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 * 1194 – King Richard I of England gave the city of Portsmouth (pictured) its first royal charter.
 * 1670 – A royal charter granted the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly in the fur trade in Rupert's Land (present-day Canada).
 * 1878 – A dust explosion at the world's largest flour mill in Minneapolis resulted in 18 deaths.
 * 1945 – World War II: General Helmuth Weidling, the German commander of Berlin, surrendered to Soviet forces led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, ending the Battle of Berlin.
 * 1982 – Falklands War: HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano (pictured), the only ship ever to have been deliberately sunk by a nuclear submarine in battle.
 * 1995 – Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began rocket attacks on the Croatian capital Zagreb, killing 7 people and injuring around 200 others.
 * 2008 – The Chaitén volcano in Chile began to erupt for the first time since around 1640.
 * 2003 – Cyclone Manou formed in the Indian Ocean; over the next two weeks it struck Madagascar and left more than 100,000 people homeless.
 * 2011 – Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six in his private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
 * 2011 – The Conservative Party of Canada won enough seats in the federal election to establish their first majority government.
 * 2014 – Russo-Ukrainian War: Forty-eight people were killed during a confrontation between pro-Russian protesters and pro-Ukrainian unity protesters in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa.
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 * 1491 – Nkuwu Nzinga, the ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo, was baptised as João I by Portuguese missionaries.
 * 1616 – The Treaty of Loudun was signed, ending a war that originally began as a power struggle for the French throne.
 * 1791 – The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ratified the first codified national constitution in Europe.
 * 1845 – A long-running feud between two towns in Wisconsin came to a head when a schooner crashed into a bridge; they later merged to form the city of Milwaukee.
 * 1855 – A group of American mercenaries led by William Walker set sail from San Francisco to conquer Nicaragua.
 * 1913 – Raja Harishchandra, the first Indian feature-length film, was released.
 * 1915 – The oldest Royal Air Force station in continuous operation, RAF Northolt, opened as home to No. 4 Reserve Aeroplane Squadron.
 * 1920 – Russian Civil War: Relying on Red Army troops in neighboring Azerbaijan, the Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat in Georgia.
 * 1921 – Under the British Government of Ireland Act, Ireland was partitioned into two self-governing territories, Northern and Southern Ireland.
 * 1942 – Second World War: Japanese forces began an invasion of Tulagi and nearby islands in the British Solomon Islands, enabling them to threaten and intercept supply and communication routes between the United States and Australasia.
 * 1945 – Second World War: The German ocean liner Cap Arcona, afloat in the Bay of Lübeck with thousands of concentration camp survivors on board, was attacked and sunk by the Royal Air Force.
 * 1947 – A new Constitution of Japan went into effect, providing for a parliamentary system of government, guaranteeing certain fundamental rights, and relegating the Japanese monarchy to a purely ceremonial role.
 * 1960 – The Off-Broadway show The Fantasticks premiered, eventually becoming the world's longest-running musical, with 17,162 performances across 42 years.
 * 1963 – Police in Birmingham, Alabama, used high-pressure water hoses and dogs against civil-rights protesters, bringing scrutiny on racial segregation in the southern United States.
 * 1971 – Erich Honecker became First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the governing party of East Germany.
 * 2007 – Three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal; she has never been found.
 * 2021 – Twenty-six people are killed and ninety-eight are injured after an elevated section of the Mexico City Metro collapses.
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 * 1677 – Trunajaya rebellion: Dutch East India Company forces under Cornelis Speelman began an attack on Surabaya, on the island of Java.
 * 1886 – During a labor rally in Chicago, a bomb explosion and gunfire led to the deaths of eight police officers and four members of the public.
 * 1982 – Falklands War: HMS Sheffield (D80) was struck by an Exocet missile, killing 20 sailors and leading to its sinking six days later—the first Royal Navy ship sunk in action since World War II.
 * 2000 – Ken Livingstone took office as the first mayor of London.
 * 2015 – The Parliament of Malta moved from the Grandmaster's Palace to the purpose-built Parliament House (pictured).
 * Born/died: | Herman II of Swabia |d|1003| Richard Graves |b|1715| William H. Prescott |b|1796| Julia Gardiner Tyler |b|1820| Franklin Carmichael |b|1890| Gotse Delchev |d|1903| Walter Walsh |b|1907| Kanō Jigorō |d|1938| Carl von Ossietzky |d|1938| Amos Oz |b|1939 Lillian Estelle Fisher |d|1988| Christian de Duve |d|2013

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 * 1654 – Cromwell's Act of Grace, which pardoned the people of Scotland for any crimes committed during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, was proclaimed in Edinburgh.
 * 1860 – Led by Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi, the volunteer Expedition of the Thousand set sail from Genoa on a campaign to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a crucial event of the unification of Italy.
 * 1904 – Pitching for the Boston Americans, Cy Young threw the first perfect game in modern professional baseball.
 * 1940 – World War II: A squad of 250 Norwegian volunteers defending Hegra Fortress surrendered to a superior Nazi force after a 25-day siege.
 * 1945 – World War II: American and German troops fought side-by-side at the Battle for Castle Itter, defending a prison against Waffen-SS forces.
 * 1945 – World War II: The citizens of Prague spontaneously rose up against the city's German occupiers.
 * 1960 – The Netherlands Carillon was inaugurated in Arlington, Virginia, on the 15th anniversary of Dutch Liberation Day.
 * 1961 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Alan Shepard (pictured) made a sub-orbital spaceflight on board Freedom 7, becoming the second person to travel into outer space.
 * 1981 – After a 66-day hunger strike, Irish republican Bobby Sands died of starvation in HM Prison Maze.
 * 1991 – Riots broke out in Washington, D.C., after a rookie police officer shot a Salvadoran man in the chest.
 * 1992 – The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, 202 years after it was first proposed.
 * 1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay was caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime.
 * 2019 – Aeroflot Flight 1492 was struck by lightning after leaving Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport and caught fire during the subsequent emergency landing attempt, killing 41 people on board.
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 * 1646 – First English Civil War: Charles I surrendered himself to Scottish Covenanter leader David Leslie near Newark, England.
 * 1864 – American Civil War: Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia began with the inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness in Spotsylvania County.
 * 1891 – Carnegie Hall (interior pictured) in New York City, built by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, officially opened with a concert conducted by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
 * 1980 – The British Special Air Service recaptured the Iranian embassy in London following a six-day siege after Iranian Arab separatists had seized it.
 * 2007 – Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashed immediately after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon, resulting in the deaths of all 114 people aboard.

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 * 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
 * 1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: The 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo was captured by the outmanned and outgunned HMS Speedy (1782).
 * 1882 – Irish civil servants Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish were stabbed to death by members of the radical Irish National Invincibles in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
 * 1882 – U.S. president Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law (cartoon pictured), implementing a ban on Chinese immigration to the United States that remained for 61 years.
 * 1930 – Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson purchased the Kent property they would transform into Sissinghurst Castle Garden.
 * 1937 – The German airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during an attempt to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing 36 people.
 * 1941 – American entertainer Bob Hope performed his first show with the United Service Organizations, beginning a 50-year involvement with them.
 * 1988 – Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into the fog-covered mountain of Torghatten in Brønnøy, Norway, killing all 36 people on board.
 * 1991 – Time magazine published the article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" by Richard Behar criticizing the Church of Scientology, leading to years of legal conflict.
 * 1954 – At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English runner Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
 * 2008 – British barrister Mark Saunders was shot dead by police after a five-hour siege at his home in Chelsea, London.
 * 2010 – Exacerbated by high-frequency traders using strategies that have since been banned, major U.S. stock indices dropped nearly 9 percent and quickly rebounded.
 * 2023 – The coronation of Charles III and Camilla as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms is held in Westminster Abbey, London.
 * Born/died: | Pope Marcellus II |b|1501| James Tyrrell |d|1502| Giaches de Wert |d|1596| Mary Martha Sherwood |b|1775| Victor Grignard |b|1871| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner |b|1880| Rosemary Cramp |b|1929| George Clooney |b|1961| Grant McLennan |d|2006| Novera Ahmed |d|2015

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 * 1536 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Sapa Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui's army began a ten-month siege of Cusco against a garrison of Spanish conquistadors and Indian auxiliaries led by Hernando Pizarro.
 * 1782 – Construction began on the Grand Palace (pictured) in Bangkok, the official residence of the king of Thailand.
 * 1915 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: SY Aurora, anchored in McMurdo Sound, broke loose during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal in the Ross Sea and Southern Ocean for her 18-man crew.
 * 2004 – The final episode of the television sitcom Friends was aired.
 * 2013 – Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, home of her captor, Ariel Castro, having been held there with two other women for ten years.

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 * 1697 – The 13th-century castle of Tre Kronor in Stockholm burned down; plans for the current royal palace were presented within the year.
 * 1763 – Pontiac, a Native American chief of the Odawa tribe, led an attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British, marking the start of Pontiac's War.
 * 1895 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his lightning detector, one of the first radio receivers in the world, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.
 * 1931 – New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he finally surrendered.
 * 1940 – A three-day debate began in the House of Commons that resulted in British prime minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill (pictured).
 * 1954 – A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.
 * 1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy plane had been shot down six days earlier.
 * 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
 * 2009 – Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant.
 * 2010 – A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that today's humans have Neanderthal ancestors.
 * Born/died: | Ibn Hisham |d|833| Ladislaus III of Hungary |d|1205| Bajo Pivljanin |d|1685| David Hume |b|1711| William Bainbridge |b|1774| Jabez Bowen |d|1815| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |b|1840| Tom Norman |b|1860| Philip Baxter |b|1905| Albert Ball |d|1917| Rendra Karno |b|1920| Deborah Butterfield |b|1949| Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome |b|1961

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 * 1821 – Greek War of Independence: At the Battle of Gravia Inn, a 120-man Greek force led by Odysseas Androutsos repulsed an Ottoman army of 8,000 soldiers.
 * 1924 – Lithuania signed the Klaipėda Convention, making the Klaipėda Region (taken from East Prussia) into an autonomous region under Lithuanian rule.
 * 1942 – World War II: The Axis launched a major counteroffensive, turning the tide of the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula.
 * 1945 – A parade in Sétif, French Algeria, celebrating the end of World War II in Europe became a riot and was followed by reprisals, carried out by colonial authorities over the following weeks, that killed thousands.
 * 1950 – The Tollund Man (pictured), a naturally mummified corpse, was discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg, Denmark.
 * 1957 – South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor.
 * 1970 – Construction workers attacked students and others who were protesting the Vietnam War in New York City.
 * 1987 – A British Special Air Service unit ambushed a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit in Loughgall, Northern Ireland, killing eight IRA members and one civilian.
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is the 12th CD released by Twins. It consists of 2 disc. Disc one is an EP, named A Year to Remember, for Boy'z, which has the similar style as Twins and both of them are artists from Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG).

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 * 1864 – Second Schleswig War: The Battle of Heligoland (depicted), the last naval engagement fought by squadrons of wooden ships, took place between the Danish and Austro-Prussian fleets.
 * 1918 – First World War: Germany repelled Britain's second attempt to blockade the Belgian port of Ostend.
 * 1960 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it would approve the use of Searle's Enovid, the first combined oral contraceptive pill.
 * 1961 – In a speech to U.S. broadcasters, FCC chairman Newton Minow described commercial television programming as "a vast wasteland".
 * 1964 – Ngô Đình Cẩn, a younger brother and the confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, was executed by Nguyễn Khánh's military junta.
 * 1979 – Prominent Iranian Jew Habib Elghanian was executed after having been convicted by a revolutionary tribunal of various charges, triggering a mass exodus of Jews from Iran.
 * 1992 – An underground methane explosion occurred at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killing all 26 Canadian coal miners who were working at the time.
 * 2005 – Pope Benedict XVI began the beatification process for his predecessor Pope John Paul II, waiving the standard five years required after the nominee's death.
 * 2012 – The pilots of a Sukhoi Superjet, ignoring alerts from the terrain warning system, crashed the aircraft into Mount Salak in Indonesia, resulting in the deaths of all 45 people on board.
 * Born/died this day: | Shi Pu |d|893| Maharana Pratap |b|1540| William Bradford |d|1657| Gaspard Monge |b|1746| Francis Hopkinson |d|1791| Ferdinand Monoyer |b|1836| Zita of Bourbon-Parma |b|1892| Hilde Levi |b|1909| Anthony Wilding |d|1915| Kate Molale |d|1980| Nuala O'Faolain |d|2008

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Parkes is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the main settlement in the local government area of Parkes Shire. Parkes has a population of 10,919 at the 2021 census.

Parkes is part of the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri people, the largest language group in NSW with a country of more than 120,000 square kilometres.

History
The Wiradjuri people have lived on the lands of the 3 rivers, including the Lachlan River, for more than 40,000 years.

The town of Parkes was part of the colonial expansion of the early 19th century, originally founded in 1853 as the settlement Currajong, named for the abundance of kurrajong trees in the local area by the settlers, but was then known as Bushman's (from the local mine named Bushman's Lead).

In August 1873, Henry Parkes (later Sir Henry) visited the area and in December 1873 the town was officially renamed Parkes in his honour. (Sir Henry Parkes is recognised as having played an instrumental role in the federation of Australia.)

Bushman's Lead Post Office opened on 1 August 1872 and was renamed Parkes in 1873. In March 1883 the first local government, Parkes Municipal District (redesignated as Parkes Municipality March 1906), was proclaimed. In January 1981 it was amalgamated with Goobang Shire to create Parkes Shire.

The railway from Molong via Parkes to Forbes, was officially opened on 18 December 1893.

Parkes attracted significant attention during the gold rush of the 1870s onwards, and to this day modern mining companies have sites in the region.

In 1939, Parkes became a sister city with Coventry in the United Kingdom, Sir Henry Parkes birthplace.

Newspapers
Parkes' first newspaper was the Forbes and Parkes Gazette, founded and conducted for many years by H. H. Cooke. This was followed by the Parkes Independent. The Parkes Chronicle published by W. McNamara was amalgamated with the Parkes Independent which was subsequently purchased by Charles Reynolds; and later again, by George Washington Seaborn. In 1891 came the Parkes Examiner. The Examiner was still operating by 1901, edited by Alderman Harry Bowditch who acquired it in 1893. Commencing in 1894 was the Western Champion by M. J. Little and D. Cameron. At a later time, Cameron also acquired the Independent. In 1899 the Champion was purchased by 1899. Later journalistic ventures included the Western Reminder and the Western People. The Examiner was renamed the Parkes Post in 1923, before becoming part of the Champion company in 1926. By 1934, these were merged to become the Champion Post.

Military history
During World War II, Parkes was the location of RAAF Station Parkes, and RAAF No.18 Inland Aircraft Fuel Depot (IAFD), completed in 1942 and closed on 14 August 1944. Usually consisting of 4 tanks, 31 fuel depots were built across Australia for the storage and supply of aircraft fuel for the RAAF and the US Army Air Forces at a total cost of £900,000 ($1,800,000).

Heritage listings
Parkes has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 * 39 Currajong Street: Parkes Post Office
 * May Street: Parkes railway station

Parkes today
With the presence of the nearby Parkes Observatory, Parkes has had an important role in the scientific community. In addition to local research conducted at the radio telescope, Parkes scientists have assisted NASA for several missions as a Southern Hemisphere relay and communications station. The movie The Dish was based somewhat loosely on the role the telescope played during the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing. The Dish, although set in Parkes, was largely filmed in Forbes' historic precinct. This is due to very few historic buildings remaining in Parkes. Parkes is also home to the Parkes Spacemen rugby league club.

Agriculture is one of the primary industries in the Parkes region, particularly cropping, sheep farming and cattle farming.

The area also features a copper and gold mine, Northparkes Mine, 27 km north-north-west of the town.

Parkes became a key country location after the completion of the railway to Broken Hill in 1927, serving as a hub for a great deal of passenger and freight transport until the 1980s. Unfortunately, as successive governments reduced the NSW country rail systems, this part of the economy was largely lost to the community.

Periodically governments and businesses have raised the topic of an "inland port" whereby Parkes Regional Airport would be expanded considerably to serve as a starting point for domestic and international freight destined for areas in NSW, Victoria and Queensland. Environmental studies are complete, development consents are in place, contracts have been exchanged, some properties have changed hands and studies are continuing.

Parkes Shire Council, with approval from the State Government, has rezoned 516 hectares of agricultural and industrial land on the western edge of the town for the development of the Parkes National Logistics Hub with an additional reserve of over 100 hectares. The site has been specifically designed for the 24-hour, 7-day-per-week operation of a multi-modal transport facility.

FCL runs a significant intermodal operation at Goobang Junction on Parkes' western outskirts. On 20 October 2006, Premier Morris Iemma opened Specialised Container Transport's intermodal terminal nearby on a 296 hectare site. It has 5 km of rail sidings, a 7,400 m2 warehouse and about 40 staff. An even larger terminal to be sited nearby is also being promoted.

The Roads & Maritime Services' Western Regional Office is located in Parkes. Essential Energy also is represented by a training and maintenance centre.

Main tourist attractions are the CSIRO Telescope 20 km north of town on the Newell Highway, Bushmans Hill, and the War Memorial Lookout. Nearby there is the Goobang National Park, and Peak Hill which features an Open Cut Mine that can be toured during holidays. There are also many great parks.

Parkes has a high percentage population of school age students and an associated number of schools. Parkes Public School was founded in 1876 under Archibald Booth as educator, Parkes East Public School and Middleton Public School are also in the area. Holy Family Catholic School and Parkes Christian School operate in the town, with Saint Patrick's School Trundle and St Joseph's School, Peak Hill also operating the shire.

Parkes High School is the main public high school for the town. Parkes Christian School offers education for students from Kindergarten to Year 10 in 2013, extending to Year 11 in 2014 and Year 12 in 2015. Many Parkes students also attend the nearby Red Bend Catholic College in Forbes, some 35 km south.

Climate
Parkes has a subtropical climate, with significant temperature variations between summer and winter. Under the Köppen climate classification, Parkes lies in the transitional zone between humid subtropical (Cfa) and cold semi-arid (Bsk) climates. Summer maximum temperatures average out at 32 °C, however frequently reach 40 °C each year. Winters are cool and partly cloudy, with cold fronts bringing periods of light, misty rain with low maximum temperatures, and rarely even snow. Rainfall in spring and summer usually falls as thunderstorms, with an annual average of 587.5 mm of rainfall. Extreme temperatures have ranged from -4.2 to 45.5 °C. Parkes is considerably sunny, having around 135.0 clear days annually.

Transport
Parkes has a local bus service provided by Western Road Liners, which acquired Harris Bus Lines in March 2006. The weekly Indian Pacific passes through but does not stop at Parkes. The Outback Xplorer service, run by NSW TrainLink, which heads to Broken Hill on Mondays and Sydney on Tuesdays does stop. Parkes railway station is situated on the Broken Hill railway line, and opened in 1893. A smaller station served Parkes Racecourse between 1923 and 1937. Parkes Airport is served regular air services to Sydney operated by Rex Airlines. The airport is located approximately five kilometres east of the central business district.

Parkes is located on the Australian transcontinental railway line, and the Newell Highway linking Victoria to Queensland.

Media
Radio .Vision radio 87.6 fm. Christian Radio
 * 2PK AM 1404 (talkback radio format aimed at listeners 35 years+ most programs relayed from 2SM, Sydney): owned by Broadcast Operations Group.
 * PH FM 88.0 (community access radio station based in Peak Hill, 50 km north from Parkes).
 * ROK FM 95.5 (mixed music format aimed at 18 –39 years market – Top 40 and Classic Hits): owned by Broadcast Operations Group.
 * 2LVR FM 97.9 (community radio)
 * Sky Sports Radio FM 99.9 – (Coverage of Thoroughbred, Harness and Greyhound Racing plus other general and specialist sport and talk programming)
 * SBS Radio FM 101.3 (mixed format programming for ethnic communities)

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) transmit four stations into Parkes and the surrounding region:

 * ABC Classic FM NSW 2ABCFM 102.7 FM
 * ABC Radio National NSW 2ABCRN 104.3 FM
 * Triple J NSW 2JJJ 101.9 FM
 * ABC Central West NSW 2CR 549 AM – part of the ABC Local Radio network.

Some stations from Dubbo and Orange also transmit into Parkes and the surrounding region.

Television

Parkes receives the following free-to-air television stations:

 * Prime7, 7Two, 7mate, 7flix, 7Bravo - Seven Network owned channels.
 * Southern Cross 10, 10 Bold, 10 Peach, 10 Shake, Sky News Regional - Network Ten affiliated channels.
 * WIN Television, 9Go!, 9Gem, 9Life - Nine Network affiliated channels.
 * Special Broadcasting Service, SBS, SBS Viceland, SBS Food, NITV, SBS WorldWatch
 * ABC Television, ABC, ABC TV Plus, ABC Kids, ABC Me, ABC News.

Newspapers

There are two local newspapers servicing Parkes.
 * The Parkes Champion-Post is published on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It is owned by Australian Community Media.
 * The Parkes Phoenix is a free weekly paper that is published on Fridays. It is part of the independently owned Phoenix Group of papers.

Notable people

 * Billy Burns, rugby league player
 * Dianna Corcoran, country music singer
 * Stephen Davies, field hockey player, 1996 Olympian
 * Ian Evans, historian and writer
 * David Field, actor
 * Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes - the first Australian woman to have been elevated to the peerage (1981)
 * Bryson Goodwin, Australian rugby league footballer
 * Mike Leary, rugby league player
 * Ben Lovett, rugby league player
 * Greg McGirr, NSW Labor politician and father of Trixie Gardner
 * Jim McGirr, NSW Labor politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales
 * Patrick McGirr, NSW Labor politician
 * Darby Medlyn, Australian rugby league footballer
 * Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant (1864–1902), Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, bush poet, military officer and convicted war criminal
 * David Nash, linguist
 * Will H. Ogilvie (1869–1963), Scottish-Australian horseman and bush poet and balladist
 * James Pritchard, International Rugby player, Rugby World Cup Representative
 * Gordon Watson, pianist
 * Scott Westcott, marathon runner, 2016 Olympian
 * Mariah Williams, field hockey player, 2016 & 2020 Olympian

Festivals
Parkes hosts the annual Parkes Elvis Festival. It is held in early January to celebrate Elvis Presley's birthday and to boost tourism.

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 * 1627 – Dutch explorer Pieter Nuyts was appointed governor of Formosa (modern-day Taiwan) by the Dutch East India Company.
 * 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small force of Patriots led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured Fort Ticonderoga (depicted) in New York, without significant injury or incident.
 * 1940 – British prime minister Neville Chamberlain resigned and formally recommended Winston Churchill as his successor.
 * 1941 – World War II: German Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the British government.
 * 1997 – An earthquake registering 7.3 Mw struck near Qaen, Iran, killing at least 1,567 and leaving around 50,000 others homeless.
 * 1994 – American serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection for the murders of twelve teenage boys and young men in a series of killings committed between 1972 and 1978.
 * 2005 – Vladimir Arutyunian attempted to assassinate U.S. president George W. Bush and Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi using a hand grenade, which failed to detonate.
 * 2017 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces, assisted by the U.S. military, captured the Tabqa Dam and surrounding countryside, completing the Battle of Tabqa.
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 * 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeated those of the Pragmatic Allies at the Battle of Fontenoy in the Austrian Netherlands in present-day Belgium.
 * 1812 – Spencer Perceval was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons, becoming the only British prime minister to be assassinated.
 * 1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth departed westward from Sydney on an expedition to become the first confirmed Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains (depicted).
 * 1858 – Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
 * 1880 – A land dispute between the Southern Pacific Railroad and settlers in Hanford, California, turned deadly when a gun battle broke out, leaving seven dead.
 * 1894 – In response to a 28-percent wage cut, 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Company workers went on strike in Illinois, bringing rail traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
 * 1910 – Glacier National Park was established in the U.S. state of Montana.
 * 1928 – After a week-long standoff punctuated by military clashes, Japanese forces captured the city of Jinan, Shandong in China.
 * 1963 – African Americans rioted in Birmingham, Alabama, in response to two bombings, perceiving local police to be complicit with the perpetrators.
 * 1981 – Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, the first megamusical, opened at the New London Theatre.
 * 1997 – Deep Blue (pictured) defeated Garry Kasparov in six games to become the first chess computer to win a match against a world champion.
 * 1998 – India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier.
 * 2010 – David Cameron took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.
 * 2011 – An earthquake registering Mw 5.1, the worst to hit the region for more than 50 years, struck near Lorca, Spain.
 * 2013 – Two car bombs by unknown perpetrators exploded in Reyhanlı, Turkey, resulting in 52 killed and 140 injured.
 * 2022 – Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is shot and killed while reporting on an Israel Defense Forces raid on the Jenin Refugee Camp.
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Magic (Twins album)

Magic is the 11th CD released by the musical group Twins. It was released in January 2004 and contains 11 songs. It was named Magic to emphasise their new singing style and the theme of the album.

Track listing

 * 1) "Liang Ge Hao" (兩個好)
 * 2) "Shi Duo Pi Li Pin Guo Cheng" (士多啤梨蘋果橙)
 * 3) "Yin Ge" (飲歌)
 * 4) "Qing Gong" (輕功)
 * 5) "Ling Si Hao Wan" (零四好玩)
 * 6) "Gimme 5"
 * 7) "Chen Yong Ren" (陳永仁)
 * 8) "Shuang Shi Qing Ren Jie" (雙失情人節)
 * 9) "Mi Yue" (蜜月)
 * 10) "Shi Jie Er Nu" (世界兒女)
 * 11) "Shuai Ge Wu Yong" (帥哥無用) (Putonghua version)

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 * 1846 – The Donner Party, an American pioneer group which became known for resorting to cannibalism when they became trapped in the Sierra Nevada, left Independence, Missouri, for California.
 * 1863 – American Civil War: The Confederates were routed in the Battle of Raymond, a small battle that had an inordinately large impact on the Vicksburg campaign.
 * 1881 – Under threat of invasion, Muhammad III as-Sadiq, Bey of Tunis, signed the Treaty of Bardo to make Tunisia a French protectorate.
 * 1888 – North Borneo was established as a British protectorate.
 * 1932 – Nazi deputies assaulted journalist Helmuth Klotz in the German parliament building after he broke the Röhm scandal.
 * 1941 – German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the first working programmable and fully automatic computer, to an audience of scientists in Berlin.
 * 1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience released the critically acclaimed and widely influential debut album Are You Experienced.
 * 1975 – The Cambodian navy seized the American container ship SS Mayaguez in what they claimed to be Cambodian territorial waters.
 * 1982 – The Coppergate Helmet (pictured), the best preserved of the six known Anglo-Saxon helmets, was discovered.
 * 1982 – Juan María Fernández y Krohn attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II with a bayonet in Fátima, Portugal.
 * 2008 – In Postville, Iowa, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted the largest-ever raid of a workplace and arrested nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
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 * 1373 – The English mystic Julian of Norwich recovered from a severe illness during which she experienced a series of intense visions of Christ, which she later described in the first known English-language book written by a woman.
 * 1861 – The Australian astronomer John Tebbutt discovered the Great Comet of 1861, through whose tail the Earth passed later that year.
 * 1913 – The Russian inventor Igor Sikorsky flew the self-designed Russky Vityaz, the world's first four-engine fixed-wing aircraft.
 * 1958 – The Australian adventurer Ben Carlin became the only person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 80,000 kilometres (50,000 miles) by land and sea.
 * 1969 – Sino-Malay race riots began in Kuala Lumpur, leaving at least 190 people dead, with the government declaring a state of emergency and suspending the Parliament of Malaysia until 1971.
 * 1972 – The Troubles: A car bomb planted by Ulster loyalists exploded outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, beginning two days of gun battles between the British Army, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and the Ulster Volunteer Force.
 * 1985 – Eleven members of the American Black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a bomb on their house during a raid.
 * 1992 – Li Hongzhi introduced the Falun Gong movement at a public lecture in Changchun, China.
 * 2005 – Uzbek Interior Ministry and State Security Service troops fired at protesters in Andijan, killing between 187 and 1,500 people.
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 * 1804 – Led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the Corps of Discovery left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois, to begin the first overland expedition to the West Coast of the United States and back.
 * 1856 – Major Henry C. Wayne arrived in Indianola, Texas, with 34 camels to form the short-lived United States Camel Corps (pictured).
 * 1868 – Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards Nikkō and Aizu.
 * 1878 – The last witchcraft trial in the United States opened in Salem, Massachusetts.
 * 1919 – Sir Harry Hands, the mayor of Cape Town, performed the first public observance of a two-minute silence in remembrance of those killed in World War I.
 * 1939 – In Lima, Peru, Lina Medina became the youngest confirmed mother in history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and twenty-one days.
 * 1940 – World War II: The bulk of Dutch forces surrendered to the German Wehrmacht, ending the Battle of the Netherlands.
 * 1943 – Second World War: Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, killing 268 people aboard.
 * 1951 – Trains ran on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since its preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
 * 1980 – Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador across the Sumpul River to Honduras were attacked by both Salvadoran and Honduran forces, resulting in at least 300 deaths.
 * 2008 – On the day of the UEFA Cup Final, violence erupted between football hooligan supporters of both teams and the Greater Manchester Police, resulting in 39 arrests and 39 injured officers.
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May 14: Feast day of Saint Matthias (Catholicism); Independence Day in Israel (2024)

 * 1264 – Second Barons' War: King Henry III was defeated at the Battle of Lewes (monument pictured) and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
 * 1857 – Mindon Min was crowned as King of Burma.
 * 1863 – American Civil War: Union troops captured Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.
 * 1931 – Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
 * 1948 – David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence at Independence Hall in Tel Aviv.

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 * 1252 – Pope Innocent IV issued the papal bull Ad extirpanda, authorizing the use of torture on heretics during the Medieval Inquisition.
 * 1602 – Early English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold arrived on Cape Cod in present-day Massachusetts.
 * 1836 – English astronomer Francis Baily observed Baily's beads (example pictured), a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which the rugged topography of the lunar limb allows sunlight to shine through.
 * 1862 – Fertilisation of Orchids, the first book by Charles Darwin which demonstrated the power of natural selection in detail, was published.
 * 1869 – Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, breaking away from the American Equal Rights Association which they had also previously founded.
 * 1911 – Mexican Revolution: A force of Maderistas captured Torreón and proceeded to massacre 303 of the city's Chinese residents.
 * 1912 – During a match, baseball star Ty Cobb enters the stands and assaults a fan who had heckled him, leading to his suspension.
 * 1945 – The British Army directed fleeing Croatian soldiers to surrender to the Yugoslav Partisans, beginning the Bleiburg repatriations.
 * 1953 – Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, an event for Cub Scouts of the Boy Scouts of America where wooden cars built by the scouts are raced.
 * 1957 – The United Kingdom tested its first hydrogen bomb over Malden Island in Operation Grapple.
 * 1966 – Disapproving of General Tôn Thất Đính handling of the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ ordered an attack on his forces and ousted Đính from his post.
 * 1970 – Police opened fire during a confrontation with a group of Jackson State College students, killing two students and injuring twelve others.
 * 1972 – The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the U.S. occupation government was abolished.
 * 1990 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold at auction at Christie's in New York for US$82.5 million, making it the world's most expensive painting at the time.
 * 2004 – Arsenal became the first football team in England's top flight to finish a season undefeated since Preston North End did so in 1888–1889.
 * 2010 – Three days before her seventeenth birthday, Jessica Watson arrived in Sydney after sailing non-stop and unassisted around the world.
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 * 1811 – Peninsular War: Allied British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces clashed with French troops at the Battle of Albuera fought south of Badajoz, Spain.
 * 1832 – Prospector Juan Godoy discovered a silver outcrop in Chañarcillo, sparking the Chilean silver rush.
 * 1866 – The United States Congress authorized the minting of the Shield nickel (example pictured), the country's first five-cent piece to be made of a copper–nickel alloy.
 * 1918 – The Sedition Act was passed in the United States, forbidding Americans from using "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the government, flag, or armed forces during the ongoing World War I.
 * 1925 – The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
 * 1943 – Second World War: The Royal Air Force's "Dambusters" squadron embarked on an attack on German dams using bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis.
 * 1958 – The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, a supersonic interceptor aircraft, set a world flight airspeed record of 2259.538 km/h.
 * 1959 – The Tritons' Fountain in Valletta, one of Malta's most important Modernist landmarks, was turned on for the first time.
 * 1960 – American physicist Theodore Maiman operated the first working laser at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu.
 * 1961 – Led by Park Chung-hee, the Military Revolution Committee carried out a bloodless coup against the government of Yun Posun in Seoul, ending the Second Republic of Korea.
 * 1975 – Based on the results of a referendum held about one month earlier, the Kingdom of Sikkim (flag pictured) abolished its monarchy and was annexed to become the 22nd state of India.
 * 1977 – The first Chuck E. Cheese location, the first family restaurant to integrate food, animated entertainment (example pictured), and an indoor arcade, opened in San Jose, California.
 * 2014 – At least 12 people were killed and 70 others injured when two bombs exploded in a market in Nairobi, Kenya.
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 * 1395 – An outnumbered Wallachian army repulsed invading Ottoman forces at the Battle of Rovine.
 * 1521 – Edward Stafford, whose father had been beheaded for rebelling against King Richard III of England, was himself executed for treason against King Henry VIII.
 * 1865 – The International Telecommunication Union, which standardizes and regulates international radio and telecommunications, was founded as the International Telegraph Union in Paris.
 * 1902 – The Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known surviving geared mechanism, was discovered among artifacts retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera.
 * 1914 – Under the Protocol of Corfu, the Principality of Albania officially recognized Northern Epirus as an autonomous self-governing region.
 * 1947 – After renegotiating a contract with the makers of her signature perfume Chanel No. 5, Coco Chanel (pictured) received a share of wartime profits from its sale, making her one of the richest women in the world.
 * 1974 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force detonated a series of car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland, killing 34 people and injuring almost 300 others.
 * 1995 – Six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama selected by the 14th Dalai Lama, was kidnapped by the Chinese government, who advocated a proxy.
 * 2000 – Following the killing of two English football fans by Galatasaray supporters in the previous month, British and Turkish hooligans rioted on the day of the UEFA Cup Final in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 * 2004 – Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.
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 * 1388 – At the Battle of Buir Lake, a Ming Chinese army led by general Lan Yu defeated the forces of Tögüs Temür, the Mongol khan of Northern Yuan.
 * 1863 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant led his Army of the Tennessee across the Big Black River in preparation for the Siege of Vicksburg.
 * 1896 – Ruling in the landmark decision Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of racial segregation in public transportation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
 * 1926 – Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was reportedly kidnapped near Venice Beach in Los Angeles before reappearing five weeks later in Mexico.
 * 1933 – U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority to stimulate the economic development of the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression.
 * 1936 – In a crime that captivated Japan, Sada Abe (pictured) strangled her lover, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.
 * 1944 – The Soviet Union forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars to the Uzbek SSR and elsewhere in the country.
 * 1952 – First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces overran a French and Laotian garrison at Muong Khoua, leaving only four survivors.
 * 1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ended.
 * 1965 – Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with gathering significant intelligence used by Israel during the Six-Day War, was publicly hanged in Syria.
 * 1974 – India conducted its first nuclear test explosion at Pokhran, the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
 * 1996 – Ireland won the Eurovision song contest for the seventh time, the highest number of wins for any country before Sweden tied it in 2023.
 * 2005 – The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion publicly debuted at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
 * 2006 – The Parliament of Nepal unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra of many of his powers.
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 * 715 – Gregory II began his pontificate; his conflict with Byzantine emperor Leo III eventually led to the establishment of the temporal power of the pope.
 * 1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison west of Montreal surrendered to British troops at the Battle of the Cedars.
 * 1780 – A combination of thick smoke, fog, and heavy cloud cover caused darkness to fall on parts of Canada and the New England area of the United States by noon.
 * 1845 – Captain John Franklin (pictured) departed Greenhithe, England, on an expedition to the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage; all 129 men were later lost when their ships became icebound in Victoria Strait.
 * 1911 – Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, was established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
 * 1991 – Breakup of Yugoslavia: With the local Serb population boycotting the referendum, Croatians voted in favour of independence from Yugoslavia.
 * 1997 – The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, which encompasses the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, was established as a result of grassroots efforts.
 * 2010 – In Bangkok, the Thai military (pictured) concluded a week-long crackdown on widespread protests by forcing the surrender of opposition leaders.
 * 2015 – A corroded pipeline near Refugio State Beach, California, spilled 142,800 gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto the Gaviota Coast.
 * Born/died: | Dunstan |d|988| Helena of Moscow |b|1476| Mariam-uz-Zamani |d|1623| George Washington Whistler |b|1800| Nellie Melba |b|1861| Nathaniel Hawthorne |d|1864| Ruth Ella Moore |b|1903| Nicholas Winton |b|1909| Erin Phillips |b|1985| Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |d|1994| Jeffrey Catherine Jones |d|2011

May 19: Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day in Turkey (1919)

 * 1655 – Anglo-Spanish War: England invaded Spanish Jamaica, capturing it a week later.
 * 1743 – French physicist Jean-Pierre Christin published the design of a mercury thermometer using the centigrade scale, with 0 representing the melting point of water and 100 its boiling point.
 * 1828 – The United States Congress passed the largest tariff in the nation's history, which resulted in severe economic hardship in the American South.
 * 1915 – First World War: Australian and New Zealand troops repelled the third attack on Anzac Cove, inflicting heavy casualties on the attacking Ottoman forces.
 * 2018 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (both pictured) took place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, England.

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 * 685 – The Picts defeated the Northumbrians at the Battle of Dun Nechtain, severely weakening the latter's power in northern Great Britain.
 * 1515 – Ulysses, who would be famously depicted in a posthumous woodcut, landed in Lisbon, becoming the first of his species to visit Europe in a thousand years.
 * 1609 – Thomas Thorpe published the first copies of Shakespeare's sonnets, possibly without William Shakespeare's consent.
 * 1811 – A British squadron under Charles Marsh Schomberg defeated a French force off Tamatave, Madagascar, that was attempting to reinforce the French garrison on Mauritius.
 * 1875 – Representatives from seventeen countries signed the Metre Convention, which set up an institute for the purpose of coordinating international metrology and for coordinating the development of the metric system.
 * 1927 – By the Treaty of Jeddah, the United Kingdom recognised the sovereignty of King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia (pictured) over Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become Saudi Arabia.
 * 1943 – The Luttra Woman, a bog body from the Early Neolithic period, was discovered near Luttra, Sweden.
 * 1947 – The first session of the National Diet opened in Tokyo, Japan.
 * 1965 – While attempting to land at Cairo International Airport, Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 crashed for unknown reasons, killing all but 6 of the 121 people on board.
 * 1996 – In deciding Romer v. Evans, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a constitutional amendment in Colorado that prevented protected status under the law for homosexuals or bisexuals.
 * 2012 – The first of two major earthquakes struck Northern Italy, resulting in seven deaths.
 * 2013 – A tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, United States, killing 24 people and causing an estimated $2 billion of damage.
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 * 878 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The city of Syracuse was captured by the Aghlabids (pictured) as part of the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
 * 1703 – English writer Daniel Defoe was imprisoned for seditious libel after publishing a pamphlet that was perceived to satirise the Tory publications about Dissenters.
 * 1851 – The Congress of Colombia passed a law abolishing slavery in the country, to take effect at the beginning of the new year.
 * 1856 – A crowd of about 800 pro-slavery Americans ransacked the town of Lawrence, Kansas.
 * 1911 – Mexican president Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco I. Madero signed the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to end hostilities between each other's forces, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
 * 1917 – The Imperial War Graves Commission was established by royal charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of British Empire military forces.
 * 1927 – Aboard the Spirit of St. Louis, American aviator Charles Lindbergh (pictured) completed the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight, flying from Roosevelt Field near New York City to Paris–Le Bourget Airport.
 * 1946 – While working with a mass of plutonium known as the demon core, Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin accidentally exposed himself to a lethal dose of hard radiation.
 * 1991 – Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide bomber in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu.
 * 1998 – Indonesian president Suharto resigned after a collapse of support for his presidency amid economic and political crises, ending 32 years in power.
 * 2005 – The world's tallest roller coaster, Kingda Ka, opened at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, U.S.
 * 2015 – Islamic State militants entered the ancient city of Palmyra.
 * Born/died: | Olaf the Black |d|1237| Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk |d|1524| Luis Fajardo |d|1617| Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland |b|1806| Rudolf Koller |b|1828| Ella Stewart Udall |b|1855| Anne Walter Fearn |b|1867| Tudor Arghezi |b|1880| Leonidas Vasilikopoulos |b|1932| Al Franken |b|1951| Nadine Dorries |b|1957

May 21: World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

 * 1138 – The Crusades: The siege of Shaizar ended, and the Emir of Shaizar became a vassal of the Byzantine Empire.
 * 1864 – American Civil War: The inconclusive Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia ended with combined Union and Confederate casualties totaling around 31,000.
 * 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal, linking Manchester in North West England to the Irish Sea, officially opened, becoming the world's largest navigation canal at the time.
 * 1924 – University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb (both pictured) murdered a 14-year-old boy in a thrill killing out of a desire to commit a "perfect crime".
 * 2014 – A Taiwanese man carried out a stabbing spree on a Taipei Metro train, killing four people and injuring 24 others.

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 * 853 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine navy began a raid on the Nile Delta port city of Damietta, whose garrison was absent at the time.
 * 1629 – Albrecht von Wallenstein and King Christian IV of Denmark signed the Treaty of Lübeck to end Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
 * 1762 – The Trevi Fountain (pictured) in Rome was officially inaugurated by Pope Clement XIII.
 * 1816 – A riot broke out in Littleport, England, over high unemployment and rising grain costs, spreading to Ely the next day before being quelled by troops.
 * 1826 – HMS Beagle departed on her first voyage from Plymouth for a hydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of South America.
 * 1844 – In Shiraz, Iran, the Báb declared himself to be a messenger of God to Mullá Husayn, leading to the foundation of Bábism, considered to be a precursor to the Baháʼí Faith.
 * 1849 – Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. president ever to hold a patent.
 * 1856 – Senator Charles Sumner (pictured) was assaulted by Representative Preston Brooks in the United States Senate chamber in retaliation for a speech in which Sumner fiercely criticized slaveholders.
 * 1897 – The first Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames was opened to improve commerce and trade in the East End of London.
 * 1905 – Sultan Abdul Hamid II established the Ullah millet, a separate millet for the Aromanians within the Ottoman Empire.
 * 1915 – California's Lassen Peak violently erupted, the only volcanic eruption in the contiguous U.S. in the 20th century until Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980.
 * 1939 – Germany and Italy signed the Pact of Steel, a military and political alliance.
 * 1958 – Ethnic riots mostly targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils broke out in Ceylon, resulting in at least 158 deaths over the next few days.
 * 1960 – The most powerful earthquake ever recorded, registering approximately 9.5 Mw, struck near Valdivia, Chile, generating tsunamis that reached Hawaii and Japan.
 * 1972 – The Dominion of Ceylon changed its name to Sri Lanka, adopted a new constitution, and officially became a republic within the Commonwealth.
 * 1980 – Location testing for Pac-Man, a Japanese arcade game that became an icon of 1980s popular culture, began in Shibuya, Tokyo.
 * 1987 – During Hindu–Muslim rioting in Meerut, India, 19 members of the Provincial Armed Constabulary allegedly massacred 42 Muslims and dumped their bodies in water canals.
 * 2002 – Police announced that the skeletal remains of Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy, who had been missing for a year, had been found in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C.
 * 2010 – Upon landing in Mangalore, Air India Express Flight 812 overshot the runway and fell down a hillside, killing 158 of the 166 people on board.
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 * 1430 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc (pictured) was captured by Burgundian forces at the Siege of Compiègne.
 * 1533 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife Catherine of Aragon (pictured), beginning events that would culminate in the English Reformation.
 * 1555 – Gian Pietro Carafa became Pope Paul IV, beginning a tumultuous four-year papacy during which the Papal States suffered a serious military defeat.
 * 1706 – War of the Spanish Succession: The Grand Alliance armies routed the Franco-Spanish-Bavarian army in Ramillies, present-day Belgium.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops under Stonewall Jackson defeated a Union force at the Battle of Front Royal in Virginia, taking around 700 prisoners.
 * 1895 – Backed by Samuel J. Tilden, the Astor Library and the Lenox Library agreed to merge and form the New York Public Library.
 * 1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine Squalus sank off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, during tests, causing 26 men to drown.
 * 1974 – The Airbus A300, the first twin-engined wide-body airliner, went into service with Air France.
 * 2008 – The International Court of Justice awarded the Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca to Singapore, resolving a 29-year-old territorial dispute in the Singapore Strait.
 * Born/died this day: | Elias Ashmole |b|1617| William Bradford |d|1752| John Wood, the Elder |d|1754| Margaret Fuller |b|1810| C. R. M. F. Cruttwell|b|1887|  Daisy Bacon |b|1898| Ruth Fernández |b|1919| Aileen Hernandez |b|1926|  Heinrich Himmler |d|1945| Florence Violet McKenzie |d|1982

May 23: Aromanian National Day

 * 1568 – The Dutch Revolt broke out when rebels led by Louis of Nassau (pictured) invaded Friesland at the Battle of Heiligerlee.
 * 1873 – The North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was established to bring law and order to and assert Canadian sovereignty over the Northwest Territories.
 * 1934 – During a strike against the Electric Auto-Lite company in Toledo, a fight began between nearly 10,000 American strikers and sheriff's deputies, later involving the Ohio National Guard.
 * 1999 – Professional wrestler Owen Hart died immediately before a World Wrestling Federation match after dropping 70 feet (21 m) onto the ring during a botched entrance.

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 * 1667 – Led by King Louis XIV, the French army invaded the Spanish Netherlands, beginning the War of Devolution.
 * 1683 – Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the world's first university museum, opened.
 * 1738 – At a Moravian meeting in Aldersgate, London, John Wesley (pictured) experienced a spiritual rebirth, leading him to launch the Methodist movement.
 * 1830 – The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first published as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale.
 * 1883 – New York City's Brooklyn Bridge opened as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
 * 1930 – English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
 * 1913 – Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia married Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover; the occasion was one of the last great social events of European royalty before World War I began.
 * 1941 – Second World War: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser HMS Hood at the Battle of the Denmark Strait.
 * 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: After five days of fighting, Egyptian forces captured the Israeli community of Yad Mordechai after the defenders had abandoned it.
 * 1956 – The first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland.
 * 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
 * 1970 – On the Kola Peninsula in Russia, drilling began on the Kola Superdeep Borehole, which eventually reached a depth of 12262 m, making it the deepest borehole ever drilled and the lowest artificial point on Earth.
 * 1976 – In a wine competition in Paris, French judges shocked the wine industry by rating California wines higher than French ones.
 * 1986 – A stationary front began over the central Caribbean Sea, leading to severe floods that over two weeks killed dozens of people in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.
 * 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act of 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, was enacted.
 * 1991 – The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Solomon, a covert operation to bring thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel (evacuees pictured).
 * 2006 – An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film that has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and re-energizing the environmental movement, was released.
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 * 1644 – Ming–Qing transition: Ming general Wu Sangui allowed the invading Manchu to cross the Great Wall of China (pictured), enabling them to capture Beijing and establish the Qing dynasty.
 * 1782 – American Revolutionary War: US Colonel William Crawford began a failed expedition to destroy British-allied American Indian towns along the Sandusky River in the Ohio Country.
 * 1787 – The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia with the intention of revising the Articles of Confederation of the United States.
 * 1810 – The Primera Junta, the first independent government in Argentina, was established in an open cabildo in Buenos Aires, marking the end of the May Revolution.
 * 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore (poster featured) premiered at the Opera Comique in London.
 * 1895 – Oscar Wilde was sentenced by Alfred Wills to two years of hard labor for gross indecency.
 * 1936 – Employees of the Remington Rand company began an 11-month strike action, during which time the company executives developed the notorious "Mohawk Valley formula" to intimidate the strikers.
 * 1940 – Second World War: German troops captured Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, forcing British forces to evacuate via Dunkirk.
 * 1955 – Joe Brown and George Band, members of the British Kangchenjunga expedition, made the first ascent of the world's third-highest mountain but deliberately did not set foot on the summit.
 * 1961 – In an address to Congress, U.S. president John F. Kennedy announced his support for the Apollo program, with "the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth".
 * 1962 – The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, went out of business.
 * 1967 – Having purged a group of rivals, Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Il-sung delivered the "May 25 teaching", entrenching his son Kim Jong-il as his designated successor.
 * 1979 – Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school in New York City, and later became one of the first missing children to have his picture featured on milk cartons.
 * 2011 – The final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated daytime talk show in U.S. television history, was broadcast.
 * 2012 – In a test flight, SpaceX's Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.
 * 2013 – Naxalite insurgents of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) attacked a convoy of Indian National Congress leaders in the state of Chhattisgarh, causing at least 27 deaths.
 * 2020 – George Floyd, an African-American man, was murdered during an arrest by a white police officer in Minneapolis, sparking protests in the U.S. and other countries.
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 * 946 – King Edmund I of England was murdered at Pucklechurch on the feast day of St Augustine.
 * 1328 – English friar William of Ockham, who popularised the methodological principle known as Occam's razor, secretly left Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII.
 * 1822 – The deadliest fire in Norwegian history occurred at a church in Grue, killing at least 113 people.
 * 1865 – American Civil War: General Edmund Kirby Smith negotiated the surrender of his army, the only significant Confederate Army force remaining in the war.
 * 1868 – The impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson adjourned after the second and third articles of impeachment did not obtain enough votes from the U.S. Senate to convict.
 * 1888 – The comic novel The Diary of a Nobody by brothers George and Weedon Grossmith first appeared in serial form in Punch.
 * 1897 – The Church of England returned the original manuscript of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, an account of the Pilgrims and the early years of the Plymouth Colony, to the state of Massachusetts.
 * 1906 – Vauxhall Bridge in London opened, crossing the River Thames between Vauxhall and Westminster.
 * 1932 – Donoghue v Stevenson is decided, ultimately establishing the foundation for negligence in common law jurisdictions worldwide.
 * 1933 – American singer Jimmie Rodgers (pictured) died at the Taft Hotel in New York City.
 * 1938 – The House Un-American Activities Committee was established to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities by people or organizations in the U.S. suspected of having communist or fascist ties.
 * 1940 – Second World War: The Allies began a mass evacuation of British, French and Belgian troops cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk.
 * 1967 – The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of the first progressive rock albums, was released.
 * 1989 – Tropical Storm Cecil dissipated over Laos after devastating Quảng Nam province, Vietnam, and causing the deaths of 751 people.
 * Born/died: | Bede |d|735| Louis I of Naples |d|1362| John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough |b|1650| Edmond de Goncourt |b|1822| Adolfo de la Huerta |b|1881| Mamie Smith |b|1891| Imi Lichtenfeld |b|1910| Miles Davis |b|1926|Horatio Bottomley |d|1933|  Paul E. Patton |b|1937|  Jyoti Gogte |b|1956| Lauryn Hill |b|1975| Mufti Abdul Razzaq  |d|2021

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 * 1813 – War of 1812: The troops of the U.S. Army and vessels of the U.S. Navy cooperated in a successful amphibious assault to capture Fort George in Upper Canada.
 * 1896 – The St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, one of the deadliest and most destructive tornadoes in U.S. history, struck St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing more than 255 people and injuring at least 1,000 others.
 * 1915 – HMS Princess Irene (pictured) exploded and sank off Sheerness, United Kingdom, with the loss of 352 lives.
 * 1917 – Pope Benedict XV (pictured) promulgated the Pio-Benedictine Code, the first official comprehensive codification of Latin canon law.
 * 1923 – French drivers André Lagache and René Léonard completed the most laps during the first edition of the sports car race the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
 * 1930 – Standing at 1,047 ft (319 m), New York City's Chrysler Building opened as the world's tallest building before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building 11 months later.
 * 1935 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States that the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major component of the New Deal, was unconstitutional.
 * 1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge, at the time the world's longest suspension bridge by span, opened between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
 * 1940 – World War II: Ninety-seven soldiers of the British Royal Norfolk Regiment were killed after surrendering to German forces.
 * 1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by gun and torpedo fire by the British battleships HMS Rodney (29) and HMS King George V (41) and supporting cruisers.
 * 1958 – The F-4 Phantom II, the principal air superiority jet fighter for both the U.S. Navy and Air Force, made its first flight.
 * 1962 – A fire at a landfill in Centralia, Pennsylvania, spread to an abandoned coal mine, where it continues burning today.
 * 1963 – American singer Bob Dylan (pictured) released The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, his first album to include a significant number of original songs.
 * 1975 – The deadliest road accident in England took place when the brakes on a coach failed and it crashed in North Yorkshire, killing 32 people.
 * 1983 – An explosion at an illegal fireworks factory near Benton, Tennessee, killed eleven people.
 * 1995 – American actor Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse, leaving him quadriplegic; he later became an activist on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries.
 * 1995 – Bosnian War: Forces of the Army of Republika Srpska captured a United Nations post at Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo; six soldiers of both sides were killed when French forces retook the post later in the day.
 * 2001 – Twenty tourists were kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants in Palawan, Philippines, triggering a hostage crisis that lasted for more than a year.
 * 2006 – An earthquake registering 6.4 Mw struck near the city of Yogyakarta on the southern side of the Indonesian island of Java, killing more than 5,700 people.

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 * 621 – Tang forces led by Li Shimin defeated and captured Dou Jiande at the Battle of Hulao in the civil war that followed the collapse of the Sui dynasty.
 * 1608 – Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi debuted his second opera L'Arianna, now one of his lost works, at a royal wedding in Mantua.
 * 1830 – U.S. president Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, authorizing him to negotiate with Native Americans for their removal from their ancestral homelands.
 * 1892 – Scottish-American preservationist John Muir (pictured) founded the environmental organization Sierra Club in California.
 * 1940 – Second World War: Belgium surrendered to Nazi Germany, ending the Battle of Belgium.
 * 1987 – Mathias Rust, a West German aviator, flew his Cessna 172 from Helsinki, Finland, through Soviet air defences, landing illegally near Red Square in Moscow.
 * 2010 – A train derailment and collision in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal, India, caused the deaths of at least 148 passengers.
 * Born/died this day: | Germain of Paris |d|576| Wulfstan |d|1023| Joseph-Ignace Guillotin |b|1738|  Carl Larsson |b|1853| Mary Polly Paaaina |d|1873| Ian Fleming |b|1908| Maeve Binchy |b|1939|  Gabriela Michetti |b|1965|

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Singing in the Twins Wonderland (Volume 1)

Singing in the Twins Wonderland (Volume 1) is the 9th CD by the Twins and was released in November 2003. Since Twins became very popular among children, this CD was made particularly for small children. It contains 20 English songs and three stories.

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 * 1) "If You Are Happy"
 * 2) "Mary Had A Little Lamb"
 * 3) "My Bonnie"
 * 4) "Happy Birthday"
 * 5) "Hello, How Do You Do"
 * 6) "Long Long Ago"
 * 7) "Jingle Bells"
 * 8) "The Farmer in the Dell"
 * 9) "Ten Little Indian Boys"
 * 10) "The Muffin Man"
 * 11) "A for Apple B for Boy"
 * 12) "Five Little Ducks"
 * 13) "I Went to School One Morning"
 * 14) "This Old Man"
 * 15) "Red River Valley"
 * 16) "Skip to My Lou"
 * 17) "The Mulberry Bush"
 * 18) "This Is the Way"
 * 19) "You're My Sunshine"
 * 20) "London Bridge Is Falling Down"
 * 21) "Zi Qu Qi Ru De Wu Ya" (自取其辱的烏鴉) (Story 1)
 * 22) "Lao Ying Bao En" (老鷹報恩) (Story 2)
 * 23) "Lu Xing Zhe Yu Xiong" (旅行者與熊) (Story 3)


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 * 1176 – Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines: Troops of the Lombard League defeated forces of the Holy Roman Empire near Legnano in present-day Italy.
 * 1453 – With the fall of Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottomans.
 * 1792 – The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was disbanded following the Russian invasion of Poland.
 * 1852 – Swedish operatic soprano Jenny Lind concluded a successful concert tour of the United States under the management of showman P. T. Barnum.
 * 1900 – N'Djamena, now the capital of Chad, was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil.
 * 1911 – English dramatist W. S. Gilbert of the songwriting duo Gilbert and Sullivan died while saving a young woman from drowning in his lake.
 * 1918 – World War I: Armenian forces defeated Ottoman troops at the Battle of Sardarabad, halting the Turkish advance and preventing further destruction of the Armenian nation.
 * 1935 – A strike by copper miners in Northern Rhodesia ended after six workers were shot and killed by police.
 * 1942 – Bing Crosby recorded his version of the song "White Christmas", which went on to become the best-selling single worldwide, with more than 50 million copies sold.
 * 1953 – The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (both pictured) became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
 * 1954 – Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than five minutes.
 * 1999 – President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military dictatorship.

 * Born/died: | Patrick Henry |b|1736| Louise-Adéone Drölling |b|1797| Winfield Scott |d|1866| Rudolf Tobias |b|1873|  Gabriel Auguste Daubrée |d|1896| Erich Wolfgang Korngold |b|1897|  John F. Kennedy |b|1917|Sumitro Djojohadikusumo|b|1917| John Barrymore |d|1942| La Toya Jackson |b|1956| Fandi Ahmad|b|1962| Margaret Barr |d|1991

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 * 1536 – Jane Seymour, a former lady-in-waiting, married King Henry VIII, becoming the queen consort of England.
 * 1854 – The Kansas–Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas, and allowing their settlers to determine if slavery would be permitted.
 * 1866 – Bedřich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride premiered in Prague.
 * 1899 – Pearl Hart, one of the few female outlaws of the American Old West, committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies, about 30 mi southeast of Globe, Arizona.
 * 1914 – RMS Aquitania, the last surviving four-funnel ocean liner, departed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York City.
 * 1948 – A dike holding the Columbia River broke, causing a flood that destroyed Vanport, Oregon, U.S., only five years after the city was built.
 * 1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, spanning Waitematā Harbour between the Saint Marys Bay and Northcote suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand, officially opened.
 * 1972 – Members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airport massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel, on behalf of PFLP External Operations, killing over 20 people and injuring almost 80 others.
 * 1998 – A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck northern Afghanistan, killing at least 4,000 people, destroying more than 30 villages, and leaving 45,000 people homeless.
 * 2005 – American student Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a high-school graduation trip to Aruba.
 * Born/died: | Antonina Houbraken |b|1686| Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle |d|1718| Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty |b|1768| Voltaire |d|1778| José de la Borda |d|1778| Charles Dickinson |d|1806| Wyndham Halswelle |b|1882| Agnès Varda |b|1928| CeeLo Green |b|1975| Marie Fredriksson |b|1958| Marcel Bich |d|1994

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 * 1215 — A Mongol army under Genghis Khan captures Zhongdu (modern Beijing), the capital of the Jin dynasty.
 * 1293 – Majapahit forces under Raden Wijaya won a major victory in the Mongol invasion of Java, now considered to be the founding date of the Indonesian city of Surabaya.
 * 1775 – American Revolution: The Committee of Safety of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, adopted the Mecklenburg Resolves, which annulled and vacated all laws originating from the authority of the King or Parliament.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops under Joseph E. Johnston and G. W. Smith engaged Union forces under George B. McClellan at the Battle of Seven Pines outside Richmond, Virginia.
 * 1879 – Gilmore's Garden in New York City was renamed Madison Square Garden, the city's first venue to use that name.
 * 1902 – The Second Boer War came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging in Pretoria, South Africa.
 * 1941 - German forces dropped four bombs on neutral Ireland, killing 28 people and damaging the residence of the President of Ireland.
 * 1941 – The United Kingdom completed its re-occupation of Iraq, returning Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
 * 1981 – An organized mob of police and government-sponsored Sinhalese paramilitary forces began three days of attacks that led to the burning of the Jaffna Library in Sri Lanka.
 * 2005 – A Vanity Fair article revealed that the secret informant known as "Deep Throat", who had provided information about the Watergate scandal, was former FBI associate director Mark Felt (pictured).
 * 2009 – American physician George Tiller, one of the few doctors in the country who performed late-term abortions, was shot and killed by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion activist.
 * Born/died: | Géza II of Hungary |d|1162| Nur Jahan |b|1577| Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud |b|1753| Walt Whitman |b|1819|| Kusumoto Ine |b|1827| Walter Sickert |b|1860| Rosa May Billinghurst |b|1875| Chien-Shiung Wu |b|1912| Bernard Lewis |b|1916|  Jørgen Jensen |d|1922 Clint Eastwood |b|1930| Timothy Leary |d|1996| Derek Hodge |d|2011| Jan Crouch |d|2016| Carla Lane |d|2016

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 * 455 – Petronius Maximus, ruler of the Western Roman Empire, was stoned to death by a mob as he fled Rome ahead of the arrival of a Vandal force that sacked the city.
 * 1223 – Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus': Mongol forces defeated a Kievan Rus' army at the Kalka River in present-day Ukraine.
 * 1468 – Cardinal Bessarion (pictured) announced his donation of 746 Greek and Latin codices to the Republic of Venice, forming the Biblioteca Marciana.
 * 1935 – An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw struck Balochistan in British India, now part of Pakistan, killing between 30,000 and 60,000 people.
 * 2013 – A tornado struck Central Oklahoma, killing 8 people and injuring more than 150.

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Touch of Love (album)

Touch of Love is the seventh album of Twins and was released in April 2003. It contains 2 discs. One is a CD with 11 new songs while the other one is a VCD, which had a music video for "Xia Yi Zhan Tian Hou" (下一站天后).

Two months later (June 2003), a second version was released. A new song and its music video "Bian Bian Bian" (變變變), the theme song of the movie The Twins Effect and sung by Twins and Jackie Chan, were added.

First Version
Disc 1 Disc 2
 * 1) 多謝失戀 (Thank You For The Break-up)
 * 2) 我們要睡覺 (We Have To Sleep)
 * 3) 我的爸爸媽媽 (My Parent) [Solo version, Featuring Gillian Chung]
 * 4) 千金 (Thousand Gold)
 * 5) 那天很愛笑 (Loved To Laugh)
 * 6) 講玩 (Jokes)
 * 7) 女朋友 (Girlfriend)
 * 8) 下一站天后 (Next Station, Tian Hou) [Solo version, Featuring Charlene Choi]
 * 9) 童子軍 (Scouts)
 * 10) 咩世界 (What's The World?)
 * 11) 下一站天后 (Next Station, Tian Hou)
 * 1) 下一站天后 (Next Station, Tian Hou) [Music Video]

Second Version

 * 1) "Bian Bian Bian" (變變變) (the theme song of the film Twins Effect)(Music Video)
 * 2) "Xia Yi Zhan Tian Hou" (下一站天后) (Music Video)
 * 3) "Bian Bian Bian" (變變變) (featuring Twins and Jackie Chan, the theme song of the film Twins Effect)
 * 4) "Duo Xie Shi Lian" (多謝失戀)
 * 5) "Wo Men Yao Shui Jiao" (我們要睡覺)
 * 6) "Wo De Ba Ba Ma Ma" (我的爸爸媽媽) (Solo version, featuring Gillian Chung)
 * 7) "Qian Jin" (千金)
 * 8) "Na Tian Hen Ai Xiao" (那天很愛笑)
 * 9) "Jiang Wan" (講玩)
 * 10) "Nu Peng You" (女朋友)
 * 11) "Xia Yi Zhan Tian Hou" (下一站天后) (Solo version, featuring Charlene Choi)
 * 12) "Tong Zi Jun" (童子軍)
 * 13) "Mie Shi Jie" (咩世界)
 * 14) "Xia Yi Zhan Tian Hou" (下一站天后)

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Happy Together (Twins album)

Happy Together is the first greatest hits album released by Twins. It was first released in November 2002 and consisted of 3 CDs (4 new songs and 20 selection hits) and 1 VCD, along with 10 different covers.

A second version of this album was released in 2003. This version consisted of 2 CDs and 1 VCD, and was similar to the first version. However, since the Chinese New Year was coming, a celebration song, "Ni Zui Hong" (你最紅), was included in the album. The star, Leslie Cheung, took part in the song's music video. Some collectible New Year gifts such as Twins x Marie Red Packets, Jelly Belly candy with creative menu, poster, four different "Fai Chun" and coupons were also included in this edition.

There is a third version of this greatest hits with added new music videos and 2 brand-new covers released later, and it breaks their album record which have total 13 covers for an album to date.

First Version
Disc 1
 * 1) "Feng Zheng Yu Feng" (風箏與風) (the theme song of the advertisement for Matsunichi )
 * 2) "Bai Shi Bu Yan" (百試不厭) (the theme song of Marie's 2003)
 * 3) "'Ming Ai An Lian Bu Xi She" (明愛暗戀補習社) (Assembly Mix)
 * 4) "Nu Xiao Nan Sheng" (女校男生)
 * 5) "Xue Sheng Shou Ce" (學生手冊)
 * 6) "Huan Ji" (換季)
 * 7) "Wo Men Di Ji Nian Ce" (我們的紀念冊)
 * 8) "Feng Zheng Yu Feng" (風箏與風) Remix (Lost And Found Version)

Disc 2
 * 1) "No.1"
 * 2) "Ai Qing Dang Ru Xun" (愛情當入樽)
 * 3) "Er Ren Shi Jie Bei" (二人世界盃)
 * 4) "ICHIBAN Xing Fen" (ICHIBAN興奮)
 * 5) "Ni Shi Wo De UFO" (你是我的UFO)
 * 6) "Da Hong Da Zi" (大紅大紫)
 * 7) "Guo Shou Kan Zhao" (高手看招)

Disc 3
 * 1) "Xing Xing Yue Liang Tai Yang" (星星月亮太陽) (the theme song of Shunde Jiaxin Citi Plaza Cardinal Heights advertisement)
 * 2) "Yan Hong Hong - Hou Zhuan" (眼紅紅 - 後傳) (Narrator：Dicky Cheung)
 * 3) "Lian Ai Da Guo Tian" (戀愛大過天)
 * 4) "Peng You Zi" (朋友仔)
 * 5) "Li Wo Qian Xiao" (梨渦淺笑)
 * 6) "Fa Meng Jian Guo Ni" (發夢見過你)
 * 7) "Ren Bi Ren" (人比人)
 * 8) "Kuai Shu Shi Dai" (快熟時代)
 * 9) "Da Lang Man Zhu Yi" (大浪漫主義)

Disc 4 (VCD)
 * 1) "Feng Zheng Yu Feng" (風箏與風) (the theme song of Matsunichi advertisement) Music Video
 * 2) "Twins Ichiban Amazing Show" (Twins Ichiban興奮演唱會) production highlights
 * 3) Twins 2002 advertisement: Shunde Jiaxin
 * 4) Twins 2002 advertisement: G.Sushi
 * 5) Twins 2002 advertisement: Nissin Cup Noodle
 * 6) Twins 2002 advertisement: New World Telecom
 * 7) Twins 2002 advertisement: Gulong Online
 * 8) Twins 2002 advertisement: Clean & Clear
 * 9) Twins 2002 advertisement: Saint Honore

Second Version
Disc 1
 * 1) "Ni Zui Hong" (你最紅) (New song)
 * 2) "Feng Zheng Yu Feng" (風箏與風) (the theme song Matsunichi advertisement)
 * 3) "Xing Xing Yue Liang Tai Yang" (星星月亮太陽) (the theme song of Shunde Jiaxin Citi Plaza Cardinal Heights)
 * 4) "No.1"
 * 5) "Bai Shi Bu Yan" (百試不厭) (the theme song of Marie's 2003)
 * 6) "Feng Zheng Yu Feng" (風箏與風) Remix (Lost And Found Version)
 * 7) "Ming Ai An Lain Bu Xi She" (明愛暗戀補習社) (Assembly Mix)
 * 8) "Nu Xiao Nan Sheng" (女校男生)
 * 9) "Xue Sheng Shou Ce" (學生手冊)
 * 10) "Huan Ji" (換季)
 * 11) "Wo Men Di Ji Nian Ce" (我們的紀念冊)
 * 12) "Ai Qing Dang Ru Xun" (愛情當入樽)

Disc 2
 * 1) "Er Ren Shi Jie Bei" (二人世界盃)
 * 2) "ICHIBAN Xing Fen" (ICHIBAN興奮)
 * 3) "Ni Shi Wo De UFO" (你是我的UFO)
 * 4) "Da Hong Da Zi" (大紅大紫)
 * 5) "Guo Shou Kan Zhao" (高手看招)
 * 6) "Yan Hong Hong - Hou Zhuan" (眼紅紅 - 後傳) (Narrator：Dicky Chueng)
 * 7) "Lian Ai Da Guo Tian" (戀愛大過天)
 * 8) "Peng YOu Zi" (朋友仔)
 * 9) "Li Wo Qian Xiao" (梨渦淺笑)
 * 10) "Fa Meng Jian Guo Ni" (發夢見過你)
 * 11) "Ren Bi Ren" (人比人)
 * 12) "Kuai Shu Shi Dai" (快熟時代)
 * 13) "Da Lang Man Zhu Yi" (大浪漫主義)

Disc 3 (VCD)
 * 1) Ni Zui Hong (你最紅) (Special Guest: Leslie Cheung) (music video)
 * 2) "Feng Zheng Yu Feng" (風箏與風) (the theme song of Matsunichi advertisement) music video
 * 3) "Xing Xing Yue Liang Tai Yang" (星星月亮太陽) (music video)
 * 4) "Bai Shi Bu Yan" (百試不厭) (music video)
 * 5) "Twins Ichiban Amazing Show" (Twins Ichiban興奮演唱會) production highlights
 * 6) Twins 2002 advertisement: Shunde Jiaxin
 * 7) Twins 2002 advertisement: G.Sushi
 * 8) Twins 2002 advertisement: Nissin Cup Noodle
 * 9) Twins 2002 advertisement: New World Telecom Twins Mobile
 * 10) Twins 2002 advertisement: Gulong Online
 * 11) Twins 2002 advertisement: Clean & Clear
 * 12) Twins 2002 advertisement: Saint Honore

title: Happy Together (Twins album)


text:
Knox

Knox may refer to:

United States

 * Fort Knox, a United States Army post in Kentucky
 * United States Bullion Depository, a high security storage facility commonly called Fort Knox
 * Fort Knox (Maine), a fort located on the Penobscot River in Prospect, Maine
 * Knox Memorial Bridge, a bridge that crosses the Intracoastal Waterway north of Ormond Beach, Florida
 * Knox, Indiana
 * Knox, Henry County, Indiana
 * Knox, Maine
 * Knox, New York
 * Knox, North Dakota
 * Knox, Knox County, Ohio
 * Knox, Vinton County, Ohio
 * Knox, Pennsylvania
 * Knox, Wisconsin, a town
 * Knox Mills, Wisconsin, a ghost town
 * Knox City, Missouri
 * Knox City, Texas
 * Knox County (disambiguation)
 * Knox Township (disambiguation)

Other places

 * City of Knox, Victoria, Australia
 * Knox Atoll, Marshall Islands
 * Knox Coast, the coast of Antarctica lying between Cape Hordern and the Hatch Islands
 * Westfield Knox, a shopping centre in Wantirna South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ships

 * USS Knox (FF-1052), the prototype and lead ship of the Knox class of destroyer escorts
 * Knox-class frigate, a class of United States Navy ships
 * USS Frank Knox (DD-742), a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II

Organisations

 * Knox Automobile Company, an American Brass Era car manufacturer
 * Knox Basketball Inc, a basketball association in Melbourne, Australia
 * Knox Associates, d.b.a. The Knox Company, an American company that makes security devices such as the Knox Box

Schools

 * Knox Academy, a secondary school in Haddington, Scotland
 * Knox College (Illinois), a liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois
 * Knox College, Otago, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Otago in New Zealand
 * Knox College, Toronto, a theological college in Toronto, Canada
 * Knox Grammar School in New South Wales, Australia
 * The Knox School (Australia), in Wantirna South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Churches

 * Knox Presbyterian Church (Oakville)
 * Knox Presbyterian Church (Ottawa)
 * Knox Presbyterian Church (Toronto)
 * Knox United Church (Calgary)
 * Knox United Church (Scarborough), a Presbyterian Church in Scarborough, Ontario

People

 * Knox (given name)
 * Knox (surname), including list of persons and fictional characters with the surname
 * Knox (pop rock musician), American pop singer and songwriter
 * Knox (punk musician) (born 1945), guitarist, singer and songwriter of original UK punk rock band The Vibrators
 * Knox Cameron (born 1983), Jamaican-American soccer striker

Fictional characters

 * Knox, one of the characters in the Dr. Seuss book Fox in Socks (1965)
 * Knox Overstreet, a character in the film Dead Poets Society (1989)

Other uses

 * Knox Bible (Knox's Translation of the Vulgate), a 1950 twentieth century translation of the Bible by Msgr. Ronald Knox
 * Knox Box, a small, wall-mounted safe that holds building keys for firefighters to retrieve in emergencies
 * Knox gelatin, a brand of gelatin now marketed by Kraft Foods
 * Henry Knox Trail, marking the Historic path of Colonel Henry Knox's transport of cannon during the Revolutionary war.
 * Samsung Knox, an enterprise mobile security solution

title: Knox