User:Rfl
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Rafał Pocztarski
[edit]Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)
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Selected anniversaries
[edit]December 10: Human Rights Day; Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Sweden
- 1508 – The Papal States, France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire formed the League of Cambrai, an alliance against the Republic of Venice.
- 1848 – Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte won France's first presidential election, and was elected as the first and only president of the French Second Republic.
- 1901 – On the fifth anniversary of the death of their founder, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm.
- 1970 – Around the northern Thai village of Mae Salong, remnants of Chinese anti-communist forces now fighting on behalf of the Thai government launched a five-year campaign against local communist insurgents.
- 1983 – Raúl Alfonsín (pictured) became the first democratically elected president of Argentina to take office after more than seven years of military dictatorship.
- Stede Bonnet (d. 1718)
- María Bibiana Benítez (b. 1783)
- Diane Schuur (b. 1953)
- Lalji Singh (d. 2017)
In the news
[edit]- Syrian rebel forces capture Damascus following multiple offensives as overthrown president Bashar al-Assad (pictured) flees to Russia.
- Notre-Dame de Paris reopens following reconstruction after the 2019 fire.
- The first round of the Romanian presidential election is annulled by the Constitutional Court following allegations of Russian electoral interference.
- The French government, led by Michel Barnier, collapses following a vote of no confidence by the National Assembly.
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