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Hillsborough memorial at Anfield

Since 1985, Liverpool Football Club has seen the appointment of Kenny Dalglish as manager, the Hillsborough disaster, and the club's return to European competition. Liverpool won a Premier League and FA Cup double in Dalglish's first season, and won further league titles in 1987–88 and 1989–90. A crush of people at Hillsborough Stadium in April 1989 resulted in 96 deaths (memorial pictured) and led to the end of standing terraces. In 2001, Liverpool won a unique treble of trophies, and a year later finished second to Arsenal, their highest league finish in 11 years. Liverpool won the UEFA Champions League for the fifth time in Rafael Benítez's debut season in 2005, and he guided the club to another FA Cup victory in 2006. Since 2015, Jürgen Klopp has led Liverpool to consecutive Champions League finals; the 2019 win sealed a sixth Champions League title and ended a seven-year trophy drought, followed by a win in the 2019 UEFA Super Cup. (This article is part of a featured topic: Liverpool F.C.)

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Saint Basil's Cathedral

1561 – Saint Basil's Cathedral (pictured), located in Red Square, Moscow, was consecrated.
1963 – Sixteen-year-old Pauline Reade, the first victim of serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, disappeared in Gorton, England.
1979 – Rowdy fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago stormed the field during a Major League Baseball promotional event at which a crate of disco records was blown up.
1998 – France defeated the defending champions Brazil 3–0 to win their first FIFA World Cup title.
2006 – Hezbollah forces crossed the Israel–Lebanon border and attacked Israeli military positions while firing rockets and mortars at Israeli towns, sparking a five-week war.

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The maroon shining parrot (Prosopeia tabuensis) is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. It is native to Fiji and Tonga, where its habitats include forests, plantations, mangroves and gardens. Adults have dark-maroon underparts, green upperparts, and a blue collar of variable prominence. The species feeds mainly on fruit and seeds, nests in tree cavities, and usually lays two or three eggs. Known as the koki in Tonga, it can mimic human speech but is rarely kept in captivity. This maroon shining parrot was photographed on Taveuni, the third-largest island in Fiji.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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