Historical Events in 2019 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 1,235

• Feb 26 UK reaches its highest-ever winter temperature with 21.2°C (70.2F) in Kew Gardens, London

• Feb 27 Doctors announce world's second known case of semi-identical twins, a boy and girl from Brisbane, Australia
• Feb 27 First gun control legislation for 25 years passed by US House of Representatives, with new federal background checks

• Feb 27 Pakistan shoots down an Indian fighter jet and captures the pilot, further escalating tensions in the disputed Kashmir region

• Feb 27 Smallest baby boy ever born to be later successfully released, goes home, after original birth weight of 268g (9.45oz) from Tokyo hospital
• Feb 27 Train crashes into a buffer at Cairo's main railway station killing 25 and injuring dozens in Egypt
• Feb 28 Lost Caravaggio painting "Judith and Holofernes" (1607) announced rediscovered in a Toulouse attic in 2014 to be auctioned worth $171 million
• Feb 28 Summit between North Korea's Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump collapses without agreement

• Mar 2 Australian wonder horse Winx sets world record for Group 1 wins in the Chipping Norton Stakes in Sydney; stretches unbeaten run to 31 races, and her 23rd in the highest class of thoroughbred racing

• Mar 3 Multiple tornadoes tear through Georgia and Alabama killing at least 23
• Mar 3 South African music star Mampintsha shown hitting girlfriend Babes Wodumo on Instagram Live and later arrested for assault

• Mar 4 Return of a lock of hair of Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II to Ethiopia announced by the National Army Museum in London
• Mar 4 US Democrats announce a wide-ranging corruption investigation into President Donald Trump
• Mar 5 Bugatti announces the most expensive new car ever made - the La Voiture Noire costing €16.7 million (almost $19 million), only one will be made
• Mar 5 Japanese architect Arata Isozaki wins architecture's Pritzker Prize [1]

• Mar 5 Major study into the MMR vaccine involving over 650,000 children in Denmark finds it does not increase the risk of autism
• Mar 5 Second-ever person "cured" of HIV after stem cell transplant treatment in London, England results published in "Nature"

• Mar 6 US trade deficit rises to 10-year high of $621 billion
• Mar 7 Chinese telecommunications company Huawei sues the US government over a federal ban on its products
• Mar 7 Power and communications blackout begins in Venezuela

• Mar 7 Thailand's Constitutional Court dissolves opposition party Thai Raksa Chart, after it nominated the King's sister as candidate for Prime Minister
• Mar 8 US national women's soccer team sue for equal pay by filing a federal gender discrimination lawsuit against United States Soccer Federation
• Mar 10 Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashes just after take-off from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 on board
• Mar 10 Taliban force attacks Afghan army base killing or capturing about 50 soldiers in Badghis Province, Afghanistan
• Mar 11 Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (82) changes his mind saying he will not seek a fifth term and postpones elections after mass protests

• Mar 12 K-pop and Big Bang singer Seungri is arrested for procuring prostitutes, retires to fight the charges in South Korea
• Mar 12 More than 3,000 ISIS fighters have surrendered amid battle for last ISIS stronghold in Baghouz, Syria, according to Syrian Democratic Forces officials

• Mar 13 Australian Catholic Cardinal George Pell is sentenced to 6 years in prison for sexual abuse in Australia; conviction overturned in 2020
• Mar 13 Australian cricketers beat India by 35 runs in Delhi to win ODI series, 3-2; first Australian team to recover from 0-2 in a 5-match series; Usman Khawaja 100, Adam Zampa 3/46
• Mar 13 British MPs vote to reject a no-deal Brexit, defeating Theresa May's government 321 votes to 278

• Mar 13 Home of civil rights activists Medgar and Myrlie Evers established as a national monument in Jackson, Mississippi, by President Donald Trump
• Mar 13 Member of the New York Gambino mob family Frank Cali shot dead outside his home, first killing of a high-ranking mobster since 1985
• Mar 13 President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort sentenced to a further 43 months in jail, to add to his previous 47 months
• Mar 13 Shooting at school in Suzano, near São Paulo, Brazil, kills six including five children, before former student gunmen turn guns on themselves
• Mar 13 US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane type's second crash in Ethiopia
• Mar 14 California officially free of drought for the first time in more than 7 years (Dec 2011)
• Mar 14 Former US Democratic representative Beto O'Rourke announces he is running for president
• Mar 14 Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the world record for calculating pi, to 31.4 trillion digits, on pi day using Google Cloud
• Mar 14 Tropical Cyclone Idai comes ashore in Mozambique, killing at least 417 people, and Malawi killing at least 56, after causing widespread flooding
• Mar 14 US Senate passes resolution overturning President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration

• Mar 15 Terrorist attack on two mosques by a right-wing Australian gunman kills 51 and wounds 50 in Christchurch, New Zealand
• Mar 15 The Vessel, a honeycomb viewing structure designed by Thomas Heatherwick opens at Hudson Yards development, New York City
• Mar 16 Beached dead whale found to have 88 pounds of plastic inside it, including 40 pounds of plastic bags, in Mabini, Philippines

• Mar 17 Facebook removes 1.5 million videos of the Christchurch mosque shootings in first 24 hrs after the attack, although only 1.2 million blocked at upload
• Mar 17 Flash flooding and a landslides kills at least 73 and injures about 60 in Sentani and Jayapura, Papua, eastern Indonesia
• Mar 17 US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announces her presidential bid
• Mar 17 Zimbabwe declares a state of emergency after Cyclone Idai tears through eastern Zimbabwe killing at least 259
• Mar 18 40-year old Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki overtakes Wilt Chamberlain to go 6th with 31,424 points on the NBA scorers' list; Mavs suffer 129-125 OT loss to New Orleans Pelicans
• Mar 18 Champion racing pigeon Armando "the Lewis Hamilton of pigeons" sells for a record $1.42 million in Belgium
• Mar 18 Italian charity ship Mare Jonio rescues 50 migrants off the coast of Libya
• Mar 18 Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi makes national radio address to the nation after Cyclone Idai, saying more than 1,000 people feared dead with 100,000 at risk
• Mar 18 Suspected terrorist attack by shooter aboard a tram in Utrecht, Netherlands kills 3 and injures 5
• Mar 18 UK Speaker of the House John Bercow rules a third vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal is not possible without new changes
• Mar 18 “Historic to catastrophic flooding" faced by Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota according to US National Weather Service
• Mar 19 "Superbloom" of poppies in Walker Canyon, southern California visible from space, after high rainfall
• Mar 19 American Karen Uhlenbeck becomes the 1st woman to win mathematics Abel Prize
• Mar 19 Houston Rockets guard James Harden becomes first player in NBA history to score at least 30 points against all 29 opponents in a single season with 31 in a 121-105 win over the Atlanta Hawks
• Mar 19 Image of Australian rules footballer Tayla Harris attacked by internet trolls and controversially removed before being reinstated

• Mar 19 Singer Sam Smith comes out as non-binary in interview on Jameela Jamil’s Instagram show
• Mar 20 A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease has helped researchers identify molecules on the skin of people with the disease in Manchester, England
• Mar 20 Finland is the world's happiest country, South Sudan is world's least happy, according to annual World Happiness Report
• Mar 20 Four men arrested in South Korea for secretly filming 1,600 hotel guests and selling the footage via a website
• Mar 20 Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts calls the state's flooding "the most widespread destruction we have ever seen in our state's history"

• Mar 21 A huge blast from a chemical factory in Chenjiagang Chemical Industry Park in eastern China is so big it registers as an earthquake, kills 78 people and injuries 617
• Mar 21 Bangladeshi woman with two uteruses safely gives birth to twins 26 days after giving birth to another child

• Mar 21 Governor of Missouri Mike Parson declares a state of emergency as flooding from Nebraska and Iowa flows downstream into the state

• Mar 21 Overloaded boat sinks in the Tigris river near Mosul, Iraq, drowning nearly 100

• Mar 21 US President Donald Trump says US should recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights on Twitter
• Mar 22 "Mind-blowing" discovery announced of 518 million year old fossil site in near Danshui river, Hubei province, China, with thousands of unknown fossils well preserved
• Mar 22 US Special Council Robert S. Mueller submits his findings on the 2016 election (The Mueller Report) to Deputy US Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and US Attorney William Barr

• Mar 23 More than 1 million march to demand a new EU referendum in London, England
• Mar 23 More than 130 Fulani people killed in Ogossagou, Mali, in attack by Dogon hunters, prompting government ban on the hunters
• Mar 23 Syrian Democratic Forces announce that the last Islamic State territory has been retaken raising flags in Baghuz, Syria and ending the five-year Islamic State "caliphate"
• Mar 24 2-time American League MVP Mike Trout signs the biggest contract in North American sports history, a $426.5 million, 12-year extension with the Los Angeles Angels
• Mar 24 Margo Hayes completes her third 9a+ (5.15a) graded climb, Papichulo at Oliana, Spain, becoming the first woman to complete the '9a+ Trilogy'

• Mar 24 US Attorney William Barr summarizes report submitted by Special Council Robert S. Mueller (The Mueller Report) in a letter to Congress stating "investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities" and "Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense"
• Mar 25 Apple introduces new TV streaming platform Apple TV+, news service Apple News+ and an Apple credit card at star-studded event featuring Oprah
• Mar 25 British Airways flight from London mistakenly flies to Edinburgh, Scotland instead of Düsseldorf, Germany when wrong flight plan submitted
• Mar 25 First organ transplant between a live HIV donor and an HIV recipient with a kidney transplant in Boston, Massachusetts
• Mar 25 First rocket fired from Gaza since 2014 toward Tel Aviv prompts Israeli return air strikes on Gaza
• Mar 25 Further power blackouts in Caracas, Venezuela, prompt government to tell workers and students to stay at home
• Mar 25 NASA cancels a planned historic all-female spacewalk because it doesn't have enough spacesuits to fit women
• Mar 25 Teacher of the Year awarded to rural Kenyan math and physics teacher and Franciscan brother Peter Tabichi in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Mar 26 Charges of staging fake racist and homophobic attack dropped against Justin Smollett by Chicago prosecutors
• Mar 26 European Parliament votes for changes to copyright laws, making internet companies responsible for copyright infringements
• Mar 26 Maker of Oxyconti, Purdue Pharma agrees to pay Oklahoma $270 million settlement ahead of trial accusing the company of fueling the opioid epidemic

• Mar 26 State of emergency declared in Rockland County, New York, due to measles epidemic with unvaccinated children banned from public spaces for 30 days after 153 cases

• Mar 27 British indie-rock duo "Her's" - English guitarist-singer Stephen Fitzpatrick (24) and Norwegian bassist Audun Laading (25), and American manager Trevor Engelbrektson (37) killed in car crash in Arizona
• Mar 27 Facebook bans white nationalism and white supremacy following criticism that Christchurch terrorist able to live-stream his attack

• Mar 27 UK Prime Minister Theresa May promises to stand down if parliament accepts her Brexit plan
• Mar 27 US Special Council Robert S. Mueller writes a letter to US Attorney William Barr regarding Barr's summary of the Mueller Report stating Barr's letter "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the findings. "There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations."
• Mar 28 European parliament bans single-use plastics, including cutlery and straws by 2021
• Mar 28 Study of a 71 year-old British woman who has never felt pain, for the first time understood as due to a gene mutation, published in British Journal of Anaesthesia

• Mar 30 Zuzana Caputova elected President of Slovakia, the country's first female head of state

• Mar 31 Rapper and activist Nipsey Hussle fatally shot outside his clothing store in Los Angeles
• Apr 1 China announces new laws against fentanyl-related substances to come into effect 1 May

• Apr 1 Major archaeological site announced discovered on a reef in the middle of Lake Titicaca, in Andes, dated 8th and 10th centuries AD from Tiwanaku state
• Apr 1 Methane, a gas usually made by living things, detected on Mars in 2013 by European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter reported in "Nature Geoscience"
• Apr 1 Saudi Arabian oil company Saudi Aramco revealed to be world's most profitable company when its earnings released - $111.1 billion in the last year
• Apr 1 US online sales overtake retail sales for the first time, with 11.813% online compared with 11.807% for general merchandise stores
• Apr 2 70 villages evacuated in Khuzesta province, Iran, after at least 45 killed in flooding after unprecedented rainfall
• Apr 2 Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (82) resigns after 20 years in office after widespread protests over running for another term
• Apr 2 Canada is warming at twice the speed of the rest of the world, according to a federal report, increasing 2.3% in northern Canada
• Apr 2 Lori Lightfoot elected first female African American Mayor of Chicago
• Apr 2 NASA states it wants to send astronauts to Mars by 2033, and land on the Moon again in 2024
• Apr 2 OKC guard Russell Westbrook becomes 2nd player in NBA history to have 20+ points, rebounds and assists in a game; records 20-20-21 in 119-103 win over LA Lakers
• Apr 3 Brunei brings into force new Sharia laws punishing gay sex and adultery with death by stoning, prompting widespread condemnation

• Apr 3 San Antonio coach Geg Popovich is ejected after an NBA record low 63 seconds in the Spurs 113-85 loss in Denver; receives 2 technical fouls in a verbal confrontation with a referee
• Apr 4 Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel apologises for the kidnapping of thousands of mixed-race children during colonial period in Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda
• Apr 4 Kathie Lee Gifford leaves NBC's "Today" show after 11 years
• Apr 4 US Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pledges to roll back anti-LGBT policies, including not baptizing children of gay parents
• Apr 5 OKC guard Russell Westbrook becomes first player in NBA history to average a triple-double for the third consecutive season during the Thunder's 123-110 win at home over Detroit Pistons

• Apr 6 First ever "Marsquake" seismic event on planet Mars detected by NASA's InSight lander
• Apr 6 Tampa Bay Lightning beats Boston Bruins, 6-3 in the season finale for their 62nd regular season win, tying the NHL record held by Detroit Red Wings (1995-96); 128 points, 4th in NHL history
• Apr 7 ANA Inspiration Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Ko Jin-young wins her first major title by 3 strokes over fellow South Korean Lee Mi-hyang
• Apr 7 Rebel force the Libyan National Army under General Khalifa Haftar begins advancing on Tripoli with 21 killed and 27 injured over next few days as they try to take the capital

• Apr 7 Rwanda marks 25 years and the beginning of 100 days of mourning since the genocide that killed 800,000 people
• Apr 7 US President Donald Trump announces Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security is leaving her position
• Apr 8 1 in 4 Japanese adults a virgin aged 18-39 according to new research by Tokyo University
• Apr 8 14 tons of black market Pangolin scales from 36,000 animals discovered in Singapore, one of largest ever found worldwide
• Apr 8 600 million birds die each year in the US after striking tall buildings with Chicago the worst city, according to Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• Apr 8 Actress Allison Mack pleads guilty to sex-trafficking charges for her involvement in sex cult NXIVM

• Apr 8 Record 17ft (5.2M) invasive Burmese python pregnant with 73 eggs captured in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve
• Apr 9 Nine prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters found guilty on public nuisance charges for their part in 2014 "Umbrella Movement"
• Apr 9 Wolves have returned to the Netherlands after 140 years claim ecologists
• Apr 10 China announces move to cull more than 1 million pigs in effort to eliminate African swine fever
• Apr 10 First home delivery service by drone begins in Canberra, Australia by Wing, part of Google's Alphabet company

• Apr 10 Four tiny sweat bees removed alive from a woman's eye in world's first operation of its kind at Fooyin University Hospital, Taiwan
• Apr 10 New species of human announced named Homo luzonensis, 3ft tall, remains dated 50-60,000 years old found in cave on island of Luzon, Philippines
• Apr 10 New York declares a public health emergency and compulsory vaccinations after a measles outbreak in Brooklyn with 285 cases
• Apr 11 EU leaders agree to a six-month extension to Brexit after UK parliament fails to reach any consensus

• Apr 11 First day of voting in Indian general elections, the world's largest democracy with 900 million eligible voters in the world's largest-ever election (till 23rd May)
• Apr 11 Israel's Beresheet spacecraft, the first privately-funded mission to the moon, crashes on the moon

• Apr 12 Melbourne captain Cameron Smith becomes highest point scorer in Australian Rugby League history; 49th minute penalty in Storm's 18-12 win over North Queensland in Townsville takes him to 2,420; Hazem El Masri, 2,418
• Apr 13 Australian super-horse Winx ends extraordinary career with a 3rd Queen Elizabeth Stakes win in Sydney; 33 consecutive race wins, a world record 25 Group One victories and $26.4 million prize money
• Apr 13 Body of 38-year-old Filipino woman discovered in abandoned mine starts the hunt for Cyprus's first serial killer, at least 5 other bodies later discovered

• Apr 13 Gregg Popovich surpasses Lenny Wilkens to became the all-time winningest coach in NBA history with his 1,413th win as San Antonio Spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 101-96 in Western Conference Playoffs
• Apr 13 World's largest plane by wingspan at 117m (385 ft), the Stratolaunch, built as a flying launch pad for satellites, takes its first flight from Mojave, California
• Apr 14 11 tornadoes hit US southern states killing eight in Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana
• Apr 14 Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at center of controversy over comments about 9/11 at speech to Council on American-Islamic Relations after tweet by Donald Trump, defended by Nancy Pelosi
• Apr 14 Seychelles President Danny Faure makes first-ever live speech from a submersible pleading for better marine protection
• Apr 14 South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg officially announces his presidential campaign in Indiana, first openly gay candidate to run for US president
• Apr 15 3 days after winning Hobey Baker Award as top college hockey player, Cale Makar becomes first defenseman to score in NHL debut during the playoffs in Colorado's 6-2 Game 3 win over Calgary

• Apr 15 Los Angeles Clippers overcome an NBA record 31-point deficit to score an improbable 135-131 Game 2 playoff victory over the Golden State Warriors in Oakland; shooting guard Lou Williams 36 points
• Apr 15 Measles cases jump 300% in first three months of 2019, according to World Health Organization, largest rise in Africa (700%) with 800 deaths in Madagascar

• Apr 17 10 babies with "bubble boy disease" cured using a gene therapy made from HIV at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, according to new study

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