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 shÅgun, 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