Historical Events
1787 – The charter establishing the institution now known as the University of Pittsburgh is granted
1844 – 6th Grand National: John Crickmere wins aboard 5/1 co-favourite Discount
1944 – Arrests of the ten-Boom family in Nazi occupied Netherlands (Haarlem) through a Dutch collaborator on charges of hiding Jews
1967 – A West German court rules that impostor Anna Anderson failed to prove that she was missing Russian duchess Anastasia Romanov, ending a legal case that lasted almost 30 years
1988 – British television programme “That’s Life!” surprises guest Nicholas Winton with an audience full of grown-up children that he saved from German-occupied Czechoslovakia, bringing them to safety in the UK
1995 – Denver International Airport opens
Famous Birthdays
1261 – Margaret of Scotland, queen of Norway (d. 1283)
1915 – Peter Medawar, British biologist (1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance”), born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 1987)
1933 – Miro Steržaj, Slovenian 9-pin bowler
1951 – Karsan Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s)
1954 – Brian Billick, American football coach
1974 – Michael Manasseri, actor (License to Drive)
Famous Deaths
1525 – Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec Emperor (1520-21), tortured and killed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés
1964 – Gus Lesnevich, American light heavyweight boxing champ (1947 fighter of year), dies at 49
1979 – Paul Alverdes, German writer (Pfeiferstube), dies at 81
1994 – Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87
2015 – Ezra Laderman, American composer (Jacob and the Indians), dies at 90
2017 – Leoncjusz Ciuciura, Polish classical composer (Spirals), dies at 86