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Today's featured article Modern gravestone of Justus Justus was the fourth archbishop of Canterbury. Pope Gregory the Great sent Justus to England on a mission to Christianise the Anglo-Saxons, probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in 601. Justus became the first bishop of Rochester in 604 and signed a letter to the Irish bishops urging them to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter. He also attended a church council in Paris in 614. Following the death of King Æthelberht of Kent in 616, Justus was forced to flee to Gaul but was reinstated in his diocese the following year. In 624, Justus became Archbishop of Canterbury, overseeing the despatch of missionaries to Northumbria. He died on 10 November, probably sometime between 627 and 631. After his death, he was revered as a saint and had a shrine in St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury, to which his remains were translated in the 1090s (gravestone pictured). (This article is part of a featured topic: Members of the Gregorian mission.) Recently featured: George Floyd (American football) Mario Party DS Starship Troopers (film) Selected anniversaries November 10 Caroll Spinney with his Oscar the Grouch puppet 1599 – At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed King Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed in the Åbo Bloodbath. 1969 – The children's television series Sesame Street (puppeteer pictured) premiered in the United States. 1972 – Three men hijacked Southern Airways Flight 49 and threatened to crash it into Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S. state of Tennessee. 2006 – Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo. 2009 – A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea. Afzal Khan (d. 1659) Scipione Piattoli (b. 1749) Andrés Manuel del Río (b. 1764) Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (b. 1887) More anniversaries: November 9 November 10 November 11	In the news Olaf Scholz The German ruling coalition (Chancellor Olaf Scholz pictured) collapses over disagreements on economic policies. Donald Trump wins the United States presidential election. Maia Sandu is re-elected President of Moldova. In baseball, the Yokohama DeNA BayStars defeat the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to win the Japan Series. A canopy collapse at Serbia's Novi Sad railway station kills fourteen people. The ruins of a Maya city, dubbed Valeriana, are discovered in Campeche, Mexico. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Ram Narayan Elwood Edwards Anna Lo Syed Shah Khusro Hussaini Madeleine Riffaud Sharda Sinha Did you know... Núria Llansà ... that despite being Barcelona's starting goalkeeper for 1972, Núria Llansà (pictured) played one match as right-back? ... that the Lichfield War Memorial includes a life-size depiction of Saint George and a slain dragon? ... that the current flag of Falcón, a state of Venezuela, was first hoisted at the Monument to the Venezuelan Federation in 2006 and is based on the design of the 1806 naval flag of Francisco de Miranda? ... that Abraham Hamadeh lost one of the closest elections in Arizona history by 280 votes, and has filed multiple lawsuits challenging the results? ... that during the Second World War the British government transmitted German music to Nazi U-boats? ... that photographer Charles Biasiny-Rivera and fellow members of the artistic collective En Foco drove around New York City in his Volkswagen Bus putting on art exhibitions in Latino neighborhoods? ... that sculptor Moelwyn Merchant described his 1982 piece Growing Form as resembling "a tulip bud with the front leaf pulled out"? ... that the music video for "It's OK I'm OK" was edited to make its singer appear naked? ... that hot-dog vendor Dan Rossi has slept inside his cart overnight to preserve his spot in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
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