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Did you know...

Election portrait of Komeng

... that in the 2024 election, Indonesian comedian Komeng (election portrait pictured) received the most votes of any senatorial candidate to date?
... that Selected Ambient Works 85–92's audio quality has been described as poor due to being recorded on a cassette damaged by a cat?
... that North Dakota state senator Merrill Piepkorn is also a musician, radio host, and public address announcer?
... that Cladonota's extravagant dorsal structures have been called both "grotesque" and "particularly charismatic"?
... that in opposition to his parents, opera star Joseph Schwarz began his career by running away from home to join a band of traveling minstrels?
... that an unusual mountain on Pluto may have once erupted water instead of lava?
... that Audrys Nin Reyes is the first gymnast from the Dominican Republic to qualify for the Olympic Games?
... that copyright has been used to censor reporters, activists, scholars and artists?
... that an abandoned Catholic church in China was used by a party school?

On this day...

Robert Mugabe

1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists Paul Revere and William Dawes, later joined by Samuel Prescott, began a midnight ride to warn residents of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, about the impending arrival of British troops.
1938 – Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster of DC Comics, made his debut in Action Comics #1, the first true superhero comic book.
1946 – The final session of the League of Nations concluded in Geneva, with delegates agreeing to transfer much of its assets to the United Nations.
1980 – Robert Mugabe (pictured) became the first prime minister of Zimbabwe, beginning a 37-year period in power.
2007 – A ladle spilled 30 tonnes (33 tons) of molten steel in a factory in Liaoning, China, killing 32 workers.

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