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| | FEATURED BIOGRAPHY
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2018: SpaceX
's Falcon Heavy rocket had its first test flight; on board was a Tesla automobile owned by SpaceX's founder, Elon Musk. [Sort fact from fiction in our Space Exploration quiz .]
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2012: Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies, who was credited with introducing contemporary abstract painting in Spain, died in Barcelona. [Take our Artists & Painters quiz .]
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1993: American tennis player Arthur Ashe, who was the first black man to win a Grand Slam championship, died of AIDS-related
pneumonia; he had likely contracted the virus through a tainted blood transfusion received during coronary bypass surgeries. [ Get the facts about HIV/AIDS .]
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1945: Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley—who achieved stardom by blending early ska, rock steady, and reggae forms into an electrifying
rock
-influenced hybrid—was born.
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1932: French film director François Truffaut, whose attacks on established filmmaking techniques paved the way for the movement known as New Wave, was born.
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1895: Baseball player
Babe Ruth, whose home-run hitting helped make him one of the most-celebrated athletes in American sports, was born. [Where does Babe Ruth rank on our 10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time list ?]
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