The Singer Building was an early skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City. The headquarters of the Singer Manufacturing Company, it was at the corner of Liberty Street and Broadway in the Financial District. Architect Ernest Flagg designed it in multiple phases from 1897 to 1907, with elements of the French Beaux-Arts and Second Empire styles. When completed in 1908, the building had a marble-clad lobby, 16 elevators, 410,000 square feet (38,000 m²) of office space, and an observation deck. With a roof height of 612 feet (187 m), the Singer Tower was the tallest building in the world from 1908 to 1909, when it was surpassed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower. The base occupied the building's entire land lot; the tower's floors took up just one-sixth of that area. Although regarded as a city icon, the Singer Building was razed between 1967 and 1969 to make way for One Liberty Plaza. At the time of its destruction, the Singer Building was the tallest building ever to be demolished. (Full article...)

Sculpture

• ... that two sculptures from 1428 (one pictured) in the Church of Saint Quentin in Tournai are among the earliest examples of a style that was to dominate most of Europe for the following century?
• ... that more young girls in Hamdallaye in Niger could go to school after a local councillor arranged to buy eight grinding machines?
• ... that Andreas Rechnitzer helped devise the first scuba diving training program for scientists?
• ... that Arithmetic was the first mathematics text book written in the Russian language?
• ... that gender-swapped drawings of Finn the Human, the main character of Adventure Time, inspired their own spin-off series?
• ... that journalist Maurice Smith helped establish a national curling championship for high school students in Canada?
• ... that the source material for Curtis Roads's electronic composition nscor was realized at six studios for a period of five years?
• ... that for a Murad Takla, writing "reminds me of you" might be interpreted as "mind farts in you"?

Shane Warne

• Australian cricketer Shane Warne (pictured) dies at the age of 52.
• An attack at a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, kills at least 63 people and injures more than 190 others.
• The Winter Paralympics open in Beijing, China.
• Russia's
  invasion of Ukraine is condemned by the United Nations General Assembly
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• An earthquake in West Sumatra, Indonesia, leaves fourteen people dead.

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Aircraft involved in Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302

• 241 BC – The Roman Republic defeated Carthaginian forces at the Battle of the Aegates, off the western coast of Sicily, in the final battle of the First Punic War.
• 1916 – The final letter in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence was written, agreeing that Britain would recognise Arab independence in return for the Sharif of Mecca launching a revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
• 1949 – Mildred Gillars, nicknamed Axis Sally, was convicted of treason for working with the Nazis as a broadcaster.
• 1967 – British progressive-rock band Pink Floyd released their first single, "Arnold Layne".
• 2019 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 (aircraft pictured) crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, with the deaths of all 157 people on board.