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]August 30: Victory Day in Turkey (1922)
- AD 70 – First Jewish–Roman War: Roman forces led by Titus set fire to the Second Temple during the siege of Jerusalem.
- 1574 – Guru Ram Das (pictured) became the fourth of the Sikh gurus, the spiritual masters of Sikhism.
- 1594 – King James VI of Scotland held a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry, his first child.
- 1959 – South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Đán was elected to the National Assembly, despite soldiers being bussed in to vote multiple times for President Ngô Đình Diệm's candidate.
- 1974 – An express train carrying foreign workers from Yugoslavia to West Germany derailed in Zagreb, killing 153 people.
- 2007 – A heavy bomber that had been unintentionally loaded with nuclear missiles flew them from North Dakota to Louisiana before they were recognized.
- Albert Szenczi Molnár (b. 1574)
- Abishabis (d. 1843)
- Frieda Fraser (b. 1899)
- Seamus Heaney (d. 2013)
In the news
[edit]- The Summer Paralympics open in Paris, France.
- More than two hundred people are killed in an Islamic militant attack in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso.
- The Islamic State claims responsibility for a mass stabbing that killed three people at a festival in Solingen, Germany.
- In cycling, Katarzyna Niewiadoma (pictured) wins the Tour de France Femmes.
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