Events 201 - 212 of 212
- 2019 Nobel prize for Economics awarded to Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer for research on ways to fight poverty
Important Vote
2019 Spain's Supreme Court jails nine Catalan separatist leaders for sedition for 2017 independence referendum, prompting violent clashes in Barcelona
Event of Interest
2020 A copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio sells for a record $9.98 million at auction in New York
- 2020 Details of the world's first room-temperature superconductor created by scientists at the University of Rochester, NY, published in "Nature" [1]
COVID-19 Pandemic
2020 French president Emmanuel Macron announces a public health emergency and a curfew of 9 pm for nine cities due to surge in COVID-19 cases
- 2021 Record price for a Banksy artwork paid of 18.5 million pounds ($25.4 million) for "Love is in the Bin", that was famously shredded on purchase in 2018 [1]
- 2022 Coal mine explosion in Amasra, northern Turkey, kills 41 and injures 11 [1]
- 2022 Psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 2023 Annular solar eclipse a 'ring of fire' visible across parts of the US, Mexico and South and Central America [1]
- 2023 Australia votes against altering its constitution to give indigenous communities more rights in a referendum [1]
- 2023 New Zealand general election won by a right-wing coalition headed by Christopher Luxon [1]
