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...still making news. The question of a U.S. diplomatic representative at the Vatican first came up in 1779, when John Adams wrote the Continental Congress that he hoped it would "never send a minister to His Holiness," nor receive a Roman Catholic nuncio in the U.S. But when Pius IX was elected Pope in 1846, his reputation for liberalism made U.S. Protestants so enthusiastic that the event was celebrated with nondenominational mass meetings in New York and Philadelphia...
...honeymoon. The music-loving king (he sold five songs to a Broadway musical show now in rehearsal) lifted a nine-tiered crown onto his head as army & navy guns fired 101 salutes and the temple bells of every monastery in his kingdom rang seven times. He thus became Rama IX, King of Siam...
Twenty-nine concerts have already been booked in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. For one Copenhagen concert, they thought they had a guest conductor all lined up: amateur musician King Frederik IX of Denmark, who was quite interested in the whole idea...
...blind couple in Copenhagen stopped to ask directions of the driver of a parked car, were immediately whisked off to their destination by Denmark's 50-year-old King Frederik IX...
Died. Prince Harald of Denmark, 72, brother of Norway's King Haakon VII and uncle of Denmark's King Frederik IX, husband of Princess Helena (expelled, after Denmark's liberation, for her pro-Nazi activities); of a heart attack; in Copenhagen...