The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring (Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses) was decreed in Nazi Germany, initially providing for the compulsory sterilization of persons with mental retardation ("hereditary feeblemindedness"), bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, epilepsy, and persons born with handicaps.
Born: Franz, Duke of Bavaria, in Munich, German businessman and art collector who has been, since 1996, the person recognized by Jacobites within the United Kingdom as the rightful heir to the House of Stuart, whose last King, James II, was deposed in 1688.