Kylie Minogue is an Australian singer and actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s as a result of her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a pop singer and recording artist. Signed to a contract by British songwriters and record producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman, Minogue achieved a string of hit records throughout the world, but her popularity began to decline by the early 1990s, leading her to part company from them in 1992. For several years she attempted to establish herself as an independent performer and songwriter, distancing herself from her earlier work. Her projects were widely publicised, but despite a couple of hit singles, her albums failed to attract a substantial audience, resulting in the lowest sales of her career. In 2000, she returned to popularity as a dance/pop music artist and became well-known for her provocative music videos and expensively mounted stage shows. Minogue has established one of the longest and most successful careers as a performer in contemporary pop music, and in Europe and Australia has become one of her generation's most recognisable celebrities and sex symbols.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1521: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Battle of Mactan by Filipino natives led by Lapu-Lapu. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mactan)

1667: The blind and impoverished John Milton sold the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton)

1865: An explosion destroyed the steamboat Sultana, killing 1,700 passengers on the Mississippi River. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_%28steamboat%29)

1967: The Expo 67 World's Fair opened in Montreal. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_67)

1994: Freedom day: The African National Congress was victorious in the first non-racial elections in the history of South Africa. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Day_%28South_Africa%29)

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"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath." -- Mary Wollstonecraft (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft)