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Enoch Fenwick (May 15, 1780 – November 25, 1827) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit, who ministered throughout Maryland and became the president of Georgetown College in Washington, D.C. Born in Maryland, he studied at Georgetown College (pictured). Like his brother, future bishop Benedict Joseph Fenwick, he entered the priesthood, studying at St. Mary's Seminary before entering the Society of Jesus, which was suppressed at the time. He became the rector of St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral in Baltimore for ten years, and was briefly also the vicar general of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. In 1820, Fenwick reluctantly accepted his appointment as the president of Georgetown College. While he made some improvements to the curriculum, his presidency was considered unsuccessful by contemporaries due to declining enrollment and mounting debt. In August 1825, he abandoned the presidency following a disagreement with the provincial superior. Two years later, he died at Georgetown College. (Full article...)

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May 15: Feast day of Saint Carthage (Catholicism); Nakba Day in Palestinian communities

Coin depicting Valentinian II

392 – Roman emperor Valentinian II (coin pictured) was found hanged in his residence in Vienne, in present-day France.
1855 – Thieves stole 224 pounds (102 kg) of gold from a train travelling from London to Folkestone, England.
1904 – Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese battleships Hatsuse and Yashima sank after striking several mines off Port Arthur, China.
1916 – Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas.
1979 – Uganda–Tanzania War: Tanzanian forces captured Lira in central Uganda in what became the last organised stand made by the Ugandan Army during the war.

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Paolo Rossi

The first Italy international football player to score a hat-trick was Pietro Lana, who scored three times in a 6–2 victory against France on 15 May 1910. The highest individual score in a single match is four goals, which has been achieved by six players: Carlo Biagi, Francesco Pernigo, Omar Sívori, Alberto Orlando, Gigi Riva, and Roberto Bettega. Five players have scored a hat-trick more than once: Giuseppe Meazza, Angelo Schiavio, Silvio Piola, Riva and Paolo Rossi (pictured). The highest number of Italy hat-tricks in a single match is three, which occurred during the third-place match at the 1928 Summer Olympics, an 11–3 victory over Egypt in which Angelo Schiavio, Elvio Banchero and Mario Magnozzi each scored three goals. In the 1982 FIFA World Cup second group-stage match, Italy won 3–2 against Brazil; Rossi scored a hat-trick in the match that allowed Italy to progress to the semi-finals. (Full list...)

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Lestes sponsa, also known as the emerald damselfly or the common spreadwing, is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae. It has a wide Palaearctic distribution and resides near pools with aquatic plants. Both males and females have a metallic green colour and brown wing spots. This male L. sponsa damselfly was photographed at Warren Heath in Hampshire, England.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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