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]
June 16: First day of Eid al-Adha (Islam, 2024)
- 632 – The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, ascended the throne at the age of eight.
- 1819 – A strong earthquake in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India, caused a local zone of uplift that dammed the Nara River, which was later named the Allah Bund ('Dam of God').
- 1904 – Irish author James Joyce (pictured) began a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses, commemorated as Bloomsday.
- 1936 – A Junkers Ju 52 aircraft of Norwegian Air Lines crashed into a mountainside near Hyllestad, Norway, killing all seven people on board.
- 1997 – The English rock band Radiohead released their landmark third album OK Computer.
- John Cheke (b. 1514)
- Tomás Yepes (d. 1674)
- Helen Traubel (b. 1899)
- Tony Gwynn (d. 2014)
In the news[edit]
- A fire in a residential building in Kuwait City's suburb of Mangaf kills at least fifty people.
- A plane crash near Chikangawa, Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President Saulos Chilima (pictured).
- In tennis, Iga Świątek wins the women's singles and Carlos Alcaraz wins the men's singles titles at the French Open.
- In the Indian general election, the National Democratic Alliance, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is re-elected with a reduced majority.
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