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"Wildest Dreams" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (pictured); it is the fifth single from her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014). Described by critics as synth-pop, dream pop, and electropop, the song was written by Swift and its producers Max Martin and Shellback. The lyrics feature Swift pleading with a lover to remember her even after their relationship ends. Retrospectively, critics have described "Wildest Dreams" as one of Swift's most memorable songs. The single peaked within the top five on charts in Australia, Canada, Poland, South Africa, and also the United States, where it became 1989's fifth consecutive top-ten single on the Billboard Hot 100. The track was certified four-times platinum. The music video depicts Swift as a classical Hollywood actress who falls in love with her co-star; media publications praised the production as cinematic but accused the video of glorifying colonialism. (This article is part of a featured topic: 1989 (album).)

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Dick Schoof

In the Netherlands, a new cabinet is sworn in, with Dick Schoof (pictured) serving as the prime minister.
A crowd crush during a religious event in Uttar Pradesh, India, leaves at least 110 people dead.
José Raúl Mulino becomes the president of Panama after winning the general election.
In cricket, the T20 World Cup concludes with India defeating South Africa in the final.
In Bolivia, troops led by Juan José Zúñiga storm the presidential palace in an attempted coup.

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Jadranka Kosor

1614 – The Ottoman Empire made a final attempt to conquer the island of Malta, but were repulsed by the Knights Hospitaller.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American troops at Fort Ticonderoga in New York completed a retreat from advancing British forces, causing an uproar in the American public.
1809 – Napoleon's French forces defeated Archduke Charles' Austrian army at the Battle of Wagram, the decisive confrontation of the War of the Fifth Coalition.
1936 – A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sent millions of gallons of water cascading 300 feet (90 m) into the River Irwell.
2009 – Jadranka Kosor (pictured) became the first female prime minister of Croatia.

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William Jackson Hooker (b. 1785)
Sophie Blanchard (d. 1819)
Barry Winchell (d. 1999)

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The grey-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus temporalis) is a species of bird in the family Pomatostomidae, the Australo-Papuan babblers. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its habitats include subtropical, tropical dry and tropical moist lowland forests and shrublands as well as savanna. This photograph shows a group of grey-crowned babblers in Binya State Forest, New South Wales, Australia.Photograph credit: JJ Harrison

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