- 78 Origin of the Saka Era in India
- 468 St. Simplicius is elected to succeed Pope Hilarius
- 473 Glycerius appointed a puppet Emperor of the Western Empire by Burgundian king and patrician Gundobad (deposed 474)
- 493 Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker
- 1284 Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England
- 1409 Austrian civil war ends
- 1431 Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV
- 1443 Ferrante (later Ferdinand I), illegitimate son of Alfonso the Magnanimous, King of Naples, made Duke of Calabria and heir to the kingdom
- 1476 Battle of Toro, during the War of the Castilian Succession, is inconclusive; Isabella of Castile claims a win for her and Ferdinand of Aragon against the Portuguese, ending the threat of invasion
Battle of Tukaroi
1575 Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi
- 1585 The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
- 1592 Trinity College Dublin and its library is founded by royal charter by Elizabeth I on the former site of the Priory of All Hallows [1]
Battle in the Bay of São Salvador
1627 Dutch privateer Piet Heyn attacks and conquers 22 Portuguese ships in Bay of Salvador, Brazil
- 1634 1st tavern in Boston (Mass) opens (Samuel Cole)
- 1638 Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden
- 1677 First Battle of Tobago: Dutch fleet under Jacob Binckes forces a French squadron led by Jean II d'Estrées to retreat off Tobago in the Caribbean Sea during the Franco-Dutch War
- 1776 American commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau, Bahamas
- 1789 First whale harpooned in the Pacific Ocean by English ship Emilia off the coast of South America [1]
- 1791 1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
- 1791 Congress establishes US Mint
Haydn's The Clock
1794 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D ("The Clock") at the Hanover Rooms, in London
- 1794 Richard Allen founded African Methodist Episcopal Church
- 1801 1st US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
- 1803 1st impeachment trial of a US federal judge, John Pickering, begins
- 1803 Colégio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello
- 1805 Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
- 1813 Office of Surgeon General of the US Army forms
- 1815 US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute
- 1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi
- 1820 Missouri Compromise passes, allowing Missouri to join the United States despite slavery still being legal there.
- 1821 American tailor and inventor Thomas L. Jennings (30) receives a US patent for his "dry-scouring" process, the forerunner of today’s modern dry-cleaning
- 1835 Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans, Louisiana; coins identified with mint mark 'O'
- 1837 Congress increases US Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
US Recognizes Republic of Texas
1837 US President Andrew Jackson and Congress recognize the Republic of Texas
- 1838 Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario, Canada
Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony
1842 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd ("Scottish") Symphony in Leipzig Gewandhaus
- 1842 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed in Massachusetts
- 1843 Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US
- 1845 Florida becomes 27th state of the Union
- 1845 For the first time the US Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto
- 1845 US Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery
- 1847 US Post Office Department is authorized to issue postage stamps
- 1849 Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin and the $1 Gold Liberty coin in the USA
- 1849 Territory of Minnesota organizes
- 1849 US Home Department (later renamed the Department of the Interior) established by Congress
- 1851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)
- 1853 Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by US Congress
- 1853 US Assay Office in NYC authorized
- 1855 US Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
- 1855 US Congress authorizes registered mail
- 1857 Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China
1861 Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs and granting them full rights as free citizens [OS: Feb 19]
- 1862 Union forces under General Pope lay siege to New Madrid, Missouri (US Civil War)
- 1863 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted
National Academy of Sciences
1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
- 1863 Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City, Nevada; coins identified with mint mark 'CC'
- 1863 Federal ironclad ships bombard Fort McAllister, Georgia
- 1863 Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired
- 1863 Gold certificates (currency) authorized by US Congress
- 1863 Idaho Territory incorporated from parts of area split from Dakota, Nebraska, and Washington territories; now consists of states of Idaho. Montana, and most of Wyoming
- 1865 Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
- 1865 US Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established by Abraham Lincoln to help destitute free blacks
- 1869 University of South Carolina opens to all races
- 1871 US Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent
- 1871 US Congress establishes the civil service system
- 1873 US Congress & government retroactively raise own salaries
- 1873 US Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps
- 1873 US Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail
- 1875 First recognized hockey game is played at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, according to the International Ice Hockey Federation, though it likely occurred much earlier [1]
1875 Georges Bizet's last and greatest opera "Carmen" premieres at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, France
- 1875 US Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years
Hayes' Private Oath
1877 Rutherford B. Hayes takes the oath of office privately as official inauguration day falls on a Sunday
- 1878 Treaty of San Stefano signed by Russian and Ottoman empires grants independence to Bulgaria after 500 years of Turkish rule
- 1879 1st female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
- 1879 US Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior
- 1882 NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
- 1883 Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy
- 1885 1st US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission
- 1885 American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
- 1885 US Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government)
- 1885 US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail
- 1887 American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa
Helen Keller Begins Lessons
1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6-year-old blind-deaf Helen Keller
- 1889 US President Harrison announced the government would open the 1.9 million-acre tract of Indian Territory for settlement precisely at noon on April 22
- 1891 The Penalty Spot Kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season.
- 1891 US Congress creates Courts of Appeal
- 1891 US Congress creates Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept)
- 1891 US Congress establishes the Office of Immigration
- 1892 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn
- 1893 US Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture
- 1893 US Mint issues Queen Isabella commemorative silver quarter in conjunction with the World’s Columbian Exposition [1]
- 1894 "NY Atlantis" 1st Greek-language publication in US begins
- 1894 4th & last British government of Gladstone resigns
1st US Admiral
1899 George Dewey becomes 1st in US to hold the rank of Admiral of the Navy
- 1899 US Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar
- 1901 US Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce
- 1903 North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
1st Political Recording
1904 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder
Nicholas II's Concessions
1905 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to summon a 'consultative assembly' and concedes other points including an edict of religious toleration, relief for Jews, and the cancellation of certain debts
- 1905 US Forest Service forms
- 1906 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traian Vuia tested in France
Rockefeller Jr. Retires
1910 John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can be devoted full time to being a philanthropist at the Rockefeller Foundation
- 1911 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Confederate graves opens, Missouri
1913 Woman suffrage procession through Washington, D.C. organized by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns and led by Inez Milholland. Ida B. Wells marched with her Illinois delegation despite blacks being told to march in a separate section.
Elihu Root Retires
1915 Elihu Root finishes his tenure as United States Senator from New York after choosing not to seek re-election
- 1915 US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) created, the predecessor of NASA
- 1917 First major strike of the Russian "February Revolution" starts at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd [OS: Feb 18]
- 1917 German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admits the "Zimmermann Telegram" is genuine; revelation generates support for the US declaration of war on Germany in April.
- 1917 Mexico and the USA renew diplomatic relations
- 1917 US Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
- 1918 Facing internal counterrevolutionary pressures and external German offensive, Bolsheviks forced to sign harsh Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany and Austria
- 1918 Richard Goering's "Seeschlacht" premieres in Berlin
- 1919 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle-Victoria, BC
- 1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
- 1920 Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
- 1921 The Asiatic Inquiry Commission, established by the South African Government, proposes a system of voluntary repatriation and segregation of Indians and prohibits Indians from buying agricultural land in a specified area along the coast
- 1922 Italian fascists occupy Fiume & Rijeka
Music History
1922 US premiere of Igor Stravinsky's avant-garde ballet score "Le Sacre du Printemps" (The Rite of Spring) with Leopold Stokowski leading the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [1]
- 1922 WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
- 1923 Time magazine publishes its first issue featuring Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the US House of Representatives
- 1923 US Senate rejects membership of the International Court of Justice, The Hague
- 1924 German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
- 1924 Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock" premieres in Dublin
- 1926 International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla)
- 1931 "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially becomes the US national anthem by congressional resolution; lyrics by Francis Scott Key in 1814 are set to John Stafford Smith's 18th-century tune "The Anacreontic Song"
Minnie the Moocher
1931 Cab Calloway records "Minnie the Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller)
- 1933 German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested
- 1935 Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
- 1937 Australia snatches series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down
- 1938 American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)
Gandhi Begins Protest Fast
1939 Mahatma Gandhi begins a fast in Bombay to protest against autocratic rule in India
- 1940 American bandleader Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label
- 1942 1st combat flight for Canadian British-built Avro Lancaster bomber
- 1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Australian and American air forces devastate Japanese navy convoy
- 1943 Bethnal Green Tube disaster: 173 die in a stampede sheltering in an air raid, UK's greatest loss of civilian life in WWII (details censored till January 20 1945)
- 1943 F Ryerson & Cohn Claues' "Harriet" premieres in NYC
Barber's 2nd Symphony
1944 Premiere performance of US Army Corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony by the Boston Symphony, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511
- 1945 Roermond & Venlo, Netherlands, liberated
- 1945 US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
- 1945 US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
- 1950 National-American Football League reverts to calling itself the NFL after 3 months
- 1951 Bill Mikvy of Temple University scores NCAA basketball record 73 points, including 54 straight, in 93-69 win on the road at Wilkes College [1]
- 1952 Puerto Rico approves its 1st self-written constitution
- 1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee
- 1953 Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed
- 1956 Dutch swimmer Cockie Gastelaars breaks a 20-year-old world record for the 100m freestyle (1:04.2)
Heartbreak Hotel
1956 Elvis Presley's first hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
- 1956 Indonesian government of Harahap resigns
- 1956 Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY
- 1957 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Markham & Jones of Great Britain
- 1957 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul of Canada
- 1957 Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins of the USA
- 1957 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss (US)
- 1958 KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
- 1958 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
- 1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
- 1959 First US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launches
- 1959 San Francisco Giants rename their stadium Candlestick Park
- 1959 The Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts opens in Yerevan, Armenia, with a collection of over 23,000 manuscripts [1]
- 1960 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")
- 1962 British Antarctic Territory forms
- 1963 American country blues musician "Mississippi" John Hurt 're-discovered' by musicologist Tom Hoskins in Avalon, Mississippi [1]
- 1963 Senegal adopts a new constitution
- 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1965 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Music History
1966 Canadian-American rock band "Buffalo Springfield" forms (Stephen Stills, Neil Young, et al)
- 1966 Twister hits Jackson Mississippi; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
- 1966 WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, Virginia (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1967 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain
- 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game)
- 1968 "Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC
- 1968 Greek, Portuguese & Spanish embassies bombed in the Hague
NHL Trade
1968 In a blockbuster trade, Toronto Maple Leafs send future Hockey Hall of Fame left wing Frank Mahovlich to the rival Detroit Red Wings
- 1968 Pirate station "Radio Caroline" goes off the air when its ships Mi Amigo and Caroline are boarded and seized before the day's broadcasting began
- 1969 Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
Post Card
1969 Apple Records releases Mary Hopkin's debut album "Post Card", in the US, produced by Paul McCartney: US version substitutes her earlier hit singles for two tracks included on the UK version
Music History
1971 South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles, begun after John Lennon's infamous "Jesus" quote in 1966
- 1974 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes in the Ermenonville Forest outside Paris, killing all 346 people onboard
- 1976 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
- 1976 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
- 1977 Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS)
- 1977 Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
- 1977 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms
- 1977 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
- 1978 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI v Australia)
- 1980 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus is decommissioned
- 1980 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
Event of Interest
1980 Pierre Trudeau sworn in, for the second time, as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada
Sports History
1981 NHL New York Islanders Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season, in his 4th career 4-goal game, an 8-8 tie with visiting Edmonton Oilers
- 1981 NY Islanders & Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie
- 1982 Senate begins debate on expulsion of Sen Harrison Williams (D-NJ)
- 1983 Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw is admitted to hospital for surgery to repair his throwing arm under the alias 'Tom Brady'
- 1984 NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6)
Moonlighting
1985 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis premieres on ABC TV in the US
- 1985 National Union of Mine Workers in Britain ends a 51 week strike
Master of Puppets
1986 Elektra Records releases "Master of Puppets," the third studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica
- 1987 Ray Dandridge, third baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame
- 1989 Eastern Airlines machinists union goes on strike; pilots respect picket lines
Event of Interest
1989 Robert McFarlane gets a $20,000 fine and two years probation for pleading guilty to withholding information from Congress in the Iran-Contra illegal arms-for-hostages scandal
Event of Interest
1991 Iraqi generals and US general "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf meet to discuss Gulf War cease fire
- 1991 Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
1991 Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King, the beating is famously captured on amateur video and later leads to riots when the police officers are acquitted
- 1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec)
- 1991 Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tomé e Principal
- 1991 Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
- 1991 United Airlines 737 crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
Sports History
1992 Charges are filed in Florida against NY Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden of rape (dropped in April)
- 1992 Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 263 die
- 1992 Mike Bossy's #22 is 2nd jersey number retired by NHL New York Islanders
- 1992 Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina established.
- 1993 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Boston, Massachusetts on WBCN 104.1 FM, in the evenings by tape delay
- 1994 "Philoktetes Variations" with Ron Vawter premieres in Brussels
Man of the House
1995 "Man of the House", directed by James Orr and starring Chevy Chase and Farrah Fawcett, premieres in America
- 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville, North Carolina on WRCQ 103.5 FM
- 1997 The Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two and a half years of construction, the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere
Event of Interest
1998 Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee about Microsoft's dominant position in the software industry
- 1999 "Fortunate" single by soul singer Maxwell released (Billboard Music Award Best R&B Single of the Year, 1999)
- 2002 Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations
Agreement of Interest
2004 Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion deal forming InBev, the world's largest brewer
The Massacre
2005 American rapper 50 Cent releases his album “The Massacre” (2005 Billboard Album of the Year, Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album 2006)
- 2005 Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. Deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 North-West Rebellion.
- 2005 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops or refueling, completing a journey of 40,234 km (25,000 miles) in 67 hours and 2 minutes
Rockferry
2008 Duffy releases her debut album "Rockferry" (Grammy - Best Pop Vocal Album, 2009)
- 2009 The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.
- 2009 The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for 2nd Test against Pakistan; match abandoned
- 2012 Lorry crash in east Guinea kills 50 and injures 27
- 2012 Two trains crash in Szczekociny, Poland, with 16 people dead and up to 50 injured
- 2013 45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan
- 2013 A 2-year-old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured
Event of Interest
2015 "Under the Dome" a documentary on pollution in China by Chai Jing has been viewed over 150 million times in 3 days on Tencent
- 2016 11th debate for Republican presidential candidates, hosted by Fox News, is held at the Fox Theatre in downtown Detroit, Michigan
- 2017 Mass grave of 800 children and infants confirmed at a former Catholic care home in Tuam, Ireland
- 2018 "The Emoji Movie" named worst film in 2017 in Razzies awards
Sports History
2018 Brian Ortega becomes the first man to finish Frankie Edgar in MMA at UFC 222, earning Performance of the Night
Event of Interest
2019 Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika confirms he will run for president one last time, his 5th term, amid widespread demonstrations
- 2019 Multiple tornadoes tear through Georgia and Alabama killing at least 23
- 2019 South African music star Mampintsha shown hitting girlfriend Babes Wodumo on Instagram Live and later arrested for assault
Event of Interest
2019 SpaceX's Dragon capsule successfully docks with the International Space Station during its demonstration run
- 2020 Heavy rain and landslides hit coastal areas of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states, Brazil, killing at least 18 people
- 2020 Iran releases 54,000 people from prison to avoid spread of COVID-19 as country reports 77 deaths and 2,300 cases including two dozen MPs
- 2020 Irishwomen Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamar, of Grafton Architecture, are the 1st women to share the Pritzker Architecture Prize
- 2020 Last Ebola patient discharged from hospital in Beni, DR Congo, raising hopes outbreak at an end in the country after 2,300 deaths
- 2020 Powerful storm producing multiple tornadoes rips through central Tennessee killing at least 25
Event of Interest
2020 Super Tuesday: Biggest voting day for Democrats selecting their presidential candidate revives Joe Biden's campaign, he wins nine states, while Bernie Sanders wins four including California
- 2020 UK has its wettest February since records began in 1862, according to the Met Office, with 209.1mm of rainfall, 237% above average
- 2020 US Federal Reserve makes its largest rate cut in a decade, short-tern interest rates by 0.5% to protect economy against COVID-19
- 2020 World Bank pledges $12 billion in emergency aid for developing countries dealing with COVID-19
- 2021 38 people shot and killed by security forces in anti-coup protests in Myanmar
- 2021 Australian attorney general Christian Porter denies rape allegation involving 16-year-old girl in 1988
- 2021 Great apes at San Diego Zoo reported given experimental COVID-19 vaccine designed for animals after earlier outbreak among the gorillas (San Diego, California) [1]
- 2021 Sarah Everard is kidnapped, raped and murdered by a UK policeman after being arrested under false pretenses in London
- 2021 US President Joe Biden criticizes lifting of COVID-19 restrictions by Texas and Mississippi as "Neanderthal thinking"
- 2022 Russian forces seize the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe
All-time NCAA Scoring Record
2024 Iowa's Caitlin Clark becomes the NCAA Division I all-time career scoring leader, surpassing Pete Maravich's career total of 3,667; her 35 points in win over visiting Ohio State brings her total to 3,685 and counting
- 2024 Violence increases further in ungoverned areas of Burkina Faso as around 170 people were executed by armed groups in three northern villages [1]
