User:Rfl
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Rafał Pocztarski
[edit]Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)
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[edit]September 28: Meskel in Ethiopia and Eritrea (2024)
- 48 BC – Pompey was killed by Lucius Septimius at Pelusium in Egypt.
- 1066 – William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships landed at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
- 1901 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas killed more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack on the town of Balangiga on the island of Samar.
- 1928 – Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming (pictured) discovered penicillin when he noticed a bacteria-killing mould growing in his laboratory.
- 1975 – An attempted robbery of Spaghetti House, a restaurant in Knightsbridge, London, turned into a six-day hostage situation.
- Rabbi Akiva (d. 135)
- Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale (b. 1626)
- Florence Violet McKenzie (b. 1890)
- Guillermo Endara (d. 2009)
In the news
[edit]- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (pictured) is killed by an Israeli airstrike in Dahieh, Lebanon.
- Hurricane Helene makes landfall near Perry, Florida, United States, as a Category 4 hurricane.
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected President of Sri Lanka.
- At least 77 people are killed and more than 255 others are injured in an Islamist militant attack by JNIM on Mali's capital, Bamako.
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