Pope Paul III postpones the Council of Trent (1539), and Frederick I of Denmark's army surrounds Copenhagen (1523). Born on this day: Judy Garland, Philip, duke of Edinburgh and Saul Bellow. Died: Antoni Gaudí, André-Marie Ampère and Sigrid Undset.
27 events, 65 births and 67 deaths on this date.
Pope Paul III put off the long-awaited church council, citing wartime danger and the difficulty bishops would have reaching Venice. Letters sent to the bishops announced the delay, and the council only met at Trent in 1545.
Titian · Public domainFrederick I's army encircled Copenhagen after its citizens refused to accept him as heir to Christian II. The city was then the de facto capital of the Kalmar Union, so holding it mattered greatly.
NATO halted its bombing of Yugoslavia once Slobodan Milošević accepted that Serbian troops would leave Kosovo. The alliance had launched the strikes to stop the violence and repression carried out by his government.
With a papal bull called Vineae Domini custodes, Honorius III gave his formal backing to a Dominican mission heading for Morocco. It was one of several moves by a pope who also approved the newly formed Dominican and Franciscan orders.
Anonymous Unknown author · Public domain
After six seasons, HBO aired the closing episode of this New Jersey mob drama, which ends abruptly on a diner scene and left viewers debating its ending for years. The series had reshaped television drama, helping to usher in a period of serialised, high-quality shows.
HBO · CC BY 3.0
Richard Wagner's three-act opera, drawn from a medieval romance, was staged in Munich with Hans von Bülow conducting. Its restless harmony, announced by the so-called Tristan chord, pushed music into new territory.
Josef Albert · Public domain
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Judy Garland was an American actress and singer whose contralto voice and range made her a star across musicals, comedies and dramas. She is best remembered for playing Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz and for singing Over the Rainbow.
Eric Carpenter (1909-1976) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . · Public domain
Born in Greece into a family of royals, he later became the husband of Queen Elizabeth II and the longest-serving consort in British history. He is remembered for decades of public duties and his lively interest in carriage driving.
Allan Warren · CC BY-SA 3.0
Saul Bellow is the only writer to have won the National Book Award for Fiction three times. He also received the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is remembered for novels such as Herzog and Seize the Day.
Photograph by Jeff Lowenthal. Published by Viking Press. · Public domain
Catalan architect whose Barcelona buildings, above all the unfinished Sagrada Família, turned nature and religious faith into stone, tile and iron. He was knocked down by a tram in 1926 and died days later, still at work on the basilica.
Pau Audouard Deglaire · Public domain
Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who helped found classical electromagnetism, which he called electrodynamics. Today the unit for measuring electric current, the amp, carries his name.
Anonymous Unknown author · Public domain
Danish-born Norwegian novelist whose trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter, set in medieval Norway, won her the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature. She fled to the United States during the German occupation and returned after the war.
Aage Remfeldt / Aage Rasmussen (1889-1983) · Public domain
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