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SMS Westfalen was a Nassau-class dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial German Navy. Laid down in 1907 and launched in July 1908, she was commissioned into the High Seas Fleet in November 1909. She was equipped with a main battery of twelve 28 cm (11 in) guns in six twin turrets using an unusual hexagonal arrangement (pictured). Westfalen saw extensive service in the North Sea in the early years of World War I. In the early hours of 1 June 1916, she was heavily engaged in fighting against British light forces during the Battle of Jutland, severely damaging several British destroyers. On another fleet sortie in August 1916, she was damaged by a torpedo from a British submarine. Later in the war, Westfalen participated in sorties into the Baltic Sea against the Russian Navy, and to support the White Finns in the Finnish Civil War. She was ceded to the Allies after the war and broken up in 1924. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battleships of Germany.)
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- Pope Leo XIV (pictured) issues his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which expresses concerns about artificial intelligence.
- The Democratic Rally, led by Annita Demetriou, wins the most seats in the Cypriot legislative election.
- American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins dies at the age of 95.
- In auto racing, Felix Rosenqvist wins the Indianapolis 500.
- A suicide bombing targeting a shuttle train in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, kills at least 47 people.
On the next day
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- 1676 – Scanian War: The Swedish warship Kronan, one of the largest ships in the world at the time, sank at the Battle of Öland (depicted) with the loss of around 800 men.
- 1796 – Tennessee was admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
- 1943 – Eight German Junkers Ju 88s shot down British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay off the coast of Spain and France, killing actor Leslie Howard and several other notable passengers.
- 2001 – A Hamas-affiliated Islamist militant blew himself up outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 people, most of whom were teenage girls.
- 2015 – The river cruise ship Dongfang zhi Xing capsized in the Yangtze, resulting in 442 deaths in China's worst peacetime maritime disaster.
- Marguerite Porete (d. 1310)
- J. F. Oberlin (d. 1826)
- Marilyn Monroe (b. 1926)
- Technoblade (b. 1999)
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Irish actor Colin Farrell has received several awards and nominations throughout his career. Farrell won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his role as a novice hitman in Martin McDonagh's dark-comedy thriller In Bruges (2008). Farrell received his second Golden Globe nomination for his role in Yorgos Lanthimos's absurdist comedy The Lobster (2015). For his leading role in McDonagh's tragicomedy The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), Farrell won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and his second Golden Globe Award, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. For his role as executive producer of the miniseries The Penguin (2024) and starring as the Penguin in the series, he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his performance. (Full list...)
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Three Beauties of the Present Day is a nishiki-e colour woodblock print produced circa 1792–93 by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro. The triangular composition depicts the busts of three celebrity beauties of the time: geisha Tomimoto Toyohina (middle), and teahouse waitresses Takashima Hisa (left) and Naniwa Kita (right), each adorned with an identifying family crest (mon). Subtle differences can be detected in the subjects' faces – a level of individualized realism at the time unusual in ukiyo-e, and a contrast with the stereotyped beauties in earlier masters such as Harunobu and Kiyonaga. The triangular positioning became a vogue in the 1790s. Utamaro produced several other pictures with this arrangement of the same three beauties, and each appeared in numerous other portraits by Utamaro and other artists. Utamaro was the leading ukiyo-e artist in the 1790s in the bijin-ga genre of pictures of female beauties, and was known in particular for his ōkubi-e prints, a style of ukiyo-e that focuses on the heads. The luxurious print was published by Tsutaya Jūzaburō and made with multiple woodblocks—one for each colour—and the background was dusted with muscovite to produce a glimmering effect. This copy of Three Beauties of the Present Day is in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio. Painting credit: Kitagawa Utamaro
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