Historical Events in 2019 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 1,235

• Apr 17 Research showing pigs brains partially brought back to life at Yale University, published in "Nature"
• Apr 17 Terror alert closes schools in Denver, Colorado, due to 18-year-old woman obsessed with Columbine massacre, who is then found dead
• Apr 18 Irish Journalist Lyra McKee shot to death covering riots in Derry, Northern Ireland with dissident republican group the New IRA claiming responsibility

• Apr 21 Terror attacks on churches and hotels on Easter Sunday in three Sri Lankan cities, Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa kill at least 253 and injure hundreds

• Apr 23 At least 54 jade miners buried by a mudslide in Kachin state, Myanmar
• Apr 23 Second of two major earthquakes strikes island of Samar, Philippines, magnitude 6.3, a day after magnitude 6.1 hits Luzon Island killing at least 16 people
• Apr 23 Southampton striker Shane Long scores fastest goal in English Premier League history when he nets after 7.69 seconds in 1-1 draw at Watford
• Apr 23 World's first malaria vaccine, giving partial protection to children, begins in Malawi by the WHO
• Apr 25 Cyclone Kenneth strikes Mozambique with winds of 220km/h (140mph) killing at least38 people and damaging nearly 35,000 homes

• Apr 25 Microsoft becomes the third US firm to be listed with a market worth of 1 trillion, after Apple and Amazon
• Apr 25 More than 1,600 civilians were killed in US-led coalition air and land strikes on Raqqa in 2017, according to Amnesty International and monitoring group Airwars
• Apr 25 NFL Draft: Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray #1 pick by Arizona Cardinals
• Apr 25 Thousands march in Khartoum, Sudan calling for civilian rule
• Apr 26 "No religion" tops survey of American religious identity for the first time at 23.1% edging out Catholics 23.0% and evangelicals 22.5%, in long-running General Social Survey
• Apr 26 Six suspected militants connected to Sri Lankan terror attacks killed along with ten others in a shootout with police in Sainthamaruthu
• Apr 26 Waorani people of Pastaza win landmark environmental case against the Ecuadorian government to protect half a million acres of their territory in the Amazon rainforest

• Apr 27 Shooter opens fire in a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one and injuring three
• Apr 28 American diver Victor Vescovo makes the deepest dive ever to the bottom of the Mariana trench at 10,927m (35,849ft), and finds a plastic bag

• Apr 28 Largest demonstrations since 2014 in Hong Kong over plans to change law to send suspects to mainland China for trial

• Apr 29 Indonesia announces plan to relocate its capital from Jakarta due to the city sinking, according to a government minister
• Apr 29 Islamic State releases video showing leader Bakr al-Baghdadi for first time in five years
• Apr 29 Over 300 people declared to have died through overwork in Indonesia's one-day election on April 17th, with over 2,000 fallen sick
• Apr 29 Over 700 people infected with measles in the US, highest number for 25 years
• Apr 29 Sports Illustrated features a Muslim model, Halima Aden, in a Burkini for the first time in their swimsuit edition

• Apr 30 New type of dementia identified and named limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (Late) after misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease

• May 1 Evidence revealed that early humans from ancient Denisovan species lived at high altitudes in Tibet 160,000 years ago

• May 1 New York City officially names a street Sesame Street at the intersection of West 63rd Street and Broadway in honor of the show's 50th anniversary
• May 1 Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn marries for the fourth time to Suthida Tidjai, deputy head of his bodyguard, days before his coronation
• May 1 Two-time South African Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya loses appeal against proposed rules to limit her testosterone levels; medically reducing levels the only way to continue competition
• May 1 UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson fired over leaking information about Huawei deal from a UK National Security Council meeting by Theresa May
• May 1 US Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee, defending his handling of the Mueller Report

• May 2 A clean-up on Mt Everest has removed three metric tons (6,613 pounds) of rubbish and four bodies in just two weeks
• May 2 Drone delivers a kidney for transplant surgery in Baltimore, Maryland, for the first time

• May 3 Cyclone Fani strikes Odisha State, India and Bangladesh, killing 33 people after one of the biggest human evacuations ever - 1.2 million in India in 24 hours

• May 5 At least 41 people die when a Russian Aeroflot plane catches fire after an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow
• May 5 King Vajiralongkorn is crowned King of Thailand, first monarch to be crowned in nearly seven decades during a three-day celebration in Bangkok
• May 5 Oil tanker explosion kills 55 in Niamey, Niger
• May 5 Violent clashes between Israel and Gaza militants over three days have left 4 Israelis and 23 Palestinians dead
• May 6 French telecom company Orange and its former CEO with other executives go on trial in France for psychological harassment of their staff that unions claim resulted in 19 suicides and 12 other attempts
• May 6 One million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction according to a major new UN report
• May 6 Pablo Sandoval becomes second MLB player since 1900 to throw a scoreless outing, hit a home run and steal a base in the same game in SF Giants' 12-4 loss in Cincinnati; joins Christy Mathewson 1905
• May 6 Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei announces a moratorium on the death penalty for gay sex and adultery after worldwide condemnation over new Sharia laws
• May 6 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Englishman Judd Trump wins his first world crown beating John Higgins of Scotland, 18-9
• May 7 Denver is the first US city to decriminalize psilocybin "magic mushrooms"
• May 7 Hackers seize control of the computer system of the US city of Baltimore, demanding a ransom in Bitcoins to unlock them
• May 7 Turkish electoral body decides to re-run the Istanbul mayoral election, won by the opposition, amid worldwide criticism
• May 7 Venezuela's Congress strips opposition lawmakers of immunity and accuses them of treason
• May 8 Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues that Facebook should be split up and regulated in "New York Times" Op-Ed essay
• May 8 Governor of Georgia Brian Kemp signs new abortion law, the so-called "heart-beat bill" (comes into effect Jan 2020)
• May 8 Iran announces it will stop complying with parts of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal
• May 8 Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi who spent eight years in prison on death row for blasphemy arrives in Canada
• May 8 Singapore passes sweeping "anti-fake news" laws bill
• May 8 Thailand's general elections official results show opposition Pheu Thai Party won most seats but still unable to form governmen, due to rules favoring the military
• May 8 UK goes a week without using a coal-fired power station for first time in 137 years due to use of more renewable energy
• May 9 Archaeologists hail Anglo-Saxon tomb found 2003 in Prittlewell, England, as Britain’s equivalent of Tutankhamun’s tomb as full report of its contents published
• May 9 At least 65 migrants drown off the coast of Tunisia when their boat capsizes after leaving Libya according to the UN
• May 9 French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin (72) successfully crosses the Atlantic Ocean in a barrel arriving in Martinique
• May 9 New Australian $50 bank note misspells responsibility as "responsibilty" on 46 million notes
• May 9 Pope Francis introduces new rules on reporting sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, criticized for not going far enough

• May 10 Taxi service Uber becomes a public company opening on the New York Stock Exchange
• May 10 US begins raising tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports to 25% after trade talks fail
• May 10 YouTube dispute between beauty vloggers James Charles and Tati Westbrook viewed more than 40 million times

• May 11 Carbon dioxide levels in the earth's atmosphere hit levels not seen for 3 million years at 415 parts per million, according to the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii
• May 11 Militants attack Zaver Pearl-Continental Hotel in Gwadar, Pakistan killing five, Balochistan Liberation Army claim responsibility

• May 12 Cuba announced more rationing of products such as rice and beans due to US trade embargo and hoarding
• May 12 Gunman kill five people and a priest in a Catholic church in Dablo, Burkina Faso, before setting fire to and looting nearby buildings
• May 12 Manchester City beats Brighton, 4-1 to claim back-to-back English Premier League titles with 98 points, 1 ahead of runners-up, Liverpool

• May 13 China retaliates against the US as their trade war escalates, raising tariffs on $60 billion worth of goods affecting over 4,000 items
• May 13 Diary of Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt's last days rediscovered and displayed for the 400th anniversary of his execution

• May 13 New study on the moon shows it is still shrinking with recent moonquakes as it cools, published in journal "Nature Geoscience"
• May 13 Sri Lanka imposes a nationwide curfew from 9pm to 4am to curb violence against Muslims after the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks

• May 14 Huge protests closes schools in Kashmir after the rape of a three-year-old girl
• May 14 San Francisco is the first city to vote to ban use of facial recognition
• May 14 Steve Bullock, US Governor of Montana announces his run for Presidential office
• May 14 Wikipedia confirms China has banned all versions of its site
• May 15 Alabama passes law banning abortion in almost all cases including rape or incest
• May 15 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"

• May 15 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
• May 15 Mexico City declares an environmental emergency after air pollution reaches dangerous levels
• May 15 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

• May 16 British people get drunk more than any other nation, 51 times year according to the Global Drug survey, with English-speaking countries drinking the most

• May 16 New DNA research showing bedbugs are older than humans - 115 million years old and outlived dinosaurs, published in "Current Biology"
• May 16 New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announces he is running for president, the 24th Democrat to run
• May 16 South African Saray Khumalo is the first black African woman to climb Mt Evervest
• May 16 UK talk show "The Jeremy Kyle Show" axed by ITV after a guest dies

• May 17 Taiwan's parliament votes to legalize same-sex marriage, the first Asian country
• May 17 Tyler, the Creator releases his fifth studio album "Igor" which becomes his first number-one album in the United States

• May 19 Sprinter Dutee Chand comes out as India's first openly gay professional athlete
• May 19 US billionaire Robert F. Smith announces he will pay off college loans of nearly 400 students of the graduating class of Morehouse College, Atlanta
• May 20 Bangladesh imposes a 65-day ban on coastal fishing to conserve fish stocks
• May 20 Google stops support for Huawei's Android system in an escalation of the tech war between US and China
• May 21 Austria's far-right Freedom Party resigns from the ruling coalition after two of their ministers are sacked for offering government contracts for political influence in a video

• May 21 More than 600 people, 75% children, identified as HIV in a month in Sindh province, Pakistan, thought to be due to use of infected needles
• May 21 Nepalese Sherpa Kami Rita sets a new record for the number of climbs of Mt Everest - 24
• May 21 Oldest and most distant gravitational waves detected from collision of two black holes with first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered, 7 billion light years away
• May 21 Omani author Jokha Alharthi is the first Arabic writer to win the Man Booker International Prize for her novel "Celestial Bodies" with her translator Marilyn Booth
• May 21 Protests across American cities defending abortion rights after several US states pass new abortion laws
• May 21 Washington is the first US state to legalize human composting [1]
• May 22 Protests break out in Jakarta, Indonesia against the re-election of President Joko Widodo, killing six people and injuring 200
• May 22 UN General Assembly votes for a motion condemning UK occupation of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean and for them to reunite with nearby Mauritius
• May 23 Brazilian cosmetics group Natura buys UK's Avon for $2 billion, creating the world's fourth-largest cosmetics company
• May 23 Fifty children rescued from an international paedophile ring on the dark web in Thailand, Australia and the US by Interpol under Operation Blackwrist, main organizer sentenced to 146 years

• May 23 More than 170 tornadoes reported in a week in US states of Missouri, Oklahoma and Iowa, killing seven and causing widespread damage
• May 23 Prototype of new high-speed train that will float above the track, capable of travelling 600km an hour (370 mph), unveiled by Chinese Railway Rolling Stock Corporation in Qingdao
• May 23 Six migrant children have now died in US custody in eight months prompting calls for an investigation
• May 23 The last slave ship to smuggle slaves to America from Africa, the Clotilda (sunk 1860), is found in Mobile river, Alabama
• May 24 Brazil's Supreme Court votes to make homophobia and transphobia crimes
• May 25 72nd Cannes Film Festival: Bong Joon-ho's South Korean film "Parasite" wins the Palme d'Or, Mati Diop, first black woman in competition wins Grand Prix award for "Atlantics"
• May 25 Boat capsizes on Lake Mai-Ndombe, western Democratic Republic of Congo, drowning at least 45 with 200 missing
• May 25 First ever albino panda footage in the wild released (taken in April) from China's Wolong National Nature Reserve
• May 25 Tornado tears through El Reno, Oklahoma. killing two and injuring dozens
• May 26 Ken Wyatt becomes Australia's first Aboriginal minister in government as the minister for indigenous Australians
• May 26 Nine climbers die in a week on Mt Everest after overcrowding leads to a huge queue to reach the summit

• May 27 European Parliament elections result in centralist parties losing their majority with liberals, the Greens and nationalists picking up more votes
• May 27 World's rivers widely contaminated with antibiotics according to new global study of 711 sites
• May 28 Johnson & Johnson go on trial in Oklahoma accused of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying risks of addiction helping create "opioid epidemic", first of 2,000 cases against US pharmaceutical firms
• May 29 16 people charged for setting fire to and murdering a teenager who reported sexual harassment at an Islamic school in Feni, Bangladesh

• May 29 Tourist boat sinks after colliding with another boat on the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, killing 28 people
• May 29 Transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by the World Health Organization
• May 29 US Special Counsel Robert Mueller says charging President Donald Trump with a crime was never an option as no legal means to charge a sitting president; and that his report does not exonerate the president
• May 29 World's smallest surviving baby, a girl, discharged from Sharp March Birch Hospital in San Diego after being born at 23 weeks weighing 8.6 ounces (245 grams)

• May 30 Austria appoints its first female chancellor Brigitte Bierle to head caretaker government after fall of the coalition government
• May 30 Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signs new anti-abortion, making it the fifth southern US state to ban abortion when fetal heartbeat detected
• May 30 Narendra Modi sworn in for a second term as Indian Prime Minister in New Delhi with 8,000 guests at largest-ever gathering at the Presidential Palace

• May 30 Two new studies find eating processed foods leads to an early death and ill health published in "British Medical Journal"
• May 31 Disgruntled employee shoots and kills 12 people at a US municipal building in Virginia Beach, Virginia

• May 31 US President Donald Trump threatens to impose extra 5% tax on Mexican goods if country does not increase its efforts to curb immigration
• Jun 1 Mexican-American boxer Andy Ruiz Jr produces a huge upset when he stops English champion Anthony Joshua in 7 at Madison Square Garden; wins IBF, WBO, IBO and WBA world heavyweight titles
• Jun 1 Price of a movie ticket rises in Japan for the first time in 26 years from ¥1,800 to ¥1,900, while some cinemas keep the price the same
• Jun 3 Apple announces it is shutting down iTunes and replacing it with three different apps
• Jun 3 Canadian government inquiry find deaths of over 1,000 indigenous women and girls over decades who have been murdered or are missing a "national genocide"

• Jun 3 MLB Draft: Oregon State catcher Adley Rutschman first pick by Baltimore Orioles
• Jun 3 Sudanese military attacks protesters in Khartoum killing 100 people, some dumped in the river Nile, prompting international condemnation
• Jun 3 US federal government departments and Congress begin anti-trust investigations into large tech companies including Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon
• Jun 3 US President Donald Trump begins a three-day visit to the UK by calling London Mayor Sadiq Khan "a stone cold loser" after Khan called Trump's language that of a 20th century fascist

• Jun 4 Deforestation of the Amazon forest in Brazil the fastest for a decade as 740 square kilometers cleared in 30 days according to Brazilian space research institute
• Jun 4 Former US school security guard Scot Peterson arrested and charged with neglect of a child and culpable negligence for not confronting gunman during Parkland school massacre in a landmark case
• Jun 4 Movement in Japan to end compulsory wearing of high heels in work places trends with hashtag #KuToo

• Jun 4 Professional gambler James Holzhauer's 32-game winning streak ends on "Jeopardy", just short of Ken Jenning's record $2.52M earnings
• Jun 4 SF MLB manager Bruce Bochy reaches 1,000 win mark with the club as Giants beat Mets, 9-3 in NYC; second after legendary John McGraw to reach milestone
• Jun 5 Denmark general election won by Mette Frederiksen's Social Democrats, defeating sitting Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen's Liberal party
• Jun 5 Ohio doctor William Husel charged with 25 counts of murder for prescribing potentially fatal doses of opioids in Franklin County
• Jun 5 On average, people ingest 50,000 pieces of microplastic a year and breathe in similar amount, according to first-ever such study published in journal "Environmental Science and Technology"
• Jun 6 Amir Ohana becomes the first openly gay minister in Israel as acting justice minister
• Jun 6 German serial killer nurse Niels Hoegel jailed for a second life sentence for the murder of 85 more people (previously convicted for six). Germany's worst post-war serial killer.

• Jun 7 More than four million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015 due to its economic crisis according to the UN
• Jun 8 Albanian President Ilir Meta cancels nationwide local elections amid constitutional crisis after the opposition refuses to participate until Prime Minister Edi Rama resigns
• Jun 9 1st UEFA Nations League Final, Porto: Guedes scores as Portugal win inaugural tournament final, 1-0 over the Netherlands

• Jun 9 95 people killed in attack on Dogon village Sobame Da in central Mali by suspected Fulani group
• Jun 9 Ali Stroker becomes the first actress in a wheelchair to win a Tony award for musical "Oklahoma!"

• Jun 9 General strike begins in Khartoum, Sudan, as a protest against ruling military generals by the Sudanese Professionals Association
• Jun 9 Over 1 million people protest in Hong Kong over proposed new laws for extradition to China in one of largest-ever protests in the city
• Jun 10 Former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrested on corruption charges
• Jun 10 New DNA research on grapes shows one French wine Savagnin Blanc has been grown for 900 years in Jura published in "Nature Plants"
• Jun 10 Three men sentenced to life imprisonment for rape and murder of eight-year-old Muslim girl in Kathua, India in high-profile case that sparked political resignations and nationwide protests

• Jun 11 Botswana overturns law criminalizing same-sex relationships from colonial-era in landmark African LGBTQ case

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