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On this day in 2022

• EVENTS
• Online streaming service Netflix suffers its first subscriber loss in a decade, losing 200,000 customers Jan-Mar.
• DEATHS
• Guitar Shorty [David William Kearney], American blues-rock guitarist, singer and songwriter (You Don't Treat Me Right), who died at 87.
• TV SERIES
• Russian Doll: Season 2 is released. The second season picks up four years after the end of first season.
• GAMING: PC
• POSTAL 4: No Regerts for PC is released. Several years have passed since the events that devastated the once proud town remembered as Paradise. The only two to walk away from the cataclysm unscathed, the hapless everyman known as the POSTAL Dude and his loyal companion Champ, drive aimlessly through the scorching deserts of Arizona looking for a new place to call home. After a fortuitous gas station rest stop ends with their car, trailer home, and the rest of their worldly possessions stolen, all the Dude’s seemingly got left to his name is his canine cohort and his bathrobe, and neither of them smells all that great. However, on the horizon, the duo glimpses an unfamiliar and dazzling town that beckons to them. What untold prospects lie within? Fame? Fortune? Maybe a bidet or two? Edensin awaits. POSTAL 4: No Regerts is a satirical and outrageous comedic open world first person shooter and the long-awaited true sequel to what’s been fondly dubbed as "The Worst Game Ever™", POSTAL 2! (No third game is known to exist.)
• GAMING: SWITCH
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for Switch is released. The Star Wars saga continues in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. You are Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice! The Dark Lord of the Sith himself has trained you to use a lightsaber and unleash the power of the Force, but now your destiny is your own. Will you join Vader as the next great Sith, or will you choose to defend peace and justice as a noble Jedi Knight?

On this day in 2021

• EVENTS
• Record number of new COVID-19 pandemic cases reported (5.24 million) in one week around the world according to WHO, with a third in India.
• Former police officer Derek Chauvin convicted of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, in a case that prompted huge nationwide racial justice protests.
• All six EPL clubs withdraw from the controversial European Super League just 3 days after it was announced - Chelsea, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham.
• DEATHS
• Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Icelandic composer (Time and Water), who died at 80.
• Leslie McKeown, Scottish pop vocalist (Bay City Rollers - "Saturday Night"), who died at 65.
• Les Mckeown, Pop Singer.
• Tempest Storm, Movie Actress.
• TV SERIES
• Sasquatch: Season 1 is released. The three-part documentary series from Mark and Jay Duplass and directed by Joshua Rofé looks into David Holthouse's investigation into the rumors a Sasquatch killed three people at a Northern California marijuana farm in 1993.
• Philly D.A. is released. Directors Yoni Brook and Ted Passon follow civil rights attorney Larry Krasner as he seeks to reform the criminal justice system as Philadelphia's new district attorney in the eight-part documentary that airs as part of PBS' Independent Lens series.
• Cruel Summer: Season 1 is released. In 1993, popular teenager Kate (Olivia Holt) disappears from her small Texas town. Nerdy Jeanette (Chiara Aurelia) transforms into the new popular girl and by 1995, the prime suspect in this thriller created by Bert V. Royal and executive produced by Jessica Biel.
• GAMING: PC
• Don't Forget Me for PC is released. A jazz-punk adventure game with a twist, Don’t Forget Me is a new breed of puzzle game. Dive into the memories of your patients, use your own observations to unwrap their minds and uncover a dark conspiracy set to claim dominion over humanity.
• Silicon Dreams for PC is released. It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
• GAMING: PLAYSTATION 4
• Maskmaker for PlayStation 4 is released. Assume the role of a Maskmaker's apprentice and learn the magic of crafting masks to immerse yourself in the intriguing, enigmatic beings within the game. From mask-to-mask and puzzle-to-puzzle, explore your way through the "mask realm"to seek Prospero who appears to rule it and ultimately unravel the secret of his identity.
• POLITICS
• Idriss Déby, Chadian politician and military officer (President of Chad,1990–2021), who died of injuries inflicted on a battlefield at 68.

On this day in 2020

• EVENTS
• Price of US oil turns negative for the 1st time in history - West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark for US oil, falls as low as minus $37.63 a barrel as worldwide demand falls.
• The last three cruise ships still afloat amid Covid pandemic, finally dock at the ports of Marseille, France; Barcelona, Spain; and Los Angeles California.
• Three US states, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina the 1st to announce end to some COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
• DEATHS
• Tom Lester, American actor (Green Acres - Eb), who died at 81 from complications related to Parkinson’s disease.
• Mike Curtis, American NFL linebacker (Super Bowl 1971; Pro Bowl 1968,70,71,74; First-team All-Pro 1968,69; Baltimore Colts), who died at 77.
• MOVIES: NR
• Why Don't You Just Die! is released. Matvey has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend's parents' apartment and kill her father Andrey with a hammer to restore her honour. But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey's attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don't quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable - not to mention ruthless - opponent than he anticipated... and Matvey, for his part, proves stubbornly unwilling to die.
• TV SERIES
• The Midnight Gospel: Season 1 is released. Podcaster Clancy is forced to leave his home to interview beings in other worlds after his multiverse simulator malfunctions in this adult animated series co-created by Pendleton Ward and Duncan Trussell.

On this day in 2018

• EVENTS
• Mexican court bars sales of controversial Frida Kahlo Barbie doll.
• Commonwealth countries decide Prince Charles will succeed Queen Elizabeth as the next head of the Commonwealth.
• Arsène Wenger announces he will leave London EPL club Arsenal after 22 years as manager.
• Actress Allison Mack arrested on charges of sex trafficking in relation to sex cult NXIVM in New York.
• DEATHS
• Avicii, DJ.
• Avicii [Tim Bergling], Swedish musician, DJ, remixer and record producer (" Levels" ; "Wake Me Up" ; "Sunshine"), commits suicide at 28.
• MOVIES: NOT RATED
• After Auschwitz is released. "You're free. Go home"Most Holocaust films end with these words, the very words that survivors heard at liberation. After Auschwitz begins with these words, inviting audiences to experience what happened next. For survivors, liberation from the camps was the beginning of a life long struggle. They wanted to go home, but there was no home left in Europe. They came to America and wanted to tell people about their pasts but were silenced for over three decades. "You're in America now, put it behind you". After Auschwitz is a "Post-Holocaust"documentary that captures what it means to survive and try to life a normal life after unspeakable tragedy. Six extraordinary women who all survived Auschwitz take us on a journey that American audiences have never seen before. These women all moved to Los Angeles, married, raised children and became "Americans"but they never truly found a place to call home. What makes the story so much more fascinating is how these women saw, interpreted and interacted with the changing face of America in the second half of the 20th century. They serve as our guides on an unbelievable journey, sometimes celebratory, sometimes heart breaking but always inspiring. It is also the only "Holocaust"film that includes Ricardo Montalban, George W. Bush and an appearance at The Kennedy Center Honors. After Auschwitz gives us the story that we have always wanted to see and one that in many ways is as important as the stories of the camps themselves.
• Little Pink House is released. A small-town nurse named Susette Kelo (Catherine Keener) emerges as the reluctant leader of her working-class neighbors in their struggle to save their homes from political and corporate interests bent on seizing the land and handing it over to Pfizer Corporation. Susette's battle goes all the way to the US Supreme Court and the controversial 5-4 decision in Kelo vs. City of New London gave government officials the power to bulldoze a neighborhood for the benefit of a multibillion-dollar corporation. The decision outraged Americans across the political spectrum, and that passion fueled reforms that helped curb eminent domain abuse.
• Godard Mon Amour is released. France, in the late 1960s. Actress Anne Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin) finds herself juggling political protests and artistic challenges in her married life with renowned filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (Louis Garrel). As her country undergoes enormous cultural change, so too does Anne’s dynamic with her husband. Godard Mon Amour is a story of both real love and reel love.
• Pass Over is released. Moses and Kitch, two young black men, chat their way through a long, aimless day on a Chicago street corner. Periodically ducking bullets and managing visits from a genial but ominous stranger and an overtly hostile police officer, Moses and Kitch rely on their banter to get them through a day that is a hopeless retread of every other day, even as they continue to dream of their deliverance.
• The Devil and Father Amorth is released. William Friedkin returns not only to his documentary roots but to the subject of one of his most towering works,1973’s The Exorcist. Friedkin, a legendary raconteur, leads a tour that moves from the infamous Exorcist steps in Georgetown to Italy, where he meets with the 91-year-old Father Gabriele Amorth, official exorcist of the Diocese of Rome, and accompanies Amorth on one of his harrowing house calls. A sprightly, at times gonzo-style, investigation into the long history of demonic lore, and a one-of-a-kind insight into the persistence of medieval belief in the supposedly modern world.
• MOVIES: NR
• Ghost Stories is released. Experience three spine-tingling tales of terror to haunt your dreams. A debunker of all things paranormal, Professor Phillip Goodman (Andy Nyman) has devoted his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans on his own television show. His skepticism is put to the test, however, when he receives a file of three chilling, inexplicable cases: a night watchman (Paul Whitehouse) haunted by disturbing visions as he patrols an abandoned asylum; an edgy young man (Alex Lawther) involved in a hellish car accident deep in the woods; and a wealthy former banker (Martin Freeman) visited by the poltergeist spirit of his unborn child. Even scarier: each of the these macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to Professor Goodman’s own life. Will they make a believer of him yet? [IFC Midnight]
• MOVIES: PG13
• I Feel Pretty is released. A woman who struggles with feelings of deep insecurity and low self-esteem, that hold her back everyday, wakes from a brutal fall in an exercise class believing she is suddenly a supermodel. With this newfound confidence she is empowered to live her life fearlessly and flawlessly, but what will happen when she realizes her appearance never changed?
• MOVIES: R
• Super Troopers 2 is released. Everyone's favorite law enforcement team is back by popular demand with the long anticipated follow up to the cult comedy classic... Super Troopers. When an international border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers- Mac, Thorny, Foster, Rabbit and Farva, are called in to set up a new Highway Patrol station in the disputed area. Unconventional police work follows, and the result is...Super Troopers 2
• Traffik is released. A couple off for a romantic weekend in the mountains are accosted by a bike gang. Alone in the mountains, Brea and John must defend themselves against a gang, who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.
• MOVIES: TVMA
• Kodachrome is released. Matt Ryder (Jason Sudeikis) is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder (Ed Harris) cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab in the world that can develop them before it shuts down for good. Along with Ben’s nurse Zooey (Elizabeth Olsen), the three navigate a world changing from analog to digital while trying to put the past behind them.
• ALBUMS
• KOD was released by J. Cole. The fifth full-length release for the North Carolina rap artist feature tracks about addiction and rap culture.
• Hippo Lite was released by Drinks. The second full-length release for the collaboration between Cate Le Bon and White Fence's Tim Presley was produced by Stephen Black and recorded in a house in the south of France.
• Beautiful Thing was released by Alexis Taylor. The latest full-length solo release for the Hot Chip co-founder was produced by Tim Goldsworthy.
• Eat the Elephant was released by A Perfect Circle. The fourth full-length studio release for the rock supergroup is its first album of new material in 14 years.
• Sparrow was released by Ashley Monroe. The fourth full-length release for the country singer-songwriter was produced with Dave Cobb.
• Pinkus Abortion Technician was released by Melvins. The latest release for the sludge band features both Steven McDonald and Jeff Pinkus of the Butthole Surfers on bass.
• The Sciences was released by Sleep. The fourth full-length surprise release for the Northern California stoner metal band is its first new album in nearly two decades.
• Vide Noir was released by Lord Huron. The third full-length release for the Los Angeles-based indie band led by Ben Schneider (who also produced the album) was mixed by Dave Fridmann.
• 44/876 was released by Sting. The debut full-length collaboration between Sting and Shaggy features contributions from DJ Agent Sasco, Aidonia, Morgan Heritage, Dominic Miller, and Robbie Shakespeare.
• GAMING: PC
• Murderous Pursuits for PC is released. Murderous Pursuits is a kill-or-be-killed Victorian stealth-em-up for 1-8 players in which you must hunt and kill your quarry before your hunters do the same to you, all while avoiding witnesses.
• GAMING: PLAYSTATION 4
• God of War for PlayStation 4 is released. His vengeance against the gods of Olympus far behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the lands of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same. As mentor and protector to a son determined to earn his respect, Kratos is faced with an unexpected opportunity to master the rage that has long defined him. Questioning the dark lineage he’s passed on to his son, he hopes to make amends for the shortcomings of his past. Set within the untamed forests, mountains, and realms of Norse lore, God of War features a distinctly new setting with its own pantheon of creatures, monsters, and gods. [Playstation.com]
• GAMING: SWITCH
• Nintendo Labo: Toycon 01 Variety Kit for Switch is released. The Variety Kit includes five different projects to Make, Play, and Discover: two Toy-Con RC Cars, a Toy-Con Fishing Rod, a Toy-Con House, a Toy-Con Motorbike, and a Toy-Con Piano. Bring each Toy-Con creation to life with the power of the Nintendo Switch console and Joy-Con controllers.
• The Way Remastered for Switch is released. The Way Remastered tells a story about a member of space explorers team who lost his beloved and cannot accept her death. During one of his expeditions he discovers ancient writings that testify the existence of a method for obtaining eternal life. Hoping to get his beloved back, he decides to return to the alien planet. However, the planet hides many secrets and dangers that he must face.
• POLITICS
• Allan B. Swift, American broadcast journalist and politician (US Representative for Washington (D),1979-95), who died at 82.

On this day in 2017

• EVENTS
• Terrorist attack on police van on Champs Élysées, Paris 1 police officer killed,2 injured.
• DEATHS
• Cuba Gooding Sr., American singer (Everybody Plays the Fool), who died at 72.
• GAMING: PC
• Syberia 3 for PC is released. The next generation in adventure games, Syberia 3 takes you inside an enchanting, mysterious universe full of life for you to explore in 3D. Plunged into the heart of a world inhabited by a cast of interesting characters, you'll discover and experience a fabulous tale as imagined by Benoit Sokal.

On this day in 2016

• DEATHS
• Chyna [Joanie Laurer], American professional wrestler and reality TV star, who died at 46.
• Chyna, Wrestler.
• Guy Hamilton, British director (Goldfinger), who died at 93.
• Victoria Wood, British comedian and actress, who died of cancer at 62.
• TV SERIES
• Time Traveling Bong: Season 1 is released. Two cousins (Ilana Glazer and Paul Downs) time travel with the help of a bong in this three-part miniseries for the comedy based on a skit by Ilana Glazer.

On this day in 2015

• EVENTS
• Pulitzer Prize awarded to Anthony Doerr's for his novel "All the Light We Cannot See" and to Elizabeth Kolbert for "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History".
• DEATHS
• Sir Raymond Carr, English historian and warden (St Antony's College Oxford), who died at 96.
• Aharon Lichtenstein, Orthodox Jewish rabbi, who died at 81.
• SPORTS
• Bob St. Clair "The Geek", American football player, who died at 84.

On this day in 2014

• DEATHS
• Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, American boxer (famous murder conviction overturned after 19 years imprisonment), who died of prostate cancer at 76.
• TV SERIES
• Salem: Season 1 is released. In 1692 Massachusetts, John Alden (Shane West) returns from war to find his friend Cotton Mather (Seth Gabel) leading the Salem witch trials and his former lover Mary Sibley (Janet Montgomery), married to the elderly and wealthy George Sibley.

On this day in 2013

• EVENTS
• 5 snowboarders are killed by an avalanche in Loveland Pass, Colorado.
• 193 people are killed and 11,826 are injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Lushan County, China.
• WEDDINGS
• " Hart of Dixie" actor Scott Porter at the age of 33 weds casting director Kelsey Mayfield in Austin, Texas.
• DEATHS
• Huang Wenyong, Movie Actor.
• Nosher Powell, English actor and boxer, who died at 84.
• Struther Arnott, Scottish molecular biologist and chemist (cancer research), who died at 78.
• TV SERIES
• Mary and Martha is released. The loss of their sons to malaria bring together American Mary Morgan (Hilary Swank) and British Martha O'Connell (Brenda Blethyn) to help raise awareness of the disease.
• POLITICS
• Howard Phillips, American politician, who died from dementia and Alzheimer's disease at 72.
• Giorgio Napolitano is re-elected President of Italy.