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

Racial segregation in the United States included the legally or socially enforced separation of African Americans from White Americans, as well as the separation of other ethnic minorities from majority communities. Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment and transportation in the United States have been systematically separated based on racial categorizations. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), so long as "separate but equal" facilities were provided, a requirement that was rarely met. The doctrine's applicability to public schools was unanimously overturned in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), and several landmark cases including Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964) further ruled against racial segregation, helping to bring an end to the Jim Crow laws. During the civil rights movement, de jure segregation was formally outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, while de facto segregation continues today in areas including residential segregation and school segregation, as part of ongoing racism and discrimination in the United States. This photograph, taken in 1939 by Russell Lee, shows an African-American man drinking at a water dispenser, with a sign reading "Colored", in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City.Photograph credit: Russell Lee; restored by Adam Cuerden

Selected anniversaries

January 20: Day of Nationwide Sorrow in Azerbaijan (1990); Inauguration Day in the United States (2025); Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States (2025)

Roller coasters

• 1265 – Simon de Montfort summoned local representatives to the Palace of Westminster to attend a parliament, now considered to be the forerunner of the House of Commons of England.
• 1840 – William II became King of the Netherlands after his father William I abdicated the throne.
• 1885 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson, sometimes called the "Father of Gravity", patented the roller coaster (pictured).
• 1945 – World War II: In an operation that took nearly two months to complete, Germany began the evacuation of at least 1.8 million people from East Prussia in anticipation of the advancing Soviet Red Army.
• 2018 – A group of Taliban gunmen attacked and took hostages at the Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle that left at least 21 people dead.

• Sebastian Münster (b. 1488)
• Agnes Mary Clerke (d. 1907)
• Yolanda González (b. 1961)
• Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh (b. 1965)

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• January 20
• January 21

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David Lynch in 1990

• A ceasefire agreement is reached to suspend the Israel–Hamas war, involving the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.
• American filmmaker David Lynch (pictured) dies at the age of 78.
• South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol is arrested after his declaration of martial law.
• In Chad, the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement retains a majority in the National Assembly amidst a boycott by opposition parties.

Ongoing:

• Israel–Hamas war
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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Recent deaths:

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• Jack Hoffman
• Jafar Masood Hasani Nadwi
• Elgar Howarth
• Stephanie Aeffner
• Furio Colombo

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