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2018  Forbes say George Clooney made more money in a single year ($239 million) than any actor ever ($239m), due to sale of alcohol company, followed by Dwayne Johnson ($124m)   

2018  Australia's House of Representatives is closed down early because of the Liberal Party leadership battle.   

2020  [COVID-19 pandemic] The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 800000.   

2021  Josephine Baker will be the inaugural black woman to be interred in the Panthéon in Paris, according to the French government.   

2021  US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Singapore to begin a short visit to South East Asia.   

2024  Vice President Kamala Harris accepts the Democratic nomination for US President on the last day of the party's national conference in Chicago [1]   

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1530  Bartolomeo spontone: Composer   

1601  Georges de scudéry: French writer   

1615  Christopher gibbons: Composer   

1624  Jean renaud de segrais: French writer   

1647  Denis papin: French physicist (papiniaanse pot, steam machine)   

1679  Pierre guérin de tencin: French cardinal   

1681  Pierre danican philidor: Composer   

1753  Christian friedrich ruppe: Composer   

0408  Flavius stilicho: West roman field leader (395-408),   

0634  Abd allah abu bekr: Arabic merchant/1st kalief of islam,   

1155  Konoe: Emperor of japan (b. 1139)   

1188  Ferdinand ii: King of leon (b. 1137)   

1241  Gregory ix: [ugolino di segni], italian pope,   

1280  Nicholas iii: [giovanni gaetano orsini], italian pope (1277-80),   

1286  Erik v klipping: King of denmark, murdered   

1304  John ii: Count of hainaut (b. 1247)