Good Morning!  It is Sunday November 15, 2009

Happy Birthday to...

   In 2349 Methuselah (BCE)
   In 1316 John I, King of France

On this day...

   In 0309 Martyrdom of Sts. Shmona and Garia, the "Confessors of Edessa"
   In 0878 Death of St. Fintan of Rhienau
   In 1136 Death of St. Leopold, Prince of Austria
   In 1280 Death of St. Albertus Magnus
   In 1283 Guelfs and Ghibellines fight it out in Treviso, Italy,
           with victory going to the Ghibellines
   In 1315 MORGARTEN (Swiss defeat Hapsburgs)
   In 1380 Pogroms in Paris
   In 1492 Columbus makes the first recorded
           observation of the use of tobacco
   In 1533 Spaniards enter the Inca's holy city of Cuzco
   In 1591 Execution of Barnabe Brisson, President
           of the Parliament of Paris
   In 1626 The Plymouth Colony buys out its London investors
   In 1630 Death of Kepler
   In 1635 Death of Thomas Parr, of Alberbury,
           Shropshire, England, aged 152