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Lisa del Giocondo was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany in Italy. Her name was given to Mona Lisa, her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. Little is known about Lisa's life. Married as a teenager to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official, she was mother to five children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary middle-class life. Lisa outlived her husband, who was about 20 years her senior. Centuries after Lisa's death, Mona Lisa became the world's most famous painting and took on a life separate from Lisa, the woman. Speculation by scholars and hobbyists made the work of art a globally recognized icon and an object of commercialization. During the early 21st century, a discovery made at a university library was powerful enough evidence to end speculation about the sitter's identity and definitively identified Lisa del Giocondo as the subject of the Mona Lisa. (more...)

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The Channel Island Sark (pictured) abolishes the last remaining feudal system in Europe.

Soyuz TMA-12 is launched, carrying Yi So-yeon, the first Korean in space, for a mission to the International Space Station.

The Olympic torch relay is disrupted in London, Paris and San Francisco by protesters objecting to China's human rights record.

The Washington Post wins six awards and Bob Dylan receives a special citation in the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes.

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1598 – King Henry IV of France (pictured) issued the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.

1873 – In the wake of a contested election for local political offices in Colfax, Louisiana, USA, armed white supremacists overpowered freedmen and the African American state militia trying to control the parish courthouse, killing over 100 of them.

1919 – British Indian Army troops opened fire on a peaceful gathering in Amritsar, Punjab in India, killing hundreds of unarmed men, women and children.

1943 – World War II: Germany announced the discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners-of-war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyn Forest Massacre.

1984 – Indian forces launched a preemptive attack on the disputed Siachen Glacier region of Kashmir, triggering a military conflict with Pakistan.

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This grand mosaic taken by the Cassini orbiter consists of 126 images acquired in a tile-like fashion, covering all of Saturn and its rings from one end to the other. The images were taken while Cassini was approximately 6.3 million kilometers (3.9 million miles) from Saturn.

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