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.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1755:
A naval fleet led by Commodore William James of the East India Company captured the fortress Suvarnadurg from the Marathas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suvarnadurg
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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_Lake_Massacre
1911:
The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted the country's first national census. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_in_Australia
1992:
Bosnian War (Yugoslav Wars): At least 42 civilians were killed in the town of Bijeljina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijeljina_massacre
2015:
Gunmen attacked Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garissa_University_College_attack
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
dead cat bounce: (trading) A temporary recovery in the price of an instrument which has fallen rapidly and is expected to fall further in the long run. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dead_cat_bounce
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance of the harm inflicted on him; forgiveness is the offspring of a feeling of heroism, of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness, and still oftener of a natural desire for calm and quietness. Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. --Giacomo Casanova https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giacomo_Casanova