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Loveless is the second studio album by Irish rock band My Bloody Valentine. It was released on 4 November 1991 in the United Kingdom by Creation Records and in the United States by Sire Records. The album was recorded between February 1989 and September 1991. The band cycled through 19 different studios and several engineers during the album's recording; one magazine estimated the production costs at close to £250,000. Loveless peaked at number 24 on the UK Albums Chart, and was widely praised by critics for its sonic innovations and the guitar work of Kevin Shields (pictured). After the album's release, Creation owner Alan McGee found Shields too difficult to work with and dropped the band from the label. My Bloody Valentine struggled to record a follow-up to the album and broke up in 1997. Loveless has been widely cited by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time. In 2013, the album was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry. (Full article...)

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1938 – The deportation of several thousand Jews from Slovakia by the Hlinka Guard and police began.
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1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured) was assassinated by ultranationalist Yigal Amir while at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.

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Le comte Ory is a comic opera written by Gioachino Rossini in 1828. The opera is set in France in around 1200; most of the men are away at the Crusades, and the Countess Adèle and the women remaining in the castle of Formoutiers are melancholy. They are tricked into admitting a group of pilgrim nuns during a storm; these are really the scheming young Count Ory and his companions in disguise. He attempts to seduce the countess, but flees when the crusaders return. This engraving depicts the final scene of the opera, as performed by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier in 1828.

Engraving credit: Dubois; restored by Adam Cuerden

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