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Daglish railway station is a commuter railway station on the boundary of Daglish and Subiaco, suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. Opened on 14 July 1924, the station was named after Henry Daglish, who was a mayor of Subiaco, a member for the electoral district of Subiaco, and a premier of Western Australia in the 1900s. The station consists of an island platform accessed by a pedestrian underpass. Daglish station is on the Fremantle line, and starting on 10 October 2022, the Airport line, which are both part of the Transperth network. Fremantle line services run every 10 minutes during peak hour and every 15 minutes outside peak hour and on weekends and public holidays. Upon the Airport line's opening, Fremantle line and Airport line services will run every 12 minutes during peak hour, for a combined frequency of a train every 6 minutes. The journey to Perth station is 4.9 kilometres (3.0 mi) long and takes 7 minutes. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
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- ... that upon the redescription of the fossil marchfly Plecia avus, an additional seven specimens were identified?
- ... that Perth's Airport Central railway station, which opens today, has the longest operating escalators in the southern hemisphere?
- ... that when Fred Franzia created Two-Buck Chuck, he was said to have "turned the wine industry on its head"?
- ... that while oil and gas production is a large part of Turkmenistan's economy, there are only two oil refineries in Turkmenistan?
- ... that Herb Lusk retired from the National Football League at the age of 26 to become a minister?
- ... that Nicola Griffith's Slow River, described as a lesbian romance, features a "sophisticated depiction of environmental management"?
- ... that a Catholic radio station in Texas wields the "velvet hammer" to promote Christianity?
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- Annie Ernaux (pictured) is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- An attack at a nursery in Nong Bua Lamphu province, Thailand, leaves 36 victims, mostly children, dead.
- Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on human evolutionary genetics.
- Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw and Kenyan Amos Kipruto win the London Marathon women's and men's races.
On this day
- 1708 – Great Northern War: Russia defeated Sweden at the Battle of Lesnaya on the Russian–Polish border, in present-day Belarus.
- 1780 – The deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record began to impact the Caribbean, killing at least 20,000 people across the Antilles over the subsequent days.
- 1942 – World War II: American forces defeated the Japanese at the Third Battle of the Matanikau in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, reversing the Japanese victory a couple of weeks earlier.
- 1962 – Nick Holonyak, an engineer for General Electric, gave the first public demonstration of a light-emitting diode.
- 2012 – Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (pictured) was severely injured by a Taliban gunman in a failed assassination attempt.
- Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (d. 705)
- Camille Saint-Saëns (b. 1835)
- Ivo Andrić (b. 1892)
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The Sky Reflector-Net at Fulton Center, a subway and retail complex centered at the intersection of Fulton Street and Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The Sky Reflector-Net, which was commissioned by the MTA Arts & Design (the art program of the MTA), was installed in 2014 in the Fulton Center transit hub. Located at the center of the oculus, the Sky Reflector-Net uses hundreds of aluminum mirrors to provide natural sunlight from a 53 ft (16 m) skylight to an underground area as much as four stories deep. Photograph credit: User:Rhododendrites
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