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The Holden Commodore (VE) is a full-size car that marked the introduction of the fourth generation of the Holden Commodore, a series of automobiles produced by Australian carmaker Holden. Referred to as Holden's "billion dollar baby", the company invested more than AU$1 billion in developing the car before production began on 13 July 2006; it made its public debut three days later. The VE was Holden's first project designed entirely in Australia; previous generations relied on Opel-sourced platforms. The company produced several body styles of the VE: a sedan, a ute, and a station wagon dubbed the Sportwagon. Variants by Holden's performance vehicle partner, Holden Special Vehicles, were released soon after the sedan's debut. Over the VE's production, Holden also introduced a series of changes, identified by the model year. Often ranked as Australia's annual best-selling car during production, the VE was discontinued in May 2013 and succeeded by the VF. ( Full article... )

Kiara St. James

• ... that transgender activist Kiara St. James (pictured) helped to end New York's Walking While Trans law?
• ... that a formerly best-selling title in the Fate franchise remained exclusive to Japan until an English fan translation was released a decade later?
• ... that German-born Katrin Bennhold has been a senior writer for The New York Times in three European capitals?
• ... that the school board of Charlotte, North Carolina, bought a defunct TV station in Florida and moved its equipment to start their own TV station ?
• ... that the Torreón del Monje was the headquarters of a pigeon-shooting club?
• ... that Marvin Lowenthal went from being a silk-mill bobbin boy to writing a sixteen-century history of Jews in Germany ?
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Beth Mooney

• Thirteen people are killed in a wildfire in Almería, Spain.
• A series of coordinated attacks across Pakistan's Balochistan province leaves at least forty-two people dead.
• The IOC provisionally lifts its suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee .
• In cricket, the Women's T20 World Cup concludes with Australia defeating England in the final (player of the match Beth Mooney pictured).

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First-edition cover of The Catcher in the Rye

• 1232 – Muhammad ibn Yusuf , who later established the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain, was elected the ruler of Arjona.
• 1950 – Uruguay won the decisive match of the fourth FIFA World Cup, defeating Brazil 2–1 at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
• 1916 – Max Reger's Hebbel Requiem was first performed in a memorial concert for the composer, conducted by Philipp Wolfrum.
• 1951 – The Catcher in the Rye (cover pictured), an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was published by Little, Brown.
• 2007 – A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.