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Today's most-read Wikipedia article is The Odyssey (2026 film), with 1,077,046 views. The day's trending topics span people, entertainment, history.

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The Odyssey is one of two major epics of ancient Greek literature attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest surviving…

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Brenda Fricker was an Irish actress, whose career has spanned six decades on stage and screen. She has appeared in more …

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On This Day

10 events
2024
Neary's, a New York City Irish pub popular with political elites, closed.
2014
Gunmen ambushed an Egyptian military checkpoint in the Libyan Desert near Farafra, killing 22 soldiers.
2013
The NASA spacecraft Cassini took a photograph of Saturn with Earth in the distance (detail pictured), for which people were invited to "wave at Saturn".
1997
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced that it would resume its ceasefire, ending its 28-year campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
1992
A car bomb killed the anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and five policemen in Palermo, Italy, less than two months after the murder of Borsellino's friend and colleague Giovanni Falcone.
1976
Environmental activists bombed the port facilities in Bunbury, Western Australia, in an attempt to disrupt the woodchipping industry.
1957
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, a largely autobiographical novel by Evelyn Waugh, was published.
1936
The July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona begins.
1919
Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of the First World War, English ex-servicemen unhappy with unemployment and other grievances rioted and burned down Luton Town Hall.
1916
First World War: The "worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history" occurred when Australian forces unsuccessfully attacked German defences at Fromelles, France.

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Neaua is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania composed of five villages: Ghinești (Geges), Neaua, Rigmani (Rigmány), Sânsimion (Nyárádszentsimon), and Vădaș (Vadasd).

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