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Bill Murray

Groundhog Day is a 1993 American fantasy comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Ramis and Danny Rubin. It stars Bill Murray (pictured), Andie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott. Murray portrays Phil Connors, a cynical television weatherman who becomes trapped in a time loop forcing him to relive the same day over and over. The film is a comedy directed by Harold Ramis and written by Ramis and Danny Rubin. It stars Bill Murray (pictured), Andie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott. Murray portrays Phil Connors, a cynical television weatherman who becomes trapped in a time loop forcing him to relive the same day over and over. The film is a comedy directed by Harold Ramis and written by Ramis and Danny Rubin. It stars Bill Murray (pictured), Andie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott. Murray portrays Phil Connors, a cynical television weatherman who becomes trapped in a time loop forcing him to relive the same day over and over.^{[April Fools!]} (Full article...)

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Cthulhu during the 2016 campaign

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Didier Ratsiraka

Dozens of civilians are killed and 35,000 others displaced after Islamist rebels seize the city of Palma in Mozambique.
Former President of Madagascar Didier Ratsiraka (pictured) dies at the age of 84.
The cargo ship Ever Given is freed after it had run aground, blocking the Suez Canal for six days and resulting in a traffic jam of more than 350 vessels.

On this day

April 1: Paschal Triduum begins (Western Christianity, 2021); Iranian Islamic Republic Day (1979); Edible Book Day

First locomotive used on the Brill Tramway

1340 – A band of warriors led by Niels Ebbesen killed Count Gerhard III, ending Holstein rule in Denmark.
1871 – The Duke of Buckingham opened the Brill Tramway (locomotive pictured), a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
1933 – English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual Test score in Test cricket of 336 not out during a match against New Zealand.
2001 – An American Lockheed EP-3 and a Chinese Shenyang J-8 collided in mid-air off the island of Hainan, resulting in an international dispute between the two countries.

Aimery of Cyprus (d. 1205)
Ferruccio Busoni (b. 1866)
Alan Kulwicki (d. 1993)

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My Wife's Lovers is an 1891 painting by Austrian artist Carl Kahler depicting forty-two Turkish Angora cats belonging to American millionaire Kate Birdsall Johnson. Not having painted cats before, Kahler spent three years studying cat poses and learning their habits. At the center of the painting sits Sultan, bought by Johnson during a trip to Paris. She lent the painting to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and, following her death, it was acquired by Ernest Haquette for his Palace of Art Salon in San Francisco. Kahler died in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and the salon where the painting was hung was destroyed, but the picture survived. It was sold at Sotheby's in 2015 to a private buyer from California.

Painting credit: Carl Kahler

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