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The failed "luxury music festival" is held

Fyre Festival was a failed "luxury music festival" founded by Billy McFarland, CEO of Fyre Media Inc, and rapper Ja Rule. It was created with the intent of promoting the company's Fyre app for booking music talent. The event was promoted on Instagram by "social media influencers" including socialite and model Kendall Jenner.

Apple Computer Inc. launches the iTunes store

Software-based online digital media store opened and has been the largest music vendor in the United States since April 2008, and the largest music vendor in the world since February 2010. In response to major natural disasters, Apple provides the facility for donations to be made through iTunes Store.

The first tourist flies to space

Dennis Anthony Tito is the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space. In mid-2001, he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station. This mission was launched by the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32, and was landed by Soyuz TM-31.

Aldrich Ames is plead guilty to spying

Aldrich Hazen Ames is a former Central Intelligence Agency officer turned KGB mole, who was convicted of espionage. He pleaded guilty and received a sentence of life imprisonment. His wife received a five-year prison sentence for tax evasion and conspiracy to commit espionage as part of a plea bargain by Ames.

Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci are executed

Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci set out for Switzerland, intending to board a plane and escape to Spain. They were stopped by communist partisans and identified. Mussolini and Petacci were both summarily shot, along with primarily ministers and officials of the Italian Social Republic.

President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is born

Saddam Hussein was President of Iraq. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization the Iraqi Ba'ath Party—which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to power in Iraq.

Industrialist Ferruccio Lamborghini is born

Ferruccio Lamborghini was an Italian industrialist. Born to grape farmers in Renazzo, from the comune of Cento in the Emilia-Romagna region, his mechanical know-how led him to enter the business of tractor manufacturing when he founded Lamborghini Trattori.

Industrialist Oskar Schindler is born

Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

5th US President James Monroe is born

James Monroe was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fifth President of the United States. Monroe was the last president of the Virginia dynasty. Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Monroe was of the planter class and fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Anniversaries of the (in)famous

born 1981

Jessica Alba

born 1950

Jay Leno