- 588 BC Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem during Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 23, 586 BC.
- 69 Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor, only rules for three months before committing suicide
- 708 Sisinnius begins his reign as pope but dies just 20 days later
- 910 One of the last known Maya dated monuments, a stela from the city of Itzimte (modern Guatemala)
- 946 Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded and ousted
- 1346 Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland and Zealand
Henry VIII's Church
1535 King Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church of England
- 1552 France signs a secret treaty with Protestant German princes of the Holy Roman Empire
Coronation of Elizabeth I
1559 Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England at Westminster Abbey in London
- 1582 Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland and loses access to the Baltic Sea
- 1586 Battle of Boksum: Spanish troops under Count Tassis defeat the States Army
- 1600 French King Henri IV grants military captain Pierre Chauvin de Tonnetuit a ten-year commission for the fur trade in New France - he goes on to found doomed colony of Tadoussac [1]
- 1752 Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Henry Fielding of plagiarism
- 1754 Riot at burial of Orangist leader Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
1759 British Museum opens at Montagu House in London
Candide
1759 Voltaire's satire "Candide" is published anonymously in five editions in five countries to scandalous acclaim (estimated date)
- 1762 Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC
- 1777 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
- 1780 American Continental Congress establishes court of appeals
Decimal Coinage
1782 Robert Morris, Superintendent of Finance, recommends to U.S. Congress establishment of decimal coinage and a national mint
- 1784 The Asiatic Society is founded by William Jones at a meeting in Calcutta's Fort William, India
1797 First top hat worn by John Etherington of London
- 1815 War of 1812: the USS President, an American frigate, is captured by four British frigates
- 1822 Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly.
- 1831 1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, South Carolina
- 1831 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
- 1833 HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego
- 1844 University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
Poor Folk
1846 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's first novel "Poor Folk" is published in the St Petersburg Collection almanac
- 1847 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC
- 1851 General Mariano Arista replaces Mexican President José Joaquín de Herrera
- 1857 1st first-class game in Sydney, NSW v Vic at The Domain
- 1861 US Civil War: Union forces at Fort Pikens on Santa Rosa Island near Pensacola, Florida refuse Florida Militia demand to surrender
- 1863 First US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
- 1865 Second Battle of Fort Fisher: Union Navy bombards Fort Fisher, North Carolina, allowing Union troops to capture Confederacy's last remaining seaport [1]
1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
- 1876 "Die Afrikaanse Patriot", the first newspaper in Afrikaans, is published in Paarl
- 1877 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens
- 1882 First US ski club forms in Berlin, New Hampshire
- 1882 French explorer Jules Nicholas Crevaux is the first European to discover an Inca City near Sarta, north-west Argentina
- 1885 Wilson Bentley photographs his first snowflakes with a camera attached to a microscope, in Jericho, Vermont
- 1886 Weekly Herald, 1st newspaper in Vancouver, BC, publishes 1st issue
Rules of Basketball
1892 The rules of basketball are first published in Triangle magazine, written by James Naismith
- 1895 Australian cricket spin bowler Albert Trott takes 8-43 on debut to end England's 2nd innings at 143 in 3rd Test in Adelaide; Australia wins by 382 in 4 days
- 1895 French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
- 1896 Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel" premieres in London
Riyadh Falls
1902 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud leads 40 men over the walls of Riyadh and takes the city, beginning the Third Saudi State
- 1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by American inventor Lee De Forest
- 1907 Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart, who invented them
- 1908 Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the first for African-American women, established by Ethel Hedgeman and 15 other students at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
- 1908 C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Australia
- 1910 Constructions ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming
- 1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives at San Francisco
- 1915 Japan claims economic control of China
The Last Days of Mankind
1919 Frank Wedekind's play "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind)" premieres
- 1919 Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps
- 1919 Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires
- 1919 Two million gallons of molasses flood Boston, Massachusetts, in the "Great Molasses Flood" when a storage tank bursts, drowning 21 and injuring 150
1922 Arthur Griffith is elected president of the Irish Free State after Eamon de Valera resigns in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty (De Valera will lead a military opposition seeking a unified and independent Ireland)
- 1924 3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
Chancellor Hans Luther
1925 Hans Luther becomes Chancellor of Germany after forming a government with the DNVP
1927 Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a technicality) John T. Scopes' guilty verdict for teaching evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial”, but the law itself remains in force
- 1930 Brilliant West Indian cricket batsman George Headley scores 157 of 176 on debut on the 4th day of the drawn 1st Test against England in Bridgetown, Barbados
- 1932 Record snowfall of 2 inches falls in Los Angeles, California
- 1934 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
Babe Ruth's Pay Cut
1934 New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth, nearing end of illustrious career, signs a 1-year contract worth $35,000; represents a pay cut of $17,000 for "The Babe"
Dillinger Survives Bank Robbery
1934 While robbing the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indianapolis, John Dillinger is shot several times by officer William O'Malley, but survives because he is wearing a bullet proof vest.
- 1935 300 Dutch ice cream vendors protest against Italian competition
Waiting for Lefty
1935 Clifford Odets' first produced play "Waiting for Lefty" premieres in NYC
- 1936 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
- 1936 Horace Stoneham is elected president of New York Giants MLB franchise; succeeds late father, Charles; remains president for next 40 years, presiding over move to SF, before selling team in 1976
- 1936 Nonprofit Ford Foundation incorporates
- 1937 Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends after both forces withdraw
- 1939 Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
- 1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch merchant ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
- 1942 Chicago Cubs drop plans to install lights at Wrigley Field because of military's need for materials; takes 35 years before lights finally installed at the venerable ballpark
Green Light Letter
1942 US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sends his famed "Green Light Letter" to MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, encouraging baseball to continue playing during World War II
- 1943 1,000 workers complete air conditioning system for Pentagon
- 1943 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught
- 1943 The world's largest office building, the Pentagon, is completed to house the US military
- 1943 World War II: The Soviets begin a counter-offensive at Voronezh
- 1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
Eisenhower Allied Commander
1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England to take up his command as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force [1]
- 1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die
- 1945 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg of sugar beets
- 1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
1945 The Manhattan Project's G-5 Group, headed by Physicist's Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", film based on B. Traven's novel, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart premieres
- 1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin
- 1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington, D.C.
- 1950 Red Wings' rookie goalie Terry Sawchuk records his first of 115 career NHL shutouts, as Detroit beats the New York Rangers, 1-0 at Madison Square Garden
- 1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
- 1951 Ilse Koch, also known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald", is sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court
- 1951 Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest
- 1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Washington, D.C. station
- 1953 East Germany's first Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage", beginning a purge of senior officials, accused of spying for 'imperialistic powers' and plotting against the state
- 1955 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum
- 1955 Dmitri Shostakovich's "From Jewish Folk Poetry" premieres in Leningrad
- 1955 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
- 1956 Dmitri Shostakovich appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia
- 1956 KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers extend their 5-year lease on Ebbets Field by signing a new 3-year lease with real estate developer Marvin Kratter; club moves to Los Angeles the next year
- 1958 New York Yankees announce that 140 MLB games to be televised on WPIX TV this season in a deal worth over $1 million dollars
- 1962 Battle of Arafura Sea: Dutch destroyers intercept and destroy three Indonesian torpedo boats attempting to land marines on the territory of Netherlands New Guinea as part of the Soviet-Indonesian Operation Trikora
- 1962 Europe's oldest surviving manuscript, the Derveni Papyrus, a commentary on an Orphic poem from c. 340 BC, is rediscovered in a tomb in Derveni, Northern Greece [1]
- 1964 MLB executives vote to hold a free agent amateur draft, officially known as Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in NYC
- 1964 San Francisco Giants make champion outfielder Willie Mays the highest-paid player in baseball when they sign him to a new $105,000 per season contract
- 1964 Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract
- 1965 Brunswick Records releases the single "I Can't Explain" by British rockers "The Who" in the UK, their 1st after changing their band name
Warriors Trade Chamberlain
1965 One of the biggest trades in NBA history; San Francisco Warriors send Wilt Chamberlain to the Philadelphia 76ers for Connie Dierking, Lee Shaffer, Paul Neumann and cash
- 1965 Soviet underground nuclear test creates the atomic lake Chagan, Kazakhstan
- 1965 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan, forms
- 1966 The First Nigerian Republic is overthrown in a military coup d'etat by Kaduna Nzeogwu and Emmanuel Ifeajuna, the Prime Minister of Nigeria and other senior political and military figures are killed
Rolling Stones Alter Lyrics for Show
1967 Rolling Stones appear for the fifth time on the Ed Sullivan Show, reluctantly agree to alter lyrics of "Let's Spend The Night Together" [1] [2]
- 1967 Super Bowl I, LA Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA: Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs, 35-10; MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB
- 1968 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1968 Minnesota North Stars forward Bill Masterton dies 2 days after suffering a head injury in a game against the Oakland Seals; the only death as a result of a game injury in NHL history
- 1969 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
Troubles Official Enquiry
1969 Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill announces that an official inquiry will analyse the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland
- 1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
Gaddafi Head of State
1970 Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed Chairman of Libyan Revolutionary Command Council - de facto head of state
- 1970 Nigerian civil war officially ends after 2 1/2 years of fighting when the Republic of Biafra disbands and joins Nigeria
- 1970 Riots break out in the Ardoyne area of Belfast
- 1971 Aswan High Dam officially opens in Egypt
My Sweet Lord
1971 George Harrison releases 1st solo single "My Sweet Lord" in the UK; tops the charts in 15 countries, and becomes subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit
- 1972 TV drama "Emergency" with Randolph Mantooth and Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
Frazier vs. Daniels
1972 World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier stops Terry Daniels in 4 rounds in New Orleans to retain his WBC and WBA titles
- 1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
- 1973 Movie critic Gene Shalit joins NBC's "The Today Show" panel
Pope Paul VI Meets Golda Meir
1973 Pope Paul VI holds an audience with Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir at the Vatican
- 1974 Expert panel reports 18½ minute gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures
Happy Days
1974 TV sitcom "Happy Days" created by Garry Marshall and starring Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Marion Ross, and Tom Bosley, begins an 11 year run on ABC
- 1975 Pioneering American female comedian Phyllis Diller gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 1975 Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence
- 1975 Space Mountain opens at Disney World in Orlando, Florida
Would-Be Ford Assassin Sentenced
1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot US President Gerald Ford
- 1976 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit
- 1976 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"
- 1977 Festac '77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, begins in Lagos, Nigeria
- 1978 Super Bowl XII, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10; MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, Dallas, DT
- 1978 Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman
- 1980 Pam Gems' "Piaf!" premieres in London
- 1981 Pitcher Bob Gibson is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility; after a stellar 17 year career, polls 337 votes from Baseball Writers Association of America
- 1981 Police drama "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC
- 1982 "Forbidden Broadway" by/with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in NYC
- 1982 Mark Thatcher, son of UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, makes his way home after 6 days missing in the Sahara
- 1983 Dutch political party DS'70 disbands
- 1983 Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v India
- 1983 Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours
Navratilova’s Winning Streak Ends
1984 Martina Navratilova’s 54-match winning streak ends when beaten by Hana Mandlíková 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 in the final of the Virginia Slims of California tennis event in Oakland; after loss Navratilova wins next 74 matches for new record
- 1984 Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44)
- 1984 Tony Benn, described as a “left wing rebel” wins Labour's nomination for the by-election in Chesterfield, England
- 1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell
- 1985 CBS' premiere of TV made teen drug abuse drama, "Not My Kid", based on the previous year's book by Beth Polson
- 1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected President of Brazil in 21 years, but dies before taking office
- 1986 Living Seas opens (Disneyland)
- 1986 Montreal's rookie goaltender Patrick Roy records his first of 66 career NHL shutouts, in the Canadiens' 4-0 win against the Winnipeg Jets at the Forum
Bird's Double Accolade
1987 Champion Boston Celtics NBA forward Larry Bird is named Man of the Year by 'The Sporting News' and Athlete of the Year by 'Associated Press'; first time one athlete gains both distinctions
- 1987 Police officer who mistakenly shot and paralysed an innocent woman in Brixton, UK, is cleared of all criminal charges
- 1988 19-year-old Indian cricket leg-spinner Narenda Hirwani records best bowling figures on debut in Test history; captures 16-136 in 255 run 4th Test win v West Indies in Madras; Hirwani takes 8 wickets in each innings
- 1988 Indian cricket wicketkeeper Kiran More stumps 5 West Indian batsman in 4th Test at Madras; world Test record
- 1988 Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) v WI on Test debut
- 1988 NFL analyst Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes several questionable comments about African Americans during a lunchtime interview on CBS' NFL Today; fired the next day
- 1989 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $22.6 million
Forman vs. Cooney
1990 42-year-old former world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman stops Gerry Cooney in 2 rounds in Atlantic City in a non-title bout; Cooney's last fight
- 1990 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
- 1990 Golden State coach Don Nelson becomes 2nd man in NBA history to appear in 1,000 games both as a player and coach (joining Lenny Wilkens) as the Warriors lose to the Indiana Pacers, 144-105
- 1990 In a bizarre twist in the NHL, Washington Capitals fire coach Brian Murray, who had been head coach since 1981; replace him with his brother Terry, who had been coaching in the minors
- 1990 In a shrewd move, Detroit Tigers sign first baseman Cecil Fielder who spent previous season in Japan; hits 51 homers this MLB season and becomes a premier power hitter for most of the 1990s
Victoria Cross for Australia
1991 Elizabeth II signs letters patent that allows Australia to institute its own Victoria Cross, the first Commonwealth realm to do so
- 1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1992 7th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Bobby "Blue" Bland; Booker T. and the MG's; Johnny Cash; Jimi Hendrix Experience; Isley Brothers; Sam and Dave; The Yardbirds; Elmore James; Professor Longhair; Leo Fender; Bill Graham; and Doc Pomus
- 1992 Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia
- 1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man
- 1992 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum
- 1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, killing 2 people
- 1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
- 1993 Top Italian mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo, Sicily
- 1994 Dallas Mavericks drop a 104-87 decision to the San Antonio Spurs at Reunion Arena to set an unwanted NBA record with their 17th consecutive home defeat; break mark of 16 set by Orlando in 1990
- 1994 Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
- 1994 Lawrence Taylor announces his retirement from the NFL
- 1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist
- 1995 Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
- 1995 Western Washington begins using new area code 360
- 1997 Controversial Chicago Bulls' forward Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman Eugene Amos in the groin during a game against Minnesota Timberwolves; ultimately pays Amos $200,000 settlement, and is suspended for 11 games without pay
Princess Diana Calls for Landmine Ban
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, calls for an international ban on landmines, angering ministers in the UK
- 1997 San Francisco head coach George Seifert announces his resignation after 8 highly-successful NFL seasons with the 49ers: winningest coach in team history at 108-35; 2 Super Bowl titles
- 1997 Seattle's Sam Perkins ties Jeff Hornacek's NBA single-game record by connecting on 8 straight 3-point field goals during Sonics' 122-78 win over visiting Toronto; Seattle also sets an NBA steals record with 27
- 1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends
1998 "Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends" documentary premieres on BBC2
- 1998 Australian schoolboy Ian Thorpe becomes youngest ever male to become a world swimming champion when he wins 400m freestyle aged 15 years, 3 months in Perth; also wins event at 2001 & 2003 World Championships
- 1998 Future Hockey Hall of Fame right wing Dino Ciccarelli finds his 5th NHL club; traded from Tampa Bay Lightning to Florida Panthers
Glenn in Space Again?
1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
- 1999 The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security forces
- 2000 Utah's Jerry Sloan becomes 12th coach in NBA history to reach the 700-victory plateau when the Jazz defeat the LA Clippers, 112-75 at the Delta Center, Salt Lake City
- 2001 Wikipedia, a free Wiki or content encyclopedia, is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
- 2005 An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system
- 2005 ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon
- 2007 Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
- 2008 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority members celebrate 100th anniversary by donating $1 million to scholarship funds at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
2009 Chesley Sullenberger lands US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in NYC. All passengers and crew survive in what becomes known as the "Miracle on the Hudson."
- 2011 Wikipedia, the free internet encyclopedia, turns 10 years old
- 2013 19 Egyptian Army recruits are killed and 120 are injured in a train accident in Giza
- 2013 83 people are killed and 150 are injured in a rocket attack on Aleppo University, Syria
- 2014 LA Dodgers sign pitcher Clayton Kershaw to the biggest deal in baseball history, a 7-year, $215 million package averaging $30.7 million per season
- 2016 American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan unveils newest exhibit replica skeleton of a Titanosaur dinosaur (found 2010 Argentina), largest known dinosaur at 70 tons, 37m
- 2016 Islamist militants attack a hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso killing 28, injuring 56
- 2018 Fashion photographers Mario Testino and Bruce Weber are suspended from magazines including Vogue, after allegations of sexual harassment in "The New York Times"
- 2018 Operation in El Junquito, Venezuela, to capture terrorist group including Oscar Pérez, accused of mounting a coup, ends in 4 deaths
- 2018 Pope Francis arrives in Chile for a three-day visit amid child sexual abuse claims against church clergy
- 2018 Protests against the current government turn violent in Tunis, Tunisia marking the seventh anniversary of the revolution
- 2018 Romanian Social Democrat (PSD) Prime Minister Mihai Tudose resigns after 7 months in office
- 2018 US Olympic gold medal winning gymnast Simone Biles says she is one of more than 130 women sexually abused by former team doctor Larry Nassar
Hoodie SZN
2019 American rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie tops US album chart with album "Hoodie SZN" selling a record low 823 copies of just digital sales
- 2019 Beginning of humanity's largest gathering, the Kumbh Mela Hindu festival with 15 million people bathing at the joining of Ganges and Yamuna rivers, India. 120 million expected over next 49 days.
- 2019 Bomb blast and gunfight at DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, leaves at least 21 dead with militants group claiming responsibility al-Shabab
- 2019 Chinese scientists confirm they have germinated a cotton seed on the moon on board the Chang’e 4 lander
- 2019 LGBTQ activists accuse the Russian republic of Chechnya of a new gay purge with 40 detained and two killed
- 2019 Plastic will outweigh fish in the world's oceans by 2050 according to report by the World Economic Forum
Britain's Largest Parliamentary Defeat
2019 Theresa May's Brexit deal with the EU is rejected by UK parliament 432 votes to 202, largest parliamentary defeat in its democratic era
2019 Witness in El Chapo trial claims former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto accepted $100 million bribe from the drug cartel head
- 2021 6.2-magnitude earthquake on Indonesia's island of Sulawesi kills at least 42 with hundreds injured
Rutte's Government Resigns
2021 Dutch government led by PM Mark Rutte resigns after falsely accusing thousands of families of welfare fraud
- 2021 Global death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic passes 2 million (true total likely much higher)
WandaVision
2021 TV series "WandaVision" starring Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany as Vision debuts on Disney+
- 2022 Oil spill at La Pampilla refinery off Peruvian coast after waves from the Tongan eruption cause almost 12,000 barrels to leak into the sea [1]
- 2022 Underwater volcano Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai violently erupts with 20km ash plume, sending tsunami over nearby Tonga, with shock waves heard in New Zealand [1]
- 2023 At least 68 people killed in a plane crash by Yeti Airlines in Pokhara, Nepal, the countries worst crash for three decades [1]
LeBron James Passes 38,000 Points
2023 Lakers LeBron James surpasses 38,000 NBA career points, joining only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in 113-112 loss to Philadelphia 76ers at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California
- 2023 Mexico brings into force world's strictest anti-smoking laws, banning smoking in public places such as beaches and parks [1]
- 2024 75th Emmy Awards: "Succession" Best Drama, "The Bear" Best Comedy, "Beef" Best Limited Series
2024 English singer Elton John wins an Emmy Award for the television special "Elton John: Farewell From Dodger Stadium", completing his EGOT (winning all four major American entertainment awards)
- 2024 Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant wins the TS Eliot prize for his collection "Self-Portrait As Othello" [1]
- 2024 Joel Embiid ties Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record with his 16th straight game with 30 or more points and 10-plus rebounds in a win over the Houston Rockets
- 2025 At least 100 people thought to have died from starvation in a crackdown on illegal mining at the Stilfontein mine in South Africa, with 166 rescued [1]
- 2025 Daniel Chapo, the new head of the Frelimo party, is sworn in as the president of Mozambique, extending the party's rule to 49 years after months of protests [1]
- 2025 Gaza war: Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement is announced, including a hostage swap and allowing international aid into Gaza to end the 15-month conflict (takes effect 19 January) [1]
- 2025 Ispace and Firefly Aerospace launch their missions to the Moon, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, included is art project of a little red model of a Swedish house [1]
Yoon Suk Yeol Arrested
2025 South Korea's suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol is arrested after a weeks-long standoff at his Presidential compound in Seoul [1]
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