ON THIS DAY

1897: Death of Johannes Brahms, German composer and pianist.

1922: Joseph Stalin is appointed general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

1933: First flight over Mt Everest in the Himalayas is made by four Britons in biplanes.

1954: Vladimir Petrov, third secretary of the Soviet embassy in Canberra, requests political

1996: FBI agents hunting for the Unabomber arrest former maths professor Ted Kaczynski in a cabin in the Montana wilderness.

2013: The royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse gets underway in Melbourne.

2016: Bob Ellis, Australian left-wing author and political commentator, dies in Sydney aged 73.

BIRTHDAYS: Marlon Brando, US actor (19242004); Doris Day, US actress-singer (1924-); Eddie Murphy, US actor (1961-).