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- 2020 Golden State Killer and former police officer Joseph DeAngelo Jr pleads guilty to 12 murders and dozens of rapes
- 2020 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 that abortion restrictions in Louisiana unconstitutional, striking down a 2014 state law
Event of Interest
2021 Former South African President Jacob Zuma sentenced to 15 months in prison on contempt of court charges
- 2021 Lytton, British Columbia, records Canada's highest-ever temperature of 49.6C (121.3F), before being destroyed by a wildfire the next day
- 2021 World's first known plague victim identified in the remains of a 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer in Latvia [1]
- 2022 Biggest trial in modern French history for November 2015 Paris Attacks, convicts Salah Abdeslam, and 19 others, of terrorism and murder charges, sentences him to a rare 30-year prison term [1]
- 2022 Earth records its shortest ever day - 1.59 milliseconds faster than a standard day [1]
- 2022 Latest US murder clearance rates show that half of all murders are left unsolved, less likely to be solved if victim is Black or Hispanic [1]
- 2023 British court rules government plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda as a deterrent is illegal, as it could not be considered a third safe country [1]
- 2023 US Supreme court rules 6-3 that college race-based admission programs used to increase diversity are illegal under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment [1]
- 2024 ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Bridgetown, Barbados: India beats South Africa by 7 runs, Hardik Pandya 3/20; Player of the Series: Jasprit Bumrah (India fast bowler 15 wickets)
- 2024 Iranian presidential snap-election heads to a run-off after leading candidates reformer Masoud Pezeshkian and hardliner Saeed Jalili fail to win a majority [1]
