Gwen Stefani (born 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress, and the lead vocalist of the band No Doubt. Their album Tragic Kingdom (1995) was a critical and commercial success, spawning the singles "Just a Girl", "Don't Speak", "Hey Baby", and "It's My Life". Stefani's three solo albums have also been successful: Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (2004) includes "What You Waiting For?", "Rich Girl", and "Hollaback Girl"; The Sweet Escape (2006) produced the singles "Wind It Up" and "The Sweet Escape"; and her third solo album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like (2016), reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Billboard magazine ranked her as the 54th most successful artist and 37th most successful Hot 100 artist of the 2000–09 decade, and VH1 ranked her 13th on their "100 Greatest Women in Music" list in 2012. Stefani has won three Grammy Awards and has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, including her work with No Doubt.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1859:

German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovered the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus

1969:

Yasser Arafat was elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat

1999:

The Panamanian-flagged freighter New Carissa ran aground near Coos Bay, Oregon, causing one of the worst oil spills in the state's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Carissa

2015:

Shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport, the crew of TransAsia Airways Flight 235 shut down the wrong engine in response to a flameout, leading to a crash that resulted in 43 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransAsia_Airways_Flight_235

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

cachexia: (pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cachexia

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

When I go onstage as Alice to this day, I play Alice to the hilt — I play him for everything he is worth, but when I’m offstage, I never think about Alice Cooper. He never occurs to me. … I walk off stage though and I turn away from the audience, I go back to being me again. Whenever I see an audience, that’s when I turn into Alice. If there was no audience there, there would be no reason to be Alice. … If I tried to be Alice Cooper all the time — I’d either be in an insane asylum or in jail or dead. Alice is just too intense, and you just can’t be Alice all the time.   --Alice Cooper https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper