The Zoo TV Tour (29 February 1992 – 10 December 1993) was a concert
tour by Irish rock band U2. Supporting their 1991 album Achtung Baby,
the tour visited North America, Europe, Oceania, and Japan. In contrast
to U2's previously austere stage setups, Zoo TV shows were elaborate
multimedia events, satirising television and media oversaturation by
attempting to instill sensory overload in the audience. The stages
featured dozens of video screens as well as Trabants as lighting
fixtures. Concerts included channel surfing, prank calls, a belly
dancer, and transmissions from war-torn Sarajevo. On stage, Bono
portrayed characters such as "The Fly" (pictured), "Mirror Ball Man",
and "MacPhisto". Zoo TV was the highest-grossing North American tour of
1992 and sold 5.3 million tickets overall. Continuing their 1990s
reinvention that began with Achtung Baby and Zoo TV, U2 recorded the
album Zooropa during a break in the tour. Many critics gave the tour
high praise as a memorable spectacle.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV_Tour>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1768:
A group of Polish nobles established the Bar Confederation to
defend the internal and external independence of the Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth against Russian influence and King Stanisław II Augustus
(portrait shown).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Confederation>
1960:
The deadliest earthquake in Moroccan history struck the city of
Agadir, killing at least 12,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Agadir_earthquake>
1980:
La Bougie du Sapeur, a humorous French newspaper that is
published only on leap day, printed its first issue.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bougie_du_Sapeur>
2008:
Belgian author Misha Defonseca admitted that her bestselling
memoir about surviving the Holocaust was in fact a literary forgery.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha:_A_M%C3%A9moire_of_the_Holocaust_Years>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
leap day:
The extra day in a leap year, currently February 29th in countries that
use the Gregorian calendar and February 24th in the few communities
using the Julian calendar.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leap_day>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
⨀ To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are
all different in the way we perceive the world and use this
understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
--Anthony Robbins
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anthony_Robbins>
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