24/05/10

The Fifth Crusade left Acre for Cairo in 1218.  The First Kingdom of Greece was declared at the Convention of London in 1832.  The Brooklyn Bridge opened to traffic in 1883.

Born today:  Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984), Siobhán McKenna (1923-1986), Bob Dylan (1941), Patti LaBelle (1944), Jim Broadbent (1949), Alfred Molina (1953), Roseanne Cash (1955), Kristin Scott Thomas (1960), and Eric Cantona (1966).

It is Victoria Day in Canada, eh?