User:Rfl

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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

ATLAS is the largest general-purpose particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. The experiment is designed to take advantage of the unprecedented energy available at the LHC and observe phenomena that involve highly massive particles which were not observable using earlier lower-energy accelerators. ATLAS was one of the two LHC experiments involved in the discovery of the Higgs boson in July 2012. It was also designed to search for evidence of theories of particle physics beyond the Standard Model. This image shows the eight toroid magnets surrounding the calorimeter in the centre.Photograph credit: Maximilien Brice, CERN

Selected anniversaries

August 6

Street fighting during the Battle of Saint-Malo

• 686 – Second Fitna: Pro-Alid forces defeated the Umayyad Caliphate in the Battle of Khazir, allowing them to take control of Mosul in present-day Iraq.
• 1623 – After the death of Gregory XV, a papal conclave in Rome elected Maffeo Barberini as Pope Urban VIII.
• 1944 – World War II: Allied forces attacked German fortifications at Saint-Malo, France, beginning the Battle of Saint-Malo (pictured).
• 1979 – An earthquake struck along the Calaveras Fault near Coyote Lake, California, injuring sixteen people.
• 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashed into a hill on approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport in Guam, killing 228 of the 254 people aboard.
• 2011 – A series of riots broke out in several London boroughs and in cities and towns across England in response to the shooting of Mark Duggan by Metropolitan Police officers.

• Ludwig Ross (d. 1859)
• George Kenney (b. 1889)
• Lucille Ball (b. 1911)
• Edsger W. Dijkstra (d. 2002)

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Sheikh Hasina

• Sheikh Hasina (pictured) resigns as the prime minister of Bangladesh and flees to India following anti-government protests.
• Following a mass stabbing in Southport, far-right protesters riot across the United Kingdom.
• The United States, Russia, and their respective allies agree to a prisoner exchange of 26 people.
• Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, is assassinated in Tehran, Iran.
• Landslides in Wayanad, India, kill more than 380 people.

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• Fuad Shukr
• Graham Thorpe
• William Calley
• Reyes Moronta
• John Anderson

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