This Day in History

Events:

1152 The future Henry II married Eleanor of Aquitaine

1803 The start of the Napoleonic Wars

1944 The end of the battle of Monte Cassino

1980 Eruption of Mt St Helens in Washington State

Births:

1048 Omar Khayyam

1868 Nicholas II of Russia

1912 Perry Como

1919 Margot Fonteyn

1920 Pope John Paul II

Deaths:

526 Pope John 1

1911 Gustav Mahler