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'Go Set a Watchman' is published

The book's unexpected and controversial discovery, decades after it was written, together with the status of the author's only other book—an American classic—caused its publication to be highly anticipated; Amazon stated that it was their "most pre-ordered book" since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Painter Alphonse Mucha dies

Alfons Mucha was a Czech painter that spend his life in Paris during the Art Nouveau period and became known for his distinctly stylized posters of Sarah Bernhardt. Mucha died few weeks before the outbreak of the 2nd World War, in Prague, which was at the time part of the Nazi Germany Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

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