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Nine Inch Nails performing in 2013

Year Zero is the fifth studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails (pictured), released on April 17, 2007, by Interscope Records. Frontman Trent Reznor wrote the music and lyrics while touring for the group's previous release, With Teeth (2005). Contrasting Reznor's previously introverted style of songwriting, Year Zero is a concept album that criticizes contemporary policies of the U.S. government by presenting a dystopian vision of the year 2022. It is part of a project which includes a remix album and an alternate reality game (ARG). The Year Zero ARG expanded upon the album's fictional storyline by using media such as websites, pre-recorded phone messages, and murals. Year Zero received very positive reviews, many favorable toward the ARG. The album produced two singles, "Survivalism" and "Capital G", the latter released as a promotional single. Disputes arose between Reznor and Universal Music Group, parent company of Interscope, over the overseas pricing of the album. (Full article...)

Eileen Collins

• ... that Eileen Collins (pictured) was the first woman Space Shuttle pilot and the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission?
• ... that The Lord of the Ice Garden, a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction, has been compared to The Witcher?
• ... that the Fischer quintuplets had six other siblings?
• ... that Jim Pappin was credited with the 1967 Stanley Cup-clinching goal in exchange for giving Pete Stemkowski unlimited access to his backyard pool?
• ... that William D. Leahy was the highest-ranking American military officer in World War II?
• ... that the prologue to The Polymath was written by Martin Kemp, a leading expert on Leonardo da Vinci?
• ... that food YouTuber Mike Chen also runs a channel documenting strange phenomena?
• ... that some bells are replaced by a wooden clapper for three days in a year?

Webb's First Deep Field

• NASA releases the first operational image (shown) taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
• Protesters storm the President's House in Colombo, Sri Lanka, forcing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to agree to resign.
• Angola's former president José Eduardo dos Santos dies at the age of 79.
• Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a speech in Nara.

July 14: Bastille Day in France (1789); Festino di Santa Rosalia begins in Palermo, Italy

Attack on Joseph Priestley's home

• 1789 – The Bastille, a fortress and prison in Paris, was stormed by a crowd during the flashpoint of the French Revolution.
• 1791 – The Priestley Riots (depicted), targeting religious dissenters such as Joseph Priestley, began in Birmingham, England.
• 1902 – The medieval St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapsed, also demolishing the Loggetta del Sansovino.
• 1950 – Early in the Korean War, North Korean troops began attacking the headquarters of the American 24th Infantry Division in Taejon, South Korea.