1011 St. Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, was
captured by marauding Danes, held prisoner for months, and eventually murdered.
He refused to allow himself to be ransomed because the money would have had to
be raised by taxing the people. After his death he was venerated as a martyr,
and the parish church of Greenwich is dedicated to him.
1157 Richard the
Lion-Hearted, King of England, was born.
1504 Michelangelo's David was unveiled