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- The New Popular Front wins the most seats in the National Assembly in the French legislative election but does not achieve a majority.
- In Iran, the reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian (pictured) is elected president in the second round of the presidential election.
- The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election and Keir Starmer becomes prime minister.
- Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in a calendar year, leaves at least 35 people dead in the Caribbean, Venezuela, and the United States.
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- ... that Dutch agriculturist Hermanus Johannes Lovink (pictured) used a suitcase gramophone during his lectures?
- ... that the Vancouver School Board's alleged attempt to censor a student newspaper led to the drafting of a press-freedom act?
- ... that fans on TikTok were behind the choice of name for one of SZA's singles?
- ... that when sales slowed on the Texas Centennial half dollar, Senator Tom Connally suggested minting five separate versions?
- ... that the Green Bay Packers once had fourteen players selected to a national All-Pro team?
- ... that Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos bought New York City's Crown Building because of a tearful plea?
- ... that the magazine Acoustic Guitar said that Dan Erlewine "might be the most famous guitar repairperson on earth"?
- ... that models in the runway show for Nihilism by Alexander McQueen were dressed in plastic, locusts, rust, and clay?
- ... that literary critic Leslie Fiedler called the novel Band of Angels "operatic in the worst sense of the word"?
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