Anniversaries

From: The Independent - London | Date: July 31, 1999 | Copyright information

TODAY: Births: Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1527. Deaths: Franz Liszt, composer, 1886; Jim Reeves, country singer, killed 1964. On this day: the Boy Scout movement was inaugurated by Sir Robert Baden- Powell, 1908. Today is the Feast Day of St Helen of Skovde, St Ignatius of Loyola, St Justin de Jacobis and St Neot. TOMORROW: Births: Herman Melville, sailor, novelist and poet, 1819. Deaths: J...

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