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Progenitor (red star) of SN 2025pht
- ... that SN 2025pht (star pictured) was one of the brightest supernovae observed in 2025?
- ... that Muwaffaq al-Din Yaqub ibn Siqlab was fluent in Classical Greek and regularly recited passages from Galen to inform his medical treatments?
- ... that a song uses satire in Spanish and English to critique anti-Mexican sentiment in the U.S. and anti-American sentiment in Mexico?
- ... that Dutch colonial presence in Mandailing territory began at Kotanopan, Northern Sumatra?
- ... that lawyer Guillaume Alexandre Tronson du Coudray was assigned to defend Marie Antoinette just two days before her trial began?
- ... that Mavety Media Group, an adult-oriented publishing company, once published a teen magazine?
- ... that, four years after Julien Nuijten won the largest award ever earned at a Magic: The Gathering tournament, he won four times as much playing poker?
- ... that the Amherstburg First Baptist Church was founded by escaped slaves?
- ... that college football player Grayson McCall attended a media-day session wearing a shirt that said "I piss teal"?
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- In ice hockey, the Carolina Hurricanes defeat the Vegas Golden Knights to win the Stanley Cup Final (Conn Smythe Trophy winner Jordan Staal pictured).
- In basketball, the New York Knicks defeat the San Antonio Spurs to win the NBA Finals.
- Elon Musk becomes the world's first US-dollar trillionaire after his company SpaceX raises the largest initial public offering.
- Princess Bajrakitiyabha of Thailand, a possible heir to the throne, dies at the age of 47 after a three-year comatose state.
On this day
Mumtaz Mahal
1579 – Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.
1631 – Mumtaz Mahal (pictured), wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, died in childbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
1919 – Hundreds of Canadian soldiers rioted in Epsom, England, leading to the death of a British police officer.
1952 – Guatemalan Revolution: The Guatemalan Congress passed Decree 900, redistributing unused land greater than 224 acres (0.91 km2) in area to local peasants.
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Map of Orkney
There are more than 70 islands and skerries in Orkney, an archipelago located 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of mainland Scotland. Twenty islands are permanently inhabited. In addition to the Mainland, there are three groups of islands. The North and South Isles lie respectively north and south of Mainland, and the Pentland Skerries are a group of small islands in the Pentland Firth, a dangerous stretch of water between mainland Scotland and the larger islands of Orkney, through which run the strongest tidal streams in Britain. The islands of South Ronaldsay, Burray, Lamb Holm and Glimps Holm are connected to the Orkney Mainland by a series of causeways known as the Churchill Barriers. Most of the islands have bedrock formed from Old Red Sandstone, which is about 400 million years old, and was laid down in the Devonian period. The archipelago has been continuously inhabited for thousands of years, and is home to the World Heritage Site of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. The islands all fall within the Orkney Islands Council area and have a total population of 21,958 (as of 2022). (Full list...)
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