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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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- ... that all known populations of Epipterygium opararense (example pictured) live within a 5-metre (16 ft) radius in New Zealand?
- ... that Gareth Knight, a devout Christian, was an occultist who ran an esoteric society of magicians?
- ... that in 1983 readers of the magazine Softline voted Star Raiders the best program for Atari computers?
- ... that Mar Galcerán is believed to be the first politician with Down syndrome to serve in a European regional parliament?
- ... that the 1976 Big Thompson River flood took place several hours before Colorado's 100th anniversary of statehood?
- ... that before discovering a rudimentary audio workstation on his mother's phone, the French musician Lewis OfMan wanted to be a perfumer?
- ... that Harpegnathos alperti worker ants have black heads and chocolate-colored mandibles?
- ... that the reign of Ye will be one of perjury, slavery, pestilence and death, according to the Ethiopic Apocalypse of Ezra?
In the news
- Following damage to the helicopter's rotors, NASA ends the Ingenuity (pictured) mission on Mars after almost three years and seventy-two flights.
- The Ram Mandir, a temple to Rama, is consecrated at a disputed site in Ayodhya, India.
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's lunar module SLIM lands on the Moon.
- Protests break out in Bashkortostan, Russia, following the imprisonment of environmental activist Fail Alsynov.
- Iran launches missile strikes in Pakistan and aerial strikes in Iraq and Syria, and Pakistan responds with retaliatory airstrikes.
On this day
- 1069 – Robert de Comines, Earl of Northumbria, was killed in Durham, causing William the Conqueror to embark on a campaign to subjugate northern England.
- 1754 – The word serendipity, derived from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, was coined by Horace Walpole (pictured) in a letter to a friend.
- 1933 – Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in north-western India that he termed "Pakstan".
- 1964 – Three U.S. Air Force pilots aboard an unarmed T-39 Sabreliner were killed when the aircraft was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
- William H. Prescott (d. 1859)
- W. B. Yeats (d. 1939)
- Eddie Buczynski (b. 1947)
- Astrid Lindgren (d. 2002)
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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. Photograph credit: NASA
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