User:mtanne
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Welcome To My Userpage
I have been using Wikipedia and making minor edits or contributions since February 2006.
About Me
I live and work in California.
In the news:
- In cricket, the Kolkata Knight Riders defeat Sunrisers Hyderabad to win the Indian Premier League (player of the final Mitchell Starc pictured).
- Gitanas Nausėda is re-elected as president of Lithuania.
- A landslide in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province leaves thousands of people missing and presumed dead.
- The European Union passes the Artificial Intelligence Act, aiming to establish a regulatory and legal framework for AI.
On This Day:
May 28: Republic Day in Armenia (1918); Independence Day in Azerbaijan (1918)
- 585 BC – According to the Greek historian Herodotus, a solar eclipse, accurately predicted by Thales of Miletus, abruptly ended the Battle of Halys between the Lydians and the Medes.
- 1644 – English Civil War: Royalist troops stormed and captured the Parliamentarian stronghold of Bolton, leading to a massacre of defenders and local residents.
- 1754 – French and Indian War: Led by 22-year-old George Washington, a company of Virginia colonial militiamen ambushed a force of 35 Canadiens at the Battle of Jumonville Glen.
- 1901 – Mozaffar ad-Din (pictured), Shah of Persia, granted exclusive rights to prospect for oil in the country to William Knox D'Arcy.
- 1937 – The rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated with his accession as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, being summoned to Buckingham Palace to "kiss hands".
- 2002 – An independent commission appointed by the Football Association voted two-to-one to allow Wimbledon F.C. to relocate from London to Milton Keynes.
- Robert Baldock (d. 1327)
- Francis Gleeson (priest) (b. 1884)
- Carroll Baker (b. 1931)
- Kylie Minogue (b. 1968)
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