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Eric Bana (born 1968) is an Australian actor and producer. He began his career in the comedy series Full Frontal before gaining notice in the comedy drama The Castle (1997) and in Chopper (2000) for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Bana gained Hollywood's attention for his performance in the war film Black Hawk Down (2001) and for playing Bruce Banner in the superhero film Hulk (2003). In 2009, he played the villain Nero in the science-fiction film Star Trek, which was a critical and commercial success. Bana continued to work steadily in the 2010s, portraying Lieutenant Commander Erik S. Kristensen in Lone Survivor (2013), and playing police Sergeant Ralph Sarchie in the horror film Deliver Us from Evil (2014). In 2020, he returned to Australia to star in outback thriller The Dry. Bana is the recipient of several Australian Film Institute awards and was appointed a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2019 for his services to drama. (Full article...)

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The former Talbot Street Baptist Church

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... that a case of mistaken identity made actress Camila Ashland the target of a flood of protesting phone calls?
... that the 1935 Kentucky State Thorobreds won a black college football national championship with "Tarzan" playing quarterback?
... that the letters of British colonial administrator William Henry Sleeman were posthumously published in 1858 to exonerate him during the Indian Rebellion?
... that Olivia Rodrigo secretly premiered her song "Begged" at an invite-only show with a no-phones policy?
... that fencer Rodolfo da Ponte was selected to compete for Paraguay at the 1968 Summer Olympics after the rowing and football teams did not qualify?
... that US president Warren G. Harding died less than two months after selling his newspaper?
... that Elsie Eiler, the only resident of Monowi, Nebraska, is also the city's mayor, tavernkeeper, and librarian?
... that David Attenborough's 100th birthday was marked by the naming of a new genus of wasps after him and the announcement that he would narrate Blue Planet III?

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Princess Bajrakitiyabha of Thailand, a possible heir to the throne, dies at the age of 47 after a three-year comatose state.
English artist David Hockney dies at the age of 88.
In athletics, Ja'Kobe Tharp sets a new world record in men's 110 metres hurdles.

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June 16

Valentina Tereshkova

1755 – After a two-week siege, the French commander of Fort Beauséjour in present-day New Brunswick, Canada, surrendered to British forces, marking the end of Father Le Loutre's War.
1883 – In the Victoria Hall disaster, 183 children were crushed to death when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after a variety show in Sunderland, England.
1960 – Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.
1963 – Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.
2016 – Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.

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Hurricane Bob was a Category 3 Atlantic hurricane which made landfall in the New England region of the United States in 1991. The second named storm and first hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season, it formed near The Bahamas on August 16 and moved northward, brushing the Outer Banks of North Carolina before strengthening. Bob made landfall twice in Rhode Island on August 19, first on Block Island and then near Newport, before weakening over Maine and becoming extratropical in New Brunswick, Canada. The storm caused 18 deaths, left millions without power, and was one of the costliest tropical cyclones in New England history, causing around $1.5 billion in damage. The name Bob was later retired. This satellite photograph shows Bob approaching New England near peak intensity on August 19.

Photograph credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Satellite and Information Service

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