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:
Collapsed canopy
- A canopy collapse at Serbia's Novi Sad railway station (pictured) kills fourteen people.
- The ruins of a Maya city, dubbed Valeriana, are discovered in Campeche, Mexico.
- The Botswana general election is won by the opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change, led by Duma Boko.
- In baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees to win the World Series.
On This Day:
November 3: Culture Day in Japan
Truman showing the "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline
- 1793 – French Revolution: Playwright, journalist and outspoken feminist Olympe de Gouges was guillotined.
- 1898 – The Fashoda Incident ended with French forces withdrawing after several months of military stalemate with the British in Fashoda (now in South Sudan).
- 1948 – The Chicago Daily Tribune published the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" (pictured) in its early morning edition shortly after incumbent U.S. president Harry S. Truman officially upset the heavily favored governor of New York Thomas Dewey in the presidential election.
- 1957 – The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, carrying the space dog Laika as the first living creature to enter orbit around Earth.
- Achilles Gasser (b. 1505)
- Kinjirō Ashiwara (b. 1850)
- Bangalore Nagarathnamma (b. 1878)
- Ronald Barnes (d. 1997)
More anniversaries:
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