- 835 Pope Gregory IV decrees All Saints Day a holy day of obligation for the Catholic religion
- 996 First recorded use of modern name for Austria in the "Ostarrîchi Document"
- 1179 Phillip II crowned King of France at age 14 in Reims, with his father Louis VII in ill health
- 1248 Earl William II of Holland crowned as King of Germany
1348 The Black Death reaches London on or about this date
- 1349 Black Death Massacre: Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells during the Bubonic Plague; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
- 1462 Albert VI of Habsburg lays siege to his brother Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III occupying Vienna
- 1503 Portuguese hold a mass to celebrate the completion of Fort Manuel their first fort and the first European fort in India, at Cochin (Kochi)
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
1512 Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City first exhibited to the public after four years of work [1]
- 1570 All Saints Flood, tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland; killing more than 1,000 people.
- 1590 Army of Moroccan ruler Ahmad al-Mansur led by Spanish Eunuch Jawdar leaves Marrakesh to cross the Sahara to conquer the Songhai Empire
- 1611 Shakespeare's romantic comedy play "The Tempest" is performed at court in front of James I at Whitehall Palace - its first recorded performance [1]
- 1612 (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
- 1623 Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts, destroys several buildings
Micrographia
1665 Robert Hooke's landmark work "Micrographia," with drawings using a microscope and coining the word "cell," is published by the Royal Society
Anti-Dutch Treaty
1671 French King Louis XIV and Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
- 1683 The English crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
- 1755 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Portugal
- 1765 Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies
- 1776 Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California
- 1784 Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendants
- 1787 First free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
Adams Moves into White House
1800 John Adams becomes the first US President to live in the White House
- 1802 Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio, to form a state constitutional convention.
Congress of Vienna
1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars
- 1834 First published reference to poker, as a Mississippi riverboat game
- 1848 Classes begin at Boston Female Medical College, the first US female medical college
1848 WHSmith opens its first railway bookstall at Euston Station in London
- 1849 Dutch government of Thorbecke forms
- 1859 The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for 19 miles (30 kilometers)
- 1863 -8] Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia
- 1863 Fortifications built on Angel Island (San Francisco Bay) by troops
- 1865 Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens
- 1869 Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra
- 1870 US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
- 1876 King William III of the Netherlands opens the North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
- 1876 New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
- 1877 Dutch government of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns
- 1878 Edward Scripps & John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press)
- 1884 Gaelic Athletic Association is established in a meeting at Hayes' Hotel, Thurles, County Tipperary; Clare teacher Michael Cusack is credited as founder; objective to promote Irish sport & games
Catholic Encyclical
1885 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei
- 1886 Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students
Diphtheria Vaccine
1894 Vaccine for diphtheria is announced by Dr. Émile Roux of Paris
- 1896 First bare-breasted woman (Zulu) appears in National Geographic Magazine
- 1897 Italian football club Juventus F.C. is founded by students in Turin as Sport-Club Juventus
- 1901 Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
- 1902 France and Italy sign an Entente under which Italy agrees to remain neutral if France is attacked; this is France's attempt to neutralize the Triple Entente
- 1904 George Bernard Shaw's comedy play "John Bull's Other Island" premieres in London
1911 The first aerial bomb is dropped by an Italian pilot on Turkish troops in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War
- 1913 Notre Dame upsets Army, 35-13 in the colleges' inaugural football game; quarterback Gus Dorais (14 of 17 passes, 243 yards, 2 TDs) and receiver Knute Rockne use forward pass effectively
- 1914 German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile
- 1914 Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity
- 1915 Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
- 1916 Broadway theatre owner and producer Harry H. Frazee and Hugh Ward buy MLB club the Boston Red Sox for approximately $700,000 from Joseph Lannin
- 1916 Paul Miliukov delivers in the Russian State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government
- 1918 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn
- 1918 Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians
- 1920 American fishing schooner 'Esperanto' defeats Canadian yacht 'Delawana' in the first International Fishing Schooner Championship Races off Halifax, Nova Scotia
- 1921 National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League
- 1922 In an all-American bout, Mickey Walker upsets defending champion Jack Britton in a 15-round points decision at Madison Square Garden, NYC; wins world welterweight boxing crown
1922 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk takes Constantinople from Mehmed VI, proclaiming the Republic of Turkey and bringing an end to the Ottoman Empire
- 1922 Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam
- 1923 Bruno E. Lucander forms Aero E/Y (Finnair)
- 1924 Boston Bruins officially join the NHL, becoming the first United States based team to enter the League; Montreal Maroons also join NHL, but only last until 1938
- 1925 VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam
- 1926 US Air Commerce Act passes
- 1928 1st celebration of Authors' Day
- 1928 Turkey passes a new alphabet law, switching from the Arabic to the Latin alphabet
- 1929 Lundy Island, part of British Isles, issue its own stamps
- 1931 Dupont introduces synthetic rubber
Murder in the Cathedral
1935 T. S. Eliot's play "Murder in the Cathedral" premieres in London
- 1936 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (then Cowboys' Turtle Association) is established after disagreement with rodeo promoter W.T. Johnson, who finally gives in to cowboys' pay demands
Lutherans Executed
1937 Stalinists execute by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community (including three women).
- 1938 German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires
- 1938 NL batting champion Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds is named National League MVP; first catcher to win award; Boston Red Sox 1st baseman Jimmie Foxx takes AL award
- 1938 Seabiscuit, with George Woolf aboard, beats 1937 Triple Crown winner War Admiral by 3 lengths in Pimlico track record time to win $15,000 in what is regarded as one of the greatest match races in horse racing history
- 1939 First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
- 1939 First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
Catholic Encyclical
1939 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae
- 1940 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
- 1940 Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM)
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
1941 Ansel Adams shoots 'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico', one of his most famous photographs
1941 Japanese naval staff offiicers Suzuki & Maejima arrive at Pearl Harbor
Chetniks Attack
1941 Yugoslav nationalist force the Chetniks attacks Tito's partisans in Uzice, Yugoslavia
- 1942 10th day of battle at El Alamein
- 1942 John H. Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest
- 1943 Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area
- 1943 US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island
- 1944 World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands
- 1944 Zeeuws & Flanders liberated
- 1945 First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson
- 1946 Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee
- 1946 First Basketball Association of America game; New York Knicks beat Toronto Huskies, 68-66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
- 1946 Future pope Karol Wojtyla of Poland is ordained to Catholic priesthood
- 1946 West German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) created
- 1947 First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
- 1947 UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK
- 1948 Mao's Red army conquers Mukden, Manchuria
- 1950 82°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov
1st African American to Play in the NBA
1950 Celtics forward Chuck Cooper becomes the first African American to play in the NBA during Boston's 107-84 loss to the Fort Wayne Pistons; future Hall of Famer Bob Cousy also debuts for the Celtics
Assassination Attempt on Truman
1950 Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry Truman at Blair House in Washington D.C.; attack thwarted by White House Police, including Officer Leslie Coffelt who was killed in the line of duty [1]
- 1951 1st H Bomb test, code named "Ivy Mike", detonates on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the north Pacific Ocean
- 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella wins first of his 3 National League MVP awards
- 1951 Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson
- 1951 US performs 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, Nevada Test Site, New Mexico
Denotation of Ivy Mike
1952 "Ivy Mike", the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean
- 1953 Czech long distance runner Emile Zatopek sets world 10,000m record 29:01.6 & 6 mile mark 28:08.4 in Stara Boleslav, Czech Republic
- 1953 KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1953 KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1953 WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1954 India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements
- 1954 KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1954 The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence against France.
Senate Condemns McCarthy
1954 US Senate admonishes Joseph McCarthy because of his slander campaigns
- 1955 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont, Colorado
- 1956 Delhi becomes a union territory of India
- 1956 Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is formed
- 1956 Indian states of Punjab, Patiala and most of the East Punjab States Union merge as the Punjab State
- 1956 Karnataka (then known as Mysore State) is formed from the merge of Kannada-speaking regions in India
- 1956 Kerala state is formed in India
- 1956 Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact
- 1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum
- 1957 KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1957 KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, Montana (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1957 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan, the world longest suspension bridge, connecting Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas, opens to traffic
- 1957 WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1958 USSR performs nuclear test
- 1959 Future Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown runs for 5 touchdowns in Cleveland Browns, 38-31 win over Baltimore Colts at Memorial Stadium
Fiberglass Protective Face Mask
1959 Montreal Canadiens' goaltender Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL netminder to wear a fiberglass protective face mask
Belgians Arrest Lumumba
1959 Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo arrested for inciting an anti-colonial riot in Stanleyville
- 1959 WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO
- 1960 The Benelux Economic Union Treaty goes in to effect, establishing a free trade area between Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
- 1962 Greece enters European Common Market
- 1962 KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1962 Noble Prize for Physics awarded to Russian physicist Lev Landau for "theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium" [1]
- 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
- 1962 USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
- 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1962 WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1962 WZZM TV channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1964 Cleveland running back Jim Brown runs for 149 yards in Browns' 30-17 win at Pittsburgh to become the first NFL player to exceed 10,000 yards career rushing
- 1964 Houston Oilers quarterback George Blanda attempts an AFL record 68 passes (37 completions) in 24-10 loss v Buffalo Bills at War Memorial Stadium
- 1964 Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson passes for 435 yards and 6 TDs in 49-39 win over Denver Broncos at Municipal Stadium
- 1964 Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon
- 1965 Ernie Terrell retains WBA heavyweight boxing title; beats Canadian George Chuvalo in 15 round points decision in Toronto
- 1965 Promoter Bill Graham books his 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, a benefit for political satirists 'The San Francisco Mime Troupe"
- 1965 Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
- 1966 Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created
- 1966 NFL awards a franchise to New Orleans; name "Saints" alludes to November 1, All Saints Day in Catholic faith
- 1966 William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km
Wonderwall Music
1968 Apple Records issues its first LP in the UK, "Wonderwall Music", the film score by George Harrison is also the first solo album by any of the Beatles
- 1968 Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
- 1968 University of Suriname opens
- 1969 The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album goes #1 in the US and stays #1 for 11 weeks
- 1970 Fire at Club Cinq-Sept Discotheque in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146, as all emergency exits were padlocked
- 1970 First NFL regular season New York Giants-Jets game; Giants win 22-10 at Shea Stadium
- 1970 KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting
ABBA's First Concert
1970 Swedish pop group Festfolk, later known as ABBA, play their first ever concert, at a restaurant in Gothenburg, Sweden
Cold Spring Harbor
1971 Family Productions releases "Cold Spring Harbor", singer-songwriter Billy Joel's debut studio album; a mastering error caused music to be sped up
- 1972 1st gay themed TV movie - "That Certain Summer"
- 1972 Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick
- 1973 Indian state of Mysore is renamed Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu
- 1974 Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)
- 1974 UN affirms independence of Cyprus
- 1976 Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule
- 1976 W German Generals Krupinski and Franke admit to having been Nazis
- 1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Minimum Wage Raised
1977 US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981
- 1979 Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees
- 1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster
- 1979 US Federal government proposes making a $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler
- 1980 USSR performs nuclear test
- 1981 1st Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents
- 1981 Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- 1981 Darrell Waltrip wins his 4th straight NASCAR Cup race, the American 500 at North Carolina Motor Speedway; ties Richard Petty record 1967; 12th win of season; goes on to win Winston Cup crown
- 1982 Andrew "Dice" Clay and George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment"
- 1982 Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
Kuhn's Contract Not Renewed
1982 MLB owners vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract; AL owners vote for Kuhn, 11-3, and NL, 7-5, two shy of the 3/4 majority required for re-election; eventually replaced by Peter Ueberroth
- 1984 First NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - LA Clippers beat NY Knicks, 107-105
- 1984 Larry Shue's "Foreigner" premieres in NYC
- 1984 Willem de Kooning's "Two Women" sells for $1,980,000, a record for a contemporary work of art and for a living artist
- 1985 Netherlands decides definitive sites for cruise missiles
- 1985 Nostalgia Television begins on cable
- 1986 Fire in Sandoz factory in Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine
- 1987 Brazilian Williams driver Nelson Piquet finishes 15th in the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka but clinches his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship
- 1987 New York Jets retire Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Don Maynard's jersey #13
- 1987 New Zealand All Blacks create a rugby union international world record score when they beat Japan, 106-4 at the National Stadium in Tokyo
Wintour's First Vogue Cover
1988 Anna Wintour's first American Vogue cover is issued, starring Michaela Bercu, after the announcement that Wintour takes over as editor-in-chief from Grace Mirabella
- 1988 Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
- 1989 Despite 107 from Desmond Haynes, Saleem Malik with 71 leads Pakistan to 4 wicket win v West Indies in cricket's Nehru Cup Final in Kolkata, India
- 1989 Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
Thatcher Loses Deputy
1990 Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy PM Geoffrey Howe
- 1990 Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts
- 1991 Last of Kuwait oil well fires extinguished by Canadian well control team "SafetyBOSS"
- 1991 New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules & Traffic signs enforced
- 1991 Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
- 1992 NY Jets wide receiver Al Toon becomes 10th NFL player to make a reception in 100 straight games; Jets beat Miami Dolphins, 26-24 at The Meadowlands
- 1992 Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled)
- 1993 After playing 12 Tests for Australia, fast bowler Michael Whitney plays his final day in 1st class cricket for NSW in a tour match loss v New Zealand in Newcastle
- 1993 Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems
- 1993 STS-58 (Columbia) lands
1993 The Maastricht Treaty comes into effect creating the European Union
Bulls Retire Jordan's #23
1994 Chicago Bulls retire basketball superstar Michael Jordan's jersey #23 in a 2-hour ceremony at the United Center
- 1994 Muslim fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children
Wildflowers
1994 Warner Bros. Records releases "Wildflowers", the second solo studio album by American musician Tom Petty
- 1996 Philadelphia 76ers inaugurate NBA season with opening of the CoreStates Center before 20,444; largest crowd to see a basketball game in state of Pennsylvania; lose to Milwaukee Bucks, 111-103
- 1996 Shaquille O'Neil makes his Hollywood debut as Los Angeles Lakers beat Phoenix Suns, 96-82 at the Forum, Inglewood; O'Neil scores 23 points and pulls down 14 rebounds in 35 minutes
Kansas City's New Museums
1997 Expanded Negro Leagues Museum and the new American Jazz Museum open in Kansas City's historic 18th and Vine district
- 1997 Louisiana State University running back Kevin Faulk rushes for 212 yards and a school record 5 touchdowns in a 63-28 win at Kentucky's Commonwealth Stadium, Lexington
- 1997 Nebraska head football coach Tom Osborne records his 250th NCAA career victory with a 67-7 drubbing of Oklahoma; Osborne, in his 25th season, reaches milestone faster than anyone (301 games)
- 1997 North Carolina State University wide receiver Torry Holt catches 5 touchdown passes in a 48-35 loss to Florida State at Doak Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee
- 1998 Finnish McLaren driver Mika Häkkinen wins season ending Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka to claim his first F1 World Drivers Championship; wins title by 14 points from Michael Schumacher
- 1998 ICC Men's Cricket Knockout Trophy, Dhaka: South Africa beats West Indies by 4 wickets; Player of the Series: Jacques Kallis, SA 164 runs, 8 wickets
- 1998 Steve Young and Jerry Rice hook up for their 80th career touchdown in Niners' 36-22 loss to GB Packers at Lambeau Field; eclipse previous NFL mark held by Miami Dolphins tandem Dan Marino & Mark Clayton
- 1998 The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
- 2000 Pat Riley becomes only 2nd coach in NBA history to accumulate 1,000 regular season victories when Miami Heat open season with a 105-79 victory v Orlando Magic; Lenny Wilkens is first to achieve the mark
- 2001 In the Wallabies’ 400th rugby union Test match in history, Australia routs Spain 92-10 (Australian record score) in Madrid; Matt Burke kicks an Australian record 10 conversions
- 2003 Arkansas beats Kentucky, 71-63 at Commonwealth Stadium, Lexington; ties NCAA record for longest football game ever played, with 7 overtime periods
- 2003 John Gagliardi ties Eddie Robinson as college football's career victory leader with his 408th win, guiding Division III St. John's to a 15-12 victory over St.Thomas at St. Paul, Minnesota
- 2003 University of Pittsburgh wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald establishes a new NCAA record with a touchdown reception in his 14th straight game as Pittsburgh beats Boston College, 24-13 at Alumni Stadium
- 2004 "That's What I Love About Sunday" single released by American country singer Craig Morgan (Billboard Song of the Year 2005)
- 2005 First part of the Gomery Report, which discusses allegations of political money manipulation, is released in Canada.
- 2006 Pittsburgh Penguins rookie Evgeni Malkin (20) scores to become the first NHL player since 1917 with goals in his first 6 games (joining Joe Malone, Newsy Lalonde and Cy Denneny) in 4-3 win over the Kings in Los Angeles
- 2007 5-time Grand Slam tennis winner Martina Hingis admits testing positive for cocaine during Wimbledon; maintains innocence; retires from tennis; no desire for fight with anti-doping authorities
- 2007 Joe Torre, the winningest manager in MLB postseason history, moves from one storied franchise (NY Yankees) to another (LA Dodgers), agreeing to a 3-year, $13 million contract
2009 British Mercedes driver Jenson Button finishes 3rd in inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit to win his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 11 points from Sebastian Vettel
- 2011 Danielle Steel’s publishes novel “Hotel Vendome”
- 2012 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space
- 2012 22 people are killed and 111 injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 2012 Acid is poured over a 15-year-old girl by her parents after being seen talking to a young man in an "honour killing" in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
- 2012 Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service
- 2012 Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, estimated to have formed 500 million years after the Big Bang
- 2012 Yellow fever kills 32 people and sickens 50 more in Darfur, Sudan
- 2014 Australian A-League soccer club Western Sydney Wanderers draw 0-0 with Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh to win the AFC Champions League, 1-0 on aggregate
- 2015 New York City Marathon: Stanley Biwott of Kenya takes men's division in 2:10:34; compatriot and defending women's champion Mary Keitany wins easily in 2:24:25
- 2015 Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet's Davutoglus Justice and Development Party regains its parliamentary majority in a surprise result
- 2017 Boiler explosion at a NTPC government-run coal-fired power plant in Rae Bareli, India, kills 29
- 2017 UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon resigns due to his behavior towards women, part of wider scandal of sexual harassment by UK politicians
- 2018 Google employees stage mass walkout to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment
- 2018 Ground assault mounted on Yemeni port city of Hudaydah by Saudi-backed government forces
- 2018 Palau becomes the first country to ban sunscreen with 10 specific chemicals to protect its coral reefs from chemical pollution and bleaching
- 2019 Former Texan congressman Beto O'Rourke ends his presidential campaign
- 2020 Gunmen kill at least 32 people, set fire to homes in Oromia state, Ethiopia, in attack blamed on rebel Oromo Liberation Army
- 2020 Slovakia completes testing two-thirds of its population for COVID-19 using quick antigen tests, 1.06% test positive out of 3.625 million
- 2020 Super typhoon Goni makes landfall on Catanduanes island, Philippines, leaving at least 16 dead and 370,000 people displaced
- 2021 Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 5 million according to Johns Hopkins, with estimates the true toll is at least twice as high [1]
- 2021 Novavax COVID-19 vaccine receives its first emergency use authorization in Indonesia. The first protein-based covid vaccine. [1]
Netanyahu Re-Elected
2022 Fifth Israeli election held in under four years won by Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party, defeating sitting Prime Minister Yair Lapid [1]
- 2023 "AI" is named the most notable word of the year by Chambers Dictionary [1]
- 2023 120 fires confirmed still burning across Australia's eastern states, burning through 111,000 hectares, with 58 homes lost around Tara, Queensland [1]
- 2023 A study suggests that the arms of a starfish are not limbs but rather extensions of a single, large head [1]
- 2023 Two ISS astronauts lose a tool bag during a spacewalk 200 miles above Earth; it is expected to burn up in the atmosphere due to friction [1]
- 2024 Collins Dictionary names "brat" as its word of the year for 2024 [1]
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