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# Capture of Torrijos Airport

The Capture of Torrijos Airport took place as an opening action of the United States invasion of Panama, and was fought between the U.S. military and the Panama Defense Forces (PDF) on 20 December 1989. The goal of this operation was to capture the Panamanian Air Force, headquartered at the airport, and to close the airport to traffic coming into Panama.
The capture of Torrijos Airport was executed by the U.S. Army Rangers of the 75th Ranger Regiment.

## Background

The US had developed a three-stage plan to capture Torrijos Airport to the mission: to isolate Objective Bear (the main terminal), to eliminate enemy resistance, and to prevent the Panama Defense Forces (PDF) from interfering with Operation Just Cause.
The Company C could rely on fire support consisted of an AC-130 "Spectre" gunship and AH-6 attack helicopters. The American plan called for the AC-130 was to clear three .50-caliber machine gun positions and a ZPU-4 anti-aircraft position at the airport, while the AH-6s neutralised the PDF guard tower.
Initially, U.S. intelligence indicated that there were very few people in the main terminal at H-Hour. However, two international flights had just landed at the airport, which was still fully operational. As a result of this, there were actually 398 civilians in the airport rather than the few dozen that the Americans had expected to find. In addition, to this intelligence failure the PDF's 2nd Company was on alert and was patrolling in and around the airport terminal buildings.

## The operation

The Rangers began their operations after another group had launched preliminary airstrikes against the Panamanian Defense Forces defending the airfield. After this they airdropped towards the airfield from a height of 500 feet, which was 300 feet less than their training drops in the US. Unfortunately, some Rangers forgot to release their rucksacks and ended up injuring their ankles upon landing. Despite this setback, they managed to secure the airfield with relatively little resistance, though there was some gunfire in the main terminal building. While the mission was successful, some accounts of the event suggest that one Ranger lost their life during the battle.

## Aftermath

On the morning of 20 December 1989, at approximately 7am, the Ranger company was able to linked up with units from the 82nd Airborne Division. The prisoners, detainees, and confiscated documents and weapons were turned over to the military police company commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.
During the course of the operation to capture the airport, only 1 ranger was killed and 5 were wounded. Whereas 5 PDF soldiers were killed and 21 were captured.
# Liusan Road station

Liusan Road Station is a metro station at Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It opened on December 18, 2020, with the opening of Chengdu Metro Line 6.
# BRP Benguet

BRP Benguet (LS-507) is a LST-542-class tank landing ship, currently serving the Philippine Navy.
Formerly known as USS Daviess County (LST-692), it was an LST-542-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named after counties in Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name. She served in World War II and during the Korean War. The US Government transferred Daviess County to the Philippine Navy in 1976, which renamed her BRP Benguet (LT-507). A new classification system implemented in April 2016 changed her hull number from LT-507 to LS-507.

## Service history
### United States service

LST-692 was laid down on 7 February 1944 at Jeffersonville, Indiana, by the Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Company; launched on 31 March 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Alma D. Voelker; and commissioned on 10 May 1944.
During World War II, LST-692 was assigned to the European Theater and participated in the invasion of southern France in August and September, 1944. Decommissioned in 1946, she was placed in the reserve fleet at Green Cove Springs, Florida until reactivated in 1951. She performed active service during the Korean War and thereafter. LST-692 was redesignated USS Daviess County (LST-692) on 1 July 1955.
LST-692 earned one battle star for World War II service and two battle stars for Korean service.
Daviess County was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 June 1964 and transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) where she operated as T-LST-692.

### Philippine service

The US Government transferred Daviess County to the Philippine Navy on 13 September 1976, which renamed her to BRP Benguet (LT-507). In 1999, the Philippines stationed Benguet on Scarborough Shoal. China then urged the Philippines to remove her, and the Philippines immediately replied that it would do so. However, the Philippines only removed BRP Benguet from Scarborough Shoal shortly before the official visit of Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji to Manila. After that removal she went aground again on Thitu Island in 2004, but was removed again and still serves the Philippine Navy today.
In September 2018, the BRP Benguet along with the BRP Sindangan (MRRV-4407), BRP Cabra (MRRV-4409) and BRP Nestor Reinoso (PG-380) secured and assisted the BRP Gregorio del Pilar (FF-15) which ended up being grounded at the Half Moon Shoal in the South China Sea. The BRP Gregorio del Pilar was eventually pulled out from the shoal a couple of days later.

## Citations

* ↑ "ASEAN Summit to Face Spratly Dispute". China News Digest – Global. 15 November 1999. Retrieved 1 March 2008.
* ↑ “PCG Team Arrives at Hasa-hasa Shoal to Help Extract Grounded Navy Frigate”
* ↑ “Major Dockyard Repair Awaits BRP Gregorio Del Pilar”
# Udinese Channel

Udinese Channel is a subscription-based channel, entirely dedicated to the Italian football team Udinese Calcio. The channel offers Udinese Calcio fans exclusive interviews with players and staff, full matches, including replays of all Serie A, Coppa Italia, and UEFA Cup games, in addition to vintage matches, footballing news, and other themed programming.

## Staff

* Francesco Pezzella
* Chiara Perale
* Gabriele Schiavi
* Maurizio Ferrari
* Luca Brivio
* Giulia Borletto
* Valerio Canetti
* Michele Criscitiello

## Regular or semi-regular guests

* Bruno Pizzul
* Ivan Zazzaroni
* Giancarlo Padovan
* Malu Mpasinkatu
* Riccardo Guffanti
* Massimiliano Caniato
* Xavier Jacobelli

## Programming

* Udinese Network
* Rassegna stampa
* Buongiorno Friuli
* Udinese news
* Udinese tonight
* A tu per tu con ...
* Udinese time
* Orizzonti bianconeri
* TG 6 minuti
* Sintesi campionato
* Diario della settimana
* Lo sai che?
* Speciale vecchie glorie bianconere
* Speciale Watford
* Speciale Granada

## Coverage Map

* 110 Friuli-Venezia Giulia
* 195 Veneto

## Multiplex

| LCN | Name | Note |
| 10 | Telequattro | FTA |
| 18 | Rete Veneta | FTA |
| 110 | Udinese Channel | FTA |
| 210 | Telequattro + | FTA |
| 601 | Udinese Channel + | FTA |
# Alice Alison Lide

Alice Alison Lide (1890–1955) was an American author of children's books. She received a 1930 Newbery Honor for her book Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer.

## Biography

Alice Alison was born in Richmond, Alabama on February 8, 1890 to Joseph D. and Annie Hearst Alison. She had at least one sibling, Margaret Alison Johansen, with whom she sometimes wrote. She attended Converse College and Columbia University.
Alison eventually married Thomas Evan Lide and added his last name to hers. The couple lived in Selma and Carlowville, Alabama.
Lide died November 21, 1955.
# Albert Nyembo

Albert Nyembo Mwana-Ngongo (born 30 May 1929) is a Congolese and Katangese politician who was a Secretary of State and Minister for Congo and secessionist Katanga.

## Early life

Nyembo went to school at the St. Boniface Institute in Élisabethville, capital of Katanga, then in the Belgian Congo. He obtained a degree from the school of telecommunication in Léopoldville, the colony's capital, in 1950. Before 1960, he was a civil servant and trade unionist in the Belgian Congo. In 1957, Nyembo founded the CONAKAT party together with Godefroid Munongo, Évariste Kimba, and Rodolphe Yav. This occurred within a context of anti-Kasaï sentiments. Nyembo was the President of a group of Hemba people from Kongolo, Assobako, which went on to adhere to CONAKAT.

## Career

During the communal election organised before independence, he was elected as a municipal councilor and member of the Élisabethville council. In 1960, he was elected as a national MP for the Tanganyika constituency. He was appointed Secretary of State for National Defense as a CONAKAT party member in the Lumumba Government. He was a Secretary of State, since the portfolio of National Defense was added to the Prime Minister's.
Eleven days after Congo's independence, Moïse Tshombe declared the independence of the State of Katanga. Nyembo resigned from his position in the central government and became the Secretary of State of Public Service for the Katangese regime, his deputy chef de cabinet was Léonard Ilunga. At the start of the secession, four delegations were sent out to explain the government's point of view. The second delegation, led by Minister of Foreign Affairs Évariste Kimba, included Nyembo, Gabriel Kitenge, Cyprien Kayumba Mfumu wa Bwana, Léonard Kanyangala, and an ordinance officer, and left for Europe at the start of August.
After the secession ended, he was appointed Minister of National Economy in the Cyrille Adoula government of the reunified Congo. In 1965, he became a national MP for Tanganyika.
Nyembo was also active as a manager, as a President of the Compagnie du chemin de fer du Congo supérieur aux Grands Lacs africains in 1964 and President of Brasseries du Katanga [fr] in 1973. During the national elections for the Bureau politique (political office) in 1970, he was elected a political commissioner for the Shaba region. He served for the Bureau politique of the sole party Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR) from 22 November 1977 to 18 February 1981. He was a member of the Central Committee of MPR since the announcement of its composition on 2 September 1980. He was President of the Financial and Economic Commission from the beginning until March 1984. His mandate at the Central Committee was renewed on 28 January 1985.

## Honours

* Zaire: Commander of the National Order of the Leopard
# Solomon Run

Solomon Run is a stream in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Solomon Run was named for Solomon Claypool, an early settler.
# George Reynolds (basketball)

George Reynolds (born November 23, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player who played collegiately for Houston before a brief stint in the NBA with the Detroit Pistons.

## College career

Reynolds transferred from Imperial Valley, a junior college, to Houston in 1967.
He was part of the 1967–68 Cougars team which downed UCLA (then undefeated for 47 games) in the Game of the Century on 20 January 1968. He scored a team second-best 13 points in the 71–69 upset, also contributing good defending.
He was the starting guard for Houston, the No. 1 collegiate team that season, and led the team in assists during the regular season with 157, also scoring 280 points. However, he was ruled ineligible for postseason play in March 1968, a few days before the NCAA tournament, because of insufficient semester hours at Imperial Valley. Houston would lose 69–101 to UCLA in the tournament semi-finals, with teammate Don Chaney crediting Reynolds' absence as decisive. He again led Houston in assists during the 1968–69 season, also contributing 13 points per game in his senior year.

## Professional career

He was drafted in the ninth round (117th pick overall) of the 1969 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons, he signed with the team in June of that year. He played only 10 games for the Pistons (averaging 2.1 points and 1.2 assists) during the 1969–70 NBA season before being waived in mid-December
Reynolds played eight games for the Binghamton Flyers / Trenton Pat Pavers in the Eastern Basketball Association (EBA) during the 1970–71 season.
He played for the Swiss Alpines of the European Professional Basketball League during the league's only season in early 1975.

## Career statistics
### NBA

Source

#### Regular season

| Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
| 1969–70 | Detroit | 10 | 4.4 | .421 | .714 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 2.1 |
# Carolly Erickson

Carolly Erickson (born January 1, 1943) was an American author of historical fiction and non-fiction. She lived in California, Hawaii and Washington State. In 2008, her book The Tsarina's Daughter won the RT Reader's Choice Award for best Historical Fiction.

## Novels

* The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette (2005)
* The Last Wife of Henry VIII (2006)
* The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise (2007)
* The Tsarina's Daughter (2008)
* The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots (2009)
* Rival to the Queen (2010)
* The Favored Queen (2011)
* The Unfaithful Queen (2012)
* The Spanish Queen (2013)

## Non fiction

* The Records of Medieval Europe (1971)
* The Medieval Vision: Essays in History And Perception (1976)
* Bloody Mary: The Life of Mary Tudor (1978)
* Civilization and society in the West (1978)
* Josephine: A Life of the Empress (1980)
* Great Harry: The Extravagant Life of Henry Viii (1980)
* Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs (1980) (Brief Lives of the English Monarchs (2007)
* The First Elizabeth (1983)
* Mistress Anne (1984)
* Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England (1986)
* Bonnie Prince Charlie (1989)
* To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette (1991)
* Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1994)
* Her Little Majesty: The Life of Queen Victoria (1997)
* Arc of the Arrow: Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography (1998)
* Alexandra: The Last Tsarina (2001)
* The Girl From Botany Bay (2004)
* Lilibet: An Intimate Portrait Of Elizabeth II (2004)
# Jane Ward (volleyball)

Jane Lois Ward (April 30, 1928 – November 24, 2024) was an American volleyball player and coach. She played for the United States national team at the 1955 Pan American Games, the 1956 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship, the 1959 Pan American Games, the 1960 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship, the 1963 Pan American Games, the 1964 Summer Olympics, the 1967 Pan American Games, and the 1968 Summer Olympics.

## Early life and education

Ward was born in Buffalo, New York on April 30, 1928. She attended the University of Buffalo, where she majored in physical education, played hockey, and was a star player on semi-pro softball and basketball teams.

## Playing career

In the early 1950s, Ward moved to Southern California, where beginning in 1954, she played as an outside hitter and setter in the United States Volleyball Association (USVBA), primarily for the Long Beach Ahern Shamrocks. She was a dominant player in the league until her retirement in 1968; her teams won 13 national championships, she was All-American each year, and she was USVBA MVP five times.
Internationally, Ward played on the United States women's volleyball team at the World Championships in 1956 (the US's first appearance, winning silver) and 1960; at the 1955 Pan American Games (winning silver), the 1959 Pan American Games (winning silver), the 1963 Pan American Games (winning silver), and the 1967 Pan American Games (winning gold); and at the 1964 Summer Olympics (the inaugural year for the sport) and the 1968 Summer Olympics.

## Coaching career

After retiring as a player in 1968, Ward coached women's volleyball for 20 years. In 1968, she joined the coaching staff at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California. She was head coach from 1969 to 1978; her team won the California state title in 1978. From 1974 to 1979, she was also the first women's volleyball head coach at San Jose State University, where the team placed 7th nationally in 1978 and she was conference coach of the year in 1974.

## Death

Ward died on November 24, 2024, at the age of 96.

## Honors

* USVBA All-Time Great Players Award, 1969
* International Volleyball Hall of Fame, 1988
* USA Volleyball National Team Award, 2009
* University of Buffalo Athletic Hall of Fame, 1989
* Cabrillo College Hall of Fame, 2019

## Publications

* with Allen E. Scates. Volleyball. Allyn and Bacon series in basic concepts of physical activity. [1969]. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1975. ISBN 9780205048175.
# Cyndy Szekeres

Cyndy Szekeres (October 31, 1933 – November 22, 2024) was an American children's book author and illustrator who has produced more than 130 books in the tradition of Beatrix Potter and Garth Williams. Best known for her anthropomorphic animal illustrations, she won the 1969 AIGA Award for Moon Mouse.

## Biography

Szekeres was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on October 31, 1933. Her parents were Stephen Paul, a toolmaker, and Anna (Ceplousky) Szekeres. Her father was a first-generation immigrant from Hungary, while her mother was a second-generation Lithuanian American. Szekeres grew up in the countryside of Fairfield County, where she developed a love of nature and began drawing in pencil at a very young age. Growing up in the later years of the Great Depression, she got her start drawing on brown paper bags. She drew inspiration from the work of N. C. Wyeth and Arthur Rackham.
Encouraged by her father, who had heard advertising was a remunerative career, Szekeres studied art at the Pratt Institute between 1951 and 1954, earning a certificate in 1954. Richard Lindner taught her, Richard Scarry mentored her, and Tomie dePaola and Arnold Lobel counted among her classmates. However, Szekeres never intended to become a commercial artist. Following graduation, she worked various odd jobs, painting and dressing mechanical mannequins for window displays, assisting an art director at True Confessions magazine, and illustrating children's fashion for Saks Fifth Avenue.
Szekeres married Pratt classmate Gennaro "Jerry" Prozzo (1929–2006), a painter and etcher to whom dePaola had introduced her, on September 20, 1958. They moved to Brooklyn Heights, New York, where Prozzo taught art in parochial schools while Szekeres became a homemaker. The couple had two sons, Marco and Christopher, and two grandchildren, Nina and Emmett. They moved from Brooklyn Heights to Putney, Vermont, in 1974. Prozzo served as art department chair at Windham College until the college closed in 1978. He subsequently taught at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and maintained a studio in the home he shared with Szekeres. Following Prozzo's death, Szekeres continued to live on her 11-acre family farm in the forests outside Putney.
While pregnant with her first son, Szekeres received her first commission in 1959 to illustrate Sam Vaughan's New Shoes, published in 1961. She illustrated Miriam E. Mason's book Hoppity (Macmillan, 1962). Long Ago (1977) was the first book she both wrote and illustrated. In 1981, she signed an exclusive contract with Western Publishing to illustrate dozens of Little Golden Books during the 1980s and 1990s. Starting in 2000, Szekeres has written and illustrated a series of preschool concept books featuring a very young mouse named Toby. Her books had sold more than 14 million copies by 1996.
Her papers are held in the Northeast Children's Literature Collection of the University of Connecticut Library's Archives and Special Collections.
Szekeres died in Maryville, Tennessee on November 22, 2024, at the age of 91.
# Labbezanga attack

On December 3, 2023, jihadists from the Islamic State – Sahil Province (ISSP) launched simultaneous attacks against Malian forces and allied Wagner Group mercenaries in Labbézanga, Gao Region, and against Tuareg militia groups in Ménaka Region.

## Background

Labbezanga is a small town on the border between Mali and Niger, deep in territory controlled by the jihadist groups Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) and the Islamic State – Sahil Province (ISSP). The Malian military camp has been the target of many jihadist attacks, including one in July 2023 that injured a civilian. In early 2023, the Malian junta that took power in 2021 demanded the evacuation of MINUSMA by the end of the year. Around this same time, the Malian Army began cooperating with the Russian Wagner Group after the junta kicked the French of Operation Barkhane out a year prior.
The Malian camp at Labbezanga was built in 2020 by French troops of Barkhane in a Vauban style. When it was first built, Le Figaro called the fortress "impregnable."

## Attack

Two attacks were launched by ISGS on December 3; one in Ménaka and one in Labbezanga. The attack in Menaka targeted the pro-government Movement for the Salvation of Azawad (MSA) and GATIA militias, and briefly ended after an hour of fighting. ISSP attacked the Malian fort at Labbezanga while fighting at Menaka raged, with the Menaka attack intended to divert Malian attention and forces away from Labbezanga. ISSP fighters seized weapons, ammunition, and fuel, and torched the camp before abandoning it.
Malian officials stated in a report that night that several dozen jihadists were killed and twenty were captured across both attacks, but these reports were unverifiable. In later reports, the Malian army stated it had conducted air and land counteroffensives against the group. RFI stated that between thirty and forty Malian soldiers were killed in the attack. The Malian junta denied the capture of the camp, but photos released by the Islamic State's Amaq News Agency showed the fighters capturing the base. The raid was likely the first confrontation between Wagner mercenaries and ISSP fighters since the mercenaries arrived in Mali earlier that year.
After the attack subsided, Nigerien soldiers from across the border visited the base to aid Malian soldiers.

## Aftermath

On December 23, 2023, Malian colonel Ibrahim Samassa visited the camp at Labbezanga, which was repopulated by Malian soldiers led by Souleymane Dembele. Samassa congratulated the soldiers in defending the base after the attack on December 3. Malian counteroffensive operations were called Operation Moniko, and lasted from December 3 to January 25, 2024. Malian officials claimed that Operation Moniko killed sixty-five jihadists and arrested forty-two others.
# Butch Booker

Harold "Butch" Booker, also known as Hal Booker (born July 20, 1945) is a retired American basketball player.
He played collegiately for the Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. He was drafted by both the New York Knicks (5th round) and the Seattle SuperSonics (4th round) in the 1968 and 1969 editions of the NBA draft, respectively, but never played for either team.
He played for the Miami Floridians (1969–70) in the ABA for 12 games.
Booker played 10 games for the Binghamton Flyers / Trenton Pat Pavers in the Eastern Basketball Association (EBA) during the 1970–71 season.
# Sripati Chandrasekhar

Sripati Chandrasekhar (22 November 1918, Rajahmundry - 14 June 2001, San Diego, California) was a well-known Indian demographer, economist, sociologist, and scholar who has published extensively on demographics, especially related to India.
Chandrasekhar attended Vorhees High School in Vellore India which was a Protestant Christian school. Later, he attended Madras Presidency College, from where he graduated with a B.A. and M.A. in economics. In 1944, he earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University.
Sripati married Ann Downes, an American Quaker from New Jersey, in a wedding officiated by protestant unitarian John Haynes Holmes in 1947. In April 1964, Chandrasekhar was elected to the upper house of the Indian parliament. He was appointed Minister of Health and Family Planning by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1967.
Chandresekhar was deeply concerned by the growing Indian population, and advocated a variety of population control measures such as sterilization, abortion, and abstinence. He faced criticism from traditional sectors of society, for example when he advocated that Indians begin eating beef, in contravention of Hindu tradition. He also traveled through communist China, studying its population and social and economic trends.
# TCDD DH9500

TCDD DH9500 is a diesel-hydraulic locomotive operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD). A total of 26 units were delivered from 1999 by Tülomsaş. They are a hydraulic derivative of DE11000 delivered in the 1980s.