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Rafał Pocztarski

Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)

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Holger Drachmann (1846–1908) was a Danish poet, dramatist and painter. He was a member of the Skagen artistic colony and became a figure of the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough Movement. Born in Copenhagen, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, going on to achieve fame for his painting of seascapes and ships in storms. He began writing poetry in 1872; his most famous work is the 1877 collection of poems Sange ved Havet (Songs of the Sea).Photograph credit: unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden

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January 5: Twelfth Night (Western Christianity)

Harry S. Truman

1757 – King Louis XV survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who later became the last person in France to be executed by drawing and quartering.
1869 – Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day siege in the pā at Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed Constabulary.
1919 – The German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler.
1949 – In his State of the Union speech, U.S. president Harry S. Truman (pictured) announced: "Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal."
2003 – The Metropolitan Police arrested six people in conjunction with an alleged terrorist plot to release ricin on the London Underground, although no toxin was found.

al-Mu'tasim (d. 842)
Joseph Erlanger (b. 1874)
Edmund Herring (d. 1982)
Pierre Boulez (d. 2016)

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In darts, Luke Littler (pictured) wins the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship.
Romania and Bulgaria become full members of the Schengen Area.
In New Orleans, an attacker rams a truck into a crowd and opens fire, killing at least 14 people and injuring 35 others.
Mikheil Kavelashvili is inaugurated as president of Georgia while incumbent Salome Zourabichvili intends to remain in office amidst a constitutional crisis.

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