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2020: The United Kingdom formally left the European Union, more than three years after the country voted for “Brexit.” [Learn more about the Brexit vote.]

2001: Libyan national Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was convicted in the 1988 Pan Am flight 103 bombing , in which 270 people were killed; in 2009 the Scottish government released Megrahi from prison after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

1981: American singer and actor Justin Timberlake, who was a member of the hugely successful “boy band” *NSYNC before launching a solo career, was born in Memphis, Tennessee. [Test your knowledge of pop music.]

1961: The American film drama The Misfits, which was directed by John Huston, had its world premiere; it was perhaps best remembered as the final movie of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about A-list actors.]

1956: Johnny Rotten—lead singer of the Sex Pistols, a rock group that created the British punk movement of the late 1970s—was born in London. [ Test your knowledge of musical groups.]

1797: Austrian composer Franz Schubert was born near Vienna. [Take our classical composers quiz.]