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From today's featured article  Christopher Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British-American filmmaker. Known for his Hollywood blockbusters with complex storytelling, Nolan is considered a leading filmmaker of the 21st century, and has been nominated for five Academy Awards, five British Academy Film Awards and six Golden Globe Awards. His films have grossed $5 billion worldwide, and include The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012), The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017) and Oppenheimer (2023). Inception earned Nolan two Oscar nominations – Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. For Dunkirk, he also earned two Oscar nominations, including his first for Best Director. He has co-written several of his films with his brother Jonathan, and runs the production company Syncopy Inc. with his wife Emma Thomas. In 2015, he was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time, and in 2019, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his contributions to film. (Full article...)

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Ongoing:  Recent deaths&#58;   On this day July 30  Brother Jonathan <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"> <ul><li>Jacob Baradaeus ( d. 578)</li><li>Smedley Butler  ( b. 1881)</li><li>Walter Schuck  ( b. 1920)</li><li>Maeve Binchy  ( d. 2012)</li></ul> More anniversaries: <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/>
 * In Rome, Emperor Nero's private theatre is discovered under the courtyard of Palazzo Della Rovere.
 * In Niger, soldiers stage a coup d'état, detaining President Mohamed Bazoum (pictured).
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 * In golf, Brian Harman wins the Open Championship.
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 * 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican War of Independence, was executed by Spanish forces in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
 * 1865 – Off the coast of Crescent City, California, the steamer Brother Jonathan (depicted) struck an uncharted rock and sank, killing 225 people; its cargo of gold coins was not retrieved until 1996.
 * 1930 – In Montevideo, the Uruguay national football team won the first FIFA World Cup.
 * 1950 – At the height of a political crisis known as the royal question, four workers were shot dead by the Belgian Gendarmerie at a strike in Grâce-Berleur.
 * 2006 – Lebanon War: The Israeli Air Force attacked a three-story building near the Lebanese village of Qana, killing at least 28 civilians, including 16 children.
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