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by **Paul** Wed 10 May 2023, 4:54 am

This Day in History: May 10

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Bono

Irish singer

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Bono, byname of Paul David Hewson, (born May 10, 1960, Dublin, Ireland), lead singer for the popular Irish rock band U2 and prominent human rights activist. He was born of a Roman Catholic father and a Protestant mother (who died when he was just age 14). In Dublin in 1977, he and school friends David Evans (later “the Edge”), Larry Mullen, Jr., and Adam Clayton formed a band that would become U2. They shared a commitment not only to ambitious rock music but also to a deeply spiritual Christianity. Indeed, one of the few genuine threats to U2’s extraordinary longevity ...(100 of 666 words)
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by **Paul** Wed 10 May 2023, 4:58 am

John Wilkes Booth

American actor and assassin

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John Wilkes Booth, (born May 10, 1838, near Bel Air, Maryland, U.S.—died April 26, 1865, near Port Royal, Virginia), member of one of the United States’ most distinguished acting families of the 19th century and the assassin who killed U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln.

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Booth, Edwin; Booth, John Wilkes
Booth was the 9th of 10 children born to the actor Junius Brutus Booth. He showed excellent theatrical potential early on but also exhibited an emotional instability and a driving egocentricity that made it difficult for him to accept his brother Edwin’s rise to acclaim as the foremost actor of the day.

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