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Nicholas Hoult

Nicholas Hoult (born 1989) is an English actor. He has performed in supporting roles in big-budget mainstream productions and starring roles in independent projects in the American and British film industries. He made his screen debut at the age of six in the 1996 film Intimate Relations. In 2002 he portrayed Marcus Brewer in the comedy-drama film About a Boy, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. He played Tony Stonem in the E4 teenage drama series Skins (2007–2008), and earned a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination for the 2009 drama film A Single Man. Cast as the mutant Hank McCoy in Matthew Vaughn's 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, he continued the role in later instalments of the series. In 2013, Hoult starred as a zombie in the romantic comedy Warm Bodies. He played Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, in the historical black comedy The Favourite (2018) and the writer J. R. R. Tolkien in Tolkien (2019). (Full article...)

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The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was the first fatal accident to an American spacecraft in flight. On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into the flight of STS-51-L, the 25th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program. All seven crew members aboard were killed. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 am EST. This official portrait of the STS-51-L crew was taken on November 15, 1985. In the back row, from left to right, are Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, and Judith Resnik. In the front row, from left to right, are Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, and Ronald McNair.

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