ON THIS DAY

1199: King Richard I - Richard the Lionheart - dies after being wounded while besieging the castle of Chalus in France.

1789: George Washington is elected first president of the United States.

1895: Waltzing Matilda, one of Australia’s bestknown tunes with words by Banjo Paterson, is first publicly performed at a hotel in the remote northern town of Winton.

1896: Opening of the first modern Olympics takes place in Athens.

1991: Iraq reluctantly accepts UN conditions for ending the Gulf War.

2014: US actor Mickey Rooney, a star since the 1930s, dies aged 93.

Birthdays: Gordon Chater, Australian actor (1922-1999); James Watson, US scientist and codiscoverer of DNA (1928-); Barry Levinson, US film director (1942-).