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Paul McCartney (b. 1942) is an English singer-songwriter and composer. Along with John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he was a member of the Beatles, a 1960s rock band that became the top-selling band of all time, and one of the most critically acclaimed. His Beatles song "Yesterday" has been covered by over 2,200 artists, more than any other copyrighted song in history. After the band's break-up, he pursued a solo career and formed Wings with Denny Laine and Linda McCartney, his first wife. Wings' 1977 release "Mull of Kintyre" is one of the all-time best-selling singles in the UK. A two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of the Beatles and as a solo artist) and a 21-time Grammy Award winner, McCartney has written or co-written 32 number one Billboard Hot 100 songs. He has released an extensive catalogue of songs as a solo artist and has composed classical and electronic music. He has supported international charities promoting animal rights, land mine removal, vegetarianism, poverty reduction, and music education. He was knighted for his contributions to music in 1997. (Full article...)

Cairanoolithus

... that Cairanoolithus (pictured), a type of dinosaur egg measuring up to 19 cm (7.5 in) in diameter, is too large to have been laid by the ornithopod Rhabdodon?
... that the sport shooter Elena Allen was born in Russia, but has competed separately for England and Wales at the Commonwealth Games, and Great Britain at the Summer Olympics?
... that because of pedigree collapse, some family trees are better modeled mathematically as directed acyclic graphs than as trees?
... that "UpTown Funk!", the number-one song of 2015 in the United States according to Billboard, also reached the top of the Mexico Ingles Airplay chart?
... that Amy Bess Miller helped found a museum while presiding over a library?
... that a brawl caused the Halifax Rainmen to forfeit the National Basketball League of Canada Finals?
... that while watching her first operation, Mary Alice Powell Lindsay passed out three times, but she later became a registered nurse in Utah and was assistant superintendent of nurses at the LDS Hospital?

Muhammad Ali

Margaret Bondfield

1783 – Iceland's Laki craters began an eight-month eruption, triggering major famine and massive fluorine poisoning.
1856 – Descendants of Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers settled on Norfolk Island, an abandoned British penal colony.
1929 – Margaret Bondfield (pictured) became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald.
1953 – Two tornadoes caused by the same storm killed more than 200 people in Flint, Michigan and Worcester, Massachusetts, cities more than 650 miles (1,050 km) apart.
2008 – A Japanese man drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians in the Akihabara district of Tokyo, then proceeded to stab at least 12 people before being apprehended.

David Dixon Porter (1813–1891) was the second U.S. Navy officer to attain the rank of admiral. Porter joined the Navy at age ten under his father, David. During the American Civil War, Porter was involved in actions at Fort Pickens, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Red River, and Fort Fisher, rising to the rank of rear admiral. After the war, Porter became the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy and initiated reforms in the curriculum. He was promoted to admiral after the death of David Farragut.

Photograph: Mathew Brady; restoration: Adam Cuerden

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