On This Day
1032 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy.
Conrad II (German: Konrad II, c. 989/990 – 4 June 1039), also known as Conrad the Elder and Conrad the Salic, was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1027 until his death in 1039. The first of a succession of four Salian emperors, who reigned for one century until 1125, Conrad ruled the kingdoms of Germany (from 1024), Italy (from 1026) and Burgundy (from 1033).
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1047 – Drogo of Hauteville is elected as count of the Apulian Normans during the Norman conquest of Southern Italy.[1]
Drogo of Hauteville (died 10 August 1051) was the second Norman Count of Apulia. He led the Normans of Southern Italy after the death of his brother, William Iron Arm.
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1555 – John Rogers is burned at the stake, becoming the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.[5]
John Rogers (c. 1505 – 4 February 1555) was an English clergyman, Bible translator and commentator. He guided the development of the Matthew Bible in vernacular English during the reign of Henry VIII and was the first English Protestant executed as a heretic under Mary I, who was determined to restore Roman Catholicism.
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1425 (or 1426) – Eleanor of Navarre, Queen regnant of Navarre (d. 1479)[23]
Eleanor of Navarre,[a] (2 February 1426 – 12 February 1479),[1] was a Navarrese princess and monarch. She served as the regent of Navarre from 1455 to 1479, during the absence of her father, and then briefly as the queen regnant of Navarre in 1479. She was crowned on 28 January 1479 in Tudela.[1]
1428 – Helena Palaiologina, Queen of Cyprus (d. 1458) [citation needed]
Helena Palaiologina (Greek: Ἑλένη Παλαιολογίνα; 3 February 1428 – 11 April 1458) was a Byzantine princess of the Palaiologos family, who became Queen of Cyprus and Armenia, titular Queen consort of Jerusalem, and Princess of Antioch through her marriage to King John II of Cyprus and Armenia. She was the mother of Queen Charlotte of Cyprus.
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1495 – Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (d. 1568)
Fra’ Jean “Parisot” de (la) Valette[a] (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ paʁizo d(ə) (la) valɛt]; c. 4 February 1495 – 21 August 1568) was a French nobleman and 49th Grand Master of the Order of Malta, from 21 August 1557 to his death in 1568. As a Knight Hospitaller, joining the order in the Langue de Provence, he fought with distinction against the Turks at Rhodes. As Grand Master, Valette became the Order’s hero and most illustrious leader, commanding the resistance against the Ottomans at the Great Siege of Malta in 1565, sometimes regarded as one of the greatest sieges of all time.[1]
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Prince Karim Al-Husseini[1][3][4][5] (Arabic: شاه كريم الحسيني, romanized: Shāh Karīm al-Ḥusaynī; 13 December 1936 – 4 February 2025), known as the Aga Khan IV (Persian: آقا خان چهارم, romanized: Āqā Khān Chārom)[6][7] from the death of his grandfather in 1957, was the 49th imam of Nizari Isma’ilis. He held the position of Imam and the title of Aga Khan since 11 July 1957[8] when, at the age of 20, he succeeded his grandfather, Aga Khan III. The Aga Khan claims direct lineal descent from the Islamic prophet Muhammad through Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law, Ali,[9][10] who is considered an Imam by Nizari Isma’ilis, and Ali’s wife Fatima, Muhammad’s daughter from his first marriage. Aga Khan IV is also known by the religious title Mawlānā Hazar Imam by his Isma’ili followers.
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by William Stafford
Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my life. Others
have come in their slow way into
my thought, and some have tried to help
or to hurt: ask me what difference
their strongest love or hate has made.
I will listen to what you say.
You and I can turn and look
at the silent river and wait. We know
the current is there, hidden; and there
are comings and goings from miles away
that hold the stillness exactly before us.
What the river says, that is what I say.
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