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- 2019 Bolivian wildfires have destroyed two million hectares (almost five million acres), of forest and grassland since August according to College of Biologists in La Paz
- 2019 Iranian woman Sahar Khodayari dies after setting herself on fire during her trial, for entering a stadium disguised as a man in Tehran
- 2019 Malaysia's National Disaster Management Agency delivers half a million face masks to Sarawak state, after more than 930,000 hectares (about 2.3 million acres) burnt in Indonesia cause hazardous levels of air pollution
The Testaments
2019 Novelist Margaret Atwood publishes "The Testaments", her follow-up to "The Handmaid's Tale"
Event of Interest
2019 US President Donald Trump fires his third national security adviser John Bolton
- 2020 Austrian British researcher Martin Hairer wins Breakthrough prize for mathematics worth $3 million for work on stochastic analysis
- 2020 California's August Complex wildfire becomes largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)
- 2020 Wildfires in Oregon cause 500,000 people to evacuate, 10% of the population with unprecedented 900,000 acres burnt
- 2022 Best film at 79th Venice international film festival awarded to Laura Poitras’ documentary about photographer Nan Goldin "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" [1]
Event of Interest
2022 U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres visits and calls for global support for flood-ravaged Pakistan where 33 million people are displaced and damage is estimated at $30 billion [1]
- 2023 Collapse of two dams after heavy rain from Storm Daniel sends torrent of flooding through city of Derna, Libya, cutting it off completely, leaving over 4,000 dead and 8,000 missing [1]
- 2023 Luis Rubiales, head of Spain's football federation, resigns a month after grabbing and kissing Spanish player Jenni Hermoso, after the team's World Cup win [1]
