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Sarah Fischer
- ... that soprano Sarah Fischer (pictured) sang excerpts from the title role in Carmen for the very first televised BBC broadcast of opera music?
- ... that Jeff Baena made his characters Jewish in Life After Beth because he thought that Jews would be more likely to come back as zombies?
- ... that Dorothy Sproule received letters from five British monarchs, earning her the epithet "Canadian Poet-Laureate to Royalty"?
- ... that the publication of the magazine Jiaoyu zazhi was interrupted when the Japanese army bombed its publisher's headquarters?
- ... that Dries Van Langendonck has been called "the great Belgian [Formula One] hope"?
- ... that "Infantino Street", an episode of The Flash, was named after a writer from the Silver Age of Comic Books?
- ... that, after Yoetikno's death, his family had local villagers keep a 24-hour watch over his grave in fear of graverobbers?
- ... that the owner of Pringle House planned on vacating due to the risk of earthquake damage, but an earthquake damaged the building first?
- ... that Albanian prime minister Edi Rama determined that an AI system should become a cabinet minister tasked with ending corruption in public tenders?
In the news
Sanae Takaichi
- Sanae Takaichi (pictured) is elected as the first female prime minister of Japan by the National Diet.
- Eric Lu wins the International Chopin Piano Competition.
- Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are stolen during a robbery from the Galerie d'Apollon of the Louvre in Paris.
- Michael Randrianirina becomes President of Madagascar after Andry Rajoelina flees the country following mass protests and a military coup.
On this day
Scilly naval disaster
1707 – In one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of the British Isles, at least 1,400 sailors on four Royal Navy ships were lost in stormy weather (pictured) off the Isles of Scilly.
1940 – After evading Vichy French and Francoist Spanish authorities, Belgian prime minister Hubert Pierlot arrived in London, marking the beginning of the Belgian government in exile.
1945 – Workers at the Cigar Factory in Charleston, South Carolina, began a labor strike against the American Tobacco Company that lasted more than five months.
1964 – The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously.
2005 – Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashed in Ogun State, Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board.
Charles Kingston (b. 1850)
Edith Kawelohea McKinzie (b. 1925)
James K. Baxter (d. 1972)
Betty Binns Fletcher (d. 2012)
Today's featured picture
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Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group. Discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project in 1999, it is named after Bennu, a bird of Egyptian mythology associated with the Sun, creation, and rebirth. Bennu has a mean diameter of 490 metres (1,610 ft) and has been observed extensively by the Arecibo Observatory planetary radar, the NASA Deep Space Network, and OSIRIS-REx, a NASA mission that landed on and has returned samples of the asteroid to Earth. Bennu is classed as a potentially hazardous object, with a cumulative 1-in-1,750 chance of impacting Earth between 2178 and 2290. This mosaic image was produced in 2020 from photographs based on two years of close observation of Bennu by OSIRIS-REx. Photograph credit: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / University of Arizona |
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