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Features Featured article Charles Edward (1884–1954) was at various times a British prince, the last ruling duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in Germany, and a Nazi politician. Brought up in the United Kingdom, he was selected to succeed to the throne of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1899 because he was deemed young enough to be re-educated as a German. He married Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein and the couple had five children. Charles Edward was a conservative ruler with an interest in art and technology. During the First World War, he supported the German Empire but was deposed during the German Revolution. During the 1920s, Charles Edward became a moral and financial supporter of violent far-right paramilitary groups, joining the Nazi Party in 1933. He was given multiple positions, including leader of the German Red Cross, and acted as an unofficial diplomat. After the war, he was interned for a period and given a minor conviction by a denazification court, dying of cancer in 1954. (Full article...) Recently featured: Homeric Hymns Nil Battey Sannata Hundred Years' War, 1345–1347 Selected anniversaries August 2: Roma Holocaust Memorial Day Krishna Lal Adhikari 461 – Unpopular among the Senate aristocracy for his reforming efforts, Roman emperor Majorian was deposed by Ricimer and executed five days later. 1100 – While on a hunting trip in the New Forest, King William II of England was killed by an arrow through the lung loosed by one of his own men. 1790 – The first United States census was officially completed, with the nation's residential population enumerated to be 3,929,214. 1920 – Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn. 1973 – A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man. Pope Severinus (d. 640) Harriet Arbuthnot (d. 1834) Bertha Lutz (b. 1894) Simone Manuel (b. 1996) More anniversaries: August 1 August 2 August 3 In the news Ismail Haniyeh Ismail Haniyeh (pictured), the political leader of Hamas, is assassinated in Tehran, Iran. Landslides in Wayanad, India, kill more than 180 people. In Gaelic football, the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship concludes with Armagh defeating Galway in the final. Typhoon Gaemi leaves more than 70 people dead in the Philippines, China, Taiwan, and Cambodia. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war timeline Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Summer Olympics timeline Recent deaths: Reyes Moronta John Anderson Murray Costello Edna O'Brien Wolfgang Rihm Randy Kehler Did you know... Leaves of S. tonkinensis seedlings ... that the dried leaves of Strobilanthes tonkinensis (examples pictured) give black tea a sticky rice flavor? ... that at age 12, Emily Ausmus participated in an international water polo tournament against players as old as 19? ... that a crab species was named after both an ancient board game and a League of Legends character? ... that Cho Myung-chul was the first North Korean defector to be elected to the South Korean National Assembly? ... that the flagbearer for the Philippines at the 1924 Summer Olympics also carried a flag of the United States? ... that a geographer determined the surface area of Carl Friedrich Gauss's brain? ... that a Kentucky TV station gained industry attention after it criticized the overuse of the term "breaking news"? ... that citizens of New Westminster burnt effigies of Attorney General George Hunter Cary and drowned the ashes? ... that many enthusiasts say that a good tomato sandwich is so messy, it should be eaten over the kitchen sink?

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