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On the night of June 20, 2025, a very large, extremely violent, and historic EF5 tornado moved through rural North Dakota, United States, passing near the community of Enderlin. Part of a larger severe weather outbreak and derecho sequence across the northern Great Plains between June 19 and 22, the tornado, referred to as Enderlin Tornado #1 by the National Weather Service (NWS), was the first to be rated EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale in 12 years. During its 16-minute lifespan, it achieved a peak width of just over one mile (1.6 km) wide, and tracked a total length of 12.1 miles (19.5 km), with wind speeds in excess of 210 mph (340 km/h). It killed three people, becoming the deadliest tornado to occur in North Dakota since the F4 tornado that struck Elgin in 1978.

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Hans Moke Niemann is an American chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. He first entered the top 100 junior players list on March 1, 2019, and became a FIDE grandmaster on January 22, 2021. In July 2021, he won the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia. He achieved a peak global ranking of No. 12 in May 2026.

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Adalbert of Magdeburg, sometimes incorrectly shortened to "Albert", known as the Apostle of the Slavs, was the first Archbishop of Magdeburg and a successful missionary to the Polabian Slavs to the east of what was contemporarily Germany. He was later canonised and his liturgical feast day was assigned as 20 June.

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