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- 2012 3 people are killed and 19 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
- 2012 New Zealand announces withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan
- 2012 Typhoon Bolaven kills 48 people in North Korea
- 2013 15 militants are killed by an Egyptian Army helicopter in Sinai Peninsula
- 2013 Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion
- 2015 Chris the sheep breaks the world record for biggest shorn fleece 40kg (88lb) near Canberra, Australia
- 2015 Kentucky clerk in Rowan County jailed for refusing to issue marriage licences to gay couples
- 2017 1.4 ton WWII bomb defused in Frankfurt, Germany with 60,000 people evacuated, the largest postwar
- 2017 Adam Ondra climbs Silence in Norway, the world's first-ever 9c (5.15d) route
La Tuna Fire
2017 Governor of California Jerry Brown issues state of emergency due to La Tuna brush fire near Los Angeles
- 2017 North Korea conducts its sixth and largest ever nuclear test, saying it had successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen bomb
Sports History
2017 Stacy Lewis wins the Cambia Portland Classic and donates her winnings to Hurricane Harvey relief
- 2018 2018 heatwave made summer hottest ever in England, joint hottest for UK according to UK Meteorological Office
- 2018 Argentine President Mauricio Macri announces new austerity measures, including closing half of all government ministries, in televised address
- 2018 First public caning and conviction of lesbian couple attempting to have sex, by Sharia High Court in Terengganu state, Malaysia
Event of Interest
2019 British PM Boris Johnson loses significant vote in parliament as MPs gain control of the timetable, orders whip withdrawn from 21 rebel Tory MPs
- 2019 Hurricane Dorian finally moves off Grand Bahama after stalling for more than a day bringing catastrophic devastation, killing at least 50 with over 2,000 people missing
Event of Interest
2019 Unknown text by John Locke “Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others” (1667-68), an argument for religious toleration announced discovered at St John’s College, Annapolis
- 2019 Walmart says it will stop selling handguns and some ammunition and ask customers not to openly carry firearms in response to El Paso shootings
COVID-19 Pandemic
2020 Actor Robert Pattinson tests positive for COVID-19, shutting down production of the Batman film he is shooting
Event of Interest
2020 MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist and ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, becomes world's richest woman worth $68 billion
- 2020 More healthcare workers have died of COVID-19 in Mexico than any other country - 1320 deaths vs 1077 (US) and 649 (UK) according to Amnesty International [1]
- 2020 Philadelphia Phillies retire infielder Dick Allen's number 15 on the 57th anniversary of his MLB debut.
10th Straight F1 Victory
2023 Dutch world champion Max Verstappen scores his record 10th straight F1 victory of the season in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza; beats Red Bull teammate Sergio Pérez by 6.064s
- 2023 Typhoon Haikui makes landfall in eastern Taiwan, forcing the evacuation of 400,000 people [1]
