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Courtney Love (born 1964) is an American singer and actress. Combining uninhibited live performances with confrontational lyrics, she was prolific in the punk and grunge scenes of the 1990s as the frontwoman of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989. She was married to Kurt Cobain, frontman for Nirvana, until his suicide in 1994. Hole's second release, Live Through This (1994), achieved critical accolades and multi-platinum sales. In 1995, Love earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996). Hole's third album, Celebrity Skin (1998), was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards. After roles in the big-budget pictures Man on the Moon (1999) and Trapped (2002), she released her first solo album, America's Sweetheart (2004). She was sentenced to a rehabilitation facility in 2005 on drug charges. She returned to the music industry with Nobody's Daughter (2010), a Hole album, but without any members of the original lineup. In 2014 and 2015, she released two solo singles and returned to acting in the network series Empire and Sons of Anarchy. (Full article...)

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... that Louis-René Villermé is considered a founder of social epidemiology for his work proving the association between poverty and mortality in early industrial France?
... that Warren Newton Dusenberry acted as principal of Brigham Young Academy for only a few months before resigning to go to law school?
... that 19 people, including Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, were killed when a Boeing B-29 crashed with a Mark 4 nuclear bomb on board?
... that Stanley Elkin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction for his novels George Mills (1982) and Mrs. Ted Bliss (1995)?
... that Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first openly black athlete to play in Major League Baseball?
... that President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos took a siesta in the master bedroom of the Mercado Mansion during a campaign sortie in the 1960s?

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The United Kingdom invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, beginning the formal process of Brexit.
Carrie Lam (pictured) wins the Hong Kong Chief Executive election.
Former Russian MP and government critic Denis Voronenkov is shot dead in Kiev.
The World Meteorological Organization adds twelve new cloud types to the International Cloud Atlas, the first update to the official cloud classification scheme since 1986.
A terror attack at the Palace of Westminster, London, results in five people dead and fifty others injured.

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April 2: World Autism Awareness Day

William James' ships capture Suvarnadurg

1755 – A naval fleet (pictured) led by Commodore William James of the East India Company captured the fortress Suvarnadurg from the Marathas.
1885 – North-West Rebellion: Led by Wandering Spirit, young Cree warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories (now in Alberta), where they killed nine settlers.
1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted the country's first national census.
1992 – Bosnian War (Yugoslav Wars): At least 48 civilians were killed in the town of Bijeljina.
2015 – Gunmen attacked Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.

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De Menagerie, an oil painting on canvas completed by Melchior d'Hondecoeter c. 1690. During his career, the artist focused on paintings of animals, particularly birds. In the painting here, d'Hondecoeter presents a multitude of animals from various continents, including squirrel monkeys from Central America, sulphur-crested cockatoos from Australia, a grey parrot from Africa, and a purple-naped lory from the East Indies.

Painting: Melchior d'Hondecoeter

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