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- 2012 66th Tony Awards: "Once" (musical) & "Clybourne Park" (play) win
- 2012 A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet minister
Sports History
2012 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Shoal Creek G&CC: Defending champion Tom Lehman wins by 2 strokes from Bernhard Langer of Germany and Taiwan's Lu Chien-soon
- 2013 70 people are killed as a series of bombs explode across Iraq
Man of Steel
2013 Superman film "Man of Steel" directed by Zack Snyder, starring Henry Cavill and Amy Adams premieres in New York City
Spirit Rover Begins Mars Mission
2018 A planetary dust storm causes NASA's Opportunity Rover to cease communication from Mars
Film & TV History
2018 Actor Vince Vaughn arrested for drunk driving and resisting arrest near Los Angeles
- 2019 Former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrested on corruption charges
- 2019 New DNA research on grapes shows one French wine Savagnin Blanc has been grown for 900 years in Jura published in "Nature Plants"
- 2019 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
- 2020 Cameroon's conflict with English-speaking separatists rated world's most-neglected conflict according to Norwegian Refugee Council
Event of Interest
2020 Statues of Confederate figures and explorers become focus of #BlackLivesMatter protests, with many removed including of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and of Christopher Columbus in Richmond
Murder of Interest
2020 Swedish prosecutors close the case on the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme after 34 years, saying the probable killer is dead
El Chapo Finally Recaptured
2021 Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of drug lord El Chapo, pleads guilty to helping run his criminal operations and aiding his 2015 prison escape
- 2021 European Space Agency announces new Venus mission, the probe EnVision to study Venus' tesserae (its continent-like terrains) [1]
- 2021 UN says famine is affecting 350,000 people in Tigray, Ethiopia, the worst starvation calamity in the world right now
- 2021 Zahid Quraish confirmed as America's first Muslim federal judge for the District of New Jersey by the US Senate
Film & TV History
2022 Actress Rebel Wilson comes out on Instagram, before it emerges an Australian newspaper had given her 27 hours to comment on their upcoming story on her new female partner [1]
Music History
2022 Ringo Starr suspends his half-completed summer All-Starr Band tour when two musicians test positive for COVID-19
