^B{^#!16!11 May^N! Feast day of St Comgall, St Credan, St Maieul, St Tudy, St Ansfrid, St Walter of l'Esterp, St Richard Reynolds, St Francis di Girolamo, St Ignatius of Laconi, St Asaph, St Gengulf, and Mamertus.
^B{973^B} Edgar crowned at Bath as King of all England; he then went to Chester, where eight Scottish and Welsh kings rowed him on the Dee. ^B{1534^B} English King Henry VIII made peace with his nephew, James V of Scotland. ^B{1709^B} The first mass emigration of Germans from the Palatinate to North America began. ^B{1812^B} British prime minister Spencer Perceval was assassinated in House of Commons. ^B{1824^B} British forces took Rangoon, Burma. ^B{1949 ^B}Siam changed its name to Thailand. ^B{1949^B} Israel was admitted to United Nations.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Hector Berlioz, French composer, ^B{1803^B}; Chang and Eng, Chinese Siamese twins, ^B{1811^B}; Irving Berlin, US composer, ^B{1888^B}; Paul Nash, English painter, ^B{1889^B}; Margaret Rutherford, English actress, ^B{1892^B}; Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist, ^B{1905^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}'Abd-al-Mu'min, Almohad ruler of Muslim Spain and NW Africa, ^B{1163^B}; Matteo Ricci, Jesuit missionary, ^B{1610^B}; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, British politician, ^B{1778^B}; John Herschel, English astronomer, ^B{1871^B}; William Dean Howells, US novelist and critic, ^B{1920^B}; Kim Philby, English-born Soviet spy, ^B{1988^B}.
