User:Rfl

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Penrose Tribar

Rafał Pocztarski

Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)

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Picture of the day

The Brooklyn Navy Yard is a shipyard and industrial complex in northwest Brooklyn in New York City, United States. The Navy Yard is located on the East River in Wallabout Bay, a semicircular bend of the river across from Corlears Hook in Manhattan. It is bounded by Navy Street to the west, Flushing Avenue to the south, Kent Avenue to the east, and the East River on the north. The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This photograph shows Brooklyn Navy Yard seen from the air in 1918.Photograph credit: unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden

Selected anniversaries

July 11: Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide in Poland (1943)

Leicester balloon riot, 1864

• 1405 – An expeditionary fleet led by Zheng He set sail for foreign regions of the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, marking the start of Ming China's treasure voyages.
• 1846 – British soldier Frederick John White died after a flogging, leading to a campaign to end the practice in the British Army.
• 1864 – A riot broke out in Leicester, England, at the failed launching of a gas balloon (pictured).
• 1928 – Archaeologist Ivan Borkovský discovered a medieval skeleton at Prague Castle; competing factions claimed the skeleton as Germanic or Slavic in origin.
• 1936 – New York City's Triborough Bridge, the "biggest traffic machine ever built", opened to traffic.

• Nicole Oresme (d. 1382)
• Thomas Bowdler (b. 1754)
• Eugenia Tadolini (d. 1872)
• Lady Bird Johnson (d. 2007)

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• The New Popular Front wins the most seats in the National Assembly in the French legislative election but does not achieve a majority.
• In Iran, the reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian (pictured) is elected president in the second round of the presidential election.
• The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election and Keir Starmer becomes prime minister.
• Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in a calendar year, leaves at least 15 people dead in the Caribbean, Venezuela, and the United States.

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• Jane McAlevey
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• Audrey Flack

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