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]January 24: Alasitas (La Paz, Bolivia); Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities (1859)
- 1458 – The Estates unanimously proclaimed 14-year-old Matthias Corvinus King of Hungary after being persuaded to do so by his uncle Michael Szilágyi.
- 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill (reconstruction pictured) in Coloma, California, leading to the California gold rush.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launched Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong.
- 1977 – Spanish transition to democracy: Neo-fascists attacked an office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four others.
- 1987 – About 20,000 protestors marched in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States.
- Signe Rink (b. 1836)
- Maria Tallchief (b. 1925)
- Madge Bellamy (d. 1990)
- Helena Kmieć (d. 2017)
In the news
[edit]- A fire at a ski resort hotel (pictured) in Kartalkaya, Turkey, leaves at least 78 people dead and 51 others injured.
- A series of attacks by the National Liberation Army in the Catatumbo region of Colombia leaves more than a hundred people dead.
- A ceasefire agreement suspends the Israel–Hamas war, involving the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.
- Two Supreme Court judges are assassinated in a shooting at the Supreme Court of Iran in Tehran.
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