On this day in ...... 1567, German mercenaries allied with Margaret of Parma (1522-86) (left), appointed as the Catholic regent of the Netherlands by her half-brother, the Spanish King Phillip II, defeated Calvinist rebels at the Battle of Oosterweel. Her brother soon would replace her with a duke even less tolerant of Protestantism.
... 1961, at the Old Bailey in London, Ethel Gee (near right below; credit), a British civil servant; homemaker Helen Kroger (far right; credit) and her
husband, another civil servant; plus 2 other Britons went on trial on charges that they plotted to pass classified information to the Soviets in violation of the Official Secrets Act. The trial of the so-called Portland Spy Ring lasted 
about two weeks, during which the Krogers were determined to be fugitives from the Rosenberg espionage case in the United States.
