Henry Ii Of England

Tuesday, July 5

Highlights in history on this date:

1556 - France's King Henry II renews war against Hapsburgs, one of the principal sovereign dynasties of Europe, in Italy.

1587 - Sir Francis Drake leads an expedition into the port of Cadiz, Spain, and ravages the Spanish coast. He destroyed so many vessels that the Spaniards had to delay their invasion of England for a year.

1811 - Venezuela becomes first South American country to declare its independence from Spain.

1812 - Britain makes peace with Russia and Sweden.

1830 - French invade Algeria and take Algiers, seizing private and religious buildings and a vast portion of the country's arable land. The colonization of Algeria was seen as a way of providing employment for veterans of the Napoleonic wars.

1865 - Methodist minister William Booth founds the Christian Revival Association, later to become the Salvation Army, in London.

1932 - Right-wing politician Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes Portugal 's prime minister. He soon creates an authoritarian political order that lasts until 1974.

1940 - Vichy government in France breaks off relations with Britain in World War II.

1943 - German offensive on Russia n front begins with Battle of Kursk in World War II.

1959 - President Sukarno dissolves Indonesia's Constituent Assembly.

1969 - Tom Mboya, likely successor to Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, is assassinated in Nairobi.

1973 - Gen. Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, comes to power in Rwanda in a bloodless coup, and remains president until his death in a plane crash in 1994.

1975 - The Cape Verde Islands become independent after 500 years of Portuguese rule. Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title as he defeats Jimmy Connors.

1977 - Pakistan army seizes power in bloodless coup that unseats Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

1988 - Iran's president says the country has the "right to avenge" the airliner shot down by a U.S. warship.

1994 - Thousands of jubilant Palestinians greet PLO leader Yasser Arafat when he returns to the West Bank for the first time in 27 years and swears in the self-rule government.

1995 - Flouting a U.N. ban on military flights over Bosnia, a suspected Serb warplane fires rockets at a strategic power plant in government-held territory.

Broadway.com | Tony Nominee Joanna Lumley to Play Eleanor of ...

Tony-nominated actress and British TV star Joanna Lumley will likely star as Eleanor of Aquitaine in the first ever production of The Lion in Winter on the West End, according to the London Telegraph . “I’m doing The Lion in Winter with [director] Trevor Nunn,” Lumley said of the James Goldman play. “It’s the first time it has been done in England.” No details of the project have been announced. The Lion in Winter , set amidst the politcal maneuverings at the French court of Henry II of England in 1183, first bowed on Broadway in 1966 starring Rosemary Harris as Eleanor and Robert Preston as Henry II, along with James Rado, Dennis Cooney and Christopher Walken. A 1968 film adaptation starred Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton and Best Actress Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor. A 1999 Broadway revival, directed by Michael Mayer, starred Laurence Fishburne as Henry and Stockard Channing as Eleanor. , a earned a 2011 Tony nomination for her performance. She is best known for playing boozy fashion director Patsy Stone on the British comedy series Absolutely Fabulous . She has also appeared on the British shows The New Avengers, Sapphire and Steel and Sensitive Skin . Her U.K. stage credits include The Cherry Orchard, Hedda Gabler, Private Lives and Blithe Spirit .

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