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The 2009 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's 2009 season. Opening on October 28, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the Philadelphia Phillies, champions of the National League and defending World Series champions, and the New York Yankees, champions of the American League. The Yankees defeated the Phillies, 4 games to 2, with a Game 6 victory in which Hideki Matsui hit his third home run of the series. He was named Most Valuable Player of the series, making him the first Japanese-born player to win the award. Several records were tied, extended, or broken during this World Series, including team championships (Yankees with 27), career postseason wins (Andy Pettitte with 18), career World Series saves (Mariano Rivera with 11), home runs in a World Series (Chase Utley with five), strikeouts by a hitter in a World Series (Ryan Howard with 13), and runs batted in during a single World Series game (Matsui with six). (Full article...)

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Stephanus serrator female laying egg

... that having located a beetle larva in dead timber, the female parasitic wasp Stephanus serrator (pictured) may take several hours to drill a hole towards it in which to lay its egg?
... that Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Dave Roller, who weighed 270 pounds (120 kg) at the time, was carried off Lambeau Field by fans after a victory against the Detroit Lions?
... that the 2013 Perkins Review found that only 24% of British parents considered engineering a suitable career for their daughters?
... that the Georgian hearth goddess Lamaria was venerated exclusively by women, either in private rituals within the home or in private shrines outside the boundaries of villages?
... that Saturday Zoo host Jonathan Ross was described as "humour-resistant Teflon"?
... that Robert of Nantes was "an old and venerable man aged eighty years" when he was imprisoned along with Louis IX of France during the Seventh Crusade?
... that in his opera Tri sestry (Three Sisters), composer Péter Eötvös wants the three sisters from Chekhov's play to be sung by countertenors?
... that basketball player Donte Ingram owns at least 50 pairs of sneakers?

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Sahle-Work Zewde

A shooting at a synagogue kills 11 people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Sahle-Work Zewde (pictured) becomes the first female President of Ethiopia.
Packages containing pipe bombs are mailed to prominent critics of U.S. President Donald Trump including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden.
A passenger train derails in Yilan County, Taiwan, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 170 others.
Nine sugarcane farmers are shot and killed in Sagay, Philippines.

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October 28: Feast day of Jude the Apostle (Western Christianity)

Statue of Liberty

1707 – The Hōei earthquake ruptured all of the segments of the Nankai megathrust simultaneously – the only earthquake known to have done this.
1886 – In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty (pictured), a gift from France commemorating the Declaration of Independence.
1940 – World War II: Italy invaded Greece after Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas rejected Benito Mussolini's ultimatum demanding the cession of Greek territory.
1995 – A fire in the Baku Metro, Azerbaijan, killed at least 289 people and injured 270 more in the world's deadliest subway disaster.
2007 – In the Argentine general election, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became the first woman to be elected President of Argentina.

Ibas of Edessa (d. 457) · Marie of the Incarnation (b. 1599) · Francis Bacon (b. 1909)

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After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself is a pastel drawing by Edgar Degas, made at some point between 1890 and 1895. The work is part of a series of drawings, preliminary sketches and completed works in pastels and oils by Degas from this period that depict women bathing. The drawing was made on several pieces of paper mounted on cardboard. Degas may have started with a smaller composition which he extended as he worked, requiring more paper. The work had a considerable influence on Francis Bacon, most noticeably on his triptychs Three Figures in a Room (1964) and Three Studies of the Male Back (1970). The painting is now in the National Gallery in London.

Drawing: Edgar Degas.

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