Anniversaries
Anniversaries
TODAY: Births: Thomas Mann, novelist, 1875. Deaths: Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist, 1961. On this day: the Allied invasion of Normandy took place - D-Day, 1944. Today is the Feast Day of St Ceratius or Cerase, St Claud of Besancon, St Eustorgius II of Milan, St Gudwal or Gurval, St Jarlath, St Norbert and St Philip the Deacon. TOMORROW: Births: Edward Morgan Foster, novelist, 1970. On this day: the first parliament of Northern Ireland opened, 1921. Today is the Feast Day of St Antony Gianelli, St Colman of Dromore, St Gottschalk, St Meriadoc or Meriasek, St Paul I of Constantinople, St Robert of Newminster, St Vulflagius or Wulphy and St Willibald.
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