The KLF were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Beginning in 1987, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty released hip hop-inspired and sample-heavy records as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu and, on one occasion (the British number one hit single "Doctorin' the Tardis"), as The Timelords. As The KLF, Drummond and Cauty pioneered the genres "stadium house" (rave music with a pop-rock production and sampled crowd noise) and "ambient house". The KLF released a series of international top-ten hits on their own KLF Communications record label, and became the biggest selling singles act in the world for 1991. Their most notorious performance was at the February 1992 Brit Awards, where they fired machine gun blanks into the audience and dumped a dead sheep at the aftershow party. This performance announced The KLF's departure from the music business, and in May 1992 the duo deleted their entire back catalogue. With The KLF's profits, Drummond and Cauty established the K Foundation and sought to subvert the art world, staging an alternative art award for the worst artist of the year and burning a million pounds sterling in The K Foundation burn a million quid. Although Drummond and Cauty remained true to their word of May 1992—the KLF Communications catalogue remains deleted—they have released a small number of new tracks since then, as the K Foundation.
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1841: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who seized control of La Amistad, the trans-Atlantic slave-trading ship carrying them, had been taken into slavery illegally. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amistad_(1841))
1862: Ironclad warships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads)
1916: General Pancho Villa led Mexicans raiders in a cross-border attack against Columbus, New Mexico, prompting a punitive expedition from the U.S. military. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa)
1945: A bomb raid on Tokyo started a firestorm, killing 100,000. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_in_World_War_II)
1959: Barbie, the world's best-selling doll, debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie)
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