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United States of America

• 1948 - C. Aubrey Smith, England Test captain in 1888–89 and later a Hollywood film star, dies aged 85 in Beverly Hills.
• 1968 - Learie Constantine is awarded a life peerage, becoming the first black man to sit in the House of Lords. He takes the title of Baron Constantine of Maraval in Trinidad and Nelson in the County Palatine of Lancaster.