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Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, who co-wrote the script with William Wisher. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick (pictured), and Edward Furlong, it is the sequel to The Terminator (1984). In the film, Skynet, a malevolent artificial intelligence, sends a Terminator android (Patrick) back in time to 1995 to kill the young John Connor (Furlong), the future leader of the human resistance. The resistance sends back a less-advanced Terminator (Schwarzenegger), reprogrammed to protect Connor. The film had an estimated $94–102 million budget, making it the most expensive film made up to that time. Industrial Light & Magic created a computer-generated main character, the first in a blockbuster film. Terminator 2 was the highest-grossing film of 1991 worldwide, at $520 million. Critics praised the visual effects, action sequences, and cast, especially Patrick. The film won Saturn, BAFTA, and Academy awards. (Full article...)

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680 – Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of Muhammad, was killed at the Battle of Karbala by the forces of Yazid I, whom Husayn had refused to recognize as caliph.
1903 – Emmeline Pankhurst (pictured) founded the Women's Social and Political Union, a militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.
1911 – The Xinhai Revolution began with the Wuchang Uprising, marking the beginning of the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China.
1943 – World War II: The Kempeitai, the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army, arrested and tortured fifty-seven civilians and civilian internees on suspicion of their involvement in a raid on Singapore Harbour.
2004 – Eight-year-old Huang Na was abducted and murdered; her body was found three weeks later after a search across Singapore and Malaysia.

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Granville Stuart (1834–1918) was a pioneer, gold prospector, businessman, civic leader, vigilante, author, cattleman and diplomat who played a prominent role in the early history of Montana Territory and the state of Montana. Widely known as "Mr. Montana", Stuart's life spanned the formative years of Montana from territorial times through the first 30 years of statehood. His journals and writings have provided Montana and western historians unique insights into life in the Northern Rockies during the second half the 19th century.

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