^B{^#!16!9 May^N! Feast day of St Beatus of Lungern, St Gerontius of Cervia, St Beatus of Vend⌠me, and St Pachomius.
^B{1386^B} The Treaty of Windsor, between kings Richard and John, made a perpetual alliance between England and Portugal. ^B{1695^B} The Scottish Parliament met and inquired into the massacre of Glencoe. ^B{1828^B} The British Test and Corporation Acts were repealed so that Catholic and Protestant Nonconformists could hold public office in Britain. ^B{1939^B} British prime minister Winston Churchill urged military alliance with USSR. ^B{1940^B} RAF began night bombing of Germany. ^B{1940^B} Romania placed itself under German protection. ^B{1945^B} Russian troops took Prague. ^B{1946^B} Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicated and Umberto II proclaimed himself king.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer, ^B{1741^B}; Jean Sismondi, Swiss historian and economist, ^B{1773^B}; John Brown, US abolitionist, ^B{1800^B}; J M Barrie 1860^B}; Howard Carter, British Egyptologist, ^B{1873^B}; Joan Sims, English actress, ^B{1930^B}; Alan Bennett, English actor and playwright, ^B{1934^B}; Glenda Jackson, English actress, ^B{1936^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}James Lancaster, English navigator, ^B{1618^B}; William Bradford, English-born American colonist, ^B{1657^B}; Dietrich Buxtehude, Danish organist and composer, ^B{1707^B}; Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist, ^B{1850^B}; Helena Blavatsky, Russian founder of the Theosophical Society, ^B{1891^B}; Ethel Smyth, English composer and suffragist, ^B{1944^B}.
