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- People born on this day are Aries as their zodiac sign.
Today in History
On this day in 2024
- EVENTS
- Bus crash kills 45 Easter pilgrims from Botswana in South Africa, with one child surviving a 50 meter drop off the Mmamatlakala bridge, near Mokopane.
- DEATHS
- Larry Lloyd, English soccer defender (4 caps; Liverpool, Nottingham Forest) and manager (Wigan Athletic, Notts County), who died at 75.
On this day in 2023
- EVENTS
- Chris Sharma completes the first redpoint of Sleeping Lion in Siurana, Spain, a 9b+ (5.15c) route.
- BIRTHS
- Lowe Asmr, YouTube Star, born in Sweden.
- Yayahuz, Twitch Star, born in Brazil.
- DEATHS
- Manfred Schaefer, Australian soccer defender (49 caps; St. George-Budapest FC) and manager (St. George-B FC, Sydney Olympic FC, APIA Leichhardt, Sydney Utd, Marconi), who died at 80.
- GAMING: PC
- Terra Nil for PC is released. Terra Nil, from eco-warriors Free Lives (Broforce) and recycled publisher Devolver Digital, presents players with the task of environmental rejuvenation. Begin with the water system, slowly purify the soil, and cultivate pioneer greenery. Embark on more ambitious tasks, restore biodiversity, fix the climate, introduce wildlife, and finally recycle all the structures you used to get there, leaving the environment pristine.Each region of the game has its own flavour and procedural generation palette. Yet even within a region, no two playthroughs will be the same.Navigate sprawling, verdant, hand-painted environments where everything but the rocks move and breathe. A meditative soundtrack and stunning audio palette will accompany your efforts.
- The Last of Us Part I for PC is released. In a ravaged civilization, where infected and hardened survivors run rampant, Joel, a weary protagonist, is hired to smuggle 14-year-old Ellie out of a military quarantine zone. However, what starts as a small job soon transforms into a brutal cross-country journey. Includes the complete The Last of Us single-player story and celebrated prequel chapter, Left Behind, which explores the events that changed the lives of Ellie and her best friend Riley forever.
- Crime Boss: Rockay City for PC is released. Rockay City. A thriving metropolis with excitement buzzing from the sandy bay to the towering skyscrapers. But beyond the glamour, there is a fierce turf war raging on... After the demise of the previous crime boss, there's an open vacancy for a new King of Rockay City - but it isn't just you who is fighting for the throne. Choose your crew based on their skills and expertise, and execute daring missions with the hopes of walking away with the cash, the turf and, ultimately, the crown.Crime Boss: Rockay City is an organized crime game combining first-person shooter action and turf wars, playable solo or with friends. Take on the role of Travis Baker - a man with his sights set on becoming the new King of Rockay City, one crime at a time...
- POLITICS
- US Vice President Kamala Harris visits former slave port Cape Coast Castle in Ghana as part of her tour of Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia.
- SPORTS
- Bill Leavy, American football official (NFL 1995-2014; Super Bowl 2000,06; 15 x playoff games), who died at 76.
On this day in 2022
- EVENTS
- Actor Will Smith issues an apology on Instagram to Oscars host Chris Rock for slapping him live on stage during the ceremony.
- DEATHS
- Naci Erdem, Turkish soccer centre-back (31 caps; Fenerbahçe), who died at 91.
- GAMING: PC
- Nightmare Reaper for PC is released. Explore the cursed depths of a nightmare while finding powerful weapons and improving your abilities in this retro first person shooter that breaches the wall between the classics and modern sensibilities.
- POLITICS
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs so called "Don't Say Gay"bill limiting LGBTQ classroom instruction.
On this day in 2021
- EVENTS
- British jazz bassist, record producer Malcolm Cecil died age 84. He was a founding member of a leading UK jazz quintet of the late 1950s, the Jazz Couriers and later joined Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner to form the original line-up of Blues Incorporated. Cecil subsequently collaborated with Robert Margouleff to form the duo Tonto's Expanding Head Band, which led to them collaborating on and co-producing several of Stevie Wonder's Grammy-winning albums of the early 1970s..
- Mexico revises its COVID-19 pandemic death toll up by 60% to more than 321,000 giving it the second highest COVID death toll in the world.
- DEATHS
- Malcolm Cecil, Bassist.
- POLITICS
- Didier Ratsiraka, President of Madagascar (1975-93), who died at 84.
On this day in 2020
- DEATHS
- Linda Roper, TikTok Star.
- Jan Howard [Lula Grace Johnson], American country music singer and songwriter (For Loving You), who died at 91.
- Azam Khan, Pakistani squash player (British Open 1959-62), who died from COVID-19 pandemic at 95.
- POLITICS
- Tom Coburn, American politician (Sen-R-Oklahoma 2005-2015, Rep-R-Oklahoma 1995-2001), who died at 72.
- US President Donald Trump makes grim projection that 240,000 American could die from COVID-19 pandemic, even with restrictions in place.
On this day in 2019
- EVENTS
- Study of a 71 year-old British woman who has never felt pain, for the first time understood as due to a gene mutation, published in British Journal of Anaesthesia.
- European parliament bans single-use plastics, including cutlery and straws by 2021.
- TV SERIES
- Abby's: Season 1 is released. Abby (Natalie Morales) runs an unlicensed, makeshift bar in the backyard of her San Diego home where some of her regulars include Fred (Neil Flynn), Beth (Jessica Chaffin), and James (Leonard Ouzts) in this comedy from Josh Malmuth.
- GAMING: PC
- Warparty for PC is released. Warparty is a real-time strategy game set in the stone-age era. You will build your base, recruit and control a group of soldiers, fight and tame fierce dinosaurs and direct the flow of combat. Proper management of resources, skills and map awareness will lead you to victory.
- GAMING: SWITCH
- Yoshi's Crafted World for Switch is released. Discover the flip side of Yoshis world. Lead Yoshi on a brand new adventure that will turn everything youve come to expect from side-scrolling games upside down! Explore a great, big world decorated like a miniature diorama in a new art style for the franchise, where each side-scrolling stage has the traditional front side as well as a flip side with different views and surprises. Look for items throughout the stage as Yoshi makes his way to the goal. You can even join up with a friend.Features:* Join Yoshi in this new action platforming game * Each course offers both a main path and a hidden path that offers different views and surprises* The lively art style looks like a minature diorama * Enjoy simultaneous 2-player action
- She Remembered Caterpillars for Switch is released. She Remembered Caterpillars is a color-matching puzzle game with an unsettling fungipunk aesthetic. Set in a phantasgamorphic world of writhing caterpillars, brightly-colored Gammies, and living architecture, the game will have players eavesdropping on what appears to be one scientist’s quest to save her father. As the chapters progress, more of this strange universe will reveal itself: what manner of cataclysm occurred here? Who are the players involved? And what exactly are the Gammies doing in these dreamscapes?
On this day in 2018
- EVENTS
- North Korea's Kim Jong-un meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, his first trip outside of North Korea since coming to power in 2011.
- George Ezra was at No.1 on the UK album chart with his second studio album Staying at Tamara’s. It became the UK's best selling artist album of the year in 2018 and was nominated for British Album of the Year at the 2019 Brit Awards..
- TV SERIES
- Alex, Inc.: Season 1 is released. In this sitcom based on Alex Blumberg’s Gimlet Media podcast "StartUp, "a journalist (Zach Braff) quits his job to start his own company.
- The Americans: Season 6 is released. Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth's (Keri Russell) plans to return to Russia are stymied and their daughter becomes involved in the spy game in the sixth and final season of the espionage drama.
- SPORTS
- Captain Steve Smith and David Warner are suspended by Cricket Australia for 12 months, and Cameron Bancroft (9 months) for their part in the infamous ball-tampering scandal in South Africa.
On this day in 2017
- EVENTS
- Cyclone Debbie strikes north east Queensland coast as a category 4 storm.
- Britain introduces 1st new pound coin in 30 years with secret security feature inside to stop counterfeiting.
- US confirms likely it is behind the air strike in Mosul, Iraq, that led to collapse of a building that killed more than 100 civilians.
- BIRTHS
- Tom Cosgrove, American football player, Wilkes-Barre, born in United States.
- DEATHS
- Ronald Hines, British actor (Not in Front of the Children, Pack of Lies), who died at 87.
- Janine Sutto, French Canadian actress and comedian (Guide de la petite vengeance), who died of natural causes at 95.
- Enn Vetemaa, Novelist.
- GAMING: PC
- Bush Hockey League for PC is released. Aggressive hockey is back! Experience hockey the way it was meant to be played in this old school arcade style hockey game where blood on the ice is just another day at the rink. Big moustaches, no helmets, dirty hits, bench-clearing brawls, goalie fights, and stick fights – that’s Old Time Hockey.
- Narcosis for PC is released. Narcosis is a survival story set at the hostile depths of the Pacific Ocean. Stranded after an accident, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen - and sanity - give out.
- GAMING: PLAYSTATION 4
- MLB The Show 17 for PlayStation 4 is released. With expanded missions, exclusive rewards, and all new live contentthat responds quickly to real-life baseball events, there are more ways to enjoy the Diamond Dynasty. Test your deck building skills in all new Events, which challenge you to build a team based on specific event themes.
- Rain World for PlayStation 4 is released. Assume the role of a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
- The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series - A New Frontier Episode 3: Above the Law for PlayStation 4 is released. After the events of 'Ties That Bind: Part Two', Javier struggles to find a role in his family. Meanwhile, tension within the walls of Richmond grow. Will Clementine and the rest of the group turn against Javier? It may be time to choose between the family you're born into and the family you've made.
- Snake Pass for PlayStation 4 is released. As Noodle the snake, slither, wriggle, curl, coil, and climb your way to the top of Haven Tor in this one-of-a-kind puzzle adventure from award winning independent studio Sumo Digital.
- Dark Souls III: The Ringed City for PlayStation 4 is released. The Ringed City is the final DLC pack for Dark Souls III. Journey to the world’s end to search for the Ringed City and encounter new lands, new bosses, new enemies with new armor, magic and items. Experience the epic final chapter of a dark world that could only be created by the mind of Hidetaka Miyazaki.
- Kingdom Hearts HD I.5 + II.5 Remix for PlayStation 4 is released. Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix is an HD remastered collection of 6 Kingdom Hearts experiences available for the first time on PS4.
- FATED: The Silent Oath for PlayStation 4 is released. FATED is an virtual reality action-adventure experience set in the Norse lands during Ragnarök.
- GAMING: SWITCH
- Has-Been Heroes for Switch is released. Embark on an epic journey with the Has-Been Heroes, a group of legendary champions once celebrated throughout the kingdom - almost forgotten until the King has one more quest, the most epic of them all:TO TAKE THE TWIN PRINCESSES TO SCHOOL!Key features:* Meet the epic band of heroes as the young and eager Rogue, joining the company of the wise monk Metacles, the giant-wrestling warrior Crux... wait until you meet the others, incl. the Anthropologist turned Mexican Wrestler, the ever-vigilant and paranoid Bodyguard, and many more!* Unlock and collect hundreds of game-changing items and spells, boosting the heroes' powers and making each run unique!* Combine spells for devastating effects, learning the power of magic as you gain more elements.* Face countless monsters, each bigger and more menacing than the next. Can you wipe out the army of evil led by the Great Ghoul?* In roguelike fashion, die and try again - choose your heroes wisely and prepare for battle!
- GAMING: XBOX ONE
- Vikings: Wolves of Midgard for Xbox One is released. Fear the wolves. They are cold, they are hungry - and they will stop at nothing to surviveRagnarok. Legend has it that when the coldest winter descends, the Jotan will return to take their vengeance against the Gods of Asgard. The world is on the road to perdition and the fate of Midgard hangs in the balance. But when the Fire and Frost Giants begin to merge their armies, they encounter the clan of the Ulfung the Wolves of Midgard. Bloody, but unbowed following the destruction of their village, this notorious band of ostracized Viking warriors are determined to seize their destiny and save the world. As clan chief, you must save Midgard from complete annihilation, and spearhead the charge to vanquish the fiendish creatures of the Fimbulwinter.* Fantasy Meets Norse MythologyTravel the realms of earthly Midgard, freezing Niflheim and boiling Balheim, either as a fierce Viking warrior or merciless shieldmaiden.*The Deadly FimbulwinterWithstand the deathly colds and protect yourself from exposure to natures wrath in order to survive.* Tribute To The GodsCollect blood from fallen enemies and sacrifice it at the altar to gain gifts from the Gods to enhance your powers.* Berserker RageLet your anger take hold by activating Rage Mode to overwhelm your enemies in bloodthirsty combat.* The Art Of CombatPerfect your skills with each weapon to unlock their true potential, including swords, bows and spell-powered canes.* The Power Of The GodsMake the abilities of the Gods your own by equipping power-infused amulets, like the Talismans of Thor or Loki. Put your new skills to the test by competing in the Trials of the Gods to earn further rewards.* TeamworkTeam up with a friend and journey to the Shores of Midgard together in an epic two player online co-op mode. Choose between four difficulty levels to suit your skills and talents. Do you dare attempt the unrelenting hardcore mode?
- POLITICS
- Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, who died at 87.
On this day in 2016
- DEATHS
- James Noble, American actor (Benson,1776, Airplane II: The Sequel), who died of a stroke at 94.
- Peggy Fortnum, British Illustrator (first to draw Paddington Bear), who died at 96.
- GAMING: PC
- NightCry for PC is released. NightCry is set on a cruise ship, and you have been invited along for the cruise of a (possibly short) lifetime. While your surroundings are luxurious and the guests are friendly, not everything is as it should be. The guests and the crew start to turn up dead, the victims of some foul murderer.
- Lucky's Tale for PC is released. [Oculus Rift VR-Exclusive] Lucky's Tale is a platforming adventure game designed exclusively for the Oculus Rift. Join Lucky as he runs, jumps, climbs and spins his way through bright, colorful worlds filled with thrilling challenges, wacky creatures, and all the shiny things a little fox could ever want. Built from the ground up for virtual reality, the game invites you to step inside a vibrant, living world like never before. Whether you’re racing with Lucky through lush trees, dodging swamp pits, battling menacing bosses, or mastering mini-games, you’ll feel like you’re really there thanks to the magic of VR. [Playful]
- ADR1FT for PC is released. Adrift is an immersive First Person Experience (FPX) that recounts the story of an astronaut in danger. Floating quietly within the wreckage of a destroyed space station with no memories and a critically damaged EVA suit, the lone survivor struggles to understand the cause of the catastrophic event that killed everyone on board. The player must fight to stay alive by exploring the wreckage for precious resources and overcome the challenges of the unforgiving environment to repair the damaged emergency escape vehicle and safely return home. [505 Games]
- Chronos for PC is released. Chronos is an atmospheric RPG that chronicles a hero's lifelong quest to save their homeland from a great evil.
On this day in 2015
- DEATHS
- Gene Saks, American actor and director (One & Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave), who died at 93.
- Douglas Leedy, American composer, who died at 77.