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-).