ON THIS DAY

1227: Death of Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan.

1914: President Woodrow Wilson proclaims US neutrality in World War I; Germany declares war on Russia.

1964: South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games because of its apartheid policies.

2000: Indians belonging to a tribe believed to have been decimated 80 years ago are located in the jungles of the Amazon state of Acre in Brazil.

2005: Security forces kill al-Qaeda’s top leader al-Aoofi and five other Islamic terrorists.

2010: The CIA opens centre to combat the spread of dangerous weapons and technology.

2011: ABC news team Paul Lockyer, Gary Ticehurst and John Bean are killed in a helicopter crash at South Australia’s Lake Eyre.

French-born film director Roman Polanski (1933-); US actor Robert Redford (1937-); US actor Christian Slater (1969-).