ON THIS DAY

1614: American Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.

1895: Irish writer Oscar Wilde loses his criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who accused the writer of homosexual practices.

1939: All German children between ages of 10 and 13 are ordered to serve in Hitler Youth Organisation.

1974: The World Trade Center opens in New York.

1994: Kurt Cobain, lead singer of US rock band Nirvana, takes his own life in Seattle, Washington.

2006: Apple rolls out a first-ever software patch to run Microsoft’s dominant Windows operating system on its PCs.

Birthdays: Bette Davis, US actor (1908-1989); Gregory Peck, US actor (1916-2003); Agnetha Faltskog, member of Swedish pop group ABBA (1950-); Quade Cooper, Australian rugby union player (1988-).