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William Lyon Mackenzie (March 12, 1795 – August 28, 1861) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American journalist and politician. He founded newspapers critical of the Family Compact, represented York County in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and aligned with Reformers. Dundee-born, Mackenzie emigrated to York, Upper Canada, (now Toronto) in 1820 and published his first newspaper in 1824. He was elected to the legislative assembly in 1827 and became Toronto's first mayor in 1834. In 1837, he commanded the rebels in the Upper Canada Rebellion, but was defeated at the Battle of Montgomery's Tavern. He fled to the U.S. to rally American support for an invasion of Upper Canada. This violated the Neutrality Act and he was imprisoned. He discovered and published documents that outlined corrupt financial transactions and government appointments by New York state officials. He represented Haldimand County in the legislature of the Province of Canada from 1851 to 1858, and died in August 1861. (Full article...)

Armley Hippo skeleton

• ... that taxidermist James Dickinson mounted the Armley Hippo (pictured), a hippopotamus native to Yorkshire that is at least 113,000 years old?
• ... that Raymond Hood designed the American Radiator Building with a black-and-gold facade because he thought that other buildings' windows looked like waffles?
• ... that Kylie Minogue's seventh studio album, Light Years, was her first number-one album in her native Australia?
• ... that the HSBC Tower was the largest structure to be constructed in its vicinity since the Empire State Building fifty years earlier?
• ... that dyadic rationals, fractions based on powers of two, can be easier to work with than other kinds of fractions for both schoolchildren and computers?
• ... that three high-ranking officers of USRC Robert McClelland remained with the ship after it surrendered and entered Confederate service?
• ... that the Russian wheelchair fencer Ksenia Ovsyannikova toured the United States on a "mission for inclusion" in 2017?
• ... that while writing Scary Stories for Young Foxes, Christian McKay Heidicker, under his agent's advice, "added a snuggle for every snarl"?

Paralympics opening ceremony

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  Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul
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• The Summer Paralympics open (ceremony pictured) in Tokyo, Japan.
• King of Malaysia
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• Hakainde Hichilema is elected President of Zambia.
• A 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti kills more than 2,200 people.