User:CookieMonster755/News

Welcome to Cookie Monster news. This page is currently under development. Here I will post news related to my new projects and activities on English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and other Wikimedia Sister projects. While this page is being developed, here are some news stories from the Wikipedia homepage below.

In the news

Frank Bainimarama

Former prime minister of Fiji Frank Bainimarama (pictured) is sentenced to one year in prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Flooding in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, leaves more than 100 people dead and at least 130 others missing.
Kyren Wilson wins the World Snooker Championship.
In horse racing, Mystik Dan wins the Kentucky Derby.
Following the Solomon Islands general election, Jeremiah Manele becomes the prime minister.

On this day...

May 10

One World Trade Center

28 BC – Chinese astronomers during the Han dynasty made the first precisely dated observation of a sunspot.
1833 – Siamese–Vietnamese wars: Lê Văn Khôi escaped from prison to begin a revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng, primarily to avenge his adoptive father, Vietnamese general Lê Văn Duyệt.
1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five companions arrived at South Georgia, completing a 1,300 km (800 mi) lifeboat voyage over 16 days to obtain rescue for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
1940 – World War II: German forces commenced their invasion of Belgium.
2013 – One World Trade Center (pictured) in New York City, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, was topped out at a height of 1,776 feet (541 m).

Leonhart Fuchs (d. 1566)
Karl Barth (b. 1886)
Arthur Kopit (b. 1937)

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