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The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison were joined by Ringo Starr two years later. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, they later experimented with musical styles ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. They incorporated classical elements and unconventional recording techniques. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings. Beatlemania took hold in 1963, as the group began to embody the ideals shared by the counterculture of the 1960s. They led the British Invasion of the US pop market in 1964. After their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers, in which McCartney and Starr remain active. (Lennon was shot and killed in 1980; Harrison died of cancer in 2001.) The Beatles became the best-selling band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide, and they top various sales and most-played lists, including most UK singles sold and most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart. (Full article...)

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Petya's ransom note displayed on a compromised system

Cyberattacks on Ukraine spread a new variant of the Petya malware (ransom note pictured) around the world and cause severe disruptions.
An anti-government coalition uses a police helicopter to attack the Supreme Tribunal of Justice and the Interior Ministry of Venezuela.
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1456 – Twenty-five years after her death, Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a posthumous retrial.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces caught up with American troops withdrawing from Ticonderoga and captured over 200 men.
1911 – The United States, United Kingdom, Japan, and Russia signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention banning open-water seal hunting (Northern fur seal pictured), the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation issues.
1954 – After the culmination of the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, Carlos Castillo Armas was sworn in as President of Guatemala.
1997 – Iraqi Kurdish Civil War: The Turkish Armed Forces concluded Operation Hammer, having successfully destroyed Kurdistan Workers' Party units in Northern Iraq.

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The cast of Parks and Recreation at the 71st Annual Peabody Awards in 2012

The American television show Parks and Recreation was nominated for a variety of different awards throughout its run, including sixteen Primetime Emmy Award nominations, twice as a comedy series and twice for writing. Parks and Recreation is a situation comedy created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur. The show premiered on NBC on April 9, 2009 and concluded on February 24, 2015 after airing seven seasons. The series stars Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, an ambitious, mid-level bureaucrat working in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, a fictional town in Indiana. It was nominated for fifteen Critics' Choice Television Awards (three wins), two Art Directors Guild Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards (one win). Poehler received the most recognition with 25 nominations for acting, winning an American Comedy Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Gracie Award, and receiving six consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. (Full list...)

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Portrait of a Carthusian is a painting in oils on oak panel completed by the Early Netherlandish painter Petrus Christus in 1446. It is a three-quarter portrait of an anonymous Carthusian monk gazing directly at the viewer. Towards the bottom of the painting is a trompe l’oeil fly, making it an early example of the technique. Regarded as a masterpiece of Early Netherlandish painting, it is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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