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

African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or Black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the third largest racial or ethnic group in the United States, after White Americans and Hispanic and Latino Americans. Most African Americans are descendants of enslaved people in the United States, having West African and coastal Central African ancestry, with varying amounts of Western European and Native American ancestry. This ambrotype photograph, taken circa 1863 to 1865, depicts Sergeant Samuel Smith, an African-American soldier of the Union Army's 119th United States Colored Troops, with his wife and two daughters.Photograph credit: unknown

Selected anniversaries

February 1: Imbolc / Saint Brigid's Day in Ireland; Black History Month begins in the United States

Lunch counter from the Greensboro sit-ins

• 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn was signed, ending the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.
• 1662 – Sino-Dutch conflicts: After besieging Fort Zeelandia for nine months, Ming loyalist Zheng Chenggong secured the Dutch East India Company's surrender and the end of their rule in Taiwan.
• 1896 – Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy, eventually becoming one of the most frequently performed operas internationally.
• 1960 – Civil rights movement: Four African-American students staged the first of more than five months of sit-ins at an F. W. Woolworth lunch counter (pictured) in Greensboro, North Carolina, to protest the company's policy of racial segregation.
• 2021 – The Burmese military staged a coup d'état that deposed the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking nationwide protests and a civil war.

• Madame Sul-Te-Wan (d. 1959)
• Michelle Akers (b. 1966)
• Wojdan Shaherkani (b. 1996)
• Hildegard Knef (d. 2002)

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Ahmed al-Sharaa

• Ahmed al-Sharaa (pictured) is appointed president of the Syrian transitional government.
• American Eagle Flight 5342 collides with a U.S. Army helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., United States, killing all 67 people on board both aircraft.
• In sumo, Hōshōryū Tomokatsu becomes the 74th yokozuna.
• In an ongoing offensive, the Rwandan-supported March 23 Movement captures Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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• Salwan Momika
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