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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

Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union army. The campaign began on November 15, 1864, with Sherman's troops leaving Atlanta, recently taken by Union forces, and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. His forces followed a "scorched earth" policy, destroying military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and civilian property, disrupting the Confederacy's economy and transportation networks. The operation debilitated the Confederacy and helped lead to its eventual surrender. This picture shows an engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie depicting Sherman's March to the Sea.Engraving. credit: Alexander Hay Ritchie; restored by Adam Cuerden

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November 15

Deodoro da Fonseca

• 1760 – The chapel of the newly constructed Castellania in Valletta, Malta, was consecrated.
• 1859 – Sponsored by Greek businessman Evangelos Zappas, the first modern revival of the Olympic Games took place in Athens.
• 1889 – Brazilian emperor Pedro II was overthrown in a coup led by Deodoro da Fonseca (pictured), while the country was proclaimed a republic.
• 1922 – During a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador, police and military fired into a crowd, killing at least 300 people.
• 1959 – Two men murdered a family in Holcomb, Kansas; the events became the subject of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood, a pioneering work of the true crime genre.

• Madeleine de Scudéry (b. 1607)
• Sara Josephine Baker (b. 1873)
• Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (d. 1959)
• Margaret Mead (d. 1978)

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Samantha Harvey

• The novel Orbital by Samantha Harvey (pictured) wins the Booker Prize.
• Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby announces his resignation as a result of the John Smyth abuse scandal in the Church of England.
• In Zhuhai, China, 35 people are killed in a vehicle-ramming attack.
• Alliance for Change, led by Navin Ramgoolam, wins the Mauritian general election.
• A suicide bombing by the Balochistan Liberation Army at the Quetta railway station, Pakistan, kills 32 people.

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