This Day In European History
9th June
Events1549: The Church of England adopts Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer.
1815: The Congress of Vienna closes.
1933: John Logie Baird shows 'high definition' television.
Births
1640: Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I.
1661: Tsar Fyodor III of Russia.
1672: Tsar Peter the Great of Russia.
1768: Samuel Slater, Anglo-American cotton pioneer.
1781: George Stephenson, British railway pioneer.
1836: Elizabeth Garret Anderson, Britain's first female Mayor.
1875: Henry Dale, British physiologist.
Deaths
68: Roman Emperor Nero, suicide.
1654: Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand IV.
1832: Friedrich Gentz, German politician.
1870: Charles Dickens, British writer.
