Martinus (died c. 641) was caesar of the Byzantine Empire from some point between 638 and 640, to 641. He was the fifth son of Emperor Heraclius and his second wife (and niece) Empress Martina. Heraclius elevated Martinus to caesar, a junior imperial title that placed Martinus on the line of succession. Heraclius died on 11 February 641, leaving the throne jointly to Martinus's half-brother Constantine III and his elder full brother Heraclonas. Constantine III soon died of tuberculosis, though some of his partisans alleged that Martina poisoned him. One such partisan, Valentinus, led troops to Chalcedon, across the Bosporus Strait from the capital, Constantinople, to force Martina to install Constans, Constantine III's son, as co-emperor. Valentinus seized Constantinople, forced Constans II's enthronement in September or October 641, and deposed Martina, Heraclonas, and Martinus. Mutilated and exiled to Rhodes, Martinus died soon after, possibly during or immediately after the surgery.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1968:
U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot by Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Robert_F._Kennedy
1976:
The Teton Dam in eastern Idaho, U.S., collapsed as its reservoir was being filled for the first time, resulting in the deaths of eleven people and 13,000 cattle, and causing up to $2 billion in damage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teton_Dam
2004:
Noël Mamère, mayor of the Bordeaux suburb of Bègles, conducted a marriage ceremony for two men, even though same-sex marriage in France had not yet been legalised. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_France
2009:
After almost two months of civil disobedience, at least 31 people were killed in clashes between the National Police and indigenous people in Peru's Bagua Province. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Peruvian_political_crisis
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understory: 1. (architecture, dated, also figuratively) A story of a building below the stories generally used for residence or work. 2. (ecology, also attributively) The (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/understory
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