Tom Holland (born 1 June 1996) is an English actor, whose accolades include a British Academy Film Award and three Saturn Awards. His career began at age nine, when he auditioned for a role in Billy Elliot the Musical at London's Victoria Palace Theatre; he played the title role from 2008 to 2010. Holland made his film debut in the disaster drama The Impossible (2012) as a teenage tourist trapped in a tsunami. He achieved international recognition playing Spider-Man (Peter Parker) in six Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero films, beginning with Captain America: Civil War (2016). The following year, Holland received the BAFTA Rising Star Award and became the youngest actor to play a title role in an MCU film in Spider-Man: Homecoming. The sequels Far

From Home (2019) and No Way Home (2021) each grossed more than

$1 billion worldwide, and the latter became the highest-grossing film of the year. Some publications have called him one of the most popular actors of his generation.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Holland

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1857:

The Revolution of the Ganhadores, the first general strike in Brazil, began in Salvador, Bahia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_the_Ganhadores

1868:

The Navajo and the U.S. government signed an agreement, allowing those interned at Fort Sumner to return to their ancestral lands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Bosque_Redondo

1974:

In an informal article in a medical journal, Henry Heimlich introduced the concept of abdominal thrusts, commonly known as the Heimlich maneuver, to treat choking victims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Heimlich

1988:

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was ratified, banning all American and Soviet land-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 km (310 to 3,420 mi). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_Forces_Treaty

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

atelier: A studio or workshop, especially for an artist, designer, or fashion house. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atelier

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits. In so doing, and in ignoring the fact that they are links in a continuous chain of events, we also ignore the possibility that their possession may later lead to definite disadvantages.   --Carl von Clausewitz https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz