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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles>
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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)>
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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>
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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>