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Crazy, Not Insane.

A look at the work of psychiatrist Dorothy Lewis, who assessed dozens of serial killers.

The Rhythm Section.

Blake Lively plays a woman out for revenge on her family's killers.

Urban II calls for a Crusade to the Holy Land, during the Council of Clermont.

1620The

Pilgrim Fathers, about 100 English settlers sailing on the Mayflower, sight the American coast. 1703The man in the iron mask, a political prisoner famous in French history and legend, dies in the Bastille.

Philip Gidley King announces the arrival of copper twopence coins to relieve Sydney’s shortage of currency.

1863US

president Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address on a Pennsylvania Civil War battlefield.

1919THE

first flight takes off from the aerodrome at Mascot, which will later officially become Sydney Airport. Pilot Nigel Love takes photographer Billy Marshall up to get aerial views of Sydney.

1941The

second HMAS Sydney and the German raider Kormoran fight an hour-long battle 240km west of Shark Bay, Western Australia. Both vessels are stricken. The Sydney is on fire but moves slowly away. Most of the Kormoran crew survive and are picked up, but the Sydney and all 645 men aboard disappear.

leader Fidel Castro and Pope John Paul II meet in a historic first encounter in Rome.

cameraman Harry Burton, 33, working for Reuters, is among four journalists killed in an ambush in Afghanistan

2019Australian

academic Timothy Weeks is released after being held hostage by the Taliban for three years. He was kidnapped outside a Kabul university in 2016.