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Joseph Redding

... that opera composer and librettist Joseph Redding (pictured) was also a chess expert and lawyer who argued a landmark decision before the United States Supreme Court?
... that the 1920–1922 Tashkent wall newspaper Rost was the first Bukharian-Jewish Soviet newspaper?
... that sisters Joanne, Lynette, Amy and Jenny McCarthy were all gymnasts and ten-pin bowlers?
... that Kooraban National Park has provided a habitat for more than twenty vulnerable animal species, including koalas?
... that a bust of the notorious slave trader Isaac Franklin was placed on the prow of his slave ship, the Isaac Franklin?
... that the video game Manor Lords was wishlisted more than three million times on Steam after its developer had estimated it would receive around 14,000?
... that Walid Daqqa wrote several works of prison literature, including a children's novel about a boy who uses magical olive oil to visit his imprisoned father?
... that the production team of the TV series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier created a digital highway more than five miles (8 km) long to capture visual effects for a truck action sequence for the episode "The Star-Spangled Man"?
... that prior to becoming a royal reporter for Fox News, English journalist Neil Sean released a cover of Cliff Richard's "We Don't Talk Anymore" with his mother?

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Maximilien Robespierre

1487 – Granada War: Forces of Aragon and Castile began a siege of Málaga, a Muslim city in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.
1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre (pictured) established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
1798 – War of the First Coalition: A British garrison repelled a French attack on the Îles Saint-Marcouf off the Normandy coast, inflicting heavy losses.
1937 – Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike.
1946 – Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony.

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