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Kent shaving brushes
- ... that Kent Brushes have supplied their products (examples pictured) to every British monarch since George IV?
- ... that He Jianshi used Chinese opera to advance a revolution against the Qing dynasty?
- ... that crab is served in school meals in Toyama Prefecture?
- ... that Aniello Prisco was shot to death while trying to extort a crime boss?
- ... that the rural village of Neath, New South Wales, had a population of three Tok Pisin speakers in 2021?
- ... that Canadian microbiologist Patricia Taylor helped American diplomats hide in her house in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis?
- ... that a "glomping circle" in 2008 reportedly lasted seven hours?
- ... that Margaret Pargeter published 49 books in eleven years, with another book following eleven years later?
- ... that the Holy See has been represented by an anime-style mascot?
In the news
Donald Trump
- Donald Trump (pictured) wins the United States presidential election.
- Maia Sandu is re-elected President of Moldova.
- In baseball, the Yokohama DeNA BayStars defeat the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to win the Japan Series.
- A canopy collapse at Serbia's Novi Sad railway station kills fourteen people.
On this day
1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, was murdered in London.
1914 – World War I: Off the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Australian light cruiser Sydney sank Emden, the last active German warship in the Indian Ocean, at the Battle of Cocos.
1939 – World War II: A covert Sicherheitsdienst operation captured two British agents of the Secret Intelligence Service near Venlo in the Netherlands.
1989 – East German official Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced the immediate opening of the inner German border, resulting in the fall of the Berlin Wall that night (border crossing pictured).
2019 – Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the India–Pakistan border.
Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (b. 1719)
Lenore Romney (b. 1908)
Harry Trott (d. 1917)
Nadezhda Alliluyeva (d. 1932)
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