UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

Fact of the Day

After a crush killed 33 at the Bolton Wanderers' football ground in 1946, the bodies were lined up against the touchline and the game restarted, next to the bodies, within 30 minutes.

Quote of the Day

"They are well named, for they have the countenance of angels, and as such should be coheirs with the angels in heaven. "

~ Pope Gregory I on the Angles, recorded by Bede

On This Day

1129 The Council of Troyes recognised and confirmed the Order of the Knights Templar under papal authority.

1691 George Fox, founder of the Quakers, died.

1842 East India Company's Dr William Brydon reached Jalalabad. The only one out of 16500 soldiers and civilians to reach safety after the massacre by Afghan tribes.

1898 Émile Zola's open letter J'accuse was published in the French newspaper L'Aurore, in defence of Alfred Dreyfus.

1929 Wyatt Earp, famous for the shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, died of chronic cystitis.

1935 Over 90% of voters opted to reunify with Germany in the Saar territorial status referendum.

1941 Irish novelist and poet James Joyce died, after undergoing surgery for a perforated ulcer.

1958 Serial killer Peter Manuel was arrested. He was tried for killing nine people, although he may have killed as many as 18.

2004 Dr Harold Shipman, who killed more than 200 of his patients, was found dead in his cell.