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From today's featured article
Did you know ...
- ... that the trade-dollar locket (example pictured) has also been referred to as an opium dollar?
- ... that despite having never played college football, Henry Bell was able to make the roster of the NFL's Denver Broncos and served as one of the team's starting running backs in their inaugural season?
- ... that the author of In the Land of Invented Languages lived in the same town as a fluent Klingon speaker?
- ... that Elisabeth Anderson Sierra, nicknamed the "milk goddess", holds the Guinness World Record for the largest individual donation of breast milk?
- ... that Chicago-style barbecue is cooked in an aquarium smoker?
- ... that two months after the Black September Organization assassinated Mossad operative Baruch Cohen in Madrid, his role in uncovering a Syria-directed spy ring in Israel was revealed?
- ... that Gladys Quander Tancil interpreted the lives of her enslaved ancestors at George Washington's Mount Vernon for more than twenty years?
- ... that the two residents of the Kabul synagogue argued with each other so much that the Taliban imprisoned them both?
In the news
- The Hazara Express train derails in Sindh, Pakistan, killing 30 people.
- In cricket, the Ashes concludes with Australia retaining the trophy, drawing the series against England (Compton–Miller Medal recipient Chris Woakes pictured).
- In cycling, Demi Vollering wins the Tour de France Femmes.
- IS–KP kill more than 60 people in a suicide bombing at a political rally in Khar, Pakistan.
On this day
August 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples; National Women's Day in South Africa (1956)
- 1897 – The first meeting of the International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Zürich, Switzerland.
- 1942 – Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was premiered in Leningrad while the city was under siege by Nazi forces.
- 1956 – About 20,000 women marched on Pretoria, South Africa, to protest the introduction of pass laws for black women under apartheid.
- 1960 – Led by Albert Kalonji, South Kasai declared its unilateral secession from the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
- 1969 – Members of the Manson Family invaded a house and murdered American actress Sharon Tate (pictured) and four guests in Los Angeles, before killing two more people the following night.
- Arnold Fitz Thedmar (b. 1201)
- Walter Peeler (b. 1887)
- Philip Larkin (b. 1922)
- Beryl May Dent (d. 1977)
Today's featured picture
Lidia Patty (born 1969) is a Bolivian politician who is a former member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement for Socialism). A member of the Kallawaya, an indigenous people native to western Bolivia, she was a domestic worker and schoolteacher before entering politics. After maintaining a low profile in the Chamber of Deputies, Patty gained national attention after her term ended when she was the principal complainant in the 2019 Bolivian political crisis, which resulted in the criminal prosecution of the former president Jeanine Áñez. A polemical figure for her frequent denunciations of opposition and ruling party officials, Patty ran unsuccessfully in the 2022 election for Ombudsman of Bolivia, and was briefly the Bolivian consul to Puno, Peru, in 2023 before being withdrawn amid deteriorating relations between the two countries. This official portrait of Patty as a member of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly was taken in 2016. Photograph credit: Alejandra Vaca
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