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Historian and National Library director Diogo Ramada Curto dies

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Diogo Ramada Curto, a prominent historian and the Director-General of the National Library of Portugal (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal), died this Saturday at age 66. A professor at the New University of Lisbon, he was widely recognized for his critical research on the Portuguese empire and his contributions to contemporary historiography.

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Historian and National Library director Diogo Ramada Curto dies

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01h Minister of Culture mourns the death of the National Library Director

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The Minister of Culture expresses regret over the passing of the Director of the National Library.

RTP Notícias12 Apr

01h Minister of Culture mourns the death of the National Library Director

Portugal

1665: At the Battle of Ambuíla in northern Angola, a Portuguese force from Luanda under Luís Lopes de Sequeira defeats the army of the Kingdom of Kongo. King António I is killed and beheaded, and the once-powerful kingdom slides into civil war.
1936:The Tarrafal prison camp
The steamer Luanda lands the first 152 political prisoners at the Tarrafal concentration camp on Santiago island in Cape Verde, among them Marinha Grande strikers and sailors from the September mutiny. The 'camp of slow death' operated until 1954 and again from 1961 to 1974.
Read more Dictatorship and the Estado Novo, 1926–1974

Elsewhere

1929: 'Black Tuesday' on Wall Street: some 16 million shares change hands as the New York stock market collapses, the crash that ushered in the Great Depression.

What event prompted the composition of Portugal's national anthem, A Portuguesa?

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