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- Armed conflicts and incidents
- Arts and culture
- Frank Buckles, the last surviving veteran of World War I in the United States, passes away in Charles Town, West Virginia, aged 110. (AP via Fox News)
- Television advertising in the United Kingdom
- The ban on product placement in television programmes is lifted, allowing advertisers to pay for their goods to be seen on British TV. The first product to be displayed in this regard is a Nescafe coffee machine, which appeared on This Morning. (BBC) (Daily Telegraph)
- A year-long trial also begins allowing commercial television channels to show up to 12 minutes of adverts per hour during films and dramas, bringing them into line with soap operas where this is already permitted. (Daily Telegraph)
- Hollywood actress and former sex symbol Jane Russell dies at age 89 of respiratory failure in Santa Maria, California. (Fox Central Florida), (Reuters), (Hollywood Reporter)
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