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Paranthodon was a stegosaurian dinosaur that lived in present-day South Africa between 139 and 131 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous. Discovered in 1845, it was one of the first stegosaurians found. The only remains of the genus, a partial skull, isolated teeth, and fragments of vertebrae, were found in the Kirkwood Formation. British paleontologist Richard Owen initially identified the fragments as those of the pareiasaur Anthodon. After remaining untouched for years in the British Museum of Natural History, the partial skull was identified by South African paleontologist Robert Broom as belonging to a different genus; he named the specimen Palaeoscincus africanus. Several years later, Hungarian paleontologist Franz Nopcsa, unaware of Broom's new name, similarly concluded that it represented a new taxon, and named it Paranthodon owenii. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek para (near) with the genus name Anthodon, to represent the initial referral of the remains. (Full article...)

Christ Church in Russell, New Zealand

• ... that Charles Darwin contributed funds to the building of New Zealand's oldest surviving church (pictured)?


• ... that despite spending the majority of his career with the Russian Northern Fleet, Aleksandr Moiseyev was appointed commander of the Black Sea Fleet in 2018?


• ... that Martin Luther wrote "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" as a close paraphrase of the Latin hymn "Veni redemptor gentium", with a melody derived from the plainchant?


• ... that, inspired at a young age by Polish footballer Roman Kosecki of Galatasaray S.K. in Turkey, Nurcan Çelik became a player and later established her own football club?


• ... that the Sword of State of South Carolina is listed in the FBI National Stolen Art File?


• ... that after being influenced by Wahhabism, Mubarez-ud-Daulah wanted to overthrow the Nizam of Hyderabad and the British in India?


• ... that the 1897 supernatural novel Gulabsinh by Gujarati-language writer Manilal Dwivedi is an adaptation of the mystical novel Zanoni by English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton?


• ... that Tim Morgan's Veins are made of steel and glass?

Judd Trump

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  Judd Trump (pictured) wins the World Snooker Championship, defeating John Higgins in the final.


• The United Nations reports that, due to human activity, the Earth's biodiversity has suffered a catastrophic decline unprecedented in human history.


• At least 29 people are killed in clashes at the Gaza–Israel border.


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  Aeroflot Flight 1492 crash lands and bursts into flames at Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, killing 41 of the 78 people on board.

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Frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra

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  868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra (frontispiece pictured) was printed in China, making it the world's oldest dated complete printed book.


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  1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeated those of the Pragmatic Allies at the Battle of Fontenoy in the Austrian Netherlands in present-day Belgium.


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  1889 – An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort resulted in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.


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  1997 – Deep Blue became the first computer to win a match against a world chess champion, when it defeated Garry Kasparov in six games.


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  2013 – Two car bombs by unknown perpetrators exploded in Reyhanlı, Turkey, resulting in 52 killed and 140 injured.

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (b. 1752) · Juliette Récamier (d. 1849) · Zenna Henderson (d. 1983)