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]September 24: Heritage Day in South Africa; Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau (1973)
- 1645 – English Civil War: Royalists commanded by King Charles I suffered a significant defeat at the Battle of Rowton Heath.
- 1869 – Jay Gould, James Fisk, and other speculators plotted but failed to control the United States gold market, causing prices to plummet.
- 1890 – Wilford Woodruff, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a manifesto that officially disavowed the future practice of plural marriage.
- 1941 – Operation Barbarossa: A Wehrmacht training event known as the Mogilev Conference began, marking an increase in violence against Jews and other civilians in the areas under General Max von Schenckendorff's command.
- 1993 – Norodom Sihanouk (pictured) became King of Cambodia with the restoration of the monarchy after a 23-year interregnum.
- Pope Liberius (d. 366)
- Howard Florey (b. 1898)
- Esther Eng (b. 1914)
- Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)
In the news
[edit]- In Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah kill at least 492 people and injure over 1,600, in the deadliest day since the 2006 Lebanon War.
- The Chess Olympiad concludes with India winning both the open and women's events.
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake (pictured) wins the Sri Lankan presidential election to become the tenth president of Sri Lanka.
- At least 77 people were killed and more than 255 others were injured in an attack on Mali's capital Bamako, carried out by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an Islamist militant group affiliated with al-Qaeda.
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