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R2K: The Concert was an arena concert by Filipina entertainer Regine Velasquez held on April 7 and 8, 2000, at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City. Supporting her 1999 album R2K, it was promoted by Viva Concerts with Velasquez serving as stage and creative director. In contrast to her previous smaller venue outings, the concert was her first performance in a large-scale indoor arena. It featured a 360-degree configuration with a semi-circular plexiglass stage, four large video screens, and an automated flying rig used during an aerial performance (pictured). The costumes were designed by Rajo Laurel, inspired by Dolce & Gabbana's "print-on-print" collection. She performed numerous selections from R2K, with additional songs from her older albums and various covers of pop hits. The concert was critically praised for its modern production and Velasquez's vocal abilities, showmanship, and wardrobe. She earned an Aliw Award for Best Female Major Concert Act for the show. (Full article...)
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- ... that songs in The Beautiful Letdown are "chunky", "gentle", and "nois[y]"?
- ... that the Romans used grappling hooks during the Battle of Corycus to board Seleucid ships?
- ... that Paris Opera Ballet dancer Guillaume Diop co-authored a manifesto that called for the Paris Opera to make urgent changes to address racial discrimination?
- ... that at the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards The White Lotus was nominated in five categories and won in all?
- ... that Abbas ibn Abi al-Futuh was a Zirid prince who became a vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate after assassinating his stepfather, and was overthrown after murdering caliph al-Zafir?
- ... that in 1967 Hilton Hotels revealed plans for a 100-room hotel on the Moon?
In the news
- Finland joins NATO as its 31st member (flags pictured).
- Former president of the United States Donald Trump is arraigned on 34 charges of falsifying business records.
- In the Andorran parliamentary election, the liberal coalition, led by Prime Minister Xavier Espot, wins an absolute majority of seats in the General Council.
- In NCAA Division I basketball, the LSU Tigers win the women's championship and the UConn Huskies win the men's championship.
On this day
- 1271 – Crusades: The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Krak des Chevaliers, a castle in present-day Syria, to the army of the Mamluk sultan Baibars.
- 1904 – France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale, agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent conflict.
- 1911 – American cartoonist Winsor McCay released the silent short film Little Nemo (featured), one of the earliest animated films.
- 1933 – The Australian state of Western Australia voted to secede from the federation, but efforts to implement the result proved to be unsuccessful.
- 1973 – The Norwegian Progress Party was founded in a movie theater in Oslo.
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SpaceX CRS-8 was a Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station that launched on April 8, 2016, at 20:43 UTC. It was the twenty-third flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, the tenth flight of a Dragon cargo spacecraft, and the eighth operational mission contracted to SpaceX by NASA under the Commercial Resupply Services program. After boosting the payload on its orbital trajectory, the rocket's first stage re-entered the denser layers of the atmosphere and landed vertically on the ocean landing platform Of Course I Still Love You nine minutes after liftoff (as pictured in this photograph), thus achieving a long-sought-after milestone in the SpaceX reusable launch system development program. Photograph credit: SpaceX
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