The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison were joined by Ringo Starr two years later. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, they later experimented with musical styles ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. They incorporated classical elements and unconventional recording techniques. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings. Beatlemania took hold in 1963, as the group began to embody the ideals shared by the counterculture of the 1960s. They led the British Invasion of the US pop market in 1964. After their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers, in which McCartney and Starr remain active. (Lennon was shot and killed in 1980; Harrison died of cancer in 2001.) The Beatles became the best- selling band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide, and they top various sales and most-played lists, including most UK singles sold and most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1456:
Twenty-five years after her death, Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a posthumous retrial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrial_of_Joan_of_Arc
1777:
American Revolutionary War: British forces caught up with American troops withdrawing from Ticonderoga and captured over 200 men. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hubbardton
1911:
The United States, United Kingdom, Japan, and Russia signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention banning open-water seal hunting (Northern fur seal pictured), the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pacific_Fur_Seal_Convention_of_1911
1954:
After the culmination of the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, Carlos Castillo Armas was sworn in as President of Guatemala. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castillo_Armas
1997:
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War: The Turkish Armed Forces concluded Operation Hammer, having successfully destroyed Kurdistan Workers' Party units in Northern Iraq. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hammer_(1997)
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
floof: 1. (transitive, informal, often humorous) To make something fluffy, to fluff (up). 2. (intransitive) To move in a floofy or fluffy manner. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/floof
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. --Time Enough for Love https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love