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Film & TV History
2018 Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex begin their first royal tour visiting Australia and New Zealand
- 2018 Chairman of China's Xinjiang’s government defends its detention camps for Uighur Muslims saying they provided “vocational education and training”
- 2018 Man Booker Prize is won by Anna Burns' "Milkman", the first winner from Northern Ireland
Event of Interest
2018 Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman denies knowledge of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi according to President Trump
- 2019 Egyptian archaeologists announce discovery of more than 20 painted wooden coffins from Theban necropolis of Asasif
- 2019 First plant-powered selfie taken by Pete the Fern as part of research into use of microbial fuel cells at London Zoo (London, England)
Film & TV History
2019 Netflix reveals its most popular original movie was Sandra Bullock's "Bird Box" and TV series "Stranger Things" for the year
- 2020 French teacher Samuel Paty beheaded by 18-year-old Islamist militant in Paris suburb of Éragny
Sports History
2021 Camden County Commissioners unveil Statue of boxing champion Jersey Joe Walcott at Wiggins Waterfront Park in Camden, New Jersey
- 2021 NASA probe Lucy launched on mission to fly-by eight Trojan asteroids circling the sun [1]
- 2022 More than 600 people have died in Nigeria's worst floods in a decade, displacing more than 1.3 million people according to a government minister [1]
- 2023 Amazon's largest tributary, The Negro River, records its lowest-ever level, confirming the rainforest is in the midst of its most significant drought [1]
- 2023 Model of a Star Wars X-wing Starfighter used in a "Star Wars" film sells for over $3 million from collection of Hollywood model maker Greg Jein [1]
