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Stan Musial (1920–2013) was an American professional baseball player and Navy veteran of World War II. He was a Major League Baseball outfielder and first baseman on the St. Louis Cardinals for 22 seasons, from 1941 through 1963. Widely considered to be one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, with 3,630 career hits, Musial ranks fourth all-time and first in a career spent with only one team. He hit 475 home runs during his career and was named the National League's Most Valuable Player three times. In 1946 he earned his third and final World Series title, despite missing the entire previous season serving with the navy. He shares the major league record for the most All-Star Games played (24) with Hank Aaron and Willie Mays, and was a first-ballot inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. He was also known for his harmonica playing, during and after his playing career, and for his modesty and sportsmanship. Musial was selected for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. In February 2011, President Barack Obama presented Musial with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the highest civilian awards the US government can bestow. ( Full article...)
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- 1917 – Approximately 50 tons of TNT exploded at a munitions factory in Silvertown in West Ham, present-day Greater London, killing more than 70 people and injuring more than 400 others.
- 1975 – A magnitude 6.8 Ms earthquake struck northern Himachal Pradesh, India, causing extensive damage to the region.
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![A painting of a blonde baby boy being held on a table by a man with a white beard who is holding a scalpel in his right hand, all surrounded by a crowd of people](https://cdn.statically.io/img/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/The_circumcision_of_Christ_by_Parmigianino.jpeg/93px-The_circumcision_of_Christ_by_Parmigianino.jpeg)
The Leuchtenberg Gallery was the collection of artworks of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg, on public display in Munich. The collection was widely known in 19th-century Europe, due to being open to the public and having a high-quality illustrated catalogue in different languages, and was considered one of the most important private collections of the time. The collection was a heritage from Napoleonic times through Joséphine de Beauharnais, but with new additions by the subsequent Dukes, especially Eugène de Beauharnais. By 1841, the collection was largely complete. The Gallery was located in the Palais Leuchtenberg. After the death of Duke Maximilian in 1852, the Gallery was closed. The majority of the collection remained together until the Russian Revolution in 1917, when it was dispersed and a number of paintings sold in Sweden. Many works ended up in museums all over the world, such as Parmigianino's Circumcision of Jesus (pictured), which is now housed at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The remaining works are either lost or in private collections. (Full list...)
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