User:Rfl
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Rafał Pocztarski
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Selected anniversaries
[edit]- 1798 – War of the Second Coalition: The Ottoman–Albanian forces of Ali Pasha of Janina defeated French troops and captured the town of Preveza at the Battle of Nicopolis.
- 1850 – The inaugural National Women's Rights Convention, presided over by American activist Paulina Wright Davis (pictured), began in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flew his biplane 14-bis for 50 metres (160 ft) at an altitude of about four metres (13 ft).
- 2001 – Grand Theft Auto III was released, helping to popularize open-world and mature-content video games.
- 2022 – Myanmar civil war: Burmese military forces launched airstrikes that killed at least 80 concertgoers in Kachin State.
- Sweyn III of Denmark (d. 1157)
- Ludwig Leichhardt (b. 1813)
- Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg (b. 1832)
- Josh Kirby (d. 2001)
In the news
[edit]- Moldova votes to amend its constitution to include the aim of becoming a European Union member state.
- Yahya Sinwar (pictured), the leader of Hamas, is killed in a firefight with Israeli forces in Gaza.
- The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for their comparative studies of prosperity between nations.
- The Europa Clipper spacecraft is launched to investigate Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter.
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