The painting ‘Salvator Mundi’ by Leonardo da Vinci at Christie’s.

(Fox News) – A painting by Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci that
depicts Jesus Christ holding an orb sold for a world record $450.3 million at
Christie’s auction house in New York Wednesday night.

The painting, called "Salvator Mundi," Italian for "Savior of the World," is one of
fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo known to exist and the only one in private
hands. The buyer was not immediately identified.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) 
    
   

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On this day in 1966, Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his
second trial of charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn,
in 1954.

The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic
relations for the first time on this day in 1933.

William Christian Bullitt, Jr. (January 25, 1891 – February 15, 1967)

On this day in 2001, a second Anthrax letter found addressed to
Capitol Hill.

A hazmat team at the Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.

William Holden (William Franklin Beedle Jr.)  
(April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981)

According to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s autopsy
report, Holden was alone and intoxicated in his apartment
in Santa Monica, California, on November 12, 1981, when
he slipped on a rug, severely lacerating his forehead on a 
bedside table, and bled to death. His body was found four
days later on this day in 1981.

William Holden in The Wild Bunch (1969)

The musical "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway at the
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on this day in 1959.