User:Rfl
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Rafał Pocztarski
[edit]Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)
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[edit]![Jesse Owens in the long jump at the 1936 Olympics](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R96374%2C_Berlin%2C_Olympiade%2C_Jesse_Owens_beim_Weitsprung_crop.jpg/125px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R96374%2C_Berlin%2C_Olympiade%2C_Jesse_Owens_beim_Weitsprung_crop.jpg)
- 1347 – Hundred Years' War: The French town of Calais capitulated to English forces after an eleven-month siege, ending the Crécy campaign.
- 1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaimed a republic, which existed for ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.
- 1936 – African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games.
- 1971 – Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia.
- 1997 – The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
- Herbert Armitage James (b. 1844)
- Tony Bennett (b. 1926)
- Frumka Płotnicka (d. 1943)
- Alexander Mair (d. 1969)
In the news
[edit]- The United States, Russia, and their respective allies agree to a prisoner exchange of 26 people.
- Ismail Haniyeh (pictured), the political leader of Hamas, is assassinated in Tehran, Iran.
- Landslides in Wayanad, India, kill more than 350 people.
- In Gaelic football, the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship concludes with Armagh defeating Galway in the final.
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