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Did you know ...
- ... that for her work in Poor Things , the costume designer Holly Waddington (pictured) was influenced by the Victorian era, early 20th-century German Expressionism, and 1960s fashion?
- ... that the fossil maple Acer wehri is named for a composer, artist, and amateur paleontologist?
- ... that Micronesia was the second country to cut ties with Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine—the first being Ukraine?
- ... that Times Tables Rock Stars added cochlear implants to the game after pupils at a deaf school requested them?
- ... that John Golding avoided painting horizontal lines in his work so that his pieces would not be mistaken for landscapes?
- ... that the New Zealand seafood poster is reportedly "in every fish and chip shop in the country"?
- ... that historian Vasyl Khaynas was active in an underground movement against the Hungarian occupation of Transcarpathia while still in high school?
- ... that the medical eye patch worn by former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is said to have increased his popularity?
- ... that when a California TV station began broadcasting, a child sent in 35 cents and a handwritten card reading, "Now I can get Sesame Street "?
In the news
- José Jerí (pictured) is removed as the president of Peru by Congress, and replaced by José María Balcázar.
- American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies at the age of 84.
- The Nationalist Party, led by Tarique Rahman, wins the Bangladeshi general election .
- In the Barbadian general election , the Labour Party wins a third term and every seat in the House of Assembly.
On this day
- 1828 – The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix , the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.
- 1866 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor (pictured) became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.
- 1919 – Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner , who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.
- 1929 – Nanjing decade: In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
- 1973 – After accidentally straying into the airspace of the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two Israeli fighter aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.
- Goscombe John (b. 1860)
- Rhonda Sing (b. 1961)
- Helen Hooven Santmyer (d. 1986)
- Margot Fonteyn (d. 1991)
Today's featured picture
 | The masked trogon (Trogon personatus) is a species of bird in the family Trogonidae, the trogons. Fairly common in humid highland forests in South America, mainly in the Andes and on tepuis, it is resident in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela. It is a mid-sized trogon, averaging 27 centimetres (11 in) in length and 56 grams (2.0 oz) in mass. Like all members of its family, it displays sexual dimorphism. The male has upperparts, head and upper chest of variously green or reddish-bronze colouring, with a red belly and lower breast, while the female is brown above, with a pinkish to red belly and breast. Like all trogons, it feeds on both fruits and insects. It makes its nest by excavating into the soft wood of a rotting vertical tree trunk. This masked trogon of the subspecies T. p. temperatus (the highland trogon) was photographed at San Isidro Lodge near Cosanga in Napo Province, Ecuador. Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp Recently featured: |