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Biography Of The Day
Al Pacino in The Insider (1999).
Al Pacino in The Insider (1999).
Touchstone/The Kobal Collection		Al Pacino
American actor Al Pacino, known for his intense, sometimes over-the-top acting style and for his gangster portrayals in The Godfather trilogy (1972–90) and Scarface (1983), was born in New York City this day in 1940.

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On This Day In History
Hubble Space Telescope, photographed by the space shuttle …
Hubble Space Telescope, photographed by the space shuttle …
NASA		1990: Hubble Space Telescope sent into orbit
The Hubble Space Telescope, a sophisticated optical observatory built in the United States under the supervision of NASA, was placed into operation this day in 1990 by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery.

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More Events On This Day In History
1926:Arturo Toscanini.Giacomo Puccini's uncompleted opera Turandot was performed posthumously at La Scala under the direction of Arturo Toscanini.
1915:Allied troops line the shore at “ANZAC Cove” on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The cove was …The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landed at Gallipoli in western Turkey during the Dardanelles Campaign of World War I.
1874:Guglielmo Marconi, 1908.Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian physicist who invented a successful system of radio telegraphy (1896) and received the Nobel Prize for Physics (1909), was born.
1809:The Treaty of Amritsar, which settled Indo-Sikh relations for a generation, was concluded between Charles T. Metcalfe, representing the British East India Company, and Ranjit Singh, head of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab.
1792:The first guillotine was erected, on the Place de Grève in Paris, to execute a highwayman.
1781:Petersburg, Virginia, was captured by British troops under William Phillips and Benedict Arnold during the American Revolution.

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