2014 Event American freelance videographer Ashoka Mukpo tests positive for Ebola while working in Liberia; the cameraman has been working in the country for the past three years but became symptomatic the day after beginning an assignment for NBC News 1983 Event New York Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment 1979 Death Merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68 1972 Death Brian Donlevy, actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment), dies at 73 1918 Birthday Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor, Assignment Vienna 1911 Birthday Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress, Assignment Foreign Legion 1815 Event Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia
