User:CookieMonster755/News

Welcome to Cookie Monster news. This page is currently under development. Here I will post news related to my new projects and activities on English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and other Wikimedia Sister projects. While this page is being developed, here are some news stories from the Wikipedia homepage below.

In the news

Dick Schoof

In the Netherlands, a new cabinet is sworn in, with Dick Schoof (pictured) serving as the prime minister.
A crowd crush during a religious event in Uttar Pradesh, India, leaves at least 110 people dead.
José Raúl Mulino becomes the president of Panama after winning the general election.
In cricket, the T20 World Cup concludes with India defeating South Africa in the final.
In Bolivia, troops led by Juan José Zúñiga storm the presidential palace in an attempted coup.

On this day...

July 4: Independence Day in the United States (1776); Republic Day in the Philippines (1946); Liberation Day in Rwanda (1994)

Crab Nebula

414 – Byzantine emperor Theodosius II proclaimed his elder sister Aelia Pulcheria as Augusta.
1054 – Chinese astronomers recorded the sudden appearance of a "guest star", later identified as the supernova that created the Crab Nebula (pictured).
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces failed in an attempt to recapture the Union-occupied Helena, Arkansas.
1954 – In what is known as "The Miracle of Bern", West Germany defeated Hungary 3–2 to win the FIFA World Cup.
1954 – CIA officers arrived in Guatemala City to begin Operation PBHistory in an attempt to justify the overthrowing of Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz one week earlier.

Brian Twyne (d. 1644)
Jack Warhop (b. 1884)
Koko (b. 1971)
Victor Chang (d. 1991)

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