Today in History for 28th February 2024

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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

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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)

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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

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