On this day: Imagine having open-heart surgery without anaesthesia so you get to feel everything as they cut you open
1401 Mongol warlord Tamerlane destroys Baghdad, killing 20 000 people and forming pyramids of burning heads around the city. 1877 First Wimbledon tennis championships. 1893 George Cato (79), Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies. 1893 Daniel …