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:
Kirsty Coventry
- Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry (pictured) is elected as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee and the first from an African country.
- Anti-government protests break out across Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu by the national police.
- Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud survives an attack on his convoy by al-Shabaab that kills at least 10 people.
- Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip kill more than 500 people, ending the Gaza war ceasefire.
- A nightclub fire in Kočani, North Macedonia, kills at least 59 people and injures more than 155 others.
On This Day:
Elbridge Gerry
- 1344 – Reconquista: The Muslim city of Algeciras surrendered after a 21-month siege and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile.
- 1651 – The Spanish ship San José ran aground onto coasts controlled by the indigenous Cunco people, who subsequently killed the crew.
- 1697 – The Safavid Empire began a four-year occupation of the Ottoman city of Basra on the Persian Gulf.
- 1812 – The Boston Gazette printed a cartoon coining the term "gerrymander", named after Governor Elbridge Gerry (pictured), who approved the legislation that created oddly shaped electoral districts.
- 1939 – Nationalist forces began their final offensive of the Spanish Civil War, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.
- 1999 – A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
- 'Adud al-Dawla (d. 983)
- Julie-Victoire Daubié (b. 1824)
- Jörg Streli (b. 1940)
- D. M. Thomas (d. 2023)
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