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Lars Ulrich, drummer and co-founder of Metallica

Kill 'Em All is the debut studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released on July 25, 1983, by the independent record label Megaforce Records. It is a groundbreaking album for thrash metal, which fuses riffs of the new wave of British heavy metal with hardcore punk tempos. Its musical approach and lyrics, markedly different from rock's mainstream of the early Eighties, inspired other thrash metal bands. The album did not enter the Billboard 200 until 1986, when it peaked at number 155, following Metallica's commercial success with its third studio album Master of Puppets; the 1988 Elektra reissue peaked at number 120. Kill 'Em All was critically praised at the time of its release and was ranked at number 35 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time list. It was certified 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1999 for shipping three million copies in the United States. The album generated two singles: "Whiplash" and "Jump in the Fire". Metallica promoted the album on the Kill 'Em All for One tour with Raven in the United States. (Full article...)

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In golf, Jordan Spieth (pictured) wins the Open Championship.
The Women's Cricket World Cup concludes with England defeating India in the final.
In cycling, Chris Froome wins the Tour de France.
Ram Nath Kovind is elected President of India.
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to receive the Fields Medal, dies at the age of 40.
Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese pro-democracy activist, political prisoner and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, dies at the age of 61.

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July 25

Corinth Canal

1139 – Prince Afonso Henriques led Portuguese troops to victory over the Almoravid Moors at the Battle of Ourique.
1261 – Alexios Strategopoulos led the Nicaean forces of Michael VIII Palaiologos to recapture Constantinople, re-establish the Byzantine Empire, and end the Latin Empire.
1893 – The Corinth Canal (pictured), which bisects the narrow Isthmus of Corinth, was formally opened, connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean Sea's Saronic Gulf.
1965 – Bob Dylan, who had previously been known for folk music, gave a controversial performance at the Newport Folk Festival, playing songs with an electric guitar.
1976 – In a classic example of pareidolia, the Viking 1 spacecraft took a photo of what appeared to be a face on Mars.
2007 – Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the first female President of India.

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Three Arch Bay is a 29-acre (12 ha) private gated community located at the southern end of Laguna Beach, California. It includes a house built by the director Edward H. Griffith and was the shooting location for Michael Curtiz's 1935 film Captain Blood.

Photograph: D. Ramey Logan

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