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 their album It's a Party as double platinum. Their albums 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.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1896:

An explosion at the Brunner Mine in New Zealand killed 65 coal miners in the country's deadliest mining accident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunner_Mine_disaster

1917:

First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Gaza

1971:

East Pakistan declared its independence from Pakistan as Bangladesh, beginning the Bangladesh Liberation War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War

1999:

A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kevorkian

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

felicitous: 1. Characterized by felicity. 2. Appropriate, apt, fitting. 3. Auspicious, fortunate, lucky. 4. Causing happiness or pleasure. 5. (linguistics) Of a sentence or utterance: semantically and pragmatically coherent; fitting in the context. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/felicitous

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The word "mundane" has come to mean boring and dull, and it really shouldn't. It should mean the opposite because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning the world, and the world is anything but dull; the world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.   --Richard Dawkins https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins