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From today's featured article  J. K. Rowling is a pen name of Joanne Rowling, the British author of the children's fantasy series Harry Potter, the crime series Cormoran Strike and other works. Before her first Potter novel was published on 26 June 1997, her mother died from multiple sclerosis (MS) in 1990 and she lived on state assistance as a single parent after her marriage failed in 1993. Separation and loss are reflected in the Potter novels, with death and the divide between good and evil as central themes. Despite receiving mixed reviews for perceived conventional writing, Rowling became the world's highest-paid author by 2008. The series has sold over 500 million copies and spawned a media franchise including films and video games. Rowling has used her wealth to advance political causes, as well as charitable causes centred around MS, women and children. Her views on transgender rights have led to controversy, with critics deeming them transphobic. She has received many accolades for literature and philanthropy. (Full article...) Recently featured:


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Ongoing: Recent deaths&#58; On this day June 26  Liquid fluorine Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin ( b. 1699)Ebenezer Pemberton  ( d. 1835)</li><li>David Goldblatt  ( d. 2018)</li></ul> More anniversaries:
 * Mass shootings (location pictured) during LGBT pride celebrations in Oslo, Norway, leave two people dead and twenty-one others injured.
 * The United States Supreme Court determines that abortion is not a protected constitutional right, overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
 * A 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan kills at least 1,100 people and injures more than 1,600 others.
 * Gustavo Petro wins the Colombian presidential election, defeating Rodolfo Hernández Suárez in the runoff.
 * COVID-19 pandemic
 * Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * Rima Melati
 * Paul M. Ellwood Jr.
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 * Hugh McElhenny
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 * 1243 – Mongol invasions of Anatolia: Mongols achieved a decisive victory over the Seljuq Turks, leading to the decline and disintegration of the Seljuk state.
 * 1886 – French chemist Henri Moissan successfully isolated elemental fluorine (pictured in liquid state), for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
 * 1907 – Organized by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others, Bolshevik revolutionaries robbed a bank stagecoach in Tiflis, present-day Georgia.
 * 1997 – J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter fantasy novel series, is released.
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