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Pompey's allies strike back in Africa
During Caesar's civil war, forces loyal to Julius Caesar under Gaius Scribonius Curio were defeated in North Africa by Pompeian Republicans allied with King Juba I of Numidia. The defeat was a rare setback for Caesar's cause, demonstrating that the civil war was far from decided. Curio died in the battle, his overconfidence proving his undoing.
A versatile actor of stage, screen, and song
In Ocean City, New Jersey, Preston Foster was born with talents that would sustain a nearly four-decade career across stage, film, radio, and television. A versatile performer who could play tough guys, romantics, and everyman heroes with equal conviction, Foster also pursued a parallel career as a vocalist, embodying mid-twentieth-century American entertainment.
In the midst of a political crisis, Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas fatally shot himself in the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro.
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his suicide in 1954. Due to his long and controversial tenure as Brazil's provisional, constitutional, dictatorial and democratic leader, he is considered by historians as the most influential Brazilian politician of the 20th century.