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1995  Douglas John Gorman, businessman, dies at 58.   

1996  Mel Taylor, drummer, dies at 63.   

2006  A resolution to end the 2006 Lebanon War is unanimously accepted by the United Nations Security Council   

2007  Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in Sierra Leone   

2012  153 people are killed and 1300 injured in Tabriz and Ahar, Iran after two earthquakes of up to magnitude 6.4   

2013  22 people are killed by flash floods in Kabul, Pakistan   

2017  Fipronil contaminated eggs now affecting fifteen EU countries, Hong Kong and Switzerland according to European Commission   

2017  Chinese crime writer Liu Yongbiao after announcing novel called "Beautiful Writer who Killed", arrested for murders of four people nearly 22 years ago   

2019  Indian floods: At least 114 people, including 57 in Kerala, 30 in Karnataka and 27 in Maharashtra, are reported to have died in monsoon-related floods in India. At least 227 died across India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan   

2020  US Democratic candidate for President Joe Biden announces California Senator Kemala Harris is his running mate, the 1st woman of color selected by a major party   

2020  President Vladimir Putin in a propaganda stunt announces Russia has become the 1st country to grant regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine, called “Sputnik V", despite no scientific data being published or phase 3 trials having even begun   

2020  Belarus's opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya flees the country amid large-scale protests over the country's disputed election results that returned Dictator Alexander Lukashenko to power.   

2020  [COVID-19 pandemic] Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that Russia has approved the world's inaugural COVID-19 vaccine   

2024  President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that the Ukrainian military is conducting a cross-border offensive inside Russia's western Kursk Oblast. Russia says that 76000 people have been evacuated from the region.   

2025  Bulgaria's government steps down following weeks of mass protests against its economic policies and corruption [1].   

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1467  Mary of york: English princess   

1600  Paul hallman: Composer   

1613  Cristoph kaldenbach: Composer   

1635  Thomas betterton: London, actor/dramatist (coriolanus)   

1667  Anna maria luisa de' medici: Last of the medicis   

1673  Richard mead: London, physician   

1718  Sir frederick haldimand: Swiss-born british colonial governor   

1720  Martin gerbert: Composer   

0353  Magnentius: Roman usurper (b. 303)   

0449  Flavian: Patriarch of constantinople   

0480  Leonidas: King of sparta (b. circa 540 bc)   

0897  Wilfred the hairy: Count of barcelona   

1171  Louis i: Earl of wage/rieneck,   

1180  Guillaume de/willem van sens: Fren master builder (canterbury),   

1183  Christian i: Archbishop of mainz,   

1204  King guttorm of norway: King guttorm of norway (b. 1199)