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Today in the World Countries
- Diwali Holiday is being celebrated in Fiji
- King Bhumibol Adulyadej The Great Memorial Day is being celebrated in Thailand
- Pchum Ben Festival (Day1) is being celebrated in Cambodia
- Prince Rwagasore Day is being celebrated in Burundi
Today in Astrology
- People born on this day are Libra as their zodiac sign.
Today in History
In the future 2324
- BIRTHS
- Beverly Crusher, fictional doctor on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", born in Copernicus City, Luna.
On this day in 2022
- EVENTS
- Jury recommends sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for shooter who pled guilty to killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018.
- DEATHS
- Bruce Sutter, American Baseball HOF relief pitcher (NL Cy Young Award 1979; 6 x MLB All-Star; 5 x NL saves leader; Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals; Atlanta Braves), who died of cancer at 69.
- TV SERIES
- The Watcher (2022): Season 1 is released.
Based on a true story, Dean (Bobby Cannavale) and Nora Brannock (Naomi Watts) discover their dream house has a very unwelcoming neighborhood, including frightening letters about someone watching them in this thriller limited series created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.
On this day in 2021
- EVENTS
- William Shatner becomes the oldest person to reach space, travelling aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket on a 10 minute flight.
- 24 year old Rumeysa Gelgi from Turkey confirmed as World's tallest living woman by Guinness World Records at 215.16 centimeters 215.16cm (7ft 0.7in).
- 24 years old Rumeysa Gelgi from Turkey confirmed as World's tallest living woman by Guinness World Records at 215.16 centimeters 215.16cm (7ft 0.7in).
- Bow and arrow terrorist attack kills five and injuries two in Kongsberg, Norway.
- DEATHS
- Dale Kildee, American politician (Rep-D-Michigan,1977-2013), who died at 92.
- Norm Provan, Australian rugby league second rower (14 Tests; St. George RLFC NSWRL Premiers 1956-66; 13th Immortal) and coach (St. George, Parramatta, Cronulla), who died at 89.
- Otis Armstrong, American College Football HOF running back (Purdue; All-Pro 1974; Pro Bowl 1974,76; Denver Broncos), who died at 70.
- Ray Fosse, American baseball catcher (MLB All-Star, Gold Glove Award 1970,71 Cleveland Indians; World Series Oakland A's 1973,74) and broadcaster (Oakland A's NBC), who died of cancer at 74.
- Ray Fosse, American MLB baseball catcher,1967-79,2X All-Star,2X Gold Glove (Cleveland Indians, Oakland A's, and 2 other teams), and broadcaster (Oakland,1986-2021), who died of cancer at 74.
- TV SERIES
- Dopesick is released.
A Virginian miner (Kaitlyn Dever) and her doctor Samuel Finnix (Michael Keaton) are just a few of the victims of Purdue Pharma's prescription pain medication OxyContin in this Danny Strong limited series based on Beth Macy's non-fiction book, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America.
On this day in 2020
- DEATHS
- Augusto Matine, Portuguese soccer midfielder (9 caps; Benfica, Vitória de Setúbal) and manager (Mozambique national team), who died at 73.
- Conchata Ferrell, American actress (LA Law, Two and a Half Men), who died at 77.
- MOVIES
- Nocturne - Not Rated is released.
Inside the halls of an elite arts academy, a timid music student begins to outshine her more accomplished and outgoing twin sister when she discovers a mysterious notebook belonging to a recently deceased classmate. - Evil Eye - Not Rated is released.
A seemingly perfect romance turns into a nightmare when a mother becomes convinced her daughter’s new boyfriend has a dark connection to her own past. - Totally Under Control - Not Rated is released.
On January 20th,2020 the US and South Korea both discovered their first cases of COVID-19 pandemic. However,9 months later, the novel COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of over 200,000 Americans and caused staggering economic damage, while in South Korea, there were no significant lockdowns and, in an urbanized population of 51 million, only 344 lives have been lost. Where did we go wrong? As the presidential election nears, Americans are increasingly enraged by a lack of clear leadership, endemic political corruption and left to wonder how did the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world manage to fail so thoroughly in its response to a global pandemic?
On this day in 2019
- EVENTS
- Tunisian presidential election won by academic Kais Saied defeating media mogul Nabil Karoui.
- Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno cancels his austerity plan, in deal with indigenous leaders, restoring fuel subsidies, ending weeks of violent protests.
- Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record of 2:14.04 for the women's marathon in Chicago, beating Paula Radcliffe's 16-year-old mark.
- Kurdish forces make a deal with Syrian army for them to patrol border areas in north east Syria to combat Turkish offensive after US President Donald Trump pulls out US forces.
- Simone Biles becomes the most decorated gymnast in history when she wins record 25th medal at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.
- BIRTHS
- Mabel-Ocean Mai Gilbert, Family Member, born in England.
On this day in 2018
- EVENTS
- Pope Francis defrocks two Chilean bishops for alleged sexual abuse of minors.
- Oldest known human remains from Poland at 115,000 years from revealed to be Neanderthal child from Ciemna Cave eaten by a large bird.
- DEATHS
- Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, English Labour politician, who died at 77.
- Natz Peters, Race Car Driver.
- Annapurna Devi [Roshanara Khan], Indian classical surbahar (bass sitar) player, and music teacher, who died at 91.
- Annapurna Devi [Roshanara Khan], Indian surbahar (bass sitar) player, and teacher, who died at 91.
- Annapurna Devi, Sitar Player.
On this day in 2017
- EVENTS
- Archaeologists announce the discovery of Arabic characters "Allah” and “Ali” on Viking funeral costumes from a grave in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden.
- Actress Rose McGowan alleges that Harvey Weinstein raped her in 1997.
- Hungry bear crisis due to over-fishing leaves 2 people dead and 83 hostile bears shot on Sakhalin Island, Eastern Russia.
- DEATHS
- William Lombardy, Chess Player.
- ALBUMS
- The Ooz was released by King Krule.
This is the second full-length release for British singer-songwriter Archy Marshall under the name King Krule. - There Is No Love in Fluorescent Light was released by Stars.
The eighth full-length release for the Canadian indie pop band was produced by Peter Katis. - The Saga Continues was released by Wu-Tang.
Not an official Wu-Tang Clan album (thus the shorten name), the release produced by Mathematics does feature many of its members with guest appearances by Cappadonna, Ghostface Killah, Hue Hef, Inspektah Deck, Mzee Jones, Killa Priest, Steven Latorre, Masta Killa, Method Man, R-Mean, Raekwon, Redman, RZA, Sean Price, Streetlife, and Swnkah. - Carry Fire was released by Robert Plant.
The 11th solo release for the Led Zeppelin lead singer is backed by his band the Sensational Space Shifters and features a guest appearance from Chrissie Hynde. - Colors was released by Beck.
The 13th full-length release for the pop singer-songwriter was recorded with Greg Kurstin between 2013 and 2017. - Beautiful Trauma was released by P!nk.
The seventh full-length studio release for the pop artist features a guest appearance by Eminem. - Mr. Davis was released by Gucci Mane.
The 11th full-length studio release for the rapper features guest appearances from A$AP Rocky, Big Sean, Chris Brown, Migos, Nicki Minaj, Monica, Rico Love, ScHoolboy Q, Slim Jxmmi, Ty Dolla $ign, The Weeknd, and Young Dolph. - Masseduction was released by St. Vincent.
The fifth full-length release for the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter was co-produced with Jack Antonoff and features contributions from Tuck & Patti Andress, Thomas Bartlett, Rich Hinman, Greg Leisz, Jenny Lewis, Sounwave, and Kamasi Washington. - Lotta Sea Lice was released by Courtney Barnett.
The debut full-length collaboration between Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile was recorded and mixed by Callum Barter. - Nothing Valley was released by Melkbelly.
The debut full-length release for the Chicago indie rock band was recorded in Dave Vettraino's basement studio on 8-track analog tape. - Ogilala was released by William Patrick Corgan.
The second full-length solo release for The Smashing Pumpkins frontman (but the first under his full given name) was produced with Rick Rubin. - Queens of the Breakers was released by The Barr Brothers.
The third full-length release for the Montreal-based folk band features a guest appearance from Lucius. - MOVIES
- Professor Marston & the Wonder Women - R is released.
In a superhero origin tale unlike any other, the film is the incredible true story of what inspired Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans) to create the iconic Wonder Woman character in the 1940's. While Marston's feminist superhero was criticized by censors for her 'sexual perversity', he was keeping a secret that could have destroyed him. Marston's muses for the Wonder Woman character were his wife Elizabeth Marston (Rebecca Hall) and their lover Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote), two empowered women who defied convention: working with Marston on human behavior research -- while building a hidden life with him that rivaled the greatest of superhero disguises. - Sylvio - Not Rated is released.
It's the story of a small town gorilla, Sylvio, who is stuck in his job at a debt collection agency. Deep down he just wants to express himself with his hand puppet, Herbert Herpels, and his puppet show that highlights the quiet moments of life. He accidentally joins a local TV program and a series of on-air mishaps threaten to shatter his identity, sending him on a journey of self-discovery. [Factory 25] - The Departure - Not Rated is released.
Ittetsu Nemoto, a former punk-turned- Buddhist-priest in Japan, has made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come increasingly at the cost of his own family and health, as he refuses to draw lines between those he counsels and himself. The Departure captures Nemoto at a crossroads, when his growing self-destructive tendencies lead him to confront the same question his patients ask him: what makes life worth living? - The Foreigner - R is released.
London businessman Quan (Jackie Chan) sees his long-buried past erupt in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love -- his teenage daughter -- is taken from him in a senseless act of politically-motivated terrorism. In his relentless search for the identity of the terrorists, Quan is forced into a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official (Pierce Brosnan), whose own past may hold clues to the identities of the elusive killers. - The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) - TV-MA is released.
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is the emotional and comic intergenerational tale of adult siblings (Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Elizabeth Marvel) contending with the long shadow their strong-willed father (Dustin Hoffman) has cast over their lives. [Netflix] - Marshall - PG-13 is released.
Long before he sat on the United States Supreme Court or claimed victory in Brown v. Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) was a young rabble-rousing attorney for the NAACP. The new motion picture, Marshall, is the true story of his greatest challenge in those early days – a fight he fought alongside attorney Sam Friedman (Josh Gad), a young lawyer with no experience in criminal law: the case of black chauffeur Joseph Spell (Sterling K. Brown), accused by his white employer, Eleanor Strubing (Kate Hudson), of sexual assault and attempted murder. - Breathe - PG-13 is released.
An adventurous couple refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease, instead celebrating a life of love and human possibility. Based on the inspiring true story. - Goodbye Christopher Robin - PG is released.
Goodbye Christoper Robin gives a rare glimpse into the relationship between beloved children's author A. A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son Christopher Robin (Will Tilston), whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne (Margot Robbie), and his nanny Olive (Kelly Macdonald), Christopher Robin and his family are swept up in the international success of the books; the enchanting tales bringing hope and comfort to England after the First World War. But with the eyes of the world on Christopher Robin, what will the cost be to the family? [Fox Searchlight] - Happy Death Day - PG-13 is released.
A college student (Jessica Rothe) relives the day of her murder with both its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she discovers her killer’s identity. - 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene - Not Rated is released.
The screeching strings, the plunging knife, the slow zoom out from a lifeless eyeball: in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho changed film history forever with its taboo-shattering shower scene. With 78 camera set-ups and 52 edits over the course of 3 minutes, Psycho redefined screen violence, set the stage for decades of slasher films to come, and introduced a new element of danger to the moviegoing experience. Aided by a roster of filmmakers, critics, and fans—including Guillermo del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Jamie Lee Curtis, Eli Roth, and Peter Bogdanovich—director Alexandre O. Philippe pulls back the curtain on the making and influence of this cinematic game changer, breaking it down frame by frame and unpacking Hitchcock’s dense web of allusions and double meanings. [IFC Midnight] - Human Flow - Not Rated is released.
Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. - For Ahkeem - Not Rated is released.
After a school fight lands 17-year old Daje Shelton in a court-supervised alternative high school, she's determined to turn things around and make a better future for herself in her rough St. Louis neighborhood. But focusing on school is tough as she loses multiple friends to gun violence, falls in love for the first time, and becomes pregnant with a boy, Ahkeem, just as Ferguson erupts a few miles down the road. Through Daje's intimate coming-of-age story, For Ahkeem illuminates challenges that many Black teenagers face in America today, and witnesses the strength, resilience, and determination it takes to survive. - The Secret Scripture - PG-13 is released.
Roseanne McNulty (Vanessa Redgrave) must vacate the soon-to-be demolished mental institution in Roscommon, Ireland that she's called home for over 50 years. The psychiatrist, Dr. Grene (Eric Bana), is called in to assess her condition. He finds himself intrigued by Roseanne's seemingly inscrutable rituals and tics, and her fierce attachment to her Bible, which she has over the decades transformed into a palimpsest of scripture, drawings, and cryptic diary entries. As Grene delves deeper, we see her as a young woman (Rooney Mara), whose charisma proves seductive. We learn that she moved to Sligo to work in her aunt's café, fell in love with a dashing fighter pilot (Jack Reynor), and that a local priest (Theo James) fell tragically in love with her. - Tom of Finland - Not Rated is released.
Known to the world as Tom of Finland, the proudly erotic drawings of artist Touko Laaksonen shaped the fantasies of a generation of gay men, influencing art and fashion before crossing over into the wider cultural consciousness. But who was the man behind the leather? Dome Karukoski’s biopic follows his life from the trenches of WWII and repressive Finnish society of the 1950s through his struggle to get his work published in California, where he and his art were finally embraced amid the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Tom’s story is one of love, courage and perseverance, mirroring the gay liberation movement for which his leather-clad studs served as a defiant emblem. [Kino Lorber] - TV SERIES
- Mindhunter: Season 1 is released.
The David Fincher series set in the 1979 where two FBI special agents (Holt McCallany and Jonathan Groff) in the Elite Serial Crime Unit create profiling techniques to solve cases was based on Mark Olshaker and John E. Douglas book Mind Hunter: Inside FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit.
On this day in 2016
- EVENTS
- Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first songwriter to win the prestigious award. The 75-year-old rock legend received the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"..
- American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- DEATHS
- Bhumibol Adulyadej, King.
- Bhumibol Adulyadej [Rama IX], King of Thailand (1946-2016), was world's longest reigning monarch, who died at 88.
- Gerhard Wimberger, Austria composer (Glove), who died at 93.
- Dario Fo, Italian playwright and performer (Nobel Prize Literature 1997), who died at 90.
- Dario Fo, Playwright.
- Jim Prentice, Canadian politician, Premier of Alberta (2014-15), who died in a plane crash at 60.
- John Gilmore, American true crime author (Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder), who died at 81.
- MOVIES
- Mascots - TV-MA is released.
Mascots compete for the most prestigious award in their field, the Gold Fluffy. - TV SERIES
- Goliath: Season 1 is released.
The David E. Kelley legal drama co-written with Jonathan Shapiro focuses on alcoholic, down-and-out attorney Billy McBride (Billy Bob Thornton) who sees a chance for redemption with a wrongful death case against an aerospace company represented by his former law partner (William Hurt) and the law firm he co-founded (and was fired from). - Falling Water: Season 1 is released.
Three individuals (Lizzie Brochere, David Ajala and Will Yun Lee) slowly realize they are having dreams that may be a part of a single dream with clues to the world's fate in this thriller from Henry Bromell, Blake Masters and Gale Anne Hurd.
On this day in 2015
- EVENTS
- First Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast by CNN and held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Basketball player Lamar Odom is hospitalised after being found unconscious in a brothel in Nevada.
- Marlon James is the first Jamaican writer to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings".
- BIRTHS
- Maddox Null, YouTube Star, born in Kansas City, MO.
- DEATHS
- Michael Walsh, British Army officer (Operation Musketeer), who died at 88.
- TV SERIES
- Manhattan: Season 2 is released.
The second season finds the scientists preparing for the first detonation of the atomic weapon on July 16,1945.
On this day in 2014
- ALBUMS
- The Night is Young was released by The 2 Bears.
The second full-length release for the duo of Joe Goddard and Raf Rundell includes guest appearances from Sbussio and Kwaito icon Senyaka. - TV SERIES
- Jane the Virgin: Season 1 is released.
After being told by her telenovelas-obsessed grandmother the importance of being a virgin until she marries,23-year old Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez) finds herself pregnant after being accidentally artificially inseminated in this adaptation of a Venezuelan telenovela.
On this day in 2013
- EVENTS
- 109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India.
- DEATHS
- Tommy Whittle, British jazz tenor saxophonist (Ted Heath; BBC Show Band), and bandleader, who died of pneumonia on his 87th birthday.
- TV SERIES
- The Walking Dead: Season 4 is released.
Scott M. Gimple takes over as showrunner for the fourth season of the zombie drama.