Historical Events in 2018 (Part 4)

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• Jun 28 Employee charged with attempted poisoning of colleague's sandwich in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany, leading authorities to investigate 21 other suspicious deaths
• Jun 28 Fire starts on Winter Hill on Lancashire moorland, England, lit by arson
• Jun 28 Lone gunman attacks offices of Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, killing nine

• Jun 28 Power company uncovers Neolithic wooden trackway 2,300 years old in Suffolk, England. One of the largest archaeological digs in Europe at 16,000 square meters

• Jun 30 Kile Smith's a cappella choral musical work "The Arc in the Sky", settings of poems by Robert Lax, premieres at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, performed by The Crossing, led by Donald Nally
• Jun 30 March of the Flowers in Managua, Nicaragua, commemorating youth killed under government crackdown turns violent with 1 person killed and eight injured
• Jun 30 The popular online game for children, Fantage, shuts down after ten years
• Jun 30 Two members of the public confirmed poisoned by Novichok nerve agent, a women later dies, in Wiltshire, England; authorities suspect source was left over poison from the attack on former Russian spies Sergei Skripal and his daughter
• Jul 1 Canada's retaliatory tariffs against the US's steel tariffs take effect, 25% on some steel, 10% on 250 other goods

• Jul 1 Colombia's Chiribiquete National Park declared a world heritage site by the UN
• Jul 1 French gangster Redoine Faid escapes the Sud-Francilien prison in Réau, France by helicopter
• Jul 1 Nationwide protests over Trump administration immigration policies in the US

• Jul 1 PGA Women's Championship, Kemper Lakes GC: Park Sung-hyun of South Korea wins in a playoff with Nasa Hataoka & Ryu So-yeon
• Jul 1 Suicide bombing targeting Sikh community kills at least 19 people in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
• Jul 2 270,000 people now displaced by fighting in south-western Syria says UN since assault on rebel-held area two weeks ago
• Jul 2 British divers discover 12 boys and their coach alive in Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped for 9 days by monsoon flooding

• Jul 3 Australian cricket batsman Aaron Finch breaks his own T20 International record smashing 172 from 76 balls vs Zimbabwe in Harare, opening stand with D'Arcy Short (223) also a record

• Jul 3 Souad Abderrahim is elected the first female mayor of Tunis, Tunisia

• Jul 3 Worst monsoon rains in decades swamp Lahore, Pakistan, killing 6
• Jul 4 Chinese technology company Baidu announces it has begun mass production of self-driving buses, the 14-seat Apolong
• Jul 4 Hong Kong'stop court rules same-sex couples entitled to equal visa rights in landmark case
• Jul 4 Wildfire in Yolo county, California, grows to 82,700 acres with 2,800 fire fighters battling the blaze
• Jul 5 At least 24 killed in explosions at pyrotechnics workshops in Tultepec, Mexico
• Jul 5 English rapper Stormzy announces partnership with Penguin Books, an imprint called #Merky Books
• Jul 5 Heatwave in southern Quebec, Canada, kills 33
• Jul 5 Saleswomen in Kerala, India, win right to sit down and take toilet breaks in new amendment to law
• Jul 5 US Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt resigns amid allegations of misconduct
• Jul 6 Floods and landslides begin in south-western Japan, killing at least 200 people with more missing. Evacuation orders for nearly 2 million.
• Jul 6 Iranian instagram star Maedeh Hojabri confesses on state TV for posting videos of her dancing
• Jul 6 Paraguay has eliminated malaria in announcement by the World Health organization
• Jul 6 Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário of Mozambique sacks the board of Lam Airlines after he is left stranded when a plane runs out of fuel

• Jul 8 Eritrea and Ethiopia announce re-establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries after almost 20 years in Asmara, Eritrea
• Jul 8 Four boys are the first to be rescued after 16 days, from Tham Luang cave, Thailand, by Thai and international rescue team
• Jul 8 South Korean golfer Sei Young Ki breaks LPGA 72-hole scoring record with 31 under-par 257, also first to better -30, in winning Thornberry Creek Classic
• Jul 9 4 more boys are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there with 8 others and their coach for 17 days by monsoon flooding (4 boys and their coach remain)
• Jul 9 Bright pink is the world's oldest biological colour according to scientists, produced by tiny cyanobacteria in 1.1bn-year-old marine shale rock from Taoudeni basin, Mauritania

• Jul 9 Hedge fund billionaire David Tepper buys Carolina Panthers for an NFL record $2.275 billion

• Jul 9 Train derailment kills 24 in the Turkish province of Tekirdag
• Jul 9 UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resigns after Theresa May takes a softer Brexit stance
• Jul 9 US coffee company Starbucks announces it will stop using plastic straws by 2020, reducing use of more than 1 billion straws a year

• Jul 10 Drake surpasses The Beatles record of most singles in Billboard Hot One 100 with seven against their five from his album "Scorpion"
• Jul 10 Original sketch of Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood by EH Shepard sells for £430,000 in London, record price for a book illustration

• Jul 10 The final 4 boys and their coach are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there for 18 days by monsoon flooding
• Jul 11 Oldest stone tools outside Africa discovered in Lantian country, western China, estimated 2.12 million years old made by hominins

• Jul 12 Chemical plant explosion in Jiangan County, Sichuan Province, China, kills at least 19
• Jul 12 Republic of Ireland will be the first country to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies after passing legislation in parliament

• Jul 12 US President Donald Trump arrives in the UK for a four-day visit amid protests
• Jul 12 World's longest fingernails cut off; Shridhar Chillal's nails measured 909.6cm after growing for 66 years

• Jul 13 Chelsea FC sacks high profile manager Antonio Conte despite winning 2016-17 EPL and 2018 FA Cup, replaced by ex-Napoli boss Maurizio Sarri

• Jul 13 Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay record $4.7 billion in damages in talc cancer case by jury in US state of Missouri
• Jul 13 Large protests in London against US President Donald Trump featuring Trump-like baby blimp as President Trump meets Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle
• Jul 13 Outline of 5,000 year-old henge discovered at New Grange, Ireland through drought and drone footage
• Jul 13 Suicide bombing in Baluchistan, Pakistan, targeting election campaign event kills 128, Islamic State claims responsibility
• Jul 13 US Department of Justice charges 12 Russian intelligence officers with cyber-attacks against Democratic officials during 2016 US election
• Jul 14 Civilians killed in Afghan war reaches record high with 1,692 killed in first six months of 2018 says UN
• Jul 14 Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigns after violent protests against fuel price rises
• Jul 14 Huge iceberg looming over Innaarsuit village, western Greenland prompts evacations in case it calves

• Jul 14 Russian covert agent Maria Butina arrested by the FBI in Washington, D.C. and charged with being an unregistered foreign agent
• Jul 14 US President Donald Trump calls the EU a "trade foe" in interview with CBS ahead of meeting with Russian President Putin
• Jul 15 8-year-old girl finds pre-Viking-era sword in Vidostern lake, Sweden, internet proclaims her Queen of Sweden

• Jul 16 12 new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter bringing planet's moon total to 79, by scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science
• Jul 16 Historic cemetery (1878-1911) announced discovered near Houston, Texas, containing 95 remains though to be African Americans forced into labour

• Jul 16 US President Donald Trump appears to accept the word of Russian President Vladimir Putin over US intelligence services about Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, in an interview after the two leader's Helsinki Summit
• Jul 17 Australian basketball center Liz Cambage scores 53 points as the Dallas Wings beat the NY Liberty 104-87 to set new WNBA single game scoring record
• Jul 17 Barack Obama gives speech honoring Nelson Mandela and warning of "strongman politics" in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Jul 17 Bloomberg estimates NFL made $14 billion in revenue in 2017, distributing a record $8.1 billion to the league's 32 teams, $255m each
• Jul 17 Oldest evidence of bread, made from wild grains, discovered by archaeologists in 14,000 year-old dig in the Black Desert, Jordon
• Jul 18 44 Forest fires in Sweden as far north as the Arctic Circle prompt Swedish government to request extra assistance, with drought and warm weather to blame

• Jul 18 Google fined record $5.1 billion by the EU for abusing its power in mobile phone market

• Jul 18 Lava from Kilauea volcano eruption has now destroyed 700 homes and added 700 acres to Big Island confirms Hawaii National Guard
• Jul 18 New Earth geological age announced, the Meghalayan Age 4,200 years ago to the present, by the International Commission on Stratigraphy
• Jul 18 Nicaraguan government announces Masaya is back under its control after violent clashes with anti-government protesters
• Jul 18 Seventeen men charged with the gang-rape of a 12-year-old girl in Chennai, India
• Jul 18 Turkey ends its two-year State of Emergency
• Jul 19 A duck boat sinks in Table Rock Lake, Missouri, drowning 17 people

• Jul 19 Brazilian soccer international goalkeeper Alisson transfers from Roma to Liverpool for a world record shot blocker's fee of £66.8m
• Jul 19 First commercial flight, the "bird of peace" between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 20 years lands in Asmara, Eritrea, reuniting families
• Jul 19 Israel's parliament passes controversial "nation state" law giving only Jews self-determination, relegating Arabic to "special status"
• Jul 19 Largest intact sarcophagus of its kind ever found (2000 years old) opened in Alexandria, contains 3 skeletons, not a curse as feared
• Jul 19 Russian ship Dmitri Donskoii, with possible cargo of gold coins is discovered in waters between South Korea and Japan where it sunk in 1905
• Jul 20 American director James Gunn fired as director of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" by Disney after past offensive tweets surface
• Jul 20 Australian businessman James Packer announces he has quit 22 directorships due to mental health issues
• Jul 21 India scraps tax on sanitary products after campaign by activists
• Jul 21 Re-boot of TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" announced with creator Joss Whedon as executive producer
• Jul 22 Heatwave in Japan kills 11 in one day
• Jul 22 Israeli military and allies evacuate over 400 White Helmet Syrian rescue workers from its border with Syria to Jordan
• Jul 22 Lone gunman shooting kills 3 including gunman and injures 13 in Toronto, Canada
• Jul 22 Seattle basketball guard Sue Bird plays record 500th WNBA game as Storm go down 87-74 to the Atlanta Dream; finishes career on 508 games for Seattle
• Jul 22 TV show "Supergirl" announces casting of first live-action transgender superhero, by transgender actor Nicole Maines as Nia Nal
• Jul 22 US President Donald Trump threatens Iran in an all-caps tweet of "consequences" in response to speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
• Jul 23 "Sabrina" by Nick Drnaso becomes 1st graphic novel named to Longlist for Man Booker Prize (best fiction written in English)
• Jul 23 250,000 doses of vaccines for children produced by a firm in China faulty according to reports in China
• Jul 23 Dam collapses while under construction in Attapeu province, Laos, killing at least 20 with more than 100 missing
• Jul 23 Environmental reports finds China on track to reach new emission targets, but carbon dioxide emissions risen - 9.2 billion metric tons in 2017, more than US and Europe combined
• Jul 23 International Monetary Fund predicts inflation of 1 million percent in Venezuela by end of 2018
• Jul 23 Japan records its highest ever temperature at 41.1 degrees (105.98F) in Kumagaya
• Jul 23 Slum homes for 30,000 people demolished to make way for a dual carriage way in Nairobi, Kenya
• Jul 24 First bison born in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, in 140 years, after being reintroduced

• Jul 24 Wildfires near Athens, Greece, kill 91 with 104 injured, over 600 rescued from the coast by boats

• Jul 25 Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter reported in "Science"
• Jul 25 Multiple suicide bombings and attacks by the Islamic State in Sweida and surrounding areas of Syria kill more than 200

• Jul 25 Somalia’s attorney general announces country's first prosecution of female genital mutilation after death of a 10-year-old girl
• Jul 26 Authorities in Stung Treng province, Cambodia, evacuate 25,000 below collapsed Laos dam as waters rise
• Jul 26 Facebook has the single worst day of any public company on the stock market - losing 19% or $119 billion market value

• Jul 26 Over 700 immigrant children still separated from their parents in the US as court-imposed deadline to reunite them passes

• Jul 27 CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves is accused of sexual misconduct in the "New Yorker" by journalist Ronan Farrow
• Jul 28 Carr Fire reaches Redding, California, with death toll at 5 having burnt 80,000 acres
• Jul 28 Longest "blood moon" eclipse of the 21st century, lasting 1 hour 43 minutes
• Jul 29 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes island of Lombok, Indonesia, killing at least 14

• Jul 29 Demonstrations calling for safer road by students begin in Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Jul 29 Ethiopian state funeral for murdered dam engineer Simegnew Bekele in Addis Ababa prompts unrest
• Jul 29 Hun Sen's Cambodian People’s Party Hun Sen claims to have won all 125 seats in country's general election with widespread criticism of a sham vote
• Jul 29 Palestinian teenage activist Ahed Tamimi released from prison after eight months
• Jul 30 Australian Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson resigns after being convicted of concealing sexual abuse
• Jul 30 British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt mistakenly calls his Chinese-born wife "Japanese" in meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing
• Jul 30 Four million people excluded from Assam National Register of Citizens in India prompts fears of deportation, loss of citizenship

• Jul 31 Aeroméxico flight 2431 crash lands in Durango, Mexico, all 103 on board survive
• Jul 31 Facebook discloses and removes Russian-linked network of sites attempting to interfere in American politics

• Aug 1 Australian Rugby League's 'Immortals' tally moves to 13 as pre-War stars Dally Messenger, Frank Burge & Dave Brown along with latter day giants Norm Provan & Mal Meninga are added
• Aug 1 Swedish crown jewels stolen in heist from Strängnäs Cathedral, Stockholm
• Aug 2 Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value
• Aug 2 Fields Medal for mathematics awarded to Caucher Birkar (his stolen minutes later), Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh
• Aug 2 Oldest library in Germany confirmed unearthed in Cologne dating to 2AD, possibly held 20,000 scrolls
• Aug 2 Pope Frances declares the death penalty unacceptable in all cases, reversing church teachings and adding to Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church
• Aug 2 TikTok, the video-sharing social network, becomes available worldwide after merging with Musical.ly
• Aug 2 Tokyo Medical University revealed to have been tampering with female entrance exams to ensure under 30% accepted, by Japanese newspaper "Yomiuri Shimbun"

• Aug 4 Super Rugby Final, AMI Stadium, Christchurch: Canterbury Crusaders successfully defend title with 37-18 home win against the Lions from Johannesburg; Crusaders' 9th SR title
• Aug 5 6.9 magnitude earthquake on island of Lombok, Indonesia, kills at least 460 people and displaces 350,000

• Aug 5 Vintage Junkers Ju-52 plane crashes near Flims, Switzerland, killing all 20 on board
• Aug 6 Boston appoints its first African American Police Commissioner William G. Gross
• Aug 6 Chicago police appeal for more help after 66 people shot in the city in one weekend

• Aug 6 PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi announces she will be stepping down
• Aug 6 Saudi Arabia's state airline suspends direct flights to Toronto and expels ambassador after Canada calls for release of detained activists for civil and women's rights
• Aug 6 South Sudan peace accord signed between South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar in Sudan attempting to end 5 years of civil war

• Aug 7 Australia's population hits 25 million according to Australian Bureau of Statistics

• Aug 7 CW network announces that Ruby Rose has been cast as lesbian superhero Batwoman

• Aug 7 Mendocino Fire becomes the largest recorded fire in California's history at 290,600 acres, overtaking 2017 Thomas Fire
• Aug 7 Swedish furniture brand Ikea opens its first store in India in Hyderabad
• Aug 8 Academy of Motion Pictures reveals new "Popular Film" category for the Oscars
• Aug 8 Australia's most populous state New South Wales declared 100% in drought
• Aug 8 EPL club Chelsea sign Kepa Arrizabalaga from Spain's Athletic Bilbao for £72 million; world-record fee for a goalkeeper
• Aug 8 Malaysia charges former prime minister Najib Razak with three counts of money laundering
• Aug 8 US State Department imposes new sanctions on Russia for nerve attack in Britain
• Aug 9 Argentina's Senate rejects bill to legalize abortion in first 14 weeks
• Aug 9 EPL club Tottenham Hotspur fails to bring in one player during the transfer window; first time since FIFA made system compulsory in 2002-03
• Aug 9 Saudi-led air coalition strikes a school bus in Sada Province, Yemen, killing 43, many of them children
• Aug 10 Anti-government protests begin in Bucharest, Romania, with over 400 injured in clashes with police

• Aug 10 Evidence of one million Uighurs being held in "counter-extremism centers" in China presented to UN Committee on Human Rights
• Aug 10 Jason Mraz's sixth studio album, "Know." is released
• Aug 10 Landmark case against weed killer Roundup, San Francisco court awards groundsman Dewayne Johnson $289 million against Monsanto for giving him terminal cancer
• Aug 10 Omarosa Manigault Newman, former aide to US President Donald Trump, releases taped recordings of her firing from The White House
• Aug 10 Turkish lira falls dramatically after US President Donald Trump announces tariff increases on Turkish steel and aluminum
• Aug 10 US ground crew member steals an Alaskan Air plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, flies for over an hour chased by military jets before fatally crashing on Ketron Island
• Aug 12 Mali's Presidential run-off election held, eventually won by current President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita with opposition disputing outcome
• Aug 12 More than 200 Afghan soldiers reported killed after 3 days of attacks by taliban insurgents over multiple fronts including Ghazni city
• Aug 12 NASA launches the Parker Space Probe, its first mission to the Sun and its outermost atmosphere, the corona

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