and conservative political philosopher Joseph-Marie de Maistre was born in Chamberry, France.

1908
Abraham Harold Maslow was born.

1933
The Nazi party initiated a boycott of Jewish business.

1941
Once again, "The Seven" announced a coup in Iraq. Rashid 'Ali al-Kaylani was made head of the government and he indicated that he intended to abide by the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty which set the conditions for Iraq's independence, but soon "The Seven" broke the treaty by refusing to allow passage of British troops through Iraqi territory and the government began to express support for Germany.

2004
Michael Hendricks and Rene Leboeuf become the first same-sex couple to legally marry in Quebec, Canada.

2004
It is discovered that Palestinian General Haj Ismail Jabber had been claiming 37,000 members of the Palestinian Authority's National Security force on the payroll when in reality only 30,000 members existed. General Jabber kept the extra USD $2 million each month.

2004
Palestinians hiding in a World Health Organization psychiatric hospital in Bethlehem open fire on Israeli troops who had come to arrest them. After the battle, 12 of the Palestinians were arrested.

2004
George W. Bush signs into law the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. More commonly known as Laci and Conner's Law, the measure states that any act of violence that leads to the death of a pregnant mother and her child may be counted as two offenses.

2006
Roman Empire Veneralia celebrated to honor Venus.

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