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Did you know ...
- ... that the Summit Hotel (pictured), once described by its own architect as the "most hated hotel in New York", was protected as a New York City landmark in 2005?
- ... that Egon Madsen, a former Stuttgart Ballet principal dancer, returned to the stage at the age of 57 and continues to perform in his 70s?
- ... that the 2009 book Where Heaven and Earth Meet introduced the term "Sacred Esplanade" as a politically neutral term for the religious site in Jerusalem known as al-Haram al-Sharif or the Temple Mount?
- ... that Sophie Freud, the granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, criticized his theory of psychoanalysis as a "narcissistic indulgence"?
- ... that, in the 2014 Texas Bowl, the Arkansas Razorbacks defense held the Texas Longhorns offense to a season-low net total of 59 yards?
- ... that when Bernardin Schellenberger wrote the 1978 hymn "Selig, wem Christus auf dem Weg begegnet", he was prior at Mariawald Abbey, a Trappist monastery?
- ... that squatters in Myanmar were punished for protesting against the 2021 coup d'état by being evicted?
- ... that a bunch of "smart-assed teenagers" drove around the Bronx looking for birds in garbage dumps?
In the news
- A 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan kills at least 1,500 people and injures more than 2,000 others.
- Gustavo Petro (pictured) wins the Colombian presidential election, defeating Rodolfo Hernández Suárez in the runoff.
- Ensemble, the alliance of incumbent president Emmanuel Macron, wins the most seats in the French legislative election but loses its majority.
- In basketball, the Golden State Warriors defeat the Boston Celtics to win the NBA Finals.
On this day
- 474 – Western Roman emperor Glycerius, who was not recognized by his Eastern counterpart Leo I, was forced to abdicate.
- 1340 – Hundred Years' War: The English fleet commanded by Edward III almost completely destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of Sluys.
- 1932 – A group of military officers and civilians engineered a bloodless coup in Siam, ending the absolute rule of the Chakri dynasty.
- 1937 – The U.S. Navy's first two fast battleships, North Carolina and Washington, of the North Carolina class, were respectively ordered from the New York and Philadelphia Naval Shipyards.
- 2010 – Julia Gillard (pictured) was sworn in as the first female prime minister of Australia after incumbent Kevin Rudd declined to contest a leadership spill in the Labor Party.
- John Hampden (d. 1643)
- Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (b. 1704)
- Minor White (d. 1976)
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The filmography of Indian actress Karisma Kapoor began with her acting debut at the age of seventeen in the romance Prem Qaidi in 1991, which was a box-office hit. She then appeared in successful ventures, the drama Sapne Sajan Ke (1992), and the action drama Jigar (1992). Kapoor had her first commercial success in a leading role in the romantic action drama Anari (1993), which was a moderate success and was one of the highest-grossing Hindi films of 1993. Between 1993 and 1996, Kapoor featured in several highly successful films, including the comedy drama Raja Babu (1994), the action drama Suhaag (1994), the action comedy Andaz (1994), the comedies Coolie No. 1 (1995), Saajan Chale Sasural (1996) and Hero No. 1 (1997), and the action thriller Jeet (1996). The successes of these films marked a turning point in her career, establishing Kapoor as a leading actress in Hindi cinema. (Full list...)
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Reaper is a series of three oil-on-canvas paintings by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh of a man reaping a wheat field under a bright early-morning sun. This is the second painting in the series, which Van Gogh appears to have completed in a single day in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, while taking breaks to write a letter on 4–5 September 1889. In a later part of the letter, he announced: "Phew – the reaper is finished, I think it will be one that you'll place in your home". Van Gogh initially preferred this version over the earlier study, describing it as "an image of death as the great Book of Nature speaks to us about it – but what I sought is the 'almost smiling'. It's all yellow except for a line of violet hills – a pale, blond yellow. I myself find that funny, that I saw it like that through the iron bars of a cell." The painting is now in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Painting credit: Vincent van Gogh
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