Historical Events
1496 - Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I
1837 - Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada
1946 - US President Harry Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
1978 - Sam Shepard's "Buried Child" premieres in NYC
2004 - 93rd Davis Cup: Spain beats USA in Seville (3-2)
2021 - First known Hippos tests positive for COVID-19 at Antwerp Zoo in Belgium, with staff putting Imani (14) and Hermien (41) into isolation
Famous Birthdays
1537 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, 15th Japanese shōgun, born in Japan (d. 1597)
1822 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1907)
1891 - Alexander Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer, born in St Petersburg (d. 1956)
1949 - Lanny Wadkins, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1977), born in Richmond, Virginia
1970 - Thomas Smith, American NFL cornerback (Buffalo Bills), born in Gates, North Carolina
1979 - Nick Stahl, American actor (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines), born in Harlingen, Texas
Famous Deaths
1953 - Jorge Negrete [Moreno], Mexican singer and actor (The Rebel, La madrina del diablo), dies of hepatitis at 42
1955 - Paul Harvey, American actor (Spellbound, Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73
1973 - Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish physicist and developer of the radar and radio direction finding in WWII, dies at 81
1993 - Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms), commits suicide using a pistol at 32
1994 - Ronald Ridout, English school textbook author (English Today), dies at 78
2016 - E. R. Braithwaite, Guyanese diplomat and writer (To Sir with Love), dies at 104
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