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Ray Charles

"Here We Go Again" is a country music standard written by Don Lanier and Red Steagall that first charted as a rhythm and blues single by Ray Charles (pictured) from the 1967 album Ray Charles Invites You to Listen. It was produced by Joe Adams for ABC Records/Tangerine Records, and spent twelve consecutive weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 15. A cover version by Nancy Sinatra charted for five weeks in 1969. Johnny Duncan charted with the song on Billboard's Hot Country Songs for five weeks in 1972, while Roy Clark did so for seven weeks in 1982. Another version sung by Norah Jones and Charles appeared on his 2004 album Genius Loves Company, earning the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration at the 47th Grammy Awards (posthumously for Charles, who died in 2004). The song lent its name to Steagall's 2007 album, and has been covered in a wide variety of musical genres. Many of the more recent covers have been sung as duets, including one by Jones and Willie Nelson (with Wynton Marsalis accompanying) released on their 2011 tribute album Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles. (Full article...)

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Wawatam Lighthouse

... that Wawatam Lighthouse (pictured) started out as an architectural folly at a highway Welcome Center, was moved more than 300 miles (480 km), and is now an operating Coast Guard-approved aid to navigation?
... that Christoph Siebert conducted the Collegium Vocale Gent singing music by Schubert and Annelies Van Parys in a theatrical performance at international festivals?
... that in 2007, some UEFA members voted against allowing Gibraltar membership because Victoria Stadium was built on disputed land?
... that Linda Laubenstein was one of the first physicians in the United States to recognize the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s?
... that during the Humboldt Park riot 40 years ago, the Chicago police department battled Puerto Rican protesters and rioters?
... that Jepara was the only town on the north coast of Mataram not to be taken by Trunajaya's North Coast offensive, after a successful joint defense by Mataram and the Dutch East India Company?
... that the Reconstruction Era National Monument includes the place where, on New Year's Day 1863, Union Army General Rufus Saxton publicly read the Emancipation Proclamation to 3,000 slaves?
... that the owner of World Champion bucking bull Bones exercised him in a mechanized circular walker in a deep sand pit?

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Salvador Sobral, representing Portugal, wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Amar pelos dois".
A large-scale cyber attack involving ransomware causes severe disruption around the world.
At least 28 people are killed in Mastung, Pakistan, in a suicide attack targeting Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, the Senate Deputy Chairman.
The Free National Movement, led by Hubert Minnis, wins the Bahamian general election.
Remains of Homo naledi are dated to the Middle Pleistocene, suggesting coexistence with early Homo sapiens in southern Africa.
Moon Jae-in is elected President of South Korea.

On this day...

May 20: Day of Remembrance in Cambodia

Luc Montagnier

685 – The Picts defeated the Northumbrians near Dunnichen, severely weakening the latter's power in northern Great Britain.
1217 – In the Battle of Lincoln, the last land battle of the First Barons' War, William the Marshal drove Prince Louis of France out of England.
1875 – Representatives from seventeen countries signed the Metre Convention which set up an institute for the purpose of coordinating international metrology and for coordinating the development of the metric system.
1983 – A team of researchers led by French virologist Luc Montagnier (pictured) published their discovery of HIV, although they did not know yet if it caused AIDS.
2012 – The first of two major earthquakes struck Northern Italy, resulting in seven deaths.

Gertrude Guillaume-Schack (d. 1903) · Astrid Kirchherr (b. 1938) · Cher (b. 1946)

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A Company of Danish Artists in Rome, painted by Constantin Hansen in 1837. This painting depicts several members of the Danish Golden Age, a period of exceptional creative production in Denmark in the early 19th century. In the painting, the architect Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll is lying on the floor with a fez and pipe. Martinus Rørbye is sitting beside him on the floor, looking somewhat critically into his tiny coffee cup, while the artist sits in a chair. Wilhelm Marstrand, Albert Küchler, and Ditlev Blunck are on the balcony, and Jørgen Sonne is sitting on the table.

Painting: Constantin Hansen

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