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2019  100 activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which has completely melted after once covering six square miles (15.5 km2)   

2020  A mutiny in a military base by soldiers of the Malian Armed Forces develops into a coup d'état. President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and Prime Minister Boubou Cissé, among other senior governmental and military officers, are arrested. The next day, Keïta announces his resignation on state television   

2023  American–Japanese–Korean trilateral pact: The United States, Japan, and South Korea agree to sign a trilateral pact.   

2025  27th and 28th US military strikes in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean sink two suspected drug smuggling vessels and kill five, bringing total deaths in the program to over 100.   

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1414  Jami: Persian poet   

1450  Marko marulic/marulus/splichanin/pechinich: Croatian poet   

1579  Charlotte flandrina van nassau: Daughter of willem i of orange   

1587  Virginia dare: 1st american born of english parents   

1587  1st english child: 1st english child born in new world (virginia dare)   

1596  Jean bolland: Flemish jesuit writer   

1605  Henry hammond: English churchman   

1606  Maria anna of spain: Holy roman empire empress and queen of hungary   

0353  Decentius: Roman usurper   

0849  Walafrid strabo: German monk and theologian   

1227  Genghis khan: Mongol conqueror,   

1236  Theodorus van celles: Monastery founder (kruisheren),   

1258  Theodore ii lascaris: Emperor of the empire of nicaea   

1276  Adrian v: [ottobono fieschi], italian pope (7/11-8/18/1276),   

1318  Clare of montefalco: Italian abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268)   

1430  Thomas de ros: 9th baron de ros, english soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)