^B{^#!16!8 June^N! Feast day of St Medard, St William of York, St Cloud of Metz, and St Maximinius of Aix.
^B{1042^B} Harthacnut, King of England and Denmark, died; he was succeeded in England by his adopted heir, Edward the Confessor, and in Denmark by Magnus, King of Norway. ^B{1536^B} The English Parliament met and settled the succession on the future children of Henry VIII by Jane Seymour; the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth were declared illegitimate. ^B{1919^B} Nicaragua asked the US for protection against Costa Rica. ^B{1934^B} Oswald Mosley addressed a mass meeting of the British Union of Fascists at Olympia. ^B{1939^B} George VI visited the US at the end of his tour of Canada; he was the first British monarch to do so. ^B{1941^B} British and Free French Forces invaded Syria to prevent the establishment of Axis bases. ^B{1965^B} US troops were authorized to engage in offensive operations in Vietnam.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Giovanni Cassini, Italian astronomer, ^B{1625^B}; John Smeaton, English engineer, ^B{1724^B}; Robert Stevenson, English engineer, ^B{1772^B}; Robert Schumann, German composer, ^B{1810^B}; John Everett Millais, English painter, ^B{1829^B}; Frank Lloyd Wright, US architect, ^B{1869^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Christiaan Huygens, Dutch physicist and astronomer, ^B{1695^B}; Thomas Paine, English author of The Rights of Man, ^B{1809^B}; Sarah Siddons, English actress, ^B{1831^B}; Joseph Paxton, English architect, ^B{1865^B}; 'George Sand' (Amandine Dudevant, born Dupin), French novelist, ^B{1876^B}; Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet, ^B{1889^B}; Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist and playwright, ^B{1946^B}.
