Template:Did you know nominations/Steve Sawyer

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 01:31, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Steve Sawyer

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Rainbow Warrior in 1981

... that when Steve Sawyer was celebrating his birthday ashore with his crew, French agents bombed their boat, the Rainbow Warrior (pictured), sinking it and killing a crew member? Source: "two explosions ripped through its hull and sank it, killing the ship’s photographer. French intelligence agents had planted the bombs." "Mr. Sawyer, the senior policy person on board, was in port celebrating his 29th birthday."

Reviewed: Seventh German Inner Africa Research Expedition

Created by Zanhe (talk). Self-nominated at 20:58, 7 September 2019 (UTC).

Long enough, in date and meets all policies. Hook fact is cited and sourced. QPQ has been done, nothing significant on the copyvio detector. Hook is interesting, looks good to go! Spokoyni (talk) 01:52, 11 September 2019 (UTC)