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- 2018 Quriyat, Oman, registers highest "low" temperature for a day ever recorded of 42.5 degrees
- 2018 Sudanese court overturns death sentence for teenager who killed the husband after he raped her
Event of Interest
2018 US Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban against mostly Muslim countries
Film & TV History
2019 Former Gambian beauty queen Fatou "Toufah" Jallow says she was raped by former President Yahya Jammeh as part of a Human Rights Watch and Trial International report
- 2019 Highest ever June temperatures recorded in Germany (38.6C), Poland (38.2C) and the Czech Republic (38.9C) during week-long heatwave in Europe
Spirited Away
2019 Japanese animation film "Spirited Away" by Hayao Miyazaki is released in China and tops the box office, 18 years after its initial release
- 2019 More than 5,000 smuggled turtles discovered in luggage at Kuala Lumpur Airport, Malaysia, bound for India
- 2019 Two US Florida towns pay hackers considerable ransom to unfreeze their computer systems; Riviera Beach $600,00 and Lake City $500,000
- 2020 New York Times says Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked forces to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan
- 2021 British Health Minister Matt Hancock resigns after photos of him kissing an aide (and not social distancing) emerge
- 2021 South Africa announces 14-day lockdown to counter a third COVID-19 wave of infections fueled by the Delta variant, with only 2.5 million vaccines administrated [1]
- 2021 Sydney goes into a two-week lockdown amid a Delta variant COVID-19 outbreak and low levels of vaccination
- 2022 Stanley Cup Final, Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL: Colorado Avalanche beats two-time defending champions Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-1 for a 4-2 series win; Avs 3rd championship in franchise history
- 2023 Earliest possible evidence of cannibalism found in 1.45-million-year-old fossilized hominin leg bone, with cut marks made by stone tools from the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi [1]
Event of Interest
2023 Russian leader Vladimir Putin vows to bring leaders of the Wagner Group rebellion to justice, saying they wanted "to see Russia choked in bloody strife" [1]
- 2023 Spin bowler Ashleigh Gardner takes 8-66 in England's 2nd innings for a match total of 12 as Australia beats England by 89 runs in the Ashes Test at Trent Bridge; best ever wicket haul in a Test by an Australian bowler
- 2023 Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou declares a water emergency for Montevideo, with authorities having to mix salty water with fresh to extend supplies due to drought [1]
- 2024 Attempted military coup in Bolivia as General Juan José Zúñiga leads soldiers to storm presidential palace in La Paz - general later claims President instigated it to boast his popularity [1]
- 2024 Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez sentenced in a US court to 45 years in prison and fined $8 million for drug trafficking [1]
- 2024 Outgoing Dutch PM Mark Rutte appointed NATO secretary general [1]
