Seen at Making it Up
1810 – The marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled. (Not tonight, nor ever again!)
1920 – The League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I. (And opens a whole new can of worms.)
Births
1628 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687) (Ah ha! a favourite baddie!)
1883 – Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Russian writer (d. 1945) (Imagine his blog posts…)
(Neither of these as good as sharing my birthday with Nathan from Brother Beyond, i think you’ll agree.)Â
Death
1941 – Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856) (Well blow me down, an actual relative of mine!!!!)
2005 РJos̩phine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927) (Just to get another Josephine in there.)
Events
Margaret Thatcher day in the Falkland Islands (Chuckle. Nevermind Nic, it’s quite close to your birthday 😆 )
Apologies to the initiator for not quite sticking to the rules 🙂
