Historical Events in 2019 (Part 4)

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• Jun 11 Russian journalist Ivan Golunov released from prison and drug charges dropped after major public outcry with unprecedented joint campaign by Russian news sources
• Jun 11 WHO confirms first case of Ebola virus in Uganda, spread from outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo
• Jun 12 Earliest evidence of humans smoking cannabis discovered in 2,500-year-old grave in Pamir Mountains, China, published in "Science Advances"
• Jun 12 Same-sex marriage approved by Ecuador's Constitutional Court in landmark ruling
• Jun 12 Stanley Cup Final, TD Garden, Boston, MA: St. Louis Blues beat Boston Bruins, 4-1 for a 4-3 series victory; first title in franchise history
• Jun 12 Violent protests in Hong Kong as tens of thousands of protesters block and try to storm government buildings to stop extradition law
• Jun 12 World’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s Government Pension Fund, worth $1 trillion, gets authorization to drop fossil fuel investments from Norway's government
• Jun 13 Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in lochs) far older than first thought, radiocarbon dated to 3640-3360 BC, older than Stonehenge
• Jun 13 Kenyan MP Rashid Kassim arrested for slapping female MP Fatuma Gedi, following a walk out of parliament by female MPs after claiming male MPs joked "its slapping day"

• Jun 14 Petition to create world's first "time free zone" on Sommaroy island which has complete daylight for 2 months, delivered to the Norwegian parliament
• Jun 14 Swiss women hold a national strike over the country's slow pace towards equality
• Jun 15 Anthony Davis's opera "The Central Park Five" premieres at the Long Beach Opera Company, California (Pulitzer Prize for Music 2020) [1]

• Jun 16 India imposes retaliatory tariffs on 28 US goods
• Jun 16 Massive unprecedented power cut affects all of Argentina, Uruguay and parts of Paraguay

• Jun 16 Three suicide bomb attacks kill 30 people in Konduga, north east Nigeria

• Jun 17 Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, Kate Gallego apologies for local police threatening to shoot African American family after their four-year shoplifted a doll
• Jun 17 Michael R. Jackson's musical "Ä Strange Loop" opens off-Broadway in New York (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2020) [1]
• Jun 18 Chennai, India's 6th largest city with 4 million people, runs out of water as its reservoirs dry up
• Jun 18 China has been forcefully harvesting organs from marginalized groups in prison camps on a significant scale according to International Tribunal in London
• Jun 18 England cricket captain Eoin Morgan smashes a ODI world record 17 sixes against Afghanistan in his side's 150-run World Cup victory at Old Trafford; Morgan, 148 from 71 balls
• Jun 18 Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announces the suspension of the pro-China and highly controversial extradition law, after massive protests in the city
• Jun 18 Sex-changing Australian bush tomato study published in journal "PhytoKeys" detailing how Solanum Plastisexum can change from male to female to hermaphrodite
• Jun 18 Two 14 year-old boys become the youngest in Irish history to be convicted of murder when found guilty of the murder and sexual assault of a 14 year-old girl in Dublin
• Jun 18 US President Donald Trump announces his campaign for re-election

• Jun 19 UN says over 70 million people in the world are displaced, asylum seekers or refugees around the world, their highest-ever number in 70 years
• Jun 19 US NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere found guilty in New York court of racketeering, sex trafficking and child pornography
• Jun 19 US Senators receive a classified briefing on possible UFO sightings by the US Navy

• Jun 20 David Gilmour auctions 126 of his guitars for record-breaking $21M USD, including “The Black Strat,” a 1969 Fender Stratocaster used on Pink Floyd albums “The Dark Side of the Moon,” “Wish You Were Here.” and “The Wall” ($3.975M), at Christie's in New York City; charity auction proceeds earmarked to fight against climate change
• Jun 20 Iran shoots down a US drone over the Straits of Hormuz escalating tension between the two countries
• Jun 20 NBA Draft: Duke power forward Zion Williamson first pick by New Orleans Pelicans
• Jun 20 Oregon Governor Kate Brown authorizes police to round up 11 Republican state senators who have gone into hiding to stop vote on cap-and-trade proposal emissions bill
• Jun 20 Shares for messaging site Slack start trading on the New York Stock Exchange to give it a valuation of $19.5 billion
• Jun 21 NHL Draft: US NTDP center Jack Hughes first pick by New Jersey Devils

• Jun 22 Attempted coup fails in Ethiopia, four officials killed including army chief of staff General Seare Mekonnen
• Jun 22 Russian volcano Raikoke erupts from 700m-wide-crater, seen from International Space Station. Turns sunsets purple across the Northern Hemisphere all summer.
• Jun 22 Seven-story building collapses in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, with at least 25 construction workers sleeping inside killed

• Jun 23 Turkey's ruling AK party lose the re-run of Istanbul's mayoral election to Ekrem Imamoglu of the Republican People's Party
• Jun 24 El Salvador immigrant father and his 23-month-old daughter drown trying to cross the Rio Grande into the US with their photo causing widespread condemnation
• Jun 24 Greek Cypriot army officer Nicos Metaxas given seven life sentences for the murder of five women and two children in Nicosia
• Jun 24 Mysterious sickness affects 718 children with 152 deaths around Indian city of Muzaffarpur, previously thought due to lychee fruit but now unknown

• Jun 25 Mirazur on the French Riviera crowned the world's best restaurant at ceremony in Singapore
• Jun 25 NHL Draft: Barrie Colts (OHL) defenseman Aaron Ekblad first pick by Florida Panthers
• Jun 25 San Francisco, California is the first major US city to ban e-cigarettes
• Jun 25 Stephanie Grisham replaces Sarah Sanders as US White House press secretary and communications director - 1st in American history to hold no press conferences; serves until April 2020

• Jun 26 Highest ever June temperatures recorded in Germany (38.6C), Poland (38.2C) and the Czech Republic (38.9C) during week-long heatwave in Europe

• Jun 26 More than 5,000 smuggled turtles discovered in luggage at Kuala Lumpur Airport, Malaysia, bound for India
• Jun 26 Two US Florida towns pay hackers considerable ransom to unfreeze their computer systems; Riviera Beach $600,00 and Lake City $500,000
• Jun 27 Chief Apple designer Jony Ive, designer of the iMac and the iPhone, announces he is leaving Apple after 30 years
• Jun 27 US Supreme Court rules 2020 census cannot contain a question about citizenship in a 5-4 ruling
• Jun 27 US Supreme Court rules the Constitution doesn't prohibit partisan gerrymandering, allowing a ruling party to redraw electoral boundaries
• Jun 28 3,400 year old Bronze Age palace from the Mittani Empire uncovered on the banks of the Tigris River, due to lack of rainfall dropping the water level in the Mosul Dam reservoir
• Jun 28 Highest-ever temperature recorded in France 45.9°C in Gallargues-le-Montueux, southern France
• Jun 28 The EU and South American trade bloc Mercosur agree historic trade deal, the EU's biggest to date

• Jun 30 Large protests in Khartoum, Sudan, against continuing military rule, kill seven and injure 181
• Jun 30 New York marks 50 years since the Stonewall Uprising sparked the modern gay rights movement with huge pride marches
• Jun 30 President Donald Trump becomes first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea in the Korean Demilitarized Zone meeting Kim Jong Un
• Jul 1 At least 16 people killed in a Taliban attack with over 100 injured in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Jul 1 Japan resumes commercial whaling after a break of more than 30 years
• Jul 2 Air strike kills at least 40 people at Libyan migrant center in Tripoli, with Libyan National Army blamed

• Jul 2 Total solar eclipse over Chile and Argentina
• Jul 2 Virginie Viard presents her first haute couture collection as designer at Chanel after the death of Karl Lagerfeld at the Grand Palais
• Jul 3 Atlético Madrid sign Portugal forward Joao Felix for €126m (£113m) from Benfica in the fifth most expensive transfer in football history
• Jul 3 Heavy monsoon rains strike Mumbai and surrounding Maharashtra state in India killing at least 43, worst flooding in a decade
• Jul 3 Italian David-Maria Sassoli chosen as new European Parliament President
• Jul 3 More than a million people ordered to evacuate Japanese island of Kyushu amid warnings of mudslides after 1,000mm (39in) of rainfall
• Jul 3 US produces the most waste per head globally and recycles the least at 35% according to new research by Verisk Maplecroft, Germany recycles the most at 68%
• Jul 4 Biggest seaweed bloom in the world, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt stretches from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico after algae explosion due to deforestation and fertiliser

• Jul 4 Largest earthquake in California in 20 years 6.4 magnitude near Ridgecrest
• Jul 4 Notorious Dutch crime boss Willem Holleeder sentenced to life for ordering five murders in Amsterdam
• Jul 4 Record temperatures in Alaska as Anchorage reaches 90F (32C)

• Jul 4 UN accuses Venezuelan government of using death squads and policy of installing fear to remove opposition with 5,287 people killed in 2018 for supposedly resisting arrest
• Jul 4 US President Donald Trump holds a “Salute to America” Fourth of July celebration in Washington, D.C., controversial for its emphasis on the military and presence of tanks
• Jul 4 US publication Mad Magazine announces it will stop publishing new material after 67 years
• Jul 5 Ancient Iraqi city Babylon declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Jul 5 Former governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sérgio Cabral says he paid a $2 million bribe to secure votes for his city to be granted 2016 Olympics
• Jul 5 Second stronger earthquake in Southern California at 7.1 magnitude centered near Ridgecrest
• Jul 6 Jorge Masvidal (34-13) sets a UFC record by needing just 5 seconds to KO Ben Askren (19-1, 1 NC) during their welterweight bout at UFC 239 in Las Vegas, Nevada

• Jul 6 Super Rugby Final, Christchurch: Canterbury Crusaders win their 10th title with a 19-3 win over Argentina's Jaguares

• Jul 7 Greek national elections won by center-right New Democracy party headed by Kyriakos Mitsotakis
• Jul 7 Mississippi closes all its beaches due to toxic algae bloom due to flooding of the Mississippi River
• Jul 7 Nigeria, Africa' biggest economy, joins the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), in attempt to create world's largest free trade area
• Jul 8 Congolese general and rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court in the Hague
• Jul 8 Deutsche Bank begins laying off 18,000 employees worldwide as part of large overhaul of its operations
• Jul 8 US financier Jeffrey Epstein indicted on further charges of sex trafficking of minors
• Jul 9 Indian restaurateur "dosa king" P. Rajagopal finally begins his life sentence for organizing a murder, 15 years after he was convicted
• Jul 9 Northern Ireland MPs vote to extend same-sex marriage and make abortion legal to bring it in line with rest of UK
• Jul 10 British ambassador to the US Sir Kim Darroch resigns after his secret cables calling the US president "inept" were published
• Jul 10 Earliest evidence of modern humans outside Africa found with 210,000 year old skull from Apidima Cave, southern Greece published in "Nature"
• Jul 10 Kawhi Leonard signs with the Los Angeles Clippers to a reported three-year, $103 million contract

• Jul 11 Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft lands on the Ryugu asteroid 300m km (185m miles) from earth for a second time to collect samples
• Jul 11 Last models of Volkswagen's Beetle car are produced in Pueblo, Mexico, ending production worldwide after 80 years
• Jul 11 US stock markets reach new records, the Dow tops 27,000 points for the first time and the S&P 500 hits 3,000 points
• Jul 13 After Atlantic League-MLB partnership rule changes, Southern Maryland Blue Crabs' outfielder Tony Thomas becomes first player in professional baseball history to steal first base in 7-2 win v Lancaster Barnstormers

• Jul 14 First Ebola case on Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, city of 1 million, as toll of outbreak reaches 1600 victims
• Jul 14 ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Lord's, London, England: after first Super Over in an ODI, England wins first title on boundary countback rule, SO also level; Player of Match: Ben Stokes (ENG) 84 no (98)
• Jul 14 US President Donald Trump ignites racial controversy by tweeting four Democrat women of color "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came"
• Jul 15 Tampa Bay catcher Travis d'Arnaud becomes first player in MLB history to hit 3 homers while catching and batting leadoff in the Rays' 5-4 win over the NY Yankees
• Jul 17 Bulgaria announces 5 million people, virtually every adult, has had their personal information exposed after national tax agency hacked
• Jul 17 Irrigation canal system collapses near Fort Laramie, Wyoming parching 100,000 acres of farmland across Nebraska and Wyoming

• Jul 17 Streaming service Netflix reaches 150 million subscribers worldwide, but with slower growth than forecast
• Jul 17 World Health Organization declares the DR Congo Ebola outbreak a "public health emergency of international concern"
• Jul 18 Arson attack on animated studio Kyoto Animation Co in Kyoto, Japan, kills at least 33
• Jul 18 Children's songs "Baby Shark" and "Raining Tacos" used by City of West Palm Beach, Florida to drive away homeless people from the waterfront
• Jul 18 June 2019 was the hottest June on record with average worldwide temperature of 61.6F (16.4C) according to The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Jul 18 One of world's earliest mosques at 1,200 years old discovered by archaeologists in Israel's Negev Desert
• Jul 19 Heat wave begins across the east of America affecting 100 million people and killing 6, with New York city declaring a state of emergency
• Jul 19 Largest wind farm in Africa opens at Lake Turkana, Kenya, generating 310 megawatts
• Jul 19 UK oil tanker Stena Impero seized by Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the Strait of Hormuz
• Jul 20 115°F (46.1°C), John Martin Dam, Colorado (state record)

• Jul 21 Puerto Rico's governor Ricardo Rosselló says he won't seek re-election after widespread protests over misogynistic and homophobic comments in his leaked online chats
• Jul 22 Air strikes have killed at least 31 people in Maarat al-Numan, north-western Syria, with Russian planes supporting Syrian government being blamed
• Jul 22 French submarine Minerve rediscovered off coast of Toulon, France, after disappearing in 1968 with loss of 52 crew
• Jul 22 India's lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2 successfully takes off from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota aiming to be fourth nation to soft-land on the moon

• Jul 22 NFL Dallas Cowboys named most valuable sports team in the world worth $5 billion, MLB New York Yankees 2nd at $4.6 billion, Real Madrid 3rd with $4.2 billion according to Forbes

• Jul 22 US President Donald Trump says US could win war in Afghanistan in a week "I just don't want to kill 10 million people. If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth"
• Jul 23 At least 36 people killed by a mud landslide in Shuicheng county, Guizhou province, China
• Jul 23 BHP becomes the first mining company to tackle pollution, says it will invest $400 million to reduce emissions
• Jul 23 Boris Johnson is chosen the new British Prime Minister by the ruling Conservative Party to replace Theresa May
• Jul 23 Investigation launched after no girls born in three months in 132 villages in Uttarkashi district, India, with sex-selective abortions suspected as the reason
• Jul 23 Nike's Jordan Brand signs 2019 NBA #1 draft pick Zion Williamson to richest multiyear sponsorship deal for a rookie in history; estimated 7 years for $75 million

• Jul 24 10th million Mini car produced during its 60th anniversary year in Oxford, England

• Jul 24 Facebook agrees to pay $5 billion fine, largest ever for violating consumer privacy, to the US Federal Trade Commission
• Jul 24 Global warming is the fastest in 2,000 years and scientific consensus that humans are the cause is at 99%, according to three major reports published in journals "Nature" and "Nature Geoscience"
• Jul 24 New UK PM Boris Johnson drastically reshapes cabinet in his first day in office, appointing Dominic Raab as Foreign Secretary, Priti Patel as Home Secretary and Sajid Javid as Chancellor
• Jul 24 Second heatwave of the summer in Western Europe sets record temperatures in Belgium in Kleine Brogel 39.9C (102F), for Netherlands in Eindhoven 39.3C (102F) and Germany at Geilenkirchen 40.5C (104F)
• Jul 24 Special counsel Robert Mueller reports to the US Senate that President Trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice and that Russia interfered in US election to benefit Trump
• Jul 25 "City killer" Asteroid 2019 OK (187 to 427 ft (57 to 130 m) estimated diameter) passes by almost undetected approximately 45,000 miles away from earth, nearer than the moon
• Jul 25 High temperature records set across Europe just one day after previous records set, Paris 42.6C (108.7F), Germany 42.6C (108.6F), Netherlands 40.7C (105.2F), Belgium 40.6C (105.2F)
• Jul 25 Highest ever UK temperature of 38.7C (101.6F) recorded in Cambridge, England (record broken in 2022)
• Jul 25 Scandal-hit Governor of Puerto Rico Ricardo Rosselló resigns
• Jul 25 US Justice department announces resumption of use of the death penalty, scheduling five executions
• Jul 25 Worst Mediterranean migrant drownings of the year - boat carrying 250 people capsizes off Libyan coast, with over 100 feared drowned
• Jul 26 Australian cricket captain Meg Lanning records T20 International world record individual score of 133 off 63 balls in 93-run win against England at Chelmsford; Southern Stars clinch Women's Ashes
• Jul 27 American swimmer Caeleb Dressel wins 3 gold medals in one day at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea; 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly and mixed 4×100m freestyle relay (WR 3:19.40)
• Jul 27 At least 65 mourners killed in a gun attack at a funeral near Maiduguri, by suspected Boko Haram militants in north-east Nigeria
• Jul 27 MLB Phillies revive reviled 1979 all-burgundy alternate uniforms as part of a "retro night" promotion in 15-7 loss to Atlanta Braves at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia [1]
• Jul 27 US President Trump, calls Baltimore a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess," calls Congress Rep Elijah Cummings responsible
• Jul 28 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: South Korean Ko Jin-young wins her second major title of the season by 2 strokes from Shanshan Feng, Jennifer Kupcho and Kim Hyo-joo
• Jul 28 First Fortnite World Cup won by US teenager Kyle Giersdorf with largest ever e-sports prize of $3 million at Arthur Ashe Stadium, New York

• Jul 29 Prison riot kills 58, with 16 decapitated in battle between rival factions at the Altamira prison, Para state, Brazil

• Jul 31 Kelly Craft confirmed by US Senate as US ambassador to the UN [1]
• Jul 31 Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Russian army to help put out huge wildfires in Siberia covering three million hectares (7.4 million acres) after 700,000 people sign petition
• Jul 31 US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for the first time since 2008 by 0.25%
• Aug 1 Protesting Kenyan cancer survivors in Nairobi urge their government to declare a "nation disaster' in a country with only 35 oncologists for 40 million people
• Aug 2 Pedro Pierluisi sworn in as new Governor of Puerto Rico replacing Ricardo A. Rosselló
• Aug 2 Saudi Arabia announces news rules for women including allowing them to travel independently abroad without a male guardian's permission
• Aug 2 Seven-year-old boy operated on after 526 teeth found inside his mouth in Chennai, India

• Aug 3 Suspected domestic terrorist shoots and kills 22 and injures 24 at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas
• Aug 4 Australian cricket batsman Steve Smith hits brilliant 142 following his 1st innings 144 in 1st Test v England at Edgbaston; only 4th batsman all-time to score more than 140 in each innings of a Test match
• Aug 4 Car explosion kills 20 with 47 injured in Cairo, Egypt, in terrorist-related incident
• Aug 4 China's central bank allows its currency to weaken under usual 7-1 ratio to the US dollar for first time in a decade in response to further US trade tariffs
• Aug 4 Frank Zapata is the first person to cross the English Channel by flyboard in 22 minutes
• Aug 4 Gunman kills nine and injures 27 at a bar in Dayton, Ohio, in 2nd mass shooting in 24 hours in the US
• Aug 5 Australian woman Kerry Robertson confirmed as the first person to use a new assisted dying law to end her life a month earlier in Victoria
• Aug 5 Brazilian drug dealer Clauvino da Silva tries and fails to escape Rio de Janeiro jail by dressing up as his teenage daughter in silicone mask and wig
• Aug 5 Indian government announces it is changing the status of Indian-controlled Kashmir from a state to a union territory, revoking Article 370 in response to security concerns
• Aug 5 July 2019 confirmed as world's hottest-ever month recorded according to Europe's Copernicus Programme
• Aug 5 Widespread strike in Hong Kong and demonstrations against Chinese policy towards the territory bring huge disruption, including cancelling 200 flights
• Aug 6 A quarter of humanity is running out of water with 17 countries under extreme water stress including Cape Town, Los Angeles and Bangalore, according to report by the World Resources Institute
• Aug 6 Barneys New York files for bankruptcy, amid figures 7,567 US retails stores have closed so far in 2019 compared to 5,864 in 2018

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