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 Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Widely regarded as the most influential band of all time, they were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat, and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways. The band also explored music styles ranging from folk and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As pioneers in recording, songwriting, and artistic presentation, the Beatles revolutionized many aspects of the music industry and were often publicized as leaders of the era's youth and sociocultural movements. This photograph shows the Beatles – from left to right, Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr – waving to a crowd of fans after arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City on 7 February 1964, at the start of their first visit to the United States. Their visit marked the beginning of the British Invasion, a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s when rock and pop-music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States. The band's widespread popularity and the intense reception that greeted them was termed "Beatlemania".Photograph credit: United Press International; retouched by Yann Forget

Selected anniversaries

February 7: Independence Day in Grenada (1974)

Painting by Louis-Philippe Crépin

• 1365 – Albert, King of Sweden, granted a town charter to Ulvila, the third-oldest city in Finland.
• 1813 – Napoleonic Wars: Two evenly matched frigates, the French Aréthuse and the British Amelia, battled to a stalemate (depicted) at the Îles de Los off the Guinean coast.
• 1865 – The trustees of Seattle enacted an ordinance that expelled Native Americans from the newly incorporated town.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: British troops made a third unsuccessful attempt to lift the siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Vaal Krantz.
• 2014 – Researchers announced the discovery of the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa, at more than 800,000 years old.

• Alfonsina Orsini (d. 1520)
• Margaret Fownes-Luttrell (b. 1726)
• Louisa Jane Hall (b. 1802)
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh (d. 2001)

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Fireball from the Learjet crash

• Eleven people are killed in a mass shooting at an adult education centre in Örebro, Sweden.
• A Learjet 55 crashes (explosion pictured) into multiple buildings in Philadelphia, United States, killing at least 7 people and injuring 24 others.
• Following the approval of a constitutional reform, Rosario Murillo becomes co-president of Nicaragua alongside her husband Daniel Ortega.
• A Beechcraft 1900 crashes in Unity State, South Sudan, killing 20 of the 21 people onboard.
• Ahmed al-Sharaa is appointed president of the Syrian transitional government.

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• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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• İlhan Usmanbaş
• Francis Boyle
• Mavai Senathirajah
• Marion Wiesel
• Rich Dauer
• Horst Janson

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