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- 2019 Highest-ever temperature recorded in France 45.9°C in Gallargues-le-Montueux, southern France
- 2019 The EU and South American trade bloc Mercosur agree historic trade deal, the EU's biggest to date
- 2020 50th anniversary of 1st Gay Pride march in New York City marked around the world
- 2020 COVID-19 cases surge in southern and western US states with California, Texas and Florida closing bars, Arizona reports 20% of tests returning as positive
- 2020 Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 500,000, doubling in less than two months (Johns Hopkins)
- 2021 AirCar, prototype flying car capable of flying 1,000km (600 miles), at height of 8,200ft (2,500m), completes 35 min test flight between Nitra and Bratislava airports in Slovakia
- 2021 Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana use by adults
- 2021 Tigray Defense Forces retake Tigray's regional capital of Mekelle in Ethiopia's Tigray War. The Ethiopian government declares a unilateral ceasefire to save face but neither side sticks to it. [1]
- 2021 US Supreme Court declines to hear school's appeal in transgender bathroom case made by Gavin Grimm in Virginia, upholding an earlier decision it was discriminatory
- 2022 Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in US federal prison for grooming and aiding Jeffery Epstein to abuse underage girls [1]
- 2022 In dramatic testimony to the Jan 6 Committee hearing, a senior White House aide testifies Trump wanted to march to the Capitol and his fury when he couldn't [1]
- 2022 Rocket Lab launches NASA's CAPSTONE, a microwave-oven sized CubeSat spacecraft from Mahia peninsula, New Zealand, to orbit the Moon, research for future Gateway and Artemis missions [1]
- 2023 New York Yankees' pitcher Domingo Germán (30) throws a perfect game in 11-0 win over Oakland A’s at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum; it is his first complete game in 7-year MLB career
- 2023 South Koreans become a year or two younger as country drops two traditional age-counting systems to align with international standards (used to be aged one at birth) [1]
- 2024 Boy band Seventeen are the first K-pop group to play the main Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury [1]
- 2024 US Supreme Court decision clears the way for states to place bans on homeless sleeping, as 650,000 now estimated homeless in the US, up 12% [1]
