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919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom. 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral. 1487 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign. 1567 – Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles. 1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library. 1607 – 100 English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America. 1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved. 1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan. 1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance. 1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum. 1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting dissenting Protestants but excluding Roman Catholics. 1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday. 1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins. 1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator"). 1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito. 1830 – "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is published. 1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference. 1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C. 1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. 1861 – American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia. 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction. 1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State. 1915 – World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies. 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight). 1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field. 1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight. 1940 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico. 1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen. 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later. 1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland. 1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service. 1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt. 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus. 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. 1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel. 1976 – The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine. 1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha. 1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War. 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted. 1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel. 1992 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests. 1992 – The ethnic cleansing in Kozarac, Bosnia and Herzegovina begins when Serbian militia and police forces enter the town. 1993 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia. 1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison. 1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo. 2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. 2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty. 2014 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people. 2014 – At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium. |
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15 BC – Germanicus, Roman general (d. 19) 1335 – Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary (d. 1349) 1494 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557) 1522 – John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571) 1544 – William Gilbert, English physician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1603) 1576 – Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley, English courtier (d. 1635) 1616 – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, Scottish politician, Secretary of State, Scotland (d. 1682) 1628 – Marek Sobieski, Polish noble (d. 1652) 1669 – Emerentia von Düben, Swedish royal favorite (d. 1743) 1671 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737) 1686 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale (d. 1736) 1689 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1769) 1743 – Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician (d. 1793) 1789 – Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (d.1828) 1794 – William Whewell, English priest and philosopher (d. 1866) 1803 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist and paleontologist (d. 1866) 1810 – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar (d. 1874) 1816 – Emanuel Leutze, German-American painter (d. 1868) 1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901) 1830 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (d. 1897) 1855 – Arthur Wing Pinero, English actor, director, and playwright (d. 1934) 1861 – Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1940) 1863 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938) 1868 – Charlie Taylor, American engineer and mechanic (d. 1956) 1870 – Benjamin N. Cardozo, American lawyer and judge (d. 1938) 1870 – Jan Smuts, South African lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1950) 1874 – Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1878) 1875 – Robert Garrett, American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1961) 1878 – Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and engineer (d. 1972) 1879 – H. B. Reese, American candy maker, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (d. 1956) 1886 – Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1979) 1887 – Mick Mannock, Irish soldier and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918) 1891 – William F. Albright, American archaeologist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1971) 1895 – Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., American publisher, founded Advance Publications (d. 1979) 1899 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938) 1899 – Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter (d. 1984) 1900 – Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984) 1901 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager (d. 1968) 1902 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician (d. 1954) 1902 – Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (d. 2004) 1905 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) 1909 – Wilbur Mills, American banker and politician (d. 1992) 1910 – Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (d. 1983) 1913 – Joe Abreu, American baseball player and soldier (d. 1993) 1914 – Lilli Palmer, German-American actress (d. 1986) 1916 – Roden Cutler, Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales (d. 2002) 1917 – Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge (d. 2013) 1918 – Coleman Young, American politician, 66th Mayor of Detroit (d. 1997) 1923 – Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (d. 1986) 1924 – Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter 1925 – Carmine Infantino, American illustrator and educator (d. 2013) 1925 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (d. 1994) 1926 – Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter 1928 – William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer (d. 2016) 1932 – Arnold Wesker, English playwright and producer (d. 2016) 1933 – Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago (d. 2014) 1933 – Réal Giguère, Canadian television host and actor 1933 – Aharon Lichtenstein, French-Israeli rabbi and author (d. 2015) 1935 – Joan Micklin Silver, American director and screenwriter 1936 – Harold Budd, American composer and poet 1937 – Maryvonne Dupureur, French runner and educator (d. 2008) 1937 – Archie Shepp, American saxophonist and composer 1938 – Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2016) 1938 – Tommy Chong, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1940 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996) 1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, artist, writer, and producer; Nobel Prize laureate 1941 – Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, English academic and politician 1942 – Ali Bacher, South African cricketer and manager 1942 – Hannu Mikkola, Finnish race car driver 1942 – Ichirō Ozawa, Japanese lawyer and politician, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs 1943 – Gary Burghoff, American actor 1944 – Patti LaBelle, American singer-songwriter and actress 1944 – Dominique Lavanant, French actress 1945 – Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012) 1945 – Steven Norris, English engineer and politician 1945 – Richard Ottaway, English lieutenant and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 1945 – Priscilla Presley, American actress and businesswoman 1946 – Tansu Çiller, Turkish economist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey 1946 – Jesualdo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer and manager 1946 – Irena Szewińska, Russian-Polish sprinter 1947 – Albert Bouchard, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer 1947 – Mike De Leon, Filipino director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer 1947 – Mike Reid, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and retired American football player 1947 – Waddy Wachtel, American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and record producer 1947 – Martin Winterkorn, German businessman 1948 – Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (d. 2004) 1949 – Jim Broadbent, English actor 1949 – Roger Deakins , Enghlish cinematographer 1953 – Alfred Molina, English actor 1955 – Rosanne Cash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1955 – Philippe Lafontaine, Belgian singer and songwriter 1955 – Rajesh Roshan, Indian composer 1956 – R. 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Bernstein, constitutional historian 1956 – Larry Blackmon, American singer-songwriter and producer 1956 – Dominic Grieve, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales 1956 – Michael Jackson, Irish archbishop 1958 – Chip Ganassi, American race car driver, team owner and businessman 1959 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish-American ice hockey player (d. 1985) 1959 – Barry O'Farrell, Australian politician, 43rd Premier of New South Wales 1960 – Guy Fletcher, English keyboard player, guitarist, and producer 1960 – Bill Harrigan, Australian rugby league referee and sportscaster 1960 – Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress 1961 – Lorella Cedroni, Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2013) 1961 – Alain Lemieux, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach 1962 – Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican-American boxer (d. 2012) 1962 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2003) 1963 – Ivan Capelli, Italian race car driver and sportscaster 1963 – Michael Chabon, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter 1963 – Joe Dumars, American basketball player 1963 – Rich Rodriguez, American football player and coach 1963 – Valerie Taylor, American computer scientist and educator 1964 – Liz McColgan, Scottish educator and runner 1964 – Adrian Moorhouse, English swimmer 1964 – Isidro Pérez, Mexican boxer (d. 2013) 1964 – Pat Verbeek, Canadian ice hockey player and manager 1965 – John C. Reilly, American actor 1965 – Shinichirō Watanabe, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter 1966 – Éric Cantona, French footballer, manager, and actor 1966 – Ricky Craven, American race car driver and sportscaster 1967 – Tamer Karadağlı, Turkish actor 1967 – Andrey Borodin, Russian-English economist and businessman 1967 – Eric Close, American actor 1967 – Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (d. 2011) 1967 – Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager 1969 – Martin McCague, Northern Irish-English cricketer 1969 – Jacob Rees-Mogg, English politician 1969 – Rich Robinson, American guitarist and songwriter 1971 – Kris Draper, Canadian ice hockey player and manager 1972 – Greg Berlanti, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1973 – Rodrigo, Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 2000) 1973 – Bartolo Colón, Dominican-American baseball player 1973 – Shirish Kunder, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter 1973 – Vladimír Šmicer, Czech footballer and manager 1974 – Sébastien Foucan, French runner and actor 1974 – Masahide Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player and coach 1974 – Magnus Manske, German biochemist and computer programmer, developed MediaWiki 1974 – Will Sasso, Canadian actor and comedian 1975 – Marc Gagnon, Canadian speed skater 1975 – Giannis Goumas, Greek footballer and coach 1975 – Maria Lawson, English singer-songwriter 1976 – Alessandro Cortini, Italian-American singer and keyboard player 1976 – Catherine Cox, New Zealand-Australian netball player 1976 – Silje Vige, Norwegian singer 1978 – Elijah Burke, American wrestler 1978 – Johan Holmqvist, Swedish ice hockey player 1978 – Brad Penny, American baseball player 1978 – Rose, French singer, songwriter and composer 1979 – Tracy McGrady, American basketball player 1979 – Kareem McKenzie, American football player 1980 – Jason Babin, American football player 1980 – Anthony Minichiello, Australian rugby league player 1981 – Andy Lee, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter 1982 – Issah Gabriel Ahmed, Ghanaian footballer 1982 – Rian Wallace, American football player 1983 – Custódio Castro, Portuguese footballer 1983 – Pedram Javaheri, Iranian-American meteorologist and journalist 1983 – Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress (d. 2009) 1984 – Sarah Hagan, American actress 1984 – Dmitri Kruglov, Estonian footballer 1985 – Tim Bridgman, English race car driver 1986 – Mark Ballas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, dancer, and actor 1986 – Giannis Kontoes, Greek footballer 1987 – Déborah François, Belgian actress 1987 – Guillaume Latendresse, Canadian ice hockey player 1988 – Artem Anisimov, Russian ice hockey player 1988 – Monica Lin Brown, American sergeant 1988 – Billy Gilman, American singer-songwriter 1988 – Lucian Wintrich, American political artist and White House correspondent 1989 – Andrew Jordan, English race car driver 1990 – Mattias Ekholm, Swedish ice hockey player 1991 – Aled Davies, Welsh discus thrower 1991 – Cody Eakin, Canadian ice hockey player 1993 – Christopher Bramell, English beauty pageant winner 1999 – Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Norwegian actor |
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688 – Ségéne, bishop of Armagh (b. c. 610) 1089 – Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury 1136 – Hugues de Payens, first Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. c. 1070) 1153 – David I of Scotland (b. 1083) 1201 – Theobald III, Count of Champagne (b. 1179) 1351 – Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Moroccan sultan (b. 1297) 1408 – Taejo of Joseon (b. 1335) 1425 – Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362) 1456 – Ambroise de Loré, French commander (b. 1396) 1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1473) 1612 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1563) 1627 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet and cleric (b. 1561) 1632 – Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (b. 1553) 1734 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660) 1792 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1718) 1806 – John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, Scottish field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire (b. 1723) 1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (b. 1765) 1848 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German author and composer (b. 1797)[1] 1861 – Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837) 1872 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794) 1879 – William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805) 1881 – Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805) 1901 – Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824) 1908 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821) 1915 – John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896) 1919 – Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870) 1941 – Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887) 1945 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892) 1948 – Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885) 1949 – Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873) 1950 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883) 1951 – Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872) 1958 – Frank Rowe, Australian public servant (b. 1895) 1959 – John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888) 1963 – Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918) 1965 – Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (b. 1908) 1974 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer (b. 1899) 1976 – Denise Pelletier, Canadian actress (b. 1923) 1979 – Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (b. 1890) 1981 – Herbert Müller, Swiss race car driver (b. 1940) 1984 – Vince McMahon Sr., American wrestling promoter and businessman, founded WWE (b. 1914) 1988 – Freddie Frith, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1909) 1990 – Arthur Villeneuve, Canadian painter (b. 1910) 1991 – Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944) 1992 – Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese race car driver (b. 1956) 1995 – Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916) 1996 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (b. 1934) 1996 – Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1908) 1997 – Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923) 2000 – Kurt Schork, American journalist and scholar (b. 1947) 2000 – Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919) 2002 – Wallace Markfield, American author (b. 1926) 2003 – Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910) 2004 – Henry Ries, German-American photographer (b. 1917) 2004 – Milton Shulman, Canadian author and critic (b. 1913) 2004 – Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator (b. 1900) 2005 – Carl Amery, German activist and author (b. 1922) 2005 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (b. 1913) 2005 – Guy Tardif, Canadian academic and politician (b. 1935) 2006 – Henry Bumstead, American art director and production designer (b. 1915) 2006 – Claude Piéplu, French actor (b. 1923) 2006 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician and educator (b. 1930) 2008 – Dick Martin, American actor, comedian, and director (b. 1922) 2008 – Jimmy McGriff, American organist and bandleader (b. 1936) 2009 – Jay Bennett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1963) 2010 – Ray Alan, English ventriloquist, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1930) 2010 – Paul Gray, American bass player and songwriter (b. 1972) 2010 – Raymond V. Haysbert, American businessman and activist (b. 1920) 2010 – Petr Muk, Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1965) 2010 – Anneliese Rothenberger, German soprano and actress (b. 1926) 2011 – Huguette Clark, American heiress, painter, and philanthropist (b. 1906) 2011 – Hakim Ali Zardari Indian-Pakistani businessman and politician (b. 1930) 2012 – Klaas Carel Faber Dutch-German SS officer (b. 1922) 2012 – Kathi Kamen Goldmark, American journalist and author (b. 1948) 2012 – Jacqueline Harpman, Belgian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1929) 2012 – Juan Francisco Lombardo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1925) 2012 – Lee Rich, American production manager and producer (b. 1918) 2013 – Helmut Braunlich, German-American violinist and composer (b. 1929) 2013 – Ron Davies, Welsh footballer (b. 1942) 2013 – Gotthard Graubner, German painter (b. 1930) 2013 – Haynes Johnson, American journalist and author (b. 1931) 2013 – Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1925) 2014 – David Allen, English cricketer (b. 1935) 2014 – Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, Iranian businessman (b. 1969) 2014 – Knowlton Nash, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1927) 2014 – John Vasconcellos, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1932) 2015 – Dean Carroll, English rugby player (b. 1962) 2015 – Kenneth Jacobs, Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1917) 2015 – Tanith Lee, English author (b. 1947) |
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