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Julia Gillard

1374 – An outbreak of dancing mania, in which crowds of people danced themselves to exhaustion, began in Aachen (in present-day Germany) before spreading to other parts of Europe.
1717 – The first Grand Lodge of Freemasonry, the Premier Grand Lodge of England, was founded in London.
1724 – On the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Bach led the first performance of Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, the third cantata of his chorale cantata cycle.
1943 – Amid racial tensions, U.S. Army military police shot and killed a black serviceman after a confrontation at a pub in Bamber Bridge, England.
2010 – Julia Gillard (pictured) was sworn in as the first female prime minister of Australia after incumbent Kevin Rudd declined to contest a leadership spill in the Labor Party.

More anniversaries:

Iberian lynx

The Iberian lynx (pictured) is reclassified from endangered to vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
American baseball player Willie Mays dies at the age of 93.
In basketball, the Boston Celtics defeat the Dallas Mavericks to win the NBA Finals.
A fire in a residential building in Mangaf, south of Kuwait City, kills fifty people.

Obverse of the Auto Dollar

... that a Chinese warlord put his car on coinage (pictured), in lieu of his own portrait?
... that the English actor Jude Law is actually named David, a result of his parents naming their children after their best friends?
... that a portrait was attributed to the wrong painter for many years, and the sitter was also misidentified?
... that an AI rendering of the Detroit Sign misled people into thinking that it would be larger than it actually is?
... that bricks laid in Flemish bond were a sign of wealth in colonial Virginia?
... that the communist trade unionist Ditto Pölzl was a member of all three provisional state governments of Styria in 1945?
... that when East Wake Academy opened, its two main school buildings were located four miles (6 km) apart in separate towns?
... that John White shot himself after it was discovered that he had plagiarized a speech by Aaron Burr?
... that within the mixed-reality mode of Homeworld: Vast Reaches, ships seem to fly around the player's room?