Events 201 - 227 of 227
- 2014 New Zealand's All Blacks scores 4 tries to beat Argentina, 34-13 in La Plata and claim their 3rd straight Rugby Championship; All Blacks first five eighth Beauden Barrett kicks 6 from 6
- 2015 "Junts per Si" pro-independence alliance win parliamentary majority in Catalonia
- 2015 A "Supermoon" coincides with a lunar eclipse creating a "Blood Moon" over much of the earth
- 2016 American "boy band" pop music group 'Why Don't We' (WDW) forms in Los Angeles
- 2017 Researchers confirm existence of giant tree rat "Vika" in the Solomon Islands that can crack open coconuts
- 2017 Thai Ex-Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra found guilty of criminal negligence in rice subsidy scheme, sentenced to 5 years in absentia
- 2018 First Chinese #MeToo case goes to court, TV star Zhu Jun sues for defamation after accusation posted online
- 2018 Half of all orca could die through pollution involving polychlorinated biphenyls in the ocean, according to study published in "Science"
- 2018 India's Supreme Court rules overturns 158-year old rule, section 497, decriminalizing adultery because it was discriminatory against women
- 2018 Justin Milne, head of Australian Broadcasting Corporation resigns amid allegations of firing journalists for the government
Event of Interest
2018 US Senate hearing into alleged sexual assault by Judge Brett Kavanaugh with him and accuser Christine Blasey Ford giving evidence
Event of Interest
2019 US Democrats issue their first subpoena to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in impeachment inquiry
- 2020 Border fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan forces over disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh kills at least 23
Event of Interest
2020 Details of President Donald Trump's tax returns released by the New York Times showing he paid $750 in income tax (2016 & 2017) revealing "chronic losses and years of tax avoidance" [1]
- 2020 Houston officials confirm water supply around Lake Jackson, Texas, contaminated with brain-eating amoeba after death of six-year-old boy
- 2021 NASA/USGS Landsat-9 earth-observing satellite launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Film & TV History
2021 Netflix says Shonda Rhimes' "Bridgerton" is its most-watched series ever, with "Extraction", starring Chris Hemsworth, its No. 1 film [1]
Music Concert
2022 American band "Foo Fighters" and friends hold tribute concert for drummer Taylor Hawkins at Kia Forum, Los Angeles, California; performers include: Joan Jett; Stewart Copland; Rush; Alanis Morissette; Def Leppard with Miley Cyrus; Wolfgang Van Halen; and Queen
Assassination
2022 Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe receives a state funeral at Nippon Budokan Arena, Tokyo, after he was assassinated in July [1]
- 2022 Hurricane Ian crosses western Cuba as a category 3 storm, wrecking the country's national grid and leaving the country without power, with three people killed
- 2023 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio returns to earth after an American record of 371 days in space, along with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin [1]
- 2023 Parker Solar Probe breaks its own record (again) for the fastest thing ever made by humans going 394,736 mph towards the sun - equal to travelling between LA and NY city in 20 seconds [1]
- 2023 Revival of Gary Geld and Peter Udell's musical "Purlie", based on Ossie Davis' "Purlie Victorious" and starring Leslie Odom, Jr, opens at the Music Box Theater, NYC, for a limited run
- 2023 Scientists at CERN announce a scientific milestone - proof that antimatter falls down and not up, by dropping a gas of antihydrogen from a 3-metre-tall vertical shaft [1]
- 2023 Writer's Guild of America ends their 148-day strike after agreeing deal with industry bosses [1]
