User:Rfl

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Penrose Tribar

Rafał Pocztarski

Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)

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Li Fu Lee (1904–1985) was a Chinese engineer and teacher who in 1925 became the first Chinese woman to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She majored in electrical engineering, a course which some undergraduates at the time described as the most difficult major. She was one of the 25 women who graduated from MIT in 1929 and one of the first women to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering at MIT. After graduating, Lee returned to China, where she became an engineer and taught at university. She fled with her family to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War and later returned to the United States, residing in Chicago. This 1925 photograph shows Lee at MIT's radio experiment station.Photograph credit: Underwood & Underwood; restored by Adam Cuerden

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October 9: Leif Erikson Day in the United States, parts of Canada, and communities in the Nordic countries

Empress Marie Louise

• 1813 – Late in the Napoleonic Wars, Empress Marie Louise (pictured) issued decrees conscripting tens of thousands of French teenagers, who became known as Marie-Louises.
• 1874 – The Universal Postal Union, then known as the General Postal Union, was established with the signing of the Treaty of Bern to unify disparate postal services and regulations so that international mail could be exchanged easily.
• 1914 – World War I: The civilian authorities of Antwerp surrendered and allowed the German army to capture the city.
• 2019 – Syrian civil war: Turkish forces began an offensive into north-eastern Syria following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region.

• Reginald Dyer (b. 1864)
• William E. Woods (b. 1949)
• Rockin' Robin (b. 1964)
• Oskar Schindler (d. 1974)

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John Hopfield (left) and Geoffrey Hinton

• John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton (both pictured) receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research in machine learning with artificial neural networks.
• A gang attack on the Haitian town of Pont-Sondé leaves seventy people dead and fifty others injured.
• More than twenty people die in flooding and landslides in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• A school bus crash and fire in Pathum Thani, Thailand, kills twenty-two school children and three teachers.

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