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Rafał Pocztarski

Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)

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Regeneration is a 1915 American silent biographical crime drama co-written and directed by Raoul Walsh. The film, which was the first full-length feature film directed by Walsh, stars Rockliffe Fellowes and Anna Q. Nilsson and was adapted for the screen by Carl Harbaugh and Walsh from the 1903 memoir My Mamie Rose, by Owen Frawley Kildare and the adapted 1908 play by Kildare and Walter C. Hackett.Film credit: Raoul Walsh;

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Selected anniversaries

December 28

Neptune

1065 – Westminster Abbey, built by Edward the Confessor as the first Romanesque church in England, was first consecrated.
1612 – Galileo Galilei became the first person to observe the planet Neptune (pictured), although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
1908 – An earthquake registering 7.1 M_w struck near Messina, which, along with the subsequent tsunami, killed at least 75,000 people in southern Italy.
1925 – The Tokyo Grand Sumo Association became the All Japan Sumo Association at the instigation of Prince-Regent Hirohito, laying the foundations for the world's sole professional sumo association.
2014 – Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed into the Java Sea after the pilots mishandled a non-critical error in the cockpit, which resulted in all 162 people on board being killed in the crash.

Wang Zongbi (d. 925)
William Carstares (d. 1715)
Charles Fernández (b. 1995)
Quackity (b. 2000)

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Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad

Israel officially recognises Somaliland as an independent state, becoming the first country to do so.
A jet crash near Ankara, Turkey, kills all eight people on board, including Libyan Army chief of staff Mohammed al-Haddad (pictured).
A mass stabbing in Taipei, Taiwan, leaves four people dead, including the perpetrator.
Bangladeshi activist Osman Hadi is assassinated, triggering violent protests and arson.
Fatafehi Fakafānua is elected prime minister by the legislative assembly of Tonga.

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