User:Rfl
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Rafał Pocztarski
[edit]Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)
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Selected anniversaries
[edit]- 1707 – The Hōei earthquake ruptured all segments of the Nankai megathrust simultaneously – the only earthquake recorded to have done so.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: As George Washington's Continental Army retreated northward from New York City, the British Army captured the village of White Plains.
- 1928 – Indonesian composer Wage Rudolf Supratman introduced "Indonesia Raya", now the country's national anthem.
- 1971 – Prospero (flight spare pictured), the first British satellite launched on a British rocket, lifted off from Launch Area 5B in Woomera, South Australia.
- 1992 – Hans-Adam II threatened to dismiss the Landtag of Liechtenstein over disagreements on the date of a referendum for the country's accession to the EEA.
- 2013 – The first terrorist attack in Beijing's recent history took place when members of the Turkistan Islamic Party drove a vehicle into a crowd, killing five people and injuring thirty-eight others.
- Ibas of Edessa (d. 457)
- Johann Karl August Musäus (d. 1787)
- Bill Gates (b. 1955)
- Lucy Bronze (b. 1991)
In the news
[edit]- Tropical Storm Trami (satellite image shown) leaves more than 120 people dead in the Philippines.
- An attack by the Kurdistan Workers' Party on the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters in Ankara leaves seven people dead.
- Moldova votes to amend its constitution to include the aim of becoming a European Union member state.
- Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, is killed in a firefight with Israeli forces in Gaza.
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