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Hi-5 were an Australian children's musical group formed in 1998 in association with the children's television series of the same name, which premiered on the Nine Network in 1999. The five performers entertained and educated preschool children through music, movement and play. Kellie Crawford, Kathleen de Leon Jones, Nathan Foley, Tim Harding and Charli Robinson were the founding members. As one of Australia's highest-paid entertainment groups, they were placed in Business Review Weekly's annual list several times. The Australian Recording Industry Association certified one of their albums, It's a Party, as double platinum; Jump and Jive with Hi-5, Boom Boom Beat, and It's a Hi-5 Christmas were certified platinum. By 2004, the original line-up had received three Logie Television Awards for Most Outstanding Children's Program and five consecutive ARIA Music Awards for Best Children's Album. (Full article...)

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Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal

The cargo ship Ever Given runs aground and blocks the Suez Canal (satellite image shown), resulting in a traffic jam of more than 200 vessels.
A fire at the Rohingya refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, kills at least 15 people and injures hundreds of others.
In Australia, floods in New South Wales force the evacuation of more than 18,000 people.
Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes the first female president of Tanzania, following the death of John Magufuli at the age of 61.

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March 26:

Jack Kevorkian

1351 – War of the Breton Succession: Thirty knights and squires each from France and England fought to determine who would rule the Duchy of Brittany, later celebrated as a noble display of the ideals of chivalry.
1896 – An explosion at the Brunner Mine in New Zealand killed 65 coal miners in the country's deadliest mining accident.
1917 – First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.
1971 – East Pakistan declared its independence from Pakistan as Bangladesh, beginning the Bangladesh Liberation War.
1999 – A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian (pictured), an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.

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St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

There are 277 municipalities in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including 3 cities, 269 towns, and 5 Inuit community governments, which collectively cover only 2.2 percent of the territory's land mass but are home to 89.6 percent of its population. Newfoundland and Labrador is the ninth-most populous province in Canada, with 519,716 residents recorded in the 2016 Canadian census, and is the seventh-largest in land area, with 370,514 km² (143,056 sq mi). The towns were created by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador in accordance with the Municipalities Act, 1999, whereas the three cities were each incorporated under their own acts. Inuit community governments were created in accordance with the 2005 Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act. St. John's (pictured) is Newfoundland and Labrador's capital and its largest municipality by population and land area. Tilt Cove is its smallest municipality by population, and Brent's Cove is its smallest municipality by land area. (Full list...)

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Dvenadsat Apostolov was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy, the sole ship of her class. Launched in 1890, she entered service with the Black Sea Fleet in 1893, taking part in the failed attempt to recapture the mutinous battleship Potemkin in 1905. Decommissioned and disarmed in 1911, she was used as a stand-in for the title ship during the 1925 filming of the Battleship Potemkin before finally being scrapped in 1931.

Lithograph credit: Stadler and Pattinot, after Vasily Ignatius; restored by Adam Cuerden

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