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Rafał Pocztarski[edit]

Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)

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Picture of the day[edit]

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Picture of the day

Benjamin Franklin Tilley (1848–1907) was a career officer in the United States Navy who served from the end of the American Civil War through the Spanish–American War. He is best remembered as the first acting governor of American Samoa as well as the territory's first naval governor.Photograph credit: unknown photographer; Naval History and Heritage Command; restored by Adam Cuerden

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Selected anniversaries[edit]

April 27: Koningsdag in the Netherlands

Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn

630 – Shahrbaraz usurped the throne of the Sasanian Empire from Ardashir III, but was himself killed six weeks later.
1650 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Covenanter forces defeated the Royalists at the Battle of Carbisdale near the village of Culrain, Scotland.
1945 – World War II: The photograph Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn (pictured) was taken after German troops withdrew to Norway at the end of the Lapland War.
1965 – Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation: British forces repelled a surprise Indonesian attack on a base at Plaman Mapu in Sarawak.
2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.

Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1822)
Sheila Scott (b. 1922)
Olivier Messiaen (d. 1992)

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Manasseh Sogavare

The Ownership, Unity and Responsibility Party, led by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare (pictured), wins the most seats in the Solomon Islands general election but falls short of a majority.
NASA announces that the Voyager 1 space probe is sending readable data for the first time in five months.
The HDZ-led coalition wins the most seats in the Croatian parliamentary election but falls short of a majority.
Ichthyotitan, the largest known marine reptile, is formally described.
Flooding in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula leaves more than thirty people dead.

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