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Today's featured article DeLancey W. Gill (1859–1940) was an American drafter, landscape painter, and photographer. As a teenager, he moved in with an aunt in Washington, D.C., after his mother and stepfather traveled west. He eventually found himself employed as an architectural draftsman for the Treasury. He created sketches and watercolor paintings of the city, with a particular focus on the still-undeveloped rural and poorer areas of the district. While working as an illustrator for the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology in the 1890s, he was appointed as the agency's photographer without prior photographic training. He took portrait photographs that circulated widely of thousands of Native American delegates to Washington, including notable figures such as Chief Joseph and Geronimo. These photographs have come under modern criticism for his frequent use of props and clothing, sometimes outdated or inauthentic, given to the delegates. (Full article...) Recently featured: Oceanic whitetip shark RoboCop Tales of Monkey Island Selected anniversaries July 10: Independence Day in the Bahamas (1973) Martin Luther King Jr. 1645 – English Civil War: The Parliamentarians destroyed the last Royalist field army at the Battle of Langport, ultimately giving Parliament control of the west of England. 1942 – An American naval aviator discovered a downed Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island, Alaska, which was later rebuilt and flown to devise tactics against the aircraft during World War II. 1966 – Martin Luther King Jr. (pictured) led a rally in support of the Chicago Freedom Movement, one of the most ambitious civil-rights campaigns in the northern United States. 1999 – The United States defeated China in the final match of the third FIFA Women's World Cup, setting records in both attendance and television ratings for women's sports. 2006 – Typhoon Ewiniar made landfall in South Korea, causing damages across the country amounting to 2.06 trillion won (US$1.4 billion). Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey (b. 1614) Eva Ekeblad (b. 1724) Bobo Brazil (b. 1924) Calogero Vizzini (d. 1954) More anniversaries: July 9 July 10 July 11	In the news Keir Starmer The New Popular Front wins the most seats in the National Assembly in the French legislative election but does not achieve a majority. The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election and Keir Starmer (pictured) becomes prime minister. Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in a calendar year, leaves at least 15 people dead in the Caribbean, Venezuela, and the United States. In the Netherlands, a new cabinet is sworn in, with Dick Schoof serving as the prime minister. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war timeline Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Jane McAlevey Rick Cluff Martti Wallén Audrey Flack Ismail Kadare Hugh Aldons Did you know... Yevhen Klopotenko ... that Yevhen Klopotenko (pictured) fought a "war for borscht"? ... that a street in San Francisco was named after a man who used a false identity? ... that Alfie Templeman described the style of his studio album Radiosoul as "incohesively cohesive"? ... that Rosemary Miller won her state's skeet shooting championship one year after learning the sport, and then won a state shooting championship in all but two years for the rest of her life? ... that the Japanese boy band Nexz was created through the program Nizi Project season 2? ... that the Nazi collaborator Sebastiaan de Ranitz abandoned his office following Mad Tuesday, leaving his department in turmoil? ... that Gedling Town F.C.'s nickname "The Ferrymen" was inspired by the name of a pub located next to the team's stadium? ... that Antonio Dini was the only survivor of a three-man crew after he crashed a plane into the sea, but had no recollection of the crash due to concussion? ... that after a pigeon sculpture in Wellington went missing, members of the public created a memorial for it?
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