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Inter-Korean Summit
2007 President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il
- 2009 The economic crisis in Ireland is considered to be the driving force behind the largest migration of Irish people to London in 20 years, it is reported today
- 2009 The International Olympic Committee votes to award Rio de Janeiro, Brazil rights to host the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics
Homeland
2011 TV spy drama "Homeland" starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis premieres on Showtime
- 2012 10 people are killed after a minibus and truck collide in Ilocos Norte, Philippines
- 2012 20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria
- 2013 8 people are killed and 14 are injured after an accident involving an SUV, church bus, and tractor trailer in Jefferson County, Tennessee
- 2014 15 people are killed after a gunpowder plant explodes in Gorni Lom, Bulgaria
- 2014 Siege of Syrian town Kobani and its surrounds by ISIS prompts 130,00 people to flee the area
- 2015 Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi are arrested in Vermont after leaving Canada
- 2016 Colombia votes against a peace agreement with rebel group FARC in a national referendum
Film & TV History
2016 Kim Kardashian is robbed at gunpoint of $10 million worth of jewelry in her hotel in Paris
Sports History
2016 Veteran broadcaster Vin Scully calls his final LA Dodgers game (7-1 loss in San Francisco) after a record 67 MLB seasons
Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
2018 Saudi American journalist Jamal Khashoggi enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen again prompting a diplomatic crisis
The Queen's Window
2018 The Queen's Window, with stained glass designed by David Hockney, celebrating the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, is consecrated at Westminster Abbey
Melania Tours Africa
2018 US First Lady Melania Trump arrives in Ghana to begin a four-nation tour of Africa
- 2019 Australian women's cricket wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy smashes T20I world record 148 not out off 61 balls against Sri Lanka in Sydney; her century from Australian record 46 balls
- 2019 Two politicians in Peru claim to be the country's leader for a day until Mercedes Aráoz resigns so the constitutional court can rule on the matter
Trump Tests Positive
2020 US President Donald Trump announces via twitter that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19, President hospitalized later that day
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Honored
2023 US Postal Service issues a commemorative stamp honoring late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg [1]
- 2023 WHO approves second vaccine for Malaria, one that can be manufactured on a massive scale - R21 made by the University of Oxford [1]
