Lynx is a constellation in the northern sky that was introduced in the 17th century by Johannes Hevelius. Named after the animal, it is a faint constellation whose brightest stars form a zigzag line. The orange giant Alpha Lyncis is the brightest star in the constellation, while the semiregular variable star Y Lyncis is a popular target for amateur astronomers. Six star systems have been found to contain planets. Those of 6 Lyncis and HD 75898 were discovered by the Doppler method; those of XO-2, XO-4, XO-5 and WASP-13 were observed as they passed in front of the host star. Within the constellation's borders lie NGC 2419, an unusually remote globular cluster; the galaxy NGC 2770, which has hosted three recent Type Ib supernovae; the distant quasar APM 08279+5255, whose light is magnified and split into multiple images by the gravitational lensing effect of a foreground galaxy; and the Lynx Supercluster, which was the most distant supercluster known at the time of its discovery in 1999. ( Full article...)

Sabina Cvilak

• ... that the Slovenian soprano Sabina Cvilak (pictured) was Puccini's Mimi in Washington, Wagner's Sieglinde in Wiesbaden, and performed Britten's War Requiem in London on the composer's centenary?
• ... that Sonam Kapoor won the National Film Award and the Filmfare Award for the 2016 biographical thriller Neerja?
• ... that Renga is a video game designed for movie theaters in which up to one hundred players use laser pointers to control and defend a space ship?
• ... that Devil's Bargain describes how Steve Bannon used his experience at Breitbart News to gather white men to support Donald Trump?
• ... that Phillip Davey was awarded the Victoria Cross for killing an eight-man machine gun crew, which "saved his platoon from annihilation"?
• ... that a hotel shaped like a starship, based on the Star Wars franchise, is planned for Walt Disney World?
• ... that Ghanaian-born Major Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah is the first black equerry to a British monarch?
• ... that in the 1970s Amtrak had two new locomotives, the GE E60 and the EMD SDP40F, which had trouble staying on the tracks?

Neymar

• Brazilian footballer Neymar (pictured) joins French club Paris Saint-Germain for a world-record fee of €222 million.
• After Nawaz Sharif is disqualified from public office, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi succeeds him as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• Flooding in Gujarat, India, kills at least 224 people.
• A suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, kills 25 people and wounds 53 others.
• In golf, Jordan Spieth wins the Open Championship.
• The Women's Cricket World Cup concludes with England defeating India in the final.

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José Antônio Saraiva

• 1270 – Yekuno Amlak deposed the last Zagwe king and seized the imperial throne of Ethiopia, beginning the reign of the Solomonic dynasty that would last for more than 700 years.
• 1792 – French Revolution: Insurrectionists in Paris stormed the Tuileries Palace, effectively ending the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.
• 1864 – After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refused Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva (pictured) announced that the Brazilian military would exact reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
• 1901 – The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers began an ultimately unsuccessful strike to reverse its declining fortunes and organize large numbers of new members.
• 1966 – The Heron Road Bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, collapsed during its construction, killing nine workers.

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