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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:

Melissa Hortman

• In the US state of Minnesota, state representative Melissa Hortman (pictured) is assassinated and state senator John Hoffman is injured.
• Israel launches multiple airstrikes across cities in Iran, killing various nuclear scientists and military officials, including IRGC Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami.
• Air India Flight 171 crashes in Ahmedabad, India, killing 279 people.
• The Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson dies at the age of 82.

Ongoing:

• Gaza war
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • timeline
• Sudanese civil war
  • timeline

Recent deaths:

• Franzo Grande Stevens
• Sly Stone
• Mohammad Bagheri
• Fereydoon Abbasi
• Stu Wilson
• Vladyslav Gorai

On This Day:

June 17

Mumtaz Mahal

• 1579 – Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.
• 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal (pictured), wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, died in childbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
• 1919 – Hundreds of Canadian soldiers rioted in Epsom, England, leading to the death of a British police officer.
• 1952 – Guatemalan Revolution: The Guatemalan Congress passed Decree 900, redistributing unused land greater than 224 acres (0.91 km²) in area to local peasants.

• M. C. Escher (b. 1898)
• Richard Gagnon (b. 1948)
• Amari Cooper (b. 1994)
• Mohamed Morsi (d. 2019)

More anniversaries:

• June 16
• June 17
• June 18