ON THIS DAY

1290: Jews are exiled from England by proclamation of King Edward I.

1846: Committee is established in Sydney to organise appeal for Irish famine.

1887: US inventor Thomas A Edison receives a patent for his Kinetoscope, a device which produces moving pictures.

1920: First ever news program is broadcast by the radio station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.

1968: West Indian Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to score six sixes off one over in first-class cricket, in England.

1997: Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Al Fayed are killed in a Paris car crash.

2013: Renowned British TV interviewer David Frost dies at 74 of a heart attack on a cruise ship.

Birthdays: Caligula (Gaius Caesar), Emperor of Rome (12-41); Jack Thompson, Australian actor (1940-); Richard Gere, US actor (1949-).