1837 - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts, the first US college for women, is founded
1873 - Ciro Pinsuti's opera "Il mercante di Venezia", based on William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" is first performed, at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Italy
1937 - The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
1962 - Canada's government orders the nickel changed back to round shape
2017 - Louvre Abu Dhabi is inaugurated, largest art museum on Arabian peninsula

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1951 - Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general, intelligence officer and war criminal, known as "the Blond Angel of Death", born in Mar del Plata, Argentina
1965 - Mike Peluso, American NHL left wing (NJ Devils), born in Pengilly, Minnesota
1974 - Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor (The Americans, Brothers and Sisters), born in Cardiff, Wales

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