- 756 Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova, Spain
- 884 Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1004 Henry II the Saint crowned King of Italy
King John Yields to Rome
1213 After years of disagreement and political struggle, King John of England yields to Rome and allows Stephen Langton to return and become Archbishop of Canterbury. The crisis is a major factor that led to the Magna Carta in 1215.
Genghis Khan Meets Qiu Chuji
1222 Mongolian leader Genghis Khan meets the leader of the Taoist Dragon Gate sect Master Changchun (Qiu Chuji) at his camp in Parwan near the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan
Ad Extirpanda
1252 Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull Ad Extirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition
- 1464 Battle of Hexham: English Yorkist troops led by John Neville, Earl of Montagu defeat Lancastrian force headed by Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. Neville has Somerset beheaded. [1]
- 1492 Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kill 232 residents of Alkmaar, Netherlands
- 1514 Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo's "Gesta Danorum" (Deeds of the Danes), in Paris
- 1525 The battle of Frankenhausen: German peasant army surrounded, 5,000 slaughtered ; ends the peasants' uprising
1536 Anne Boleyn and her brother George, Lord Rochford, accused of adultery and incest
- 1572 Louis van Nassau and the Huguenots occupy Valenciennes
- 1602 Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
King Louis XIII
1610 Parliament of Paris appoints 8-year old Louis XIII as French King, following the assassination of his father Henry IV; Louis' mother and Henry's widow Marie de' Medici serves as regent until 1617
Harmonic Law
1618 German astronomer Johannes Kepler discovers the third of his three planetary laws, the "harmonic law"
- 1625 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vocklamarkt, Upper-Austria
- 1648 Treaty of Munster ratified by Spain & Netherlands
- 1672 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
- 1701 The War of the Spanish Succession begins
An Essay on Criticism
1711 Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" is published anonymously
- 1718 London lawyer James Puckle patents the world's first machine gun
Self-denying Ordinance
1791 Maximilien Robespierre proposes the self-denying ordinance, making it so that no deputy who sat in the Constituent Assembly could sit in the succeeding Assembly
- 1793 Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for about 360 meters at a height of 5 to 6 meters in one of the first attempted flights
Napoleon Enters Milan
1796 First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph with French troops
- 1796 France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris
Assassination Attempt on George III
1800 King George III survives a second assassination attempt
Pope Pius VII's Call
1800 Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles
- 1817 Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority (modern Indonesia), under Thomas Matulesia (aka Kapitan Pattimura)
- 1817 First private mental health hospital opens in the US, Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Joseph Smith Ordained
1829 Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith
- 1836 Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse
1841 First emigrant wagon train to reach California leaves Independence, Missouri, on a 1,730-mile journey over the Sierra Nevada [1]
- 1849 Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded
King Mongkut of Siam
1851 King Mongkut [Rama IV or Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua] crowned in Siam (Thailand)
- 1856 2nd San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized
- 1858 Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden, London
- 1862 -May 17] Battle of Princeton, West Virginia
- 1862 Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Fort Darling), Virginia
- 1862 Confederate ship Alabama launched as the Enrica at Birkenhead, England, where she had been built in secret
- 1862 First baseball enclosure opens at Union Grounds in Brooklyn
General Order No. 28
1862 Major General Benjamin Butler issues order (New Orleans) that Confederate women abusing Union soldiers be treated as whores
- 1862 US Department of Agriculture created
Salon des Refusés
1863 Salon des Refusés opens in Paris, exhibition of works rejected by official Salon, features Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, Henri Fantin-Latour, James Whistler, and Édouard Manet
- 1864 Battle of New Market, Virginia
- 1864 Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)
- 1868 Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls
May Laws
1882 May Laws: Russian Tsar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania
- 1883 Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary & Germany
Louis Riel Captured
1885 Canadian Métis insurgent Louis Riel captured in the aftermath of the Battle of Batoche in Saskatchewan
Beatty Gets a Promotion
1886 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman
- 1891 British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms
- 1891 Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland
Rerum Novarum
1891 Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical "Rerum novarum" (Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor), addressing the condition of the working class
- 1896 Tornado kills 78 in Texas
- 1897 Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War
Scientific-Humanitarian Committee
1897 The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee is founded in Berlin by Magnus Hirschfeld, the first-ever LGBT rights organization
- 1902 "Bailundo Revolt" begins after Ovimbundu kingdom & allies revolt against Portuguese Empire in Benguela Highlands, central Portuguese Angola
- 1902 Lyman Gilmore claims to be the first person to fly a powered craft, a steam-powered airplane with a heavy boiler and coal as a power source [1]
- 1905 Las Vegas founded in Nevada
- 1906 MLB New York Giants pitcher George "Hooks" Wiltse strikes out 4 Reds batters in 1 inning, as catcher dropped a third strike (Palace of the Fans, in Cincinnati, Ohio)
- 1908 Reich Association Law comes into force
- 1910 Last major earthquake on the Elsinore Fault Zone in Southern California
- 1911 British House of Commons accept Parliament Bill
- 1911 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates
- 1911 Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)
- 1911 The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece
Cobb Suspended
1912 Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game & is suspended
- 1914 Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1914 Henri Rabaud's opera "Mârouf, savetier du Caire" (Marouf, the Cairo Cobbler) premieres in Paris
- 1914 US Colonel Edward House sails for Europe to persuade major powers to reduce armies and navies; from Germany, House reports: 'Everybody's nerves are tense; it only needs a spark to set the whole thing off'
- 1916 Asiago, Italy, falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front
- 1916 Claiming that the USA must act to quell dangerous disorder, the government orders US Marines to land in Santo Domingo; the American occupation will continue until 1924
- 1917 The first officer's training camp is opened in the US, as the country prepares for war
- 1918 1st regular US airmail postal service between NY, Philadelphia & Washington, D.C.
- 1918 Finnish Civil War ends
- 1918 Greeks troops land at the Ottoman-held city of Smyrna (Izmir) beginning the Greco-Turkish War
- 1918 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game
- 1919 Beginning of the Winnipeg General Strike as more than 30,000 workers walk off the job in the largest strike in Canadian history (ends 25 June) [1]
- 1919 Cincinnati Reds score 10 runs in top of the 13th to beat The Brooklyn Robins, 10-0 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York City
- 1920 Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk
- 1921 British Legion formed to care for ex-servicemen
Italian General Election
1921 Italian General Election: National Bloc, including Mussolini's fascists 35 seats, win most seats but not a majority
- 1922 Germany turns over the Upper Silesia region to Poland under Allied pressure and despite a plebiscite in favor of merging with Germany
- 1923 Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms
Roosevelt Hotel Opens
1927 Hollywood landmark the Roosevelt Hotel opens in Los Angeles by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Sid Grauman, site of the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 [1]
- 1928 Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in the silent film "Plane Crazy"
- 1929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio)
- 1930 Ellen Church becomes the first female airline stewardess aboard a United flight from San Francisco to Cheyenne
Quadragesimo Anno
1931 Pope Pius XI publishes the encyclical "Quadragesimo Anno" on the dangers to human freedom and dignity from unrestrained capitalism, socialism, and communism
- 1932 The 15th May Incident: in an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is shot and killed by Navy officers in his home
- 1933 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
- 1934 Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia
- 1934 US Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
- 1935 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates squeak past Phillies 20-5 at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl
- 1935 Moscow Metro opens to public; initial phase was 11 km (6.8 mi) long and included 13 stations
Johnson's Record Flight
1936 Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon, England having flown from South Africa in a record 4 days and 16 hours
O'Neil's Negro League Debut
1938 Buck O'Neil makes his debut playing for the Negro league baseball team Kansas City Monarchs at Ruppert Stadium, Kansas City
- 1938 Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium
- 1940 German armoured division moves into Northern France
- 1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders
- 1940 Nazis capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
- 1940 Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California
- 1940 USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the Squalus
- 1941 1st British turbojet flies
- 1941 English engineer Frank Whittle successfully tests his design for the first turbojet engine aboard a Gloster E.28/39 flying from RAF Cranwell [1]
DiMaggio Starts Streak
1941 New York Yankees Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak, with the only RBI, in a 13-1 loss to visiting Chicago White Sox
- 1941 WWII: British attack Halfaya-pass in Egypt and Fort Capuzzo in Italian Libya
- 1941 WWII: Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music
- 1942 Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
- 1942 WWII: Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrest 2,000 Dutch officers
- 1943 Halifax bombers sinks U-463
Stalin Dissolves Comintern
1943 Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International) to avoid upsetting his Western allies with claims he was trying to foment revolution globally
Munkacs Jews to Auschwitz
1944 14,000 Jews of Munkacs, Hungary, deported to Auschwitz
- 1944 Cincinnati Red Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0
- 1944 Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of the Patriarch Throne of the Russian Orthodox Church
- 1945 World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia
- 1948 Australia scores 721 runs in one day v Essex, world record
- 1948 End of the British Mandate over Palestine after 28 years
- 1948 Troops from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia attack Israel
- 1948 WATV (now WNET) TV channel 13 in Newark, New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1950 Adnan Menderes elected Prime Minister of Turkey in the country's first democratic elections [1]
- 1951 AT&T becomes the first US corporation to have a million stockholders after young car salesman Brady Denton purchases seven shares worth $1,078
First Vaginoplasty
1951 First vaginoplasty procedure (sex reassignment surgery) in the UK performed on Roberta Cowell by Harold Gillies
- 1951 Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum
- 1952 Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Washington Senators, 1-0
- 1952 Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners
- 1953 Osip Zadkine's monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam
- 1953 The Urey-Miller experiment using primordial soup to show how life of earth might have originated, written by Stanley Miller, is published in the journal "Science" [1]
- 1954 KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
- 1955 Austrian State Treaty: US, Britain, France and the Soviet Union restore Austria's independence
- 1955 Construction begins on the Soviet space travel center at Baikonur in Kazakhstan
- 1955 First ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth-highest mountain on the China-Nepal border in the Himalayas
- 1955 KPUA (now KGMD) TV channel 9 in Hilo, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Billy Graham's Crusade
1957 Evangelist Billy Graham launches his "crusade" in front of 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden in NYC
1957 Operation Grapple: Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb near Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean
- 1957 The Soviet Union tests the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7, crashes prematurely after 400 km (250 mi)
Gigi Premieres
1958 "Gigi" based on the story by Colette, directed by Vincent Minnelli, and starring Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier premieres in New York City (Best Picture 1959)
- 1958 USSR launches Sputnik III
- 1959 100th anniversary reenactment of the first college baseball game between Amherst and Williams
- 1959 12th Cannes Film Festival: "Black Orpheus" directed by Marcel Camus wins the Palme d'Or
- 1960 "L'Avventura," an Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Gabriele Ferzetti and Monica Vitti, premieres at the Cannes Film Festival
- 1960 Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
- 1960 KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1960 Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
- 1961 "Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19
- 1961 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea
Catholic Encyclical
1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical "Mater et Magistra" on Christianity and social progress
- 1962 US marines arrive in Laos
- 1963 Folksinging trio Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy for cover version of Pete Seeger's song "If I Had a Hammer"
- 1963 Last Project Mercury flight launched, Gordon Cooper in Faith 7
- 1964 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1965 Canadian Football Players Association organizes
- 1965 Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
- 1966 South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die
- 1967 "In re Gault", US Supreme Court rules juveniles accused of crimes should be given same legal rights as adults
- 1968 1st AL game played in Milwaukee, is a 4-2 California win against Chicago
Wonderwall
1968 Joe Massot's psychedelic feature "Wonderwall," with music by George Harrison, premieres at the Cannes Film Festival
- 1968 Paul McCartney & John Lennon appear on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", to promote Apple Records, Joe Garagiola is substitute host
- 1968 Tornado strikes Jonesboro, Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36
- 1969 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
- 1970 Elizabeth Hoisington and Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals
- 1970 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
- 1970 International Olympic Committee votes to expel South Africa
- 1970 Mississippi Highway Patrol kill 2 students during racial disturbance at Jackson State University in Mississippi
- 1971 Irish Republican Army member William 'Billy' Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast
- 1971 Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed
Assassination Attempt on George Wallace
1972 Assassination attempt on US Governor George Wallace of Alabama by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland
- 1972 Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims in Minia, Egypt
- 1972 Ryukyu Is & Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 yrs of US control
- 1972 The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
- 1973 California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0
- 1974 Beginning of the Ulster Workers' Council strike called by Ulster loyalists and unionists who were against the Sunningdale Agreement, which proposed the sharing of political power with Irish nationalists
- 1974 Ma'alot massacre: Palestinian terrorist take school hostage, 25 mostly children killed and 68 injured
- 1974 Walter Scheel succeeds Gustav Heinemann as West German President
- 1976 "Fonz Song" by Heyettes hits #91
- 1976 Kentucky Moonrunner by Cledus Maggard hits #85
- 1976 The Provisional Irish Republican Army kill 3 Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers in County Fermanagh and 1 in County Down
- 1976 The Ulster Volunteer Force launch gun and bomb attacks on 2 pubs in County Armagh, killing 4 Catholic civilians and wounding many more; a British Army soldier is later convicted for taking part in the attacks
- 1980 Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
- 1981 George Harrison releases single "All Those Years Ago" in UK: the song was a tribute to John Lennon, and featured Ringo Starr on drums, and Paul and Linda McCartney on backing vocals [1]
- 1981 Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
- 1981 SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television, debuts on NBC
- 1981 Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Romanian) to Salyut 6
Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
1981 TV comedy film "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs on NBC
- 1983 Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
Galtieri Sentenced
1986 Former President of Argentina Leopoldo Galtieri is sentenced to 12 years in prison for mishandling the Falkland Islands War [1]
- 1987 1st Energiya Launch (USSR)
The Late Show with Joan Rivers
1987 Last episode of "The Late Show with Joan Rivers" after the host is fired by the Fox network
- 1987 Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set
- 1988 The Soviet Union begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan
- 1989 Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right-to-lifers
- 1989 MLB Toronto Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams, and replace him with Cito Gaston
- 1989 US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule
Portrait of Doctor Gachet
1990 "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sells for $82.5 million
- 1990 Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a record 2,822.45
- 1990 Edmonton Oiler Petr Klima scores to defeat Boston Bruins in third overtime period, the longest Stanley Cup Finals game in history
Noriega a CIA Informant
1991 Defense releases docs claiming Noriega is "CIA's man in Panama"
- 1991 Edith Cresson becomes first female Prime Minister of France
- 1991 Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns
- 1991 Red Sox & White Sox play then slowest 9 inning game (4:11)
Queen at the Ballpark
1991 US President George H. W. Bush takes Queen Elizabeth II to an Oakland A's vs. Baltimore Orioles baseball game, which she apparently finds dull, with the excursion only lasting two innings
- 1992 Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy
- 1992 NY department store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores
- 1992 Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue
- 1993 "Body Snatchers", directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Gabrielle Anwar and Meg Tilly, premieres at the Cannes Film Festival
- 1993 Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas opens
- 1993 Montreal Expo retires their 1st number, #10 for Rusty Staub
- 1995 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- 1997 ABC News & Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com
Music Premiere
1997 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 4 ("Heroes"), based loosely on David Bowie's 1977 album "Heroes", premieres with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Martn Brabbins. at the Crouch End Festival in North London, England
- 1997 STS 84 (Atlantis 19), launches, 6th Shuttle-Mir Mission
- 1999 Columbus Crew Stadium (now Historic Crew Stadium), the 1st Major League Soccer stadium constructed in the United States
Fiesta
2001 "Fiesta" single released by R. Kelly featuring Jay-Z and Boo & Gotti (Billboard Song of the Year 2001)
Bowling for Columbine
2002 Documentary "Bowling for Columbine" by Michael Moore premieres at the Cannes Film Festival
Laureus Awards
2005 Laureus World Sports Awards, Casino Estoril, Portugal: Sportsman: Roger Federer; Sportswoman: Kelly Holmes; Team: Greece Men's National Football team
- 2007 Jerry Sloan leads the Utah Jazz to the Western Conference finals with a win over the Golden State Warriors
- 2008 California becomes the second US state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after its Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional
- 2008 Hollywood fixer Anthony Pellicano is found guilty of 76 counts, including racketeering, wiretapping and wire fraud [1]
Farrah's Story
2009 "Farrah's Story" documentary following Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer airs on NBC in the US
- 2009 Eurostat report that Austria, Belgium, and Romania have all entered recession in the first quarter of 2009
- 2009 French Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies announces France narrowly avoided recession in 2008, with gross domestic product shrinking 1.2% in the first quarter of 2009 after falling by 1.5% in the final quarter of 2008
- 2010 Jessica Watson at age 16 becomes the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world
The Artist
2011 "The Artist" directed by Michel Hazanavicius and starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo premieres at the Cannes Film festival (Best Picture 2012)
- 2012 Eurozone economy narrowly avoids recession
- 2012 Greece's fifth attempt to a form a coalition government fails and new June elections are scheduled
- 2013 The Eurozone records a recession for the sixth straight quarter
Icahn Backs Lyft
2015 Carl Icahn invests $100 million in Lyft, a ride-sharing service
- 2017 First US prosecution under federal Hate Crimes Act for violence against a transgender person: the murder of Mercedes Williamson in Mississippi
- 2017 State of Emergency declared in Sanaa, Yemen after outbreak of cholera kills 115
- 2017 UN Security Council condemns North Korea missile test
- 2018 "Laurel vs Yanny" disagreement over what word heard in an audio file begins across social media
- 2018 58 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and 1700 hospitalized on the Gaza border protesting opening of US embassy in Jerusalem and 70 year founding of Israel
Kerch Bridge Opens
2018 Controversial Kerch bridge linking Russia and annexed Crimea opened by Russian President Vladimir Putin. At 19km the longest bridge in Europe.
- 2018 Flyover collapses in Varanasi, India, killing at least 18
- 2018 Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim is released from prison after being pardoned by King Muhammad V
Event of Interest
2018 North Korea threatens to pull out of summit with US and South Korea saying it can "not hide our feeling of repugnance" towards US security advisor John Bolton
- 2018 Taliban forces attack and claim to has seized control of the western city of Farah, Afghanistan
- 2019 Alabama passes law banning abortion in almost all cases including rape or incest
- 2019 Baseball pitcher Edwin Jackson takes the mound for the Toronto Blue Jays, his record setting 14th MLB team, earns no decision in 4-3 loss to the Giants at Oracle Park in San Francisco
- 2019 Findings from China's Chang'e-4 rover to the Moon suggests huge asteroid created the giant crater on Moon's far side with impact so great it cracked its crust and reached the mantle below published in "Nature"
The Christchurch Call
2019 Five of world's biggest tech companies pledge to tackle extremist material at "The Christchurch Call" initiative in Paris hosted by Jacinda Ardern and Emmanuel Macron
- 2019 Jeff Koons "Rabbit" sculpture sells for $91.1 million, setting a new record for work by a living artist at auction; buyer later identified as hedge fund manager and MLB NY Mets owner Steve Cohen
- 2019 Mexico City declares an environmental emergency after air pollution reaches dangerous levels
- 2019 US birthrate in 2018 the lowest for 32 years (total fertility rate 1,728 births per 1,000 women), with record lows for teen births
- 2020 Germany, Europe's largest economy, officially in recession due to COVID-19, as figures show economy shrank 2.2% 1st 3 months of 2020
- 2021 China lands its Zhurong rover on Utopia Planitia, Mars, for the first time as part of the Tianwen-1 mission [1]
- 2022 British rock band "The Who" returns to Cincinnati, Ohio for the first time since tragic December 1979 stampede that killed 11 concert goers [1]
- 2022 Finland's government says it intends to apply to join NATO, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ending decades of neutrality [1]
- 2022 Hassan Sheikh Mohamud elected President of Somalia in a vote restricted to the country's 328 members pf parliament amid security concerns
- 2022 MLB Pirates win 1-0 over Cincinnati Reds, despite getting no hits, in Pittsburgh
Titus Brandsma Canonized
2022 Pope Francis canonizes Dutch Roman Catholic priest and anti-Nazi activist Titus Brandsma (1881-1942) as a saint
Cover Model Martha Stewart
2023 Martha Stewart is Sports Illustrated oldest-ever cover model at 81, appearing as part of its swimsuit issue [1]
Lawrence Wong Appointed PM
2024 Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong steps down after 20 years in office, replaced by deputy PM Lawrence Wong [1]
- 2024 Slovakian populist Prime Minister Robert Fico leader shot and wounded in an assassination attempt in Handlova, Slovakia [1]
- 2024 State of Emergency declared in New Caledonia amid violence that has killed four people, prompted by France giving French residents more voting power [1]
- 2024 Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington's painting "Les Distractions de Dagobert" sells for $28.5 million in New York, making her the most valuable British-born female artist at auction [1]
Chris Brown Arrested
2025 American R&B singer Chris Brown (36) is arrested and jailed upon entering England on charges of an "unprovoked attack" in a 2023 nightclub incident
