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Costello's, c. 1940

Costello's (also known as Tim's) was a bar and restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, from 1929 to 1992. The bar operated at several locations near the intersection of East 44th Street and Third Avenue. Costello's was known as a drinking spot for journalists with the New York Daily News, writers with The New Yorker, novelists, and cartoonists, including the author Ernest Hemingway, the cartoonist James Thurber, the journalist John McNulty, the poet Brendan Behan, the short-story writer John O'Hara, and the writers Maeve Brennan and A. J. Liebling. The bar is also known for having been home to a wall where Thurber drew a cartoon depiction of the "Battle of the Sexes" at some point between 1934 and 1935; the cartoon was destroyed, illustrated again, and then lost in the 1990s. A wall illustrated in 1976 by several cartoonists, including Bill Gallo, Stan Lee, Mort Walker, Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragonés, and Dik Browne, is still on display at the bar's final location. (Full article...)

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... that despite being an ordinary commuter train, the Cannonball (pictured) was known for its Friday-night parties?
... that Jeya Wilson invited New Zealand prime minister David Lange to debate the moral indefensibility of nuclear weapons at the Oxford Union?
... that the music producer of Barney & Friends considered it ludicrous that its theme song was used in torture at Guantanamo Bay?
... that the Xinwen Bao was first published during the Lunar New Year to take advantage of its competitors being on hiatus?
... that psychologist Sonya Friedman recommends that women create a totem, a collection of objects that represent important turning points in their lives?
... that the FCC canceled a permit to build a Florida TV station, finding that "the most prominent facility complete within the studio building appears to be a toilet"?
... that John Hawks was the first professionally trained architect to stay in the Thirteen Colonies?
... that a renovation of 240 Centre Street was delayed by several months because a street map was incorrect?
... that with the exception of one day in 1941, the Kaunas Carillon stopped playing music for sixteen years due to the Soviet and German occupations of Lithuania?

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Photograph credit: Bain News Service; restored by Adam Cuerden and MyCatIsAChonk

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Apollo 12 launches from the Kennedy Space Center

1941 – Second World War: After suffering torpedo damage the previous day, the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sank as she was being towed to Gibraltar for repairs.
1969 – Apollo 12 (pictured) launched from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the second crewed flight to land on the Moon.
1990 – Music producer Frank Farian admitted that the German R&B duo Milli Vanilli did not sing the vocals on their album Girl You Know It's True.
1992 – In poor conditions caused by Cyclone Forrest, Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 crashed near Nha Trang, killing 30 people.
2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discovered the trans-Neptunian object Sedna.

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