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- 2013 515 people are killed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Balochistan, Pakistan
- 2015 Burkina Faso's interim President Michel Kafando is re-instated a week after a military coup
Event of Interest
2015 Pope Francis becomes the 1st pope to address the US Congress. Names Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day as his American heroes.
- 2015 Stampede of people during the Hajj kills 717 people during symbolic stoning of the devil at Mina, near Mecca, Saudi Arabia
- 2016 US National Museum of African American History and Culture opens in Washington D.C. (established by Act of Congress 2003)
Sports History
2017 Laver Cup Men's Tennis, Prague: Roger Federer is unbeaten as Team Europe dominates Team World, 15-9 in the inaugural teams event
Sports History
2017 LeBron James calls President Donald Trump "U Bum" in a tweet in response to Trump's comments about Stephen Curry
- 2017 Margo Hayes completes the third-ever female ascent of a 9a+ (5.15a) graded route by ascending Realization/Biographie in Céüse, France
Sports History
2017 NFL players kneal, lock arms or stay in their dressing room during the anthem in protests against comments made by President Donald Trump
- 2017 Plastic polystyrene rubbish discovered for first time only 1,000 miles from the north pole by international team of scientists
Sports History
2017 Tour Championship Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Xander Schauffele wins rich season-ending event by 1 stroke from Justin Thomas
- 2018 Ebola virus has caused 69 deaths and sickened 150 people according to Ministry of Heath in Democratic Republic of Congo
Event of Interest
2018 Pakyong Airport, India's 100th airport, is opened in the Himalayan mountains at 1,400 meters by Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Football Awards
2018 Real Madrid midfielder & Croatian World Cup captain Luka Modrić is named world's best male player at the FIFA Awards in London; Brazil & Orlando Pride forward Marta best female player; France's Didier Deschamps best men's coach
- 2019 5.8 magnitude earthquake in northern Pakistan kills at least 10 and injures 300
Event of Interest
2019 Nancy Pelosi announces formal impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump, arguing that he tried to enlist a foreign power for his own political gain
- 2019 Protests outside Indonesian parliament and elsewhere over proposed new laws banning sex before marriage, abortion and insulting the president
Event of Interest
2019 Spain's Supreme Court rules body of dictator Francisco Franco can be removed from state mausoleum, the Valley of the Fallen, to municipal cemetery
Event of Interest
2019 UK Supreme Court rules the suspension of UK parliament for 5 weeks by Boris Johnson's Conservative government was unlawful
Film & TV History
2020 David Attenborough breaks Jennifer Aniston's record as the fastest person to reach 1 million followers on Instagram
- 2020 Report China is continuing to expand its Uighur detention centers, with more than 380 suspected facilities housing 1 million people in Xinjiang [1]
- 2021 Notorious Indian gangster Jitender Maan Gogi shot death in a court in Delhi, by men posing as lawyers
- 2022 "Post-tropical storm" remnant of Hurricane Fiona makes landfall near Whitehead, Nova Scotia, with sustained wind speeds of 165 km/h (103 mph); the strongest low-pressure system in Canadian history affected the four provinces of Atlantic Canada, as well as Quebec, causing major flooding, and knocking out power to 80% of Nova Scotia and 95% of Prince Edward Island
France Withdraws Support for Niger
2023 French President Emmanuel Macron says his country will withdraw its ambassador and 1,500 troops from Niger, in the wake of a coup [1]
- 2023 NASA's OSIRIS-REX mission to retrieve space rock from the asteroid Bennu successfully returns to earth, landing in Utah [1]
Taylor Swift Attends Chiefs Game
2023 Taylor Swift attends Kansas City Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri, amid rumours she is dating player Travis Kelce [1]
