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June 25: Statehood Day in Croatia and Slovenia

Michael Angelo "Mike" Arcuri (born June 11, 1959) is presently serving his second term in the United States House of Representatives. Arcuri represents New York's 24th congressional district. The district encompasses a large swath of central New York, including Utica,...

Liu Zhijun (simplified Chinese: 刘志军; traditional Chinese: 劉志軍; pinyin: Liú Zhìjūn) (born January 1953, Hubei Province) is Minister of Railways in the People's Republic of China.

Philip Maxwell Ruddock (born 12 March 1943) is an Australian politician who is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Berowra, New South Wales, for the Liberal Party of Australia. First elected in a 1973...

Rush Dew Holt, Jr. (born October 15, 1948, Weston, West Virginia) is an American Democratic Party politician and the current U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. He is currently the only Quaker in the Congress and one of...

Erkki Liikanen (born September 19, 1950, Mikkeli) is a Finnish social democratic politician and Governor of the Bank of Finland.

Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American Jewish journalist who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan by al Qaeda terrorists. At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau...

Dr. Haing S. Ngor (Traditional Chinese: 吳漢, March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian American physician, actor and author who is best known for winning the 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in...

Dith Pran (September 27, 1942 – March 30, 2008) was a Cambodian photojournalist best known as a refugee and Cambodian Genocide survivor and was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields (1984). He was portrayed in the...

Mayankote Kelath Narayanan (1934 - ) is the National Security Advisor (NSA) to the Prime Minister of India. He was appointed to this post on January 25, 2005, three weeks after the former NSA, J N Dixit died on January...