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- 2014 10 people are killed & 35 injured after a bus falls into a ravine in Pune, India
- 2014 Same-sex marriage is legalized in Scotland
Nadella New Microsoft CEO
2014 Satya Nadella succeeds Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft
"White Iverson"
2015 Post Malone uploads his debut single "White Iverson" to his SoundCloud account
- 2016 Fifth Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast on MSNBC, held in Durham, New Hampshire
- 2016 Morocco's Mohammed VI switches on world's largest solar plant near Ouarzazate. Planned to power 1 million homes when fully completed 2018
Van Morrison Knighted
2016 Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison knighted by the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace
Super Bowl LII
2018 Super Bowl LII, US Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN: Philadelphia Eagles defeat New England Patriots, 41-33; MVP: Nick Foles, Philadelphia, QB
Sports History
2019 Caitlin Clark scores 60 points in a game for Dowling Catholic High School against Mason City High School, setting the second-highest single-game point total in Iowa five-on-five girls' basketball history
- 2020 Charles McGee, American retired US Air Force officer and fighter pilot of the Tuskegee Airmen promoted from colonel to brigadier general
Rush Limbaugh Honored
2020 Radio personality Rush Limbaugh is presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump during the State Of The Union Address
- 2021 Denmark approves plans for world's first energy island in the North Sea to provide power to 3 million Europeans
- 2021 First successful face and double hand transplant announced performed on 22 year-old Joe DiMeo in New York
- 2021 International Criminal Court convicts Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen of war crimes and crimes against humanity including forced pregnancy in legal first [1]
- 2022 Cyclone Batsirai strikes Madagascar less than a month after Cyclone Ana, causing widespread damage, killing at least 92 people and displacing 91,000 [1]
- 2022 XXIV Olympic Winter Games open in Beijing, China
- 2023 Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by US fighter jets off the US eastern seaboard, after drifting across the US for days and igniting a political storm [1]
- 2024 President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, the self-titled "world's coolest dictator", wins re-election in a landslide [1]
