8 Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus
Nestorius Exiled to Egypt
435 Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt
- 881 Battle of Saucourt: French King Louis III defeats the Vikings
- 1108 Louis VI "The Fat," King of France, is crowned at the cathedral in Orléans after his half-brother prevents him from reaching Reims
- 1312 Tragedy of Mal Saint-Martin: 200 practitioners from Liège lose their lives in the Church of Saint-Martin, set on fire by the "Petits" (tradespeople class)
1492 Christopher Columbus, with Juan de la Cosa as second-in-command, sets sail on his first voyage with three ships: Santa María, Pinta, and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain, for the "Indies"
- 1527 First known letter is sent from North America by John Rut from St. John's in Newfoundland
- 1529 Peace of the Ladies (Treaty of Cambrai) is made between the Holy Roman Empire and France, negotiated by Louise of Savoy and Margaret of Austria
- 1557 Dutch States General meet at Valenciennes
- 1596 German astronomer and priest David Fabricius discovers the light variation of Mira, the first variable star
- 1635 Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa shogun, establishes alternate attendance (sankin kotai) where feudal daimyōs spend 1 year at Edo Castle (Tokyo) and 1 year at their feudal manor, while their families remain in Tokyo as hostages (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21)
- 1640 2,000 men from the VOC army surround the city of Malacca
- 1640 Zorilla's "Bire el Ojo" premieres in Toledo
- 1645 Battle of Allersheim: French defeat Bavarians
- 1650 Dutch Stadtholder William II and Amsterdam reach an accord about a standing army
- 1676 Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia"
- 1678 Robert LaSalle builds the first ship in America, a brig named the Griffon
Battle of Steenkerque
1692 Battle of Steenkerque: French defeat William III's combined English/Dutch army
- 1704 English and Dutch fleet under George Rooke and George Byng capture Gibraltar
- 1708 Battle of Trencsén: Austria defeats Hungarian rebellion army
- 1778 Teatro alla Scala opens in Milan
- 1797 Emperor Francis I permits Jews who serve in the military in the "Countries of the Bohemian Crown" to marry non-Jews
Battle of the Nile
1798 Battle of the Nile: British Admiral Horatio Nelson forces the remnants of the French fleet to surrender, concluding a decisive victory for the British, who capture or destroy 11 French ships of the line and 2 frigates
Humboldt Returns to France
1804 Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt lands in Bordeaux, France, completing his five-year expedition to Latin America
Guillaume Tell
1829 Gioachino Rossini's last and greatest opera "Guillaume Tell" (William Tell) premieres at Salle Le Peletier in Paris
- 1833 HMS Beagle reaches the river mouth of the Rio Negro
- 1852 America's first intercollegiate sporting event takes place when the Harvard heavyweight rowing crew beats Yale by 2 lengths over 2 miles on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire
- 1855 Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens
- 1860 The Second Māori War begins in New Zealand
- 1861 Federal fleet bombards Galveston, Texas
- 1863 Governor Seymour asks President Lincoln to suspend draft in New York
- 1880 The American Canoe Association is founded at Lake George, NY, with the first Commodore being William L. Alden
- 1881 Boers sign Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal becomes semi-autonomous
- 1881 US National Lawn Tennis Association removes "National" from its name
- 1882 US Congress passes the first law restricting immigration
- 1897 John McNally's musical "Good Mr Best" premieres in NYC
Firestone Founded
1900 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founded in Akron, Ohio, by Harvey Firestone
- 1904 British journalist Francis Younghusband visits the forbidden city of Lhasa
- 1906 Washington Nationals' Tom Hughes becomes the first MLB pitcher to win a 1-0 extra innings game with his own home run in the 10th inning against the St. Louis Browns
- 1907 Emperor Wilhelm of Germany meets with Tsar Nicholas of Russia to discuss Germany's plan to build a railroad to Baghdad; the discussion helps move Russia towards Britain and eventually the Triple Entente
- 1908 French brothers Amédée and Jean Bouyssonie discover the fossil remains of a nearly complete 60,000-year-old Neanderthal man, known as the "Old Man of La Chapelle," at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France
Umpire Starts a Riot
1909 MLB umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting in the face of A's second baseman Eddie Collins, who questioned a call; Hurst is banned for life
- 1913 Wheatland Hop Riot on a California farm kills four peole in one of the first farm labor disputes
- 1914 Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German Army leading to their invasion hours later
Edward Grey's Famous Remark
1914 British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey famously remarks, "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time."
- 1914 First unofficial trip through the Panama Canal made by the cargo vessel SS Christobel
- 1914 French fleet sails to North Africa
- 1914 German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina
- 1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War I
- 1914 World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through churches forms
- 1914 Yankees catcher Les Nunamaker throws out three Tigers' runners at second base during the first inning, the only time in the 20th century
- 1918 Siberian intervention: British Middlesex battalion are the first Allied force to arrive in Vladivostok
- 1918 The first Allied troops land at Archangel, the Russian port on the White Sea
- 1921 First aerial crop dusting in Troy, Ohio, to kill caterpillars
- 1921 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis hands out lifetime bans to eight Chicago White Sox players accused in the Black Sox scandal despite their acquittal by a Chicago jury
Games Cancelled on President's Death
1923 Baseball games are canceled following the death of US President Warren G. Harding
President Calvin Coolidge
1923 Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th US President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding
Piet Moeskops Sprint Champion
1924 Dutch track cyclist Piet Moeskops wins his fourth consecutive UCI World Sprint Championship in Paris
- 1925 Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
- 1926 Traffic lights installed at Piccadilly Circus, London
- 1928 Ray Barbuti wins the 400 m in 47.8 at the Amsterdam Olympics, the only individual track event won by an American at the Games
Chuck Klein's Second Streak
1930 For the second time in the year, Phillies' outfielder Chuck Klein hits safely in 26 straight games, but the run is halted in the second game of a doubleheader against the Boston Braves
- 1932 Official automatic timing and photo-finish camera for track events are used for the first time at the Los Angeles Olympics, instrumental in changing the 110 m hurdles final; review gives Donald Finlay bronze ahead of American Jack Keller
- 1933 Philadelphia A's defeat NY Yankees 7-0, the first time in 308 games "Bronx Bombers" are shut out
Hitler Declares Himself Führer
1934 Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself "Führer" (leader)
1936 American sprinter Jesse Owens wins the 100 m in 10.3 seconds in front of Adolf Hitler in a famous race at the Berlin Olympics, the first of four gold medals he wins at the Games
- 1936 Karl Hein (Olympic record of 56.49) and Erwin Blask achieve a German 1-2 in the hammer throw at the Berlin Olympics
- 1940 German occupiers in France impose censorship rules on films, requiring approval prior to exhibition and forbidding the depiction of German losses in WWI
- 1940 Italian troops invade British Somalia
- 1940 Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
- 1940 Seaplane Clare makes first British passenger flight to the US
- 1941 Gas (petroleum) sales limited in US as part of war-time rationing
- 1941 German troops conquer Roslavl in Russia
DiMaggio Ends Streak
1941 New York Yankees Joe DiMaggio goes 0-4 in 6-2 loss to the St. Louis Browns, ending his on-base streak of 74 games, second longest in MLB history
Patton Slaps GI
1943 General George S. Patton slaps a US GI in a hospital, accusing him of cowardice
- 1943 Nazi occupiers attack the city of Orel and leave it in flames
- 1944 Allied troops under Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell take Myitkyina, Burma
Gypsies Gassed at Auschwitz-Birkenau
1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gasses 4,000 Romani people
- 1944 General Montgomery visits General Dempsey's headquarters
- 1946 Belgian government of Huysmans forms
- 1948 American divers Vicki Draves, Zoe Ann Olsen and Patsy Elsener go 1-2-3 in a US clean sweep of the medals in the women's 3 m springboard at the London Olympics
- 1948 An American 1-2 in the men's 200 m at the London Olympics with Mel Patton (21.1) defeating teammate Barney Ewell
- 1948 An American clean sweep of the medals in the men's 3 m springboard diving at the London Olympics with Bruce Harlan winning gold, Miller Anderson silver and Sammy Lee bronze
- 1948 An American sweep of the medals in the men's shot put at the London Olympics with Wilbur Thompson taking gold ahead of teammates Jim Delaney and Jim Fuchs
- 1948 Franklin D. Roosevelt advisor Alger Hiss is accused of being a "communist"
Paige's Cleveland Debut
1948 Negro League veteran pitcher Satchel Paige, age 42, makes his first start for Cleveland Indians, and goes 7 innings in a 5-3 win against Washington
- 1948 The US 4 x 200 m freestyle relay team of Wally Ris, Jimmy McLane, Wally Wolf, and Bill Smith swim a world record of 8:46.0 to win gold at the London Olympics
- 1949 Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form the National Basketball Association (NBA), with Maurice Podoloff elected as head of the new league
- 1949 Republic of Indonesia proclaims ceasefire
- 1951 William H Jackson ends term as deputy director of CIA
1952 Italian Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari clinches the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship by winning the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring
- 1952 XV Summer Olympic Games close at the Helsingin Olympiastadion, Helsinki, Finland
- 1953 Frank Blair becomes news anchor of "Today Show"
- 1954 The Convair XFY-1 Pogo, a VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft, makes its first successful flight
- 1955 Belgian middle-distance runner Roger Moens breaks Rudolf Harbig's long-standing 800 m world record (1:45.7) in Oslo, Norway
- 1955 Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days, making landfall in North Carolina and traveling to the Great Lakes
- 1956 American sprinter Willie Williams sets a 100 m world record at 10.1 in Berlin, Germany
- 1957 British offensive against Imam Ghalib bin Ali of Oman
- 1958 MLB Baltimore Orioles manager Paul Richards is ejected from both games of a doubleheader at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan
- 1958 USS Nautilus reaches the North Pole, becoming the first submarine to achieve a submarine transit of the North Pole
- 1959 AL defeats NL 5-3 in Game 2 of the All-Star Baseball doubleheader to boost the player pension fund at LA Memorial Coliseum
- 1959 Fifty killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau
- 1960 For the only time in MLB history, teams exchange managers as Detroit trades Jimmy Dykes (44-52) for Cleveland's Joe Gordon (49-46)
- 1960 Lee Petty and his sons Richard and Maurice race against each other for the first and only time at Dixie Speedway in Birmingham, Alabama; Richard finishes second, Lee third
- 1960 Niger gains independence from France
- 1960 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) defeat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in an exhibition game at CNE Stadium in Toronto
- 1961 Pittsburgh Pirates rout St. Louis Cardinals 19-0, the largest lopsided shutout in NL history
- 1962 29th Chicago College All-Star Game at Soldier Field: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20 (65,000 attendees)
- 1962 NY Met Frank Thomas hits his sixth home run in three games
- 1963 Beatles' final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England
- 1963 Warner Bros. Records releases the single of Allan Sherman's novelty song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)," set to the music of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" from his 1876 opera "La Gioconda"
- 1966 South African government bans records by The Beatles
- 1967 45,000 US soldiers are sent to Vietnam
- 1967 James Law rides the entire New York City subway in 22 hours and 12 minutes
Newport Pop Festival
1968 100,000 attend two-day Newport Pop Festival in Costa Mesa, California; performers included Alice Cooper, Canned Heat, The Chambers Brothers, Country Joe and the Fish, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Sonny & Cher, Steppenwolf, Tiny Tim, The Animals, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and The Byrds
- 1968 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
- 1969 Cincinnati Reds, with 25 hits and 10 runs in the 5th, edge Philadelphia Phillies 19-17 at Connie Mack Stadium
- 1970 Christopher Hampton's "Philanthropist" premieres in London
- 1970 Hurricane "Celia" becomes the most expensive Gulf storm in history
- 1970 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire passes her driving test on her 40th try
- 1970 The second NFL work stoppage ends with NFL and Players' Association agreeing to a 4-year, $19.1 million deal
McCartney Forms Wings
1971 Paul McCartney announces the formation of the group "Wings," consisting of himself, his wife Linda McCartney, and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine
Dock Strike Crisis
1972 British Prime Minister Edward Heath proclaims an emergency crisis due to a dock strike
- 1972 Chozen-ji/International Zen Dojo is founded by Omori Sogen Roshi in Hawaii
- 1972 US Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union to limit the use of missile systems capable of defending against missile-delivered nuclear weapons
- 1973 Flash fire kills 51 at an amusement park on the Isle of Man, UK
- 1973 National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections
Innervisions
1973 Tamla/Motown Records releases "Innervisions," the 16th studio album by Stevie Wonder, including the hits "Higher Ground" and "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing"
Baxter Quits Steely Dan
1974 Jeff Baxter, guitarist and founding member of Steely Dan, quits the band and joins the Doobie Brothers
- 1975 Chartered Boeing 707 crashes in Atlas Mountains near Agadir, Morocco while descending in heavy fog for scheduled landing at Inezgane Airport, killing 188
- 1975 Louisiana Superdome football stadium is dedicated in New Orleans, Louisiana
- 1975 Poland and West Germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans
- 1975 Two riverboats collide and sink in China's West River, killing 500 people
- 1977 Radio Shack introduces the TRS-80 personal computer, and within weeks, thousands are ordered
- 1977 United States Senate hearing on MKULTRA
- 1978 Eleventh Commonwealth Games open in Edmonton, Canada
- 1979 Fastest jai-alai shot at 188 mph (302.5 km/h) by José Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, Rhode Island
- 1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1980 Al Kaline, Duke Snider, Chuck Klein, and Tom Yawkey are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
- 1980 XXII Summer Olympic Games close at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Russia
Air Traffic Controllers Strike
1981 13,000 air traffic controllers (PATCO) begin their strike; US President Ronald Reagan states during a press conference, "If they do not report for work within 48 hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated" [1]
- 1981 France performs a nuclear test in the Pacific
- 1981 Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Anti-imperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi
- 1982 Pitching coach Clyde King becomes the New York Yankees' third manager of the season, replacing Gene Michael after the Yankees are swept at home by the Chicago White Sox
- 1983 John Sain of South Bend, Indiana, builds a 3.91-meter (12.83-foot) house of cards
- 1983 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1984 17-year-old Australian swimmer Jon Sieben stages a withering finish to upset hot favorite Michael Gross of West Germany in the 200 m butterfly at the Los Angeles Olympics in a world record time of 1:57.04
- 1984 Bomb attack on Madras India airport kills 32 people
- 1984 Mary Lou Retton scores 10 for final vault to win the individual all-round competition in Los Angeles and become the first American woman to win an Olympic gymnastics medal
- 1984 Mexicans Ernesto Canto and Raúl González take the gold and silver medals in the 20 km walk at the Los Angeles Olympics
- 1984 Starstruck's Dolphin rocket is launched off San Clemente Island
- 1985 "Nihilator" sets harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ
- 1985 Train crash in Flaujac, France, kills 35 people
- 1986 First NFL "American Bowl" exhibition game at London's Wembley Stadium; Chicago Bears defeat Dallas Cowboys 17-6
Jack Morris
1987 Detroit Tigers ace Jack Morris ties the AL record with five wild pitches in a 4-2, 10-inning loss against the Kansas City Royals
- 1987 Discovery in the Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26
- 1987 Twins pitcher Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound in an 11-3 win against the Angels, ejected and suspended for 10 games
- 1988 David "Skip" Storch (37) swims 152.9 miles (246 km) of the Hudson River from Albany to NYC
- 1989 Cincinnati Reds set an MLB record for the most hits in the first inning of a game with 16, scoring 14 runs in an 18-1 rout of the Houston Astros
- 1989 Jorge Velásquez wins aboard Maddie Bumpo in the 3rd at Arlington International Racecourse to become only the fifth jockey in the world to ride 6,000 career winners
- 1989 Lawrence Delisle drives his four kids into a river
Rickey Henderson
1989 MLB Oakland A's outfielder Rickey Henderson sets an AL record of 50 stolen bases in 9 of his first 11 big-league seasons
- 1990 98.8°F (37.1°C) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (UK record)
- 1990 New York Yankees rookie first baseman Kevin Maas sets an MLB record by hitting 10 home runs in the fewest at-bats (72)
- 1990 Radio Kuwait goes off air due to the Iraqi invasion
- 1990 US announces commitment of naval forces to Gulf region
- 1991 Giant Victory, driven by Jack Moiseyev, wins the Hambletonian, securing a second $1 million purse in 22 days for Moiseyev after winning the Meadowlands Pace
- 1992 Paramount Studios inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot
- 1994 102.4°F (39.1°C) in Tokyo, Japan (record)
- 1994 First Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
- 1995 CNN en Español premieres
- 1996 "Macarena" by Los Del Rio starts a 14-week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart; sales of 11 million copies worldwide lead to its ranking as the No. 1 Greatest One-Hit Wonder of All Time by VH1 in 2002
Andre Agassi
1996 American Andre Agassi wins the men's singles tennis gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics, defeating Spaniard Sergi Bruguera 6-2, 6-3, 6-1
- 1996 US General William F. Garrison accepts responsibility for outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and retires from military service
- 1997 Manchester United defeats Chelsea 4-2 on penalties to win the Charity Shield after a bad-tempered 1-1 draw at Wembley
- 1997 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria kills 40-76 villagers
- 1997 Sky Tower opens in Auckland, New Zealand, standing at 328 meters (1,076 feet) as the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere
- 1998 The Oval hosts its first competitive cricket match played under floodlights in London as the home team Surrey loses to Sussex by 8 wickets in the day/night 40-over fixture
Music History
1999 American country music singer Patsy Cline is posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Arsenal Sign Thierry Henry
1999 Arsenal FC completes a huge signing coup, snapping up ace French striker Thierry Henry for an estimated fee of £11 million from Italian club Juventus
- 2000 England cricket wicket-keeper Alec Stewart becomes only the 4th batsman to score a century (105) in his 100th Test, during the 3rd Test against the West Indies at Old Trafford
- 2000 South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Amnesty Committee grants amnesty to Curnick Ndlovu, the KwaZulu-Natal leader of the African National Congress and United Democratic Front, for committing sabotage during December 1961 and June 1963 near Durban
The Princess Diaries
2001 "The Princess Diaries," starring Anne Hathaway in her film debut, is released nationwide
- 2001 Olympic champion Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia becomes the first athlete to achieve the Olympics-World Championships marathon double, running 2:12:42 to defeat Kenya's Simon Biwott by just 0.1 seconds in the Edmonton World Championships
- 2001 The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, injuring 7 people
Iran and Libya Sanctions Act
2001 US President George W. Bush signs into law the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) Extension Act of 2001
Dylan Returns to Newport Festival
2002 Bob Dylan returns to the Newport Folk Festival for the first time since his controversial electric set in 1965
- 2004 MESSENGER spacecraft launches from Cape Canaveral
Albert Pujols
2004 St. Louis first baseman Albert Pujols becomes the first player in MLB history to hit at least 30 home runs in each of his first four seasons as the Cardinals beat Montreal 10-6
- 2005 President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia
Baseball Record
2006 Barry Bonds' 715th MLB home run ball, which moves him past Babe Ruth for second all-time, fetches $220,100 at auction
- 2006 Brazilian Champ Car driver Cristiano da Matta crashes into a deer during testing at Road America, Wisconsin; seriously injured but returns to racing in 2008
Morgan Freeman Car Accident
2008 Morgan Freeman is injured in an automobile accident near Ruleville, Mississippi, when his car flips over several times on the highway
- 2012 American Missy Franklin swims a world record 2:04.06 to win the 200 m backstroke gold medal at the London Olympics
Michael Phelps
2012 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 100 m butterfly in London to take his all-time Olympic gold medal tally to a record 17
- 2012 United Nations General Assembly reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria
- 2013 80 people are killed in a wave of insurgency across Iraq
- 2013 Nine children are killed by a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
- 2013 Super Rugby Final, Waikato Stadium, Hamilton: Chiefs successfully defend title with a 27-22 over ACT Brumbies
Alex Puccio
2014 Alex Puccio ascends Jade in Rocky Mountain National Park, becoming the fourth woman to climb V14
- 2014 At least 13 Palestinians reported killed in ongoing air raids and tank shelling by Israel
- 2014 The Israeli Defense Forces remove much of their ground forces from the Gaza Strip following the destruction of 32 tunnels built by Hamas and other militants
- 2015 The Athens Stock Exchange reopens after a month and falls by 22%
- 2016 International Olympic Committee approves baseball/softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing, and skateboarding to be included in the sports program for the 2020 Games only; total number of sports is 33
Neymar's Record Transfer
2017 Brazilian soccer forward Neymar transfers from FC Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for a world-record transfer fee of €222 million on a five-year contract
Havana
2017 Camila Cabello releases her single "Havana" (biggest song worldwide in 2018, 19 million copies sold)
President Hassan Rouhani
2017 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is elected for his second term as President
- 2017 Massachusetts woman Michelle Carter sentenced to 2 1/2 years for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide
- 2017 Rapper Kidd Creole is arrested and charged with stabbing a homeless man to death in New York City
- 2019 Suspected domestic terrorist shoots and kills 22 and injures 24 at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas
- 2020 Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in the US as a Category 1 hurricane near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina
- 2020 Number of Iranian COVID-19 deaths is triple that of government tally, showing 42,000 have died instead of 14,405, according to BBC Persian Service investigation [1]
- 2020 Spain's former King Juan Carlos announces he will go into exile abroad amid his implication in a corruption inquiry
- 2021 132 wildfires in Turkey's southern coastal Manavgat district burn 118,789 hectares of land in six days, killing eight people [1]
- 2021 Hawaii's largest wildfire on record, the Mana Road Fire in South Kohala, is finally being brought under control after burning through 40,000 acres
Elaine Thompson-Herah
2021 Jamaican athlete Elaine Thompson-Herah wins 200 m gold in Tokyo to become the first female to claim the 100/200 m double at consecutive Olympic Games
- 2021 Karsten Warholm of Norway runs the first sub-46 second 400 m hurdles in a world record of 45.94 seconds to claim the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
- 2021 New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington wins her third straight Olympic K-1 200 m title at the Tokyo Games; also wins K-2 500 m for her fourth Olympic gold medal
Tony Bennett's 95th Birthday
2021 Singer Tony Bennett celebrates his 95th birthday with Lady Gaga in the first of two "farewell" performances at Radio City Music Hall, NYC
- 2022 48% of Mexico's states are experiencing drought, with conditions acute in Monterrey, where authorities deliver nine million liters of water daily to 400 neighborhoods after taps run dry [1]
- 2022 Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee is certified as the world's tallest timber building at 25 stories, 86.6 meters (284 feet) [1]
- 2022 Cells of recently deceased pigs are brought back to life by researchers at Yale University, with significant implications for organ transplants and stroke sufferers, as well as ethical questions over the definition of death [1]
- 2023 Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard's musical "Back to the Future: The Musical," based on the 1985 Robert Zemeckis film and starring Roger Bart and Casey Likes, opens at Winter Garden Theatre, NYC
Trump Pleads Not Guilty
2023 Former US President Donald Trump pleads not guilty to criminal conspiracy charges aimed at subverting the 2020 presidential election at an arraignment in Washington D.C. [1]
- 2023 Forty-one migrants form Ivory Coast and Guinea drown and just four survive after their boat capsizes off Italian island of Lampedusa [1]
First WNBA Player to 10,000 Points
2023 Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi becomes the first WNBA player to reach 10,000 points as she scores 42 points in a 91-71 win over the Atlanta Dream at Footprint Center, Phoenix, Arizona
Lizzo Denies Allegations
2023 Singer Lizzo denies allegations made in a lawsuit by three of her former dancers of creating a hostile work environment [1]
Olympic Gold
2024 American gymnast Simone Biles wins the vault final for her third gold medal of the Paris Olympics and career seventh gold over three Games
Most Decorated Female Swimmer
2024 American swimmer Katie Ledecky ties Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina as the most decorated female Olympian of all time when she wins her fourth consecutive 800m in Paris, her ninth individual gold medal
- 2024 Canadian swim star Summer McIntosh wins her third gold medal at the Paris Olympics when she wins the 200 m individual medley in 2:06.56; she is also the 200 m butterfly and 400 m IM champion
- 2024 Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh wins the 200 m individual medley for her third gold medal of the Paris Olympics, becoming the first Canadian Olympian to win three in one Games
- 2024 In a major upset in athletics, Julien Alfred edges race favorite Sha'Carri Richardson of the US for the women's 100 m gold medal at the Paris Olympics; St. Lucia's first-ever Olympic medal
- 2024 US mixed 4×100 m medley relay team of Ryan Murphy, Nic Fink, Gretchen Walsh, and Torri Huske win gold in a new world record of 3:37.43 at the Paris Olympic Games
- 2025 Estimated 300,000 protesters march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Australia, in support of Palestine, calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza; the largest protest in Sydney's history [1]
- 2025 Krasheninnikov Volcano in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula erupts for the first time in 600 years, possibly triggered by the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia a few days earlier [1] [2]
- 2025 MLB Speedway Classic: Atlanta Braves defeat Cincinnati Reds 4-2 before the largest crowd for a regular season baseball game, at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee
