Historical Events in 2021

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Events 1 - 879


Jan 1
Cuba's "day zero" unifies its two currencies by withdrawing the Cuban convertible peso (CUC),
alongside steep increases in prices and salaries, effectively devaluing the remaining Cuban Peso
for the first time since 1959

Jan 1
African Continental Free Trade Area, signed by 54 countries comes into effect, largely symbolically
with full implementation expected to take years

Jan 3
Welshman Gerwyn Price wins his first PDC World Darts Championship; beats Gary Anderson of Scotland,
7-3 at the Alexandra Palace in London

Jan 3
US President Donald Trump says to Georgia's secretary of state Brad Raffensperger
"I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,”
in recording released by the Washington Post

Jan 4
1st Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines given to the general public with 82 year old
Brian Pinker in the UK first to be jabbed

Jan 4
South Korea, already the country with world's lowest birth rate, records more deaths than
births for the first time

Jan 4
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces new national lockdown for England following Scotland,
as COVID-19 variant spreads rapidly with hospitalizations now higher than the first wave

Jan 5
Six Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, sign an agreement to ease the blockage with Qatar,
in place since 2017

Jan 5
Daily new cases of COVID-19 top 60,000 in the UK as data reveals one in fifty in England had
COVID-19 within the last week

Jan 5 In Georgia Senate run-off elections Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Kelly Loeffler ®
and Jon Ossoff (D) defeats David Perdue ® to give Democrats control of the US Senate

Jan 5
86th Heisman Trophy Award: DeVonta Smith, Alabama (WR)

Jan 6 More than 50 pro-democracy activists rounded up and arrested in Hong Kong

Jan 6 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says country's five-year economic plan has
failed at opening of a rare meeting of the Workers' Party

Jan 6 Supporters of President Donald Trump storm US Capitol in Washington during
congressional certification of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's win, resulting in five deaths and
prompting evacuation of lawmakers and vice-president Mike Pence

Jan 7
US Congress completes the ceremonial certification of Joe Biden's presidential victory late in
the night after an earlier unprecedented breach of the Capitol by Trump supporters

Jan 7
Arizona is now the COVID-19 “hotspot of the world" according to local health officials with an
average of 118.3 new cases per 100,000 people

Jan 7
Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla, becomes the world's richest man, worth $186 billion,
overtaking Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

Jan 7
WHO warns Europe needs to do more to "flatten the steep vertical line" of COVID-19 cases
and control the spread of the new variant, with 230 million already living under lockdown

Jan 7
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg blocks President Donald Trump from Facebook and
Instagram till January 20, following suspension of his other social media accounts the previous day

Jan 8
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declares a state of emergency for Tokyo and surrounding areas
after COVID-19 cases surge to their highest level

Jan 8
Twitter bans US President Donald Trump permanently "due to the risk of further incitement of violence"

Jan 8
Storm Filomena hits Spain with 50cm (20 inches) of snow falling on Madrid, resulting in four deaths
and leaving thousands stranded

Jan 8
US Speaker Nancy Pelosi demands President Donald Trump's resignation or he will face impeachment,
while also calling for vice-president Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him

Jan 9
Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes in the Java Sea just after take off from Jakarta, Indonesia,
killing all 62 on board

Jan 9
China places two cities, Shijiazhuang and Xingtai, under lockdown after over 130 cases of
COVID-19 reported

Jan 10
America records more than 3,000 deaths a day for the first time reaching 3,249,
passing 375,000 deaths in total a day later

Jan 10
PGA of America pulls 2022 PGA Championship from Trump National GC at Bedminster, NJ,
days after supporters of President Donald Trump attacked the US Capitol

Jan 11
Ireland becomes the country with the world's highest COVID-19 infection rate after a dramatic
surge results in seven-day rolling average of 1,394 cases per million

Jan 11
US House Democrats introduce one article of impeachment against President Donald Trump
for "incitement of insurrection" for encouraging his supporters to riot at the Capitol

Jan 11
College Football, National Championship, Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens,
Florida: #1 Alabama beats #3 Ohio State, 52-24

Jan 11
The king of Malaysia, Al-Sultan Abdullah declares a state of emergency over COVID-19 till 1 August,
suspending parliament and giving the government new powers

Jan 12
India's Supreme Court puts on hold three controversial new farm laws that ignited weeks of protests
by farmers in Delhi

Jan 13
President Donald Trump is impeached by the US House of Representatives voting 232-197, for
“incitement of insurrection”, first time in history a US President is impeached twice

Jan 13
Deadliest air raid by Israel on Syria since 2018, when 10 soldiers and 47 allied fighters killed in
attacks on military positions [1]

Jan 13
Irish PM Minister Micheal Martin issues apology for treatment of unmarried mothers and babies in
church-run institutions 1920-1990s after report 9,000 children had died [1]

Jan 13
World's oldest known cave painting of an animal - a pig, 45,000 years old, discovered in
Leang Tedongnge cave, island of Sulawesi, Indonesia [1]

Jan 14
Uganda elections re-elect President Museveni (in power since 1986), with main opposition presidential
candidate Bobi Wine disputing the result

Jan 14
Pope Francis, 84, and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine

Jan 14
Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder charged and pleads not guilty to two counts of willful neglect of duty
over the Flint water scandal that killed 12 people

Jan 14
Brazilian governor of Amazonas state Wilson Lima says their COVID-19 surge is now as bad as April 2020,
with hospitals running out of oxygen and patients ventilated manually

Jan 14
US Secret Service takes control of Joe Biden's inauguration as 20,000 troops authorized to guard
Washington D.C., more than those stationed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Somalia

Jan 15
Global death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic passes 2 million (true total likely much higher)

Jan 15
Dutch government led by PM Mark Rutte resigns after falsely accusing thousands of families
of welfare fraud

Jan 15
6.2-magnitude earthquake on Indonesia's island of Sulawesi kills at least 42 with hundreds injured

Jan 16
India begin the vaccination of its 1.3 billion people for COVID-19

Jan 16
Armin Laschet is elected leader of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), to replace long-serving
leader Angela Merkel

Jan 16
10 Nepali climbers become the first to reach the summit of K2 in winter on the China-Pakistan border

Jan 17
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is arrested immediately on his return to Russia after recovering
from nerve-agent poisoning [1]

Jan 18
Brazil begins vaccinations for COVID-19 with the world's second-highest death toll at 209,000

Jan 19
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China is committing genocide in its repression of Uighurs and
other Muslim people

Jan 19
The US death toll from COVID-19 passes 400,000

Jan 20
Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America and Kamala Harris
as the 49th Vice President, the first female, black or south Asian Vice President.
Amanda Gorman recites "The Hill We Climb".

Jan 20
US President Joe Biden signs 15 executive orders on his first day in office to re-join the WHO,
the Paris Climate Agreement, revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline and mandating masks on federal properties

Jan 21
Avril Haines is sworn in as the first female US Director of National Intelligence by VP Kamala Harris

Jan 22
Lloyd Austin confirmed as defense secretary by the US Senate, and the first black head of the Pentagon

Jan 25
Janet Yellen is confirmed as the first female treasury secretary by the US Senate

Jan 26
Antony Blinken confirmed by US Senate as Secretary of State

Jan 28
Share trading app Robinhood, favored by Reddit, suspends trading of Gamestop amid huge surge in
share price of the previously short listed stock by Wall Street

Jan 28
Bernie Sanders mittens worn to the inauguration raise $1.8 million for Vermont charities after images go viral

Jan 28
Mexico's COVID-19 death toll becomes the world's third highest, overtaking India's at 155,145 [1]

Jan 29
Johnson & Johnson's Janssen single-dose vaccine shown to be 66% effective in trials, with complete
protection against hospitalization and death [1]

Jan 29
Novavax vaccine shows 89% efficacy in UK trials, including against UK variant [1]

Jan 29
"Proposal to Prevent the Feminisation of Male Adolescents" published by China's Education Ministry
asks schools to use sports to cultivate masculinity

Jan 31
Widespread protests in Russia against detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the government
with 5,000 people arrested

Feb 1
Military stage a coup in Myanmar, detaining civilian leaders including Aung San Suu Kyi and declare a
one-year state of emergency

Feb 1
Wildfires ignite on the outskirts of Perth, Australia, forcing evacuations amid five-day COVID-19 lockdown

Feb 1
Wisdom the albatross, the world's oldest known bird, hatches a chick at 70 at the Midway Atoll national
wildlife refuge, North Pacific [1]

Feb 2
Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine deemed 91.6% effective according to analysis published in "The Lancet" [1]

Feb 2
Pete Buttigieg is the first openly gay person to be confirmed to a US cabinet post as transportation secretary
Feb 2
Alejandro Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant to be confirmed as head of the
US Department of Homeland Security

Feb 2
Jeff Bezos announces he is stepping down as CEO of Amazon after 30 years, becoming executive chairman

Feb 2
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny jailed for three and a half years in jail over alleged parole violations in Moscow

Feb 3
US and Russia extend their New START nuclear arms control treaty for five years, the last remaining nuclear
arms deal between the two countries

Feb 3
US President Joe Biden signs executive orders to reunite immigrant families, setting up a new taskforce to
address around 1000 remaining separated families [1]

Feb 3
Engineers at MIT announce they have engineered spinach to send emails when detecting explosive materials
in groundwater as part of plant nanobionic research [1]

Feb 4
US President Joe Biden announces an end to US support for the Saudi-led offensive in Yemen's civil war

Feb 4
Denmark approves plans for world's first energy island in the North Sea to provide power to 3 million Europeans

Feb 4
International Criminal Court convicts Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen of
war crimes and crimes against humanity including forced pregnancy in legal first [1]

Feb 4
First successful face and double hand transplant announced performed on 22 year-old Joe DiMeo in New York

Feb 5
Ocean life is being drowned out by human noise, especially shipping, construction, sonar and seismic surveys
according to new research

Feb 7
Super Bowl LV, Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers dominate defending champion
Kansas City Chiefs, 31-9; MVP: Tom Brady, TB Bucs, QB; Brady's record 7th SB win

Feb 7
Himalayan glacier crashes into the Dhauliganga river, destroying a dam and causing a huge flood in
Uttarakhand province, India, killing 26, leaving 150 missing

Feb 7
Sarah Thomas becomes the first woman to referee a Super Bowl in Tampa Bay, Florida

Feb 8
South Africa halts rollout of Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after research into the South African variant showed no protection against mild and moderate illness

Feb 8
Martial law declared in Mandalay, Myanmar, amid continuing protests against the country's military coup

Feb 9
WHO team investigating origin of COVID-19 in Wuhan say it is "extremely unlikely"
that it leaked from a local research lab [1]

Feb 9
US Senate Impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump begins in Washington D.C.

Feb 9
United Arab Emirates is the fifth entity to successfully orbit a probe around Mars, as probe Hope
begins to study the planet's atmosphere.

Feb 10
17,000 year old couch shell discovered to be oldest known wind instrument, after being reassessed
by archaeologists, originally found in Marsoulas cave, Pyrenees [1]

Feb 10
Astronomers confirm the planetoid named Farfarout as the most distant orbiting the Sun, almost four
times more distant than Pluto [1]

Feb 11
World's second oldest person French nun Sister André' celebrates her 117th birthday after surviving
COVID-19 in Toulon

Feb 11
US President Joe Biden rescinds the national emergency order used by Donald Trump to fund the border
wall with Mexico

Feb 11
California's COVID-19 death toll overtakes New York's, reaching 45,496 amid first sign of falling
infection numbers (Johns Hopkins)

Feb 11
UK Kent COVID-19 strain set "to sweep the world" and become the dominant strain globally according to
UK scientist Sharon Peacock after strain detected in over 50 countries (later named Alpha)

Feb 12
Tokyo Olympics Chief Yoshiro Mori resigns after his comments that talkative women made meetings
“drag on too long”

Feb 13
Former US President Donald Trump acquitted in second Senate impeachment trial on charge of incitement
of insurrection after senators vote 57 to 43 in favor of conviction, less than the two thirds majority
required for impeachment

Feb 13
Archaeologists announce discovery of oldest known beer factory in Abydos, Egypt, from early
Dynastic period 3150 B.C.- 2613 B.C

Feb 13
Mario Draghi, former head of the European Central Bank, is sworn in as Italian Prime Minister ahead
of a new coalition government

Feb 14
Guinea declares an Ebola epidemic after three deaths, its first deaths since 2016

Feb 14
63rd Daytona 500: Michael McDowell navigates through fiery, final-lap pileup to claim his first
career NASCAR Cup Series win in his 14th season; race delayed by rain for 6 hours after huge Lap 14 crash

Feb 14
At least 60 people killed and hundreds missing after a boat capsizes on the Congo River carrying
700 people in western Democratic Republic of the Congo

Feb 15
Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala becomes the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization

Feb 15
Major winter storm in the US stretches from Texas to Maine, over 3 million without power in Texas,
goes on to kill 210 people

Feb 15
UK is the first European country to require travellers from COVID 'hotspots' to isolate in quarantine hotels,
following other countries such as Australia, NZ and Singapore

Feb 16
US Winter storm continues with Dallas recording its lowest temperature in 70 years minus-2 degrees Fahrenheit

Feb 16
Athens and parts of Greece covered in unusual heavy snowfall

Feb 17
South Africa, Africa's worst-affected country begins COVID-19 vaccinations with the one-shot
Johnson & Johnson vaccine in Cape Town

Feb 17
Texan senator Ted Cruz flies to Cancun, Mexico with his family amid a winter disaster in his state,
igniting widespread condemnation

Feb 18
Facebook blocks users in Australia from accessing news sites in response to proposed new laws
for tech companies to pay to show news content

Feb 18
Nearly seven million people required to boil their water in Texas as unusually harsh winter storm
in the state continues

Feb 18
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully lands at Jezero Crater, Mars, on mission to find microfossils

Feb 20
Australian Open Women's Tennis: Naomi Osaka of Japan wins her 4th major and second Australian title;
beats American Jennifer Brady 6-4, 6-3

Feb 20
Bloodiest day of protests in Myanmar since its coup after security forces open fire, killing two people
with 40 wounded in Mandalay

Feb 20
US President Joe Biden declares a major disaster in Texas as state struggles to cope with aftermath
of a crippling winter storm

Feb 21
Australian Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković of Serbia wins a record extending 9th Australian title;
dominates Russian Daniil Medvedev 7-5, 6-2, 6-2

Feb 21
Englishwoman Jasmine Harrison (21) becomes the youngest woman to row across an ocean arriving in
Antigua as part of the Atlantic Challenge after 70 days, 3 hours, 48 minutes

Feb 21
First democratic transfer of power in Niger, the world's poorest country, as former interior minister
Mohamed Bazoum wins Presidential election

Feb 21
WHO pleads with Tanzania to start reporting COVID-19 cases amid fears of a hidden epidemic in the country

Feb 21
India's BJP party issues resolution country had "defeated COVID under the able, sensitive, committed
and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi”, massive second wave hits two months later

Feb 22
US death toll from COVID-19 passes 500,000, higher than US deaths in World War I, World War II,
and the Vietnam War combined

Feb 22
Influential French dance duo Daft Punk announce their split after 28 years

Feb 22
US President Joe Biden and vice-president Kamala Harris hold a candle-lighting ceremony to mark
the 500,000 COVID-19 deaths outside the White House "We must not grow numb to the sorrow"

Feb 22
Wife of drug cartel boss "El Chapo" Emma Coronel Aispuro arrested in the US on drug trafficking charges
and conspiring to free her husband from prison

Feb 23
Discovery of oldest Australian rock art, a 17,300-year-old painting of a kangaroo in Kimberley region,
Western Australia, published in "Nature Human Behaviour"

Feb 23
Covid-19 antibodies survey in Nigeria suggests 4 million people have had the virus in Lagos state alone,
more than officially recorded for whole of Africa

Feb 23
Tiger Woods crashes his car driving south of Los Angeles, injuring both his legs

Feb 24
United Nations-backed COVAX initiative begins delivering vaccines to middle and low income countries
with first AstraZeneca shipment to Ghana

Feb 25
Chinese President Xi Jinping claims the country has eradicated extreme poverty (earning less than US$620 a year),
though many observers remain skeptical about the accuracy of Chinese data due to widespread corruption
and lack of transparency

Feb 25
More than 200 prisoners escape and 25 people are killed at Croix-des-Bouquets prison near Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Feb 26
Amnesty International Report says that Eritrean troops might have committed crimes against humanity,
killing hundreds of civilians, in attack on Ethiopian city of Aksum 28-29 November [1]

Feb 26
Toymaker Hasbro announces that the Mr Potato Head brand name will be changed to be gender-neutral

Feb 27
US authorizes its third COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, a one-shot vaccine

Feb 28
Myanmar security forces open fire on protests around the country, killing at least 18,
in bloodiest day since the military coup

Feb 28
Hong Kong charges 47 with "conspiracy to commit subversion" in harshest implementation of its
new security laws imposed by China

Feb 28
78th Golden Globes: Best film "Nomadland" (drama), "Borat" (comedy), Best TV series "The Crown",
Chadwick Boseman posthumously wins film Best Actor


Mar 1
Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy is sentenced to three years for trying to bribe a judge

Mar 2
Six books by Dr. Seuss will cease publication because of racist and insensitive imagery according
to Dr. Seuss Enterprises

Mar 2
Governors of Texas and Mississippi both announce they are lifting mask mandates and COVID-19 health
measures despite CDC warnings of complacency

Mar 2
Dolly Parton receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine she gave $1 million to help develop

Mar 3
Australian attorney general Christian Porter denies rape allegation involving 16-year-old girl in 1988

Mar 3
38 people shot and killed by security forces in anti-coup protests in Myanmar

Mar 3
US President Joe Biden criticizes lifting of COVID-19 restrictions by Texas and Mississippi
as "Neanderthal thinking"

Mar 3
Great apes at San Diego Zoo reported given experimental COVID-19 vaccine designed
for animals after earlier outbreak among the gorillas (San Diego, California)

Mar 3
Sarah Everard is kidnapped, rapped and murdered by a UK policeman after
being arrested under false pretenses in London

Mar 6
US Senate passes $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill the American Rescue Plan

Mar 6
On his first visit to Iraq, Pope Francis meets with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
in the Shiite cleric's home in Najaf

Mar 6
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama is vaccinated against COVID-19 in Dharamsala , India
and urges others to do so

Mar 7 Oprah Winfrey interview with Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex
broadcast on CBS, alleges Meaghan was made suicidal and subject to racist treatment by the palace

Mar 7
NY Governor Chris Cuomo says "no way I resign' amid accusations of sexual assault and his office
concealing nursing home deaths

Mar 7
NBA All Star Game, State Farm Arena, Atlanta, GA: Team LeBron beats Team Durant, 170-150;
MVP: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks F

Mar 8
Explosions at a military base in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, likely from faulty storage of dynamite,
kills at least 98 and injures over 400

Mar 8
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says COVID-9 pandemic has had an "extremely unfair" effect on
income and economic opportunities for women

Mar 9
UK TV host Piers Morgan leaves ITV's "Good Morning" after 41,000 complaints made about him saying
he did not believe Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's statement about her mental health

Mar 9
Brazil records its highest daily COVID-19 death toll to date of 1,972 deaths with 168,370 deaths overall

Mar 9
Queen Elizabeth II publicly expresses "concern" after Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex interview,
saying allegations including of racism with be dealt with privately

Mar 9
China and Russia agree to build a research station on or around the Moon and collaborate on lunar missions,
in move that could start another space race

Mar 10
Merrick Garland confirmed as US Attorney General by US Senate

Mar 10
Video gaming platform Roblox goes public on the New York stock exchange,
valued at $45 billion

Mar 11
British Prince William says the royal family is “very much not a racist family” in first public comments
since interview by brother Harry and wife Meghan

Mar 11
Digital art work "Everydays: The First 5,000 Days" a digital college by Beeple, with a non-fungible token,
sells for record $69.3 million in online auction by Christie's

Mar 12
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi imposes new COVID restrictions warning of a new wave as cases
again exceed 25,000 a day

Mar 12
Researchers say world has likely reached 'peak twin' with more twin births than ever before - 1.6 million
twins born per year (1 in 42)

Mar 14
Myanmar opposition leader Mahn Win Khaing Than calls for a revolution "This is the darkest moment of the
nation and the moment that the dawn is close," as protester death toll over 120

Mar 14
UK police officer charged with the death of Sarah Everard, who disappeared walking home in south London,
and whose death sparked debate about violence against women

Mar 14
63rd Grammy Awards: Beyoncé breaks record for most Grammys won by a singer (28),
Taylor Swift win Album of the Year and Billie Eilish Record of the Year

Mar 14
PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: American Justin Thomas edges Lee Westwood of England
by 1 stroke; Thomas wins $2.7m winner's share of the $15m purse

Mar 15
Mass March 4 Justice rallies held across Australia to protest against violence
and discrimination towards women

Mar 15
Largest sandstorm in northern China in a decade engulfs Beijing turning air pollution levels hazardous

Mar 15
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine halted in Germany, France and Italy joining some other countries
despite little evidence of unusual blood clotting

Mar 15
Vatican issues judgement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions,
that God “does not and cannot bless sin”

Mar 15
Deb Haaland confirmed as US Secretary of the Interior by the Senate, 1st Native American to
lead a cabinet agency

Mar 15
Armed attackers kill at least 58 people in the Tillabery region, southwest Niger, government
declares three days of mourning

Mar 16
French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal win the Pritzker Prize for architecture

Mar 16
Israeli researchers reveal re-discovery of 2,000 year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, 1st found in 60 years,
left by Jews fleeing Romans in "Horror Cave", Israel

Mar 16
Declassified US intelligence report says Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized efforts to
aid re-election of Donald Trump

Mar 16
Gunman shots and kills eight people at three different spas in Atlanta, Georgia
Mar 17
America's Cup, Auckland: Emirates Team New Zealand beats Italian yacht Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli
by 46s in race 10 for a 7-3 series victory and retain the cup

Mar 18
US House Judiciary Committee hearing begins on rise of violence and discrimination against
Asian-Americans with report saying 3,800 hate incidents recorded over 12 months

Mar 18
US Senate confirms William Joseph Burns as new CIA Director

Mar 18
US President Joe Biden agrees Russian President Vladimir Putin is a "killer" in ABC News interview.
Putin responds "It takes one to know one" a day later.

Mar 19
Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall erupts for the first time in 800 years and after more than
50,000 earthquakes

Mar 20
Overseas spectators will not be allowed to attend the Tokyo Summer Olympics due to the
pandemic Japanese organizers confirm

Mar 20
Severe one-in-a-hundred-year flooding in Sydney and the surrounding state of New South Wales
prompts evacuation orders

Mar 21
Miami Beach imposes a state of emergency and a curfew as large crowds descend on the
area for spring break

Mar 21
10 people shot dead at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, by 21 year-old gunman

Mar 21
45 crushed to death in a crowd paying respects to the late President John Magufuli at a
stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Mar 22
Sanctions imposed on Chinese officials over rights abuses against Uighurs in China
by EU, UK, US and Canada

Mar 22
Evanston, Illinois, votes to become first US city to pay reparations to Black residents
for past discriminations and effects of slavery, giving $400,000 to each household

Mar 22
World's largest painting "The Journey of Humanity" by British artist Sacha Jafri sells in Dubai
for $62m to raise funds for children's charities

Mar 23
First ever tweet by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey "just setting up my twttr" sells for $2.9 million in
digitally autographed version

Mar 23
Cargo ship Ever Given gets stuck in the Suez Canal, Egypt, a 400m megaship it completely
blocks the shipping canal

Mar 23
Brazil's daily COVID-19 death toll passes 3,000 (3,251) for the first time (298,676 total deaths reported)
as country's Supreme Court blocks President Jair Bolsonaro overturning local restrictions

Mar 25
Renaissance masterpiece The Ghent Altarpiece (1432) by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck goes on display,
after seven-year restoration, in St Bravo's Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium

Mar 25
US President Joe Biden announces a new goal of 200 million vaccinations in his administration's
first 100 days (previously 100 million)

Mar 25
Republican-led Georgia Senate passes restrictive changes to state voting. President Joe Biden calls it
"Jim Crow in the 21st Century" and "a blatant attack on the Constitution".

Mar 26
Scotland beats France 27-23 at Saint-Denis to confirm Wales' 28th Six-Nations Rugby Championship title;
Welsh also claim Triple Crown

Mar 27
114 people including children killed in one day by armed forces in Myanmar, with more than 420 killed
since protests began against the military coup

Mar 27
Iran and China sign major agreement guaranteeing Chinese investment of $400 billion and
Iranian oil supply in return in Tehran

Mar 27
Militants attack the town of Palma, northern Mozambique, killing dozens in an
escalation of violence in the area

Mar 28
Mexico revises its COVID-19 death toll up by 60% to more than 321,000 giving it the
second highest COVID death toll in the world

Mar 29
Megaship Ever Given freed after nearly a week stuck in and blocking the Suez Canal, with at least
369 vessels waiting to pass though

Mar 29
Trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd begins in Minneapolis

Mar 31
US President Joe Biden overturns Trump's restrictions on transgender people serving in the armed forces

Mar 31
New York state legalizes recreational use of marijuana in legislation signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo
(sales not legal for 18 months)

Mar 31
Paul Simon sells his entire songwriting catalog of over 400 songs to Sony Music Publishing
for an undisclosed sum

Mar 31
Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman win computing's Turing Award for their work inventing
computer program compilers

Mar 31
US President Joe Biden unveils " the American Jobs Plan" one of the largest infrastructure
plans in US history- worth $2 trillion

Mar 31
French President Emanuel Macon announces a new lockdown, closing schools for three weeks
with new national restrictions














April coming up

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Apr 1
Seven democracy protesters convicted for unauthorized assembly in Hong Kong
including Martin Lee and Jimmy Lai

Apr 2
New study suggests the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago created
South America's tropical rainforests

Apr 4
ANA Inspiration Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Patty Tavatanakit of Thailand wins
her first LPGA Tour event by 2 strokes
from NZ's Lydia Ko who cards a 10-under-par final round

Apr 4
39th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford Cardinal defeat Arizona Wildcats,
54–53 to win their third NCAA title

Apr 5
India records over 100,000 new daily COVID cases for the first time, more than half
in the state of Maharashtra,
which begins a new lockdown

Apr 5
Tropical Cyclone Seroja causes floods and landslides in southeast Indonesia and East Timor,
killing at least 113 people according to local authorities

Apr 5
Italy scraps its 1914 film censorship law that could ban films on moral and religious grounds

Apr 5
82nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Baylor Bears become second consecutive first-time
NCAA champions with 86–70 over previously undefeated Gonzaga Bulldogs

Apr 6
Jeff Bezos, worth $177 billion, tops Forbes Billionaires list of 2,755 people,
including new entry Kim Kardashian

Apr 7 
Recording-breaking price of $3.25 million for a comic book as Action Comics #1,
that introduced Superman for the first time, sells at auction

Apr 7 
UK COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 (Alpha) now the dominant variant in the US according to the CDC,
as 108 American have received at least one vaccine dose

Apr 8 
US President Joe Biden says "Gun violence in this country is an epidemic" as he unveils
package of executive actions including restrictions on "ghost guns"

Apr 8
Dr. Anthony Fauci thanks American health workers for their sacrifice during the pandemic,
acknowledging their more than 3,600 deaths

Apr 8 
Seventh night of unrest in Belfast, Northern Ireland even after joint call for calm by UK PM and Irish Premier

Apr 8 
Egyptian archaeologists announce their most important find since Tutankhamun's tomb -
discovery of a lost 'golden city'
the 3,000-years-old ancient city of Aten near Luxor

Apr 9 
Uganda opposition party National Unity Platform Party, headed by Bobi Wine,
claims 623 people have been abducted and
tortured by the government of President Yoweri Museveni

Apr 9
La Soufrière volcano begins erupting on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent with a plume of ash
20,000 feet into the sky

Apr 9
San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove no-hits the Texas Rangers, 3-0 at Globe Life Field, Arlington, TX

Apr 10
China orders Alibaba pay a record fine of 18.2 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) after anti-trust regulations say it has
been acting as a monopoly

Apr 11
74th BAFTAS held virtually; Nomadland" best film, Chloé Zhao best director, Frances McDormand,
Anthony Hopkins best acting awards

Apr 11
85th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Hideki Matsuyama become first
Japanese male to win a golf major;
hangs on to beat American Will Zalatoris by 1 stroke

Apr 11
Tropical cyclone Seroja makes landfall in Western Australia near the town of Kalbarri
with winds up to 170km/h (105mph)

Apr 11
20-year-old Daunte Wright shot and killed at a traffic stop by police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota,
who says they mistook their gun for a taser

Apr 11
Peruvian general election: Free Peru party wins most seats but not a majority,
Pedro Castillo wins presidency
(not declared till 19 July)

Apr 12
Great Britain loosens its COVID-19 restrictions, opening pubs and shops after 175 days,
the world's longest period of restrictions

Apr 12
Worst frost conditions in half a century will affect 80% of French vineyards according to industry officials

Apr 13
US, South Africa and the EU authorities temporarily stop administrating Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines
after six women developed blood clots (out of 6.8 million)

Apr 13
Voice actor Hank Azaria who is white apologizes for voicing Indian character Apu on "The Simpsons" for 30 years

Apr 14
Human cells grown in monkey cells for 20 days reported by US-Chinese team at the Salk Institute in "Cell"

Apr 14
US President Biden says "It's time to end America's longest war" confirming his decision to withdraw all US troops
from Afghanistan by Sept 11

Apr 14
Coinbase becomes the first major cryptocurrency company to trade shares on the New York stock exchange

Apr 14
Former Minnesota police officer who shot Daunte Wright with a gun instead of a taser is arrested and charged
with second-degree manslaughter

Apr 14
Chicago White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodón no-hits the Cleveland Indians, 8-0 at Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago

Apr 15
"the failed response in Brazil has caused a humanitarian catastrophe" reports Dr. Christos Christou, president of
Doctors Without Borders, as country records a quarter of world's COVID-19 deaths in last week

Apr 15
India record over 200,000 (200,739) daily new cases of COVID-19 for the first time with
1,038 deaths amid massive second wave

Apr 15
Ivory Coast court in Abidjanv sentences former warlord Amadé Ouérémi to a life sentence for
massacres by his militia after the 2010 election

Apr 15
A shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, leaves eight dead and five injured

Apr 16
Raúl Castro confirms he is resigning as Cuban Communist Party leader, ending his
family's six decade leadership of Cuba

Apr 17
San Jose Sharks forward Patrick Marleau ties Gordie Howe's NHL record for most
regular season games played at 1,767

Apr 17
Global COVID-19 death toll passes three million (Johns Hopkins University figures)

Apr 17
Canada registers more new daily COVID-19 cases than the US for the first time as
infections surge in Ontario

Apr 17 
Funeral of Prince Philip, consort to Queen Elizabeth II, held under COVID-19 restrictions
at Windsor Palace, England

Apr 18
12-team European Super League is announced to widespread condemnation amongst
governments, non-involved clubs,
press and fans; amidst the furore all 6 EPL clubs withdraw within 3 days

Apr 19
New Zealand and Australia open a travel bubble between the two countries after more than
a year of border closures

Apr 19
NASA successfully flies its drone helicopter Ingenuity on Mars, first powered aircraft to fly
on another world

Apr 19
In Las Vegas, Nevada: San Jose Sharks forward Patrick Marleau breaks Gordie Howe's
NHL record for most games played,
now at 1,768 and counting

Apr 19
Cuba's Communist party announces Miguel Díaz-Canel will replace Raúl Castro as party
leader, after the latter steps down

Apr 20
All six EPL clubs withdraw from the controversial European Super League just 3 days after it was announced -
Chelsea, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham

Apr 20
Former police officer Derek Chauvin convicted of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis,
in a case that prompted huge nationwide racial justice protests

Apr 20
President of Chad for three decades, Idriss Déby reported to have been killed on a battlefield fighting rebels
near the capital of Ndjamena

Apr 20
Record number of new COVID-19 cases reported (5.24 million) in one week around the world according to WHO,
with a third in India

Apr 21
Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the West not to cross a "red line" in his state of the union address,
amid massing of 100,000 Russian troops on Ukraine border

Apr 21 
Manhattan district attorney's office announces it will no longer prosecute prostitution, dismissing 914 open cases,
part of growing movement to change approach to prostitution

Apr 21 
Indonesian submarine RI Nanggala sinks off the coast of Bali with the loss of all 53 people on board

Apr 22 
India sets a world record for daily COVID-19 cases recording 314,835 new cases with 2,104 deaths
Apr 22
US President Joe Biden pledges to cut US carbon emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030 at a
virtual climate summit

Apr 24
At least 82 COVID-19 patients die in a fire at Ibn Khatib hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, with 100 more injured

Apr 24
Joe Biden becomes the first US President to officially recognize killing of Armenians in the Ottoman
empire during WWII as 'genocide'

Apr 25
93rd Academy Awards: "Nomadland" wins best film, director (Chloé Zhao), and lead actress (Frances McDormand);
Anthony Hopkins best actor

Apr 26
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announces Turkey will go into full lockdown till May 17 to a curb COVID-19 surge
and world's 4th highest caseload

Apr 26
The US, the EU and other countries announce they are sending pandemic aid to India as it's
COVID-19 crisis continues to worsen

Apr 26
Kanye West's Nike Air Yeezy 1 Prototype trainers sell for a record $1.8 million in a private sale at Sotheby's

Apr 26
US Census results shows its population growth second slowest in recorded history, population at 331,449,281
with only 7.4% increase on 2010

Apr 27
Brazil's Senate orders an official inquiry into President Jair Bolsonaro' and government official's handling
of the COVID-19 pandemic

Apr 27
Pfizer announces it is working on a new antiviral therapy to treat COVID-19 at its onset and prevent hospitalization

Apr 28
NASA's Parker Solar Probe becomes the first spacecraft to cross the Alfvén critical boundary,
the outer atmosphere of the Sun

Apr 28
US President Joe Biden makes a major speech to a joint session of Congress calling for a
new era of government spending

Apr 29
Brazil's official COVID-19 death toll passes 400,000, with daily fatalities at 3,000, down from 4,000

Apr 29
World's longest pedestrian bridge at 516 metres (1,700 feet) opens inside northern Portugal's Arouca Geopark

Apr 30
Australia announces a ban on citizens returning from India, stranding 8,000 people,
and making it a criminal offence to return,
amid India's COVID-19 crisis - first democratic country to do so

Apr 30
45 killed and 150 injured in a crush of people at the Israeli Lag B'Omer festival at Mount Meron


May 1
India is the first country to record more than 400,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day (401,993)

May 1
147th Kentucky Derby: Medina Spirit gives jockey John Velazquez his fourth Derby win and trainer Bob Baffert a
record seventh victory in the race

May 3
US Environmental Protection Agency takes first significant step against climate change by announcing new limits on
hydrofluorocarbons (-85% over 15 years)

May 3
German police announce operation and arrests into 'Boystown' world's largest child abuse image
website with 400,000 members worldwide

May 3
Former U.S. Senator and astronaut Bill Nelson, becomes Administrator of NASA

May 3
DR Congo announces the end of the latest Ebola outbreak after three months with a death toll of six

May 3
Subway overpass carrying a train collapses in Mexico City killing at least 24 people

May 4
US President Joe Biden announces new goal of 160 million people, nearly of 70% of adults, vaccinated by July 4

May 4
Following several positive Covid-19 cases across franchises the BCCI announces the indefinite
postponement of the Indian Premier
League cricket tournament

May 4
Malian woman Halima Cisse gives birth to nonuplets (nine babies) in Morocco, in only third known case worldwide

May 4
Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador makes an historic apology to the Mayan people for abuses against them in the
five centuries since the Spanish conquest

May 5
Canada is the first country to authorize the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 12-15 year olds

May 5
Evidence of Africa's earliest burial, a three-year-old boy, 78,000 years ago, in a cave in Kenya published

May 5
Donald Trump's ban from Facebook upheld by the company's Oversight Board for a further six months

May 5 
A week of mass protests and demonstrations against government tax reform and poverty in Colombia leaves 24 dead

May 5 
US President Joe Biden announces the US will support temporarily lifting patent protection on
COVID-19 vaccines with the WHO

May 5 
The possible eviction of Palestinian families from a Jerusalem neighborhood begins days of unrest in the city,
injuring hundreds

May 5 
Baltimore Orioles pitcher John Means no-hits Seattle Mariners, 6-0 at T-Mobile Park, Seattle

May 6 
Armed police raid on drug traffickers kills 25 in cities deadliest ever, in a favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

May 7
Philadelphia Museum of Art unveils major interior renovation and expansion designed by
American architect Frank Gehry

May 7 
The World Health Organization approves the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine Sinopharm, its first made
by a non-western country

May 7 
Ransomware attack on US Colonial pipeline by the DarkSide criminal group stops supply to half of east coast

May 7 
Former police officer and suspected serial killer Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chávez arrested in Chalchuapa, El Salvador,
after a mass grave of 15-40 bodies found at his house

May 7 
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Wade Miley no-hits Cleveland Indians, 3-0 at Progressive Field, Cleveland

May 8 
Bombings outside a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, kill at least 50 people, mostly teenage girls,
amid growing fears about US military withdrawal

May 8 
Tesla chief executive Tesla Elon Musk hosts "Saturday Night Live" in the US

May 8
Indian Medical Association calls for a national lockdown, criticizing President Modi's government's response as
recorded COVID-19 deaths pass 4,000 a day

May 10
Violence escalates between Palestinians and Israelis after Israeli officers enter Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem,
rockets then fired from Gaza and airstrikes from Israel kill at least 31

May 10
US F.D.A. authorizes the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 12-to-15-year-olds

May 10
World Health Organization classifies the Indian COVID-19 variant B.1.617 as a variant of global concern

May 10
Chinese safari park in Fuyang forced to apologize for not informing the public that three leopards had escaped April 19
and been roaming nearby neighborhoods

May 10
Kazungula road and rail bridge 1km long opens over the Zambezi River linking Botswana and Zambia,
with a curve so it doesn't encroach on Zimbabwe (Robert Mugabe opposed it)

May 10
NBC says it will not televise the 2022 Golden Globes because of criticism of its lack of diversity

May 11
China census figures show country's population 1.41 billion people, growth at its slowest since 1960s,
(+0.53 down from +0.57)

May 11
Northern Ireland inquest into 1971 Ballymurphy killing of ten people finds people were innocent and
killed (nine by soldiers) using unjustified force

May 11
First major US offshore windfarm off the coast of Massachusetts approved by Biden administration

May 12
US Republicans vote to demote their No.3 Liz Cheney from party leadership after she publicly
rebuked Donald Trump for lies about the election

May 13
Gaza conflict has killed 103 people in Palestine, including 27 children, through Israeli airstrikes,
more than 1000 rockets fired into Israel by Gaza militants killing seven, city of Lod center of street fighting

May 13
American CDC says people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can stop wearing masks

May 15
China lands its Zhurong rover on Utopia Planitia, Mars, for the first time as part of the Tianwen-1 mission

May 16
Taiwan imposes tough restrictions against COVID-19 as a recent spike in cases threatens
their up-to-now pandemic success

May 16
Death toll passes 200 from Gaza conflict as 42 people killed in Israeli airstrikes and three building flattened

May 17
Cyclone Tauktae makes landfall in the Indian state of Gujarat with wind speeds of up to 160km/h (100mph)

May 17
Long working hours killed 745,000 people a year, in 2016, in the first study of its kind by the World Health Organization

May 18
India records the highest recorded daily COVID-19 death toll to date in the world with 4,529 deaths

May 18
Detroit Tigers pitcher Spencer Turnbull no-hits Seattle Mariners, 5-0 at Comerica Park, Detroit

May 19
New York City begins re-opening after 423 days (March 2020) with the COVID-19 death toll at 33,000

May 19
The EU agrees to open its borders to vaccinated travelers from safe countries

May 19
World's largest iceberg 'A-76' at 1,667-square-miles (4,320 square km) calves off the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica

May 19
Israel and Hamas agree to a bilateral ceasefire in Gaza after nearly two weeks of fighting,
amid international diplomatic efforts

May 19
BBC investigation finds their 1995 Princess Dianna interview was secured through 'deceitful behavior'
by journalist Martin Bashir

May 19
Argentine President Alberto Fernandez announces a 'circuit-breaker lockdown' as the country
records over 39,000 daily COVID-19 cases

May 19
New York Yankees pitcher Cory Kluber no-hits Texas Rangers, 2-0 at Globe Life Field, Arlington, Texas

May 20
One of Sri Lanka's worst ecological disasters as cargo ship MS X-Press Pearl, carrying toxic chemicals,
catches fire off the country's coast
and begins spilling debris

May 22
Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sending rivers of lava towards the nearby city of Goma,
prompting evacuations

May 22
Eurovision Song Contest won by Italian metal band Maneskin with 524 points in Rotterdam

May 22 
30 year old Scottish light-welterweight boxer Josh Taylor becomes Britain's first undisputed world champion in the
four-belt era by beating Jose Ramirez by unanimous decision in Las Vegas

May 22
21 runners die in freezing conditions during an ultramarathon in Yellow River Stone Forest Park, Gansu Province, China

May 23
PGA Championship Men's Golf, Ocean Course Kiawah Island: Phil Mickelson becomes oldest major winner in history (50);
wins his 6th major by 2 strokes over Brooks Koepka and Louis Oosthuizen

May 23
Belarus accused of “state-sponsored hijacking" after diverting commercial Ryanair flight to Minsk to arrest
dissident journalist Roman Protasevich

May 24
India's official COVID-19 death toll passes 300,000 (303,720), the third country to do so,
with experts saying it is a vast undercount

May 24
Constitutional crisis deepens in Samoa after Speaker of the House shuts out Fiame Naomi Mata’afa
from being sworn in as
the country's first woman leader in 56 years

May 24
Deposed Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears in court against charges laid by the military government

May 25
New research show impact of 'climate racism' in the US, with black people facing double (+3.12C)
the amount of heat stress in urban areas

May 25
US CDC says half of all US adults are now fully vaccinated, with 61% having had their first shot

May 25
Coup in Mali as military Colonel Assimi Goïta ousts country's civilian President Bah Ndaw and
Prime Minister Moctar Ouane arresting and detaining them

May 26
Amazon says it will buy 97-year-old film and television studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $8.45 billion

May 26
President Joe Biden orders US intelligence services to intensify their efforts to investigate the origins of COVID-19

May 26
Former advisor Dominic Cummings gives a damming report to MPs into UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and
his government's handling of the COVID-19 crisis

May 26
In landmark case oil giant Royal Dutch Shell ordered by a Hague court to cut its global carbon emissions by 45% by 2030

May 26
A super "blood" moon, the first total lunar eclipse for two years, visible across the Pacific

May 26
Nine people shot and killed by their colleague, a public transit employee in San Jose, California

May 26
Russia reports it has started vaccinating domestic animals against COVID-19, using the Karnivak-Kov vaccine

May 26
Ferry sinks carrying about 150 people in Nigeria between Niger state and Kebbi state, with only 20 people rescued

May 27
French President Emmanuel Macron makes statement recognizing France's role in 1994 genocide meeting with
Rwanda President Paul Kagame in Kigali, Rwanda

May 27
"Friends" reunion screens, 17 years after the TV sitcom series ended

May 27
US President Joe Biden calls for a ceasefire in the Tigray conflict, north Ethiopia, citing killings and
"widespread sexual violence" as a weapon of war

May 27
English playwright William Shakespeare reported to have died after receiving COVID-19 vaccine by Argentine
news channel Chanal 26 (case of mistaken identity, the Bard died in 1616)

May 28
Discovery of a mass grave with the remains of 215 children from Kamloops Indian Residential School
announced by First Nation in British Columbia, Canada

May 29
UEFA Champions League Final, Porto: Kai Havertz scores just before halftime to give Chelsea a 1-0 win
over Manchester City in an all-English final; Blues' second CL title

May 30
Tens of thousands of people march in Brazilian cities against President Jair Bolsonaro and his handling
of the COVID-19 pandemic

May 30
Indianapolis 500: Brazilian Hélio Castroneves wins his record 4th title in 2:37:19.3846; new record for fastest
running of the race with average speed 190.690 mph

May 31
China's ruling Communist Party announces it will allow married couples to have three children, in effort to boost falling birthrates

May 31
Peru says its COVID-19 death toll is three times higher than its official count (180,764 vs 68,000),
making it one of the hardest hit countries per capita

May 31
Tulsa, Oklahoma, marks 100 year anniversary of the massacre of hundreds of black residents
by a white mob in the Greenwood neighborhood

May 31
Naomi Osaka pulls out of the French Open citing her mental health, after refusing to appear at compulsory
post match press conferences




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Jun 1
Prehistoric carvings, between 4,000 and 5,000 years old depicting deer,
found in Scotland for the first time at Kilmartin Glen, Argyll

Jun 1
US President Joe Biden's administration suspends oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,
reversing Donald Trump's decision

Jun 1
Malaysia begins a full two-week lockdown as COVID-19 cases surge with record 9,020 news cases recorded May 29

Jun 1
US President Joe Biden visits Tulsa, Oklahoma, marking 100 year anniversary of racial massacre in the
Greenwood neighborhood

Jun 3
NASA launches 128 baby squid and 5,000 microscopic animals, to study effects of spaceflight, to the
International Space Station aboard Space X's Falcon 9 rocket

Jun 3
NASA administrator Bill Nelson announces two new missions to study ‘Lost Habitable’ world of Venus
in 2028 and 2030

Jun 3
Devon Conway becomes 7th batsman in cricket history to score a double century in his Test debut;
run out for 200 for New Zealand in 1st Test against England at Lord's

Jun 4
Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli makes a desperate plea for vaccines amid his country's devastating
COVID-19 second wave, reporting nearly 9,000 daily cases late May

Jun 5
At least 160 killed by suspected Islamist extremists in Solhan, Burkina Faso amid a deepening
security crisis in the region

Jun 5
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promises to save the country's shores from a build-up
of 'sea snot' (marine mucilage) due to pollution and climate change

Jun 5
153rd Belmont Stakes: 2-1 favourite Essential Quality wins with Luis Saez aboard

Jun 6
US Open Women's Golf, Olympic GC Lake Course: Yuka Saso of the Philippines sinks 10-foot birdie putt
on 3rd playoff hole to edge Japan's Nasa Hataoka; becomes 2nd teenager to win the event

Jun 6
Four members of a London, Ontario, family killed when they are struck by a truck in an anti-Muslim attack

Jun 7 
US Vice President Kamala Harris visiting Guatemala on her first foreign trip announces task forces on
corruption and human trafficking

Jun 7 
Multicellular organisms (bdelloid rotifer) frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia to return to life after
Russian scientists have them thawed

Jun 7 
Two passenger trains collide in Pakistan, killing at least 40 people in Sindh province

Jun 7 
UN International Labor Director says global impact of the pandemic four times worse than 2008 Economic Crisis,
pushed 100 million workers into poverty

Jun 7
Auckland named world's most livable city (due to success with COVID) and Damascus named the worst
by The Economist Intelligence Unit

Jun 8 
National Geographic announces it is officially recognizing the South Ocean as the world's fifth ocean

Jun 9
US President Joe Biden begins his first foreign trip, arriving in the UK to attend a G7 summit

Jun 9
Record price for a coin sold at auction as 1933 'Double Eagle' gold coin sells for $18.9 million in New York

Jun 9
One of the worst ever plagues of mice in New South Wales, Australia, prompts local government to
commit $100 million in support to farmers

Jun 9
55th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood with John Legend, Kane Brown, and Gabby Barrett win

Jun 10
UN says famine is affecting 350,000 people in Tigray, Ethiopia, the worst starvation calamity in the world right now

Jun 10
Zahid Quraish confirmed as America's first Muslim federal judge for the District of New Jersey by the US Senate

Jun 10
Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of drug lord El Chapo, pleads guilty to helping run his criminal operations and
aiding his 2015 prison escape

Jun 10
European Space Agency announces new Venus mission, the probe EnVision to study Venus' tesserae
(its continent-like terrains)

Jun 11
Pulitzer Prizes awarded to Katori Hall for drama, The New York Times for pandemic coverage and
special citation for Darnella Frazier for recording the murder of George Floyd

Jun 11
US lobsterman survives being swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts

Jun 12
French Open Women's Tennis: Czech doubles specialist Barbora Krejčíková wins her first major singles
title 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia

Jun 12
Danish star soccer midfielder Christian Eriksen suffers an on-field cardiac arrest during Euro 2020 game
with Finland in Copenhagen; revived with a defibrillator; game controversially restarts with 1-0 Finland win

Jun 13
Israel's Knesset votes in a new coalition government with Naftali Bennett as Prime Minister,
ousting Benjamin Netanyahu after a record 12 years

Jun 13
US President Joe Biden has tea with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle

Jun 13
G7 summits ends in Cornwall, England, with leaders promising one billion vaccine doses for poorer nations

Jun 13
French Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković wins his 19th Grand Slam singles title;
beats Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece 6-7, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4

Jun 14
Heatwave event begins across western US and Canadian states with Denver at 101 degrees and Helena 105 degrees

Jun 14
Cristiano Ronaldo removes sponsors coke bottles from his press table at the European Championships,
prompting the company share price to drop $4 billion

Jun 15
US death toll from COVID-19 tops 600,000 (Johns Hopkins), with 65% of adults vaccinated with at least one dose

Jun 15
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo announces a "return to life as we know it" lifting all COVID-19 restrictions
after the state passes 70% vaccinated with one dose

Jun 15
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warns of possible food shortages and COVID-19
restrictions while addressing national conference

Jun 16
Summit between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in
Geneva, Switzerland, over issues including cyberattacks and human rights

Jun 17
US President Joe Biden signs into law the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act
making June 19th a federal holiday commemorating emancipation

Jun 17
China launches its Shenzhou-12 spacecraft with three astronauts arriving at its new space station
Tiangong six and a half hours later

Jun 18
Jurist and conservative Ebrahim Raisi elected President of Iran on a low turn out

Jun 18
Record 82 million people now forcibly displaced, or over 1% of world's population,
according to UN refugee agency

Jun 20
Brazil's COVID-19 death toll passes 500,000, the second highest in the world

Jun 20
US Open Men's Golf, Torrey Pines GC: Jon Rahm beats Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa
by 1 stroke to become first Spaniard to win the event

Jun 20
China announces it has administered 1 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine

Jun 21
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is the first openly transgender athlete to be selected for the Olympics

Jun 21
Swedish government of Prime Minister Stefan Lofven toppled after a no confidence vote for the
first time in Swedish history

Jun 21
Colombia's COVID-19 recorded death toll passes 100,000, the tenth country in the world to do so

Jun 21
Carl Nassib becomes the first openly gay player in the NFL in a post on Instagram

Jun 22
Unesco says Australia's Great Barrier Reef should be put on list of World Heritage Sites that are "in danger"

Jun 22
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pardons nine Catalan politicians and activists for the
2017 illegal secession referendum

Jun 23
1st ICC World Test Championship final, Southampton: New Zealand dismisses India for meagre 170;
completes tricky chase of 139 on 6th day to win inaugural cricket title

Jun 23
Rembrandt's masterpiece "The Night Watch" seen in its entirety for first time in 300 years
after AI used to fill in pieces trimmed at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jun 23
US Supreme Court rules in favor of teen kicked off cheerleading team after profane social media post,
saying school violated her free speech

Jun 23
Britney Spears requests a judge end her court-ordered conservatorship, states
"I think this conservatorship is abusive. I don't think I can live a full life"

Jun 24
Second discovery of the remains of 761 people, mainly indigenous children announced at
former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan

Jun 24
Residential tower Champlain Towers South collapses at 1.30am in Surfside, Miami Beach,
with 156 people missing (98 bodies eventually recovered)

Jun 25
New type of ancient human announced "Nesher Ramla Homo" lived 140,000-120,000 years ago,
a possible ancestor of Neanderthals, uncovered in Ramla, Israel

Jun 25
Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Aaron Nola ties Tom Seaver's 51-year old MLB league record of 10
consecutive strike outs, in 2-1 loss to the Mets in New York

Jun 25
New species of ancient human announced after finding of massive fossilized skull - Homo longi
"Dragon Man" from North East China

Jun 25
Former US police officer Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22 years and six months for the
murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis

Jun 25
WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirms the COVID-19 Delta variant is the most transmissible to date,
now present in 85 countries and spreading rapidly

Jun 26
British Health Minister Matt Hancock resigns after photos of him kissing an aide (and not social distancing) emerge

Jun 26
Sydney goes into a two-week lockdown amid a Delta variant COVID-19 outbreak and low levels of vaccination

Jun 26
South Africa announces 14-day lockdown to counter a third COVID-19 wave of infections fueled by the Delta variant,
with only 2.5 million vaccines administrated

Jun 26
Largest-ever pile up in the Tour de France caused by a spectator with a sign during Stage 1.
Spectator later hunted down and arrested.

Jun 27
Women's PGA Championship, Atlanta AC: Nelly Korda beats fellow American Lizette Salas by 3 strokes
to win her first major title

Jun 27
Hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada at 46.6 C (116 F) in Lytton, British Columbia
(breaks record 2 days later with 49.6 C)

Jun 27
Heat dome envelops the Pacific Northwest with Portland posting highest temperature since records
began of 112 F (broken the next day)

Jun 27
Boat sinks off Tunisia, drowning 43 migrants with 84 rescued by Tunisian navy

Jun 28
Tigray Defense Forces retake Tigray's regional capital of Mekelle in Ethiopia's Tigray War.
The Ethiopian government declares a unilateral ceasefire to save face but neither side sticks to it.

Jun 28
US Supreme Court declines to hear school's appeal in transgender bathroom case made by
Gavin Grimm in Virginia, upholding an earlier decision it was discriminatory

Jun 28
AirCar, prototype flying car capable of flying 1,000km (600 miles), at height of 8,200ft (2,500m),
completes 35 min test flight between Nitra and Bratislava airports in Slovakia

Jun 28
Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana use by adults

Jun 29
Former South African President Jacob Zuma sentenced to 15 months in prison on contempt of court charges

Jun 29
World's first known plague victim identified in the remains of a 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer in Latvia

Jun 29
Lytton, British Columbia, records Canada's highest-ever temperature of 49.6C (121.3F),
before being destroyed by a wildfire the next day

Jun 30
World's oldest man is 112-year-old Emilio "Don Millo" Flores Márquez (born 8 August 1908)
from Puerto Rico according to Guinness World Records

Jun 30
Pennsylvania Supreme overturns comedian Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction,
ruling that the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessor’s agreement
not to charge Cosby in return for Cosby's testimony in a related civil suit;
Cosby immediately released from prison

Jun 30
Extreme heat wave caused at least 100 deaths in British Columbia according to state Coroners' Office

Jun 30
US actress Allison Mack sentenced to three years for her role in the Nxivm sex cult in New York

Jun 30
Bangladesh begins a one-week lockdown enforced by the army as COVID-19 cases soar due to the Delta variant

Jun 30
American Abhimanyu Mishra becomes the youngest chess grandmaster ever at 12 years and 4 months,
surpassing Sergey Karjakin

Jul 1
State of New York charges The Trump Organization and its chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg
with tax fraud and grand larceny

Jul 1
President Xi Jinping makes a defiant address at celebrations in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
to mark the 100 year centenary of the Chinese Communist Party

Jul 1
Indonesian President Joko Widodo announces a two-week lockdown for the islands of Java and Bali
amid the worst COVID-19 outbreak in South East Asia

Jul 1
Britain's Princes William and Harry unveil statue to their mother Princess Diana,
on what would have been her 60th birthday, at Kensington Palace

Jul 2
India's known COVID-19 death toll passes 400,000 with 30.45 million cases,
amid expert speculation that over one million have died

Jul 3
Worst wildfires in Cyprus' history begin in Limassol district,
spreading in next few days and killing four people

Jul 3
Mudslides crash through town of Atami, Japan, after torrential rain,
killing 19, with over 100 people initially missing

Jul 4
Military plane crashes near Jolo, Philippines, killing at lease 45
with dozens saved from the burning wreckage

Jul 4
Pope Francis undergoes surgery to remove part of his colon in Rome

Jul 4
Columbus Blue Jackets' 24 year old Latvian goaltender Matīss Kivlenieks is killed when
accidently struck by fireworks at the home of team goaltending coach Manny Legace in Novi, Michigan

Jul 4
Researchers reveal there are 14 living descendants of Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci

Jul 5
One of world's oldest pieces of art, 51,000-year-old deer bone carved by Neanderthals,
announced discovered in Harz Mountains, Germany

Jul 5
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he will scrap all COVID-19 restrictions in England from 19 July,
to become most unrestricted country in Europe

Jul 6
Mary Simon is named Canada's first indigenous Governor General by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Jul 7
World's biggest sandcastle 21.16 high (69.4 feet),
using nearly 5,000 tons of sand completed in Blokhus, Denmark

Jul 7
Haiti president Jovenel Moïse assassinated in his home in Pétionville, Haiti,
state of emergency declared across the country

Jul 7
Stanley Cup Final, Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL: Defending champions Tampa Bay Lightning
beat Montreal Canadiens, 1-0 in Game 5; retain title, 4-1

Jul 8
A tiny Leonardo da Vinci sketch "Head of a Bear",
the size of a post-it sells for £8.9 million ($12.2 m) at auction in London

Jul 8
US President Joe Biden says US troops will withdraw from Afghanistan by August 31,
despite increased Taliban gains across the country

Jul 8
Global known death toll from COVID-19 passes 4 million (equal to all deaths in battle since 1982)

Jul 8
Japan says the Olympics will be held without spectators as Tokyo announces
state of emergency due to a surge in COVID-19

Jul 8
MLB Padres relief pitcher Daniel Camarena gets his first hit,
in his second career at bat - a grand slam - against Washington Nationals' Max Scherzer, in San Diego

Jul 8
Zaila Avant-garde, American student, age 14, from Harvey, Louisiana,
wins Scripps National Spelling Bee title

Jul 9
Death Valley, California, hits temperature of 130 degrees F (54.4 C),
one of the highest temperatures ever recorded on earth

Jul 9
June 2021 declared US's hottest June ever recorded in 127 years,
average temperature 72.6 degrees F (4.2 degrees above average)

Jul 9
British road cyclist Mark Cavendish wins Nîmes to Carcassonne stage 13 of the Tour de France
for his record equalling 34th career stage victory; equals Eddy Merckx's mark

Jul 10
Wimbledon Women's Tennis: World #1 Ashleigh Barty of Australia wins her second major title;
beats Karolína Plíšková of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-7, 6-3

Jul 11
Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković claims a record equalling 20th Grand Slam title;
beats Matteo Berrettini of Italy 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3

Jul 11
UEFA European Championship Final, Wembley Stadium, London:
Italy wins first Euro title since 1968, 3-2 on penalties over England after scores locked at 1-1 AET

Jul 11
Copa América Final, Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro: Argentina beats Brazil, 1-0;
Lionel Messi named player of the tournament in his first major international title victory

Jul 11
Rare mass anti-government protests across Cuba due to economic hardships and
effects of COVID-19 led to widespread arrests

Jul 11
Billionaire Richard Branson flies to the edge of space on his Virgin Galactic rocket plane in space tourism test

Jul 12
At least 92 people die in a fire in a COVID-19 hospital ward in Iraqi city of Nasiriya

Jul 13
91st MLB All Star Game, Coors Field, Denver, CO: AL beats NL, 5-2 for their eighth consecutive victory

Jul 13
"Unprecedented" early fire season in western US as 67 large fires and nearly 918,000 acres
reported burnt by Interagency Fire Center

Jul 13
337 die in violent protests and looting in South Africa following the jailing of Jacob Zuma,
with more than 200 shopping malls set alight

Jul 14
Drug overdose deaths in the US rose 30% to record 93,000 in 2020 according to CDC

Jul 15
Devastating floods linked to climate change sweep through towns in western Germany, Belgium and
the Netherlands, after record rainfall, killing at least 188 people

Jul 17
73rd Cannes Film Festival: Titane wins Palme d'Or, its director Frenchwoman Julie Ducournau
only 2nd woman to win

Jul 18
British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's GC: American Collin Morikawa becomes first male in
history to win his debut at 2 separate major events [2020 PGA C'ship]; beats Jordan Spieth by 2 strokes

Jul 18
108th Tour de France: Defending champion Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia becomes youngest rider
to win the Tour twice; also claims Mountains and Youth classifications; Mark Cavendish wins points title

Jul 19
UK lifts most COVID-19 restrictions on so-called "Freedom Day" despite 50,000 new daily infections

Jul 19
Bomb attack on al-Wuhailat market in Baghdad, Iraq, ahead of Eid al-Adha festival, kills 25 people

Jul 19
Peruvian union leader Pedro Castillo declared winner of the country's presidential election (11 April),
defeating Keiko Fujimori by only 44,000 votes

Jul 20
US, NATO members and other states accuse China's Ministry of State Security for using
"contract criminal hackers" to infiltrate Microsoft email systems

Jul 20
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos goes into space in first unpiloted suborbital flight with all-civilian crew,
aboard rocket developed by his company Blue Origin

Jul 20
Torrential rain causes severe flooding in China's Hunan province, flooding subways with people still on the trains,
killing at least 12 people in Zhengzhou city

Jul 20
Oregon's Bootleg fire has burnt nearly 400,000 acres, now so big it's generating its
own weather patterns according to local fire chiefs

Jul 20
India's COVID-19 death toll likely 10 times its official toll, 3.4 million to 4.7 million (to June 2021),
according to The Center for Global Development

Jul 20
NBA Finals: Milwaukee Bucks beat Phoenix Suns, 105-98 in Game 6 to win first title in 50 years (1971);
MVP: Giannis Antetokounmpo, 50 points in Game 6

Jul 20
New York records the worst air quality in the world due to smoke from 80 wild fires on the US west coast

Jul 20
Leyna Bloom becomes Sports Illustrated's first transgender cover model

Jul 21
Life expectancy in the US falls by 1.5 years (3 years for Hispanic Americans. 2.9 for Black Americans)
in largest decline since WWII

Jul 21
President Xi Jinping arrives in Tibet in first official visit by a Chinese leader in 30 years

Jul 21
World's fastest train debuts, a Chinese state-owned maglev bullet train, with speeds of
600 kilometers per hour (373 miles) in Qingdao, China

Jul 22
US at “another pivotal point in this pandemic” says CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky
as the Delta variant becomes dominant

Jul 23
XXXII Summer Olympic Games officially open at the Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan

Jul 23
At least 164 people die in floods and landslides caused by heavy rain in Indian state of Maharashtra

Jul 23
Indonesia posts a record daily number of COVID-19 deaths at 1,566

Jul 25
Typhoon In-Fa (Yanhua) makes landfall in the city of Zhoushan on China's east coast

Jul 25
USA's men's basketball team see their 25-game Olympic winning streak end;
beaten 83-76 by France in first round match in Tokyo

Jul 25
Australia wins women's 4 x 100m relay for third straight Olympics as Bronte Campbell,
Meg Harris, Emma McKeon, Cate Campbell set new WR 3:29.69 in Tokyo

Jul 25
Japanese judokas Uta Abe (women's 52kg) and brother Hifumi (men's 66kg) make history as
first siblings to win Olympic gold medals in different events on same day at the Tokyo Games

Jul 25
Japanese skateboarder Yuto Horigome wins the sport's inaugural Olympic gold medal in the
men's street section at the Tokyo Games

Jul 25
Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: Australian Minjee Lee recovers from
7 shots behind to beat South Korea’s Lee6 Jeongeun in a play-off for her first major title

Jul 25
British Senior Open Men's Golf, Sunningdale: Welshman Stephen Dodd wins his first major title
with a 1 stroke victory over Miguel Ángel Jiménez of Spain

Jul 26
Dominant British breaststroke swimmer Adam Peaty successfully defends his 100m title at the
Tokyo Olympics beating Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands and Italian Nicolò Martinenghi

Jul 26
Tunisian government in crisis after President Kais Saied sacks Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi
and suspends parliament with the help of the army because of its handling of COVID-19

Jul 26
Ship carrying migrants wrecks off coast of Al-Khums, Libya, killing at least 57,
takes death toll in central Mediterranean to 987 for 2021

Jul 26
Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz makes history becoming the first athlete from the Philippines to win gold
at the Olympics in the 55kg class at the Tokyo Games

Jul 27
American gymnast and four-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles withdraws from the women's
team final at the Tokyo Games citing need to focus on her mental health; also misses individual finals

Jul 27
Triathlete Flora Duffy claims historic first ever Olympic gold medal for Bermuda
in the women's event at the Tokyo Games

Jul 27
Fiji retains Olympic Rugby Sevens title with 27-12 win over New Zealand in Tokyo;
only second gold in the country's Olympic history

Jul 27
Swiss team of Jolanda Neff, Sina Frei and Linda Indergand make a clean sweep of the medals in
the women's cross-country mountain bike event at the Tokyo Olympics

Jul 27
Ítalo Ferreira of Brazil and American Carissa Moore claim inaugural men's and women's surfing gold
medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games

Jul 27
Florida records its highest one-day total of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic at 21,683

Jul 27
Largest-ever repatriation of 17,000 looted Iraqi antiquities returned to Baghdad, including items from
Hobby Lobby's Museum of the Bible and Cornell University

Jul 27
China tests a missile with a hypersonic weapon system, later called “very close” to a Sputnik moment by a US general

Jul 28
Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus claims Olympic double by winning women's 200m freestyle in
OR 1:53.50 in Tokyo; she had beaten American superstar Katie Ledecki in 400m 2 days earlier

Jul 28
Japanese swimmer Yui Ohashi wins women's individual medley double with victory in 200m at the
Tokyo Olympics; 3 days earlier she won the 400m IM gold medal

Jul 28
19 year old gymnast Daiki Hashimoto of Japan becomes youngest Olympic men's artistic
individual all-around champion in history at the Tokyo Games

Jul 29
Flash floods kill at least 60 people in Kamdesh, eastern Afghanistan

Jul 29
Chinese team of Yang Junxuan, Tang Muhan, Zhang Yufei & Li Bingjie smash 4 x 200m freestyle
relay WR 7:40.33 at Tokyo Olympics; minor medallists USA and Australia also beat previous mark

Jul 29
Australian canoeist Jessicas Fox with 109.96s wins inaugural women's C-1 slalom gold medal
at the Tokyo Olympic Games

Jul 29
Following Simone Biles' withdrawal, teammate Sunisa Lee becomes first Hmong-American Olympic champion
in any sport when she wins women's artistic individual all-around gymnastics gold in Tokyo

Jul 29
Croatian rowing brothers Martin and Valent Sinković team to win coxless pair gold at the Tokyo Olympics;
pair's second Olympic gold after winning double sculls in 2016

Jul 30
South African swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker sets new women's 200m breaststroke WR 2:18.95
at the Tokyo Olympics beating the American pair of Lilly King and Annie Lazor

Jul 30
Australian swimmer Emma McKeon wins the blue riband 100m freestyle gold medal in OR 51.96
at the Tokyo Olympics; her 8th career Olympic medal

Jul 30
Russian backstroke swimmer Evgeny Rylov wraps up the 100/200m double with
OR 1:53.27 in the longer event at the Tokyo Olympic Games

Jul 30
1 out of 169 Americans employed by Amazon in new figures released by the company.
Now US's second largest employer (Walmart the largest employing 1 in 100)

Jul 31
Jamaican sprinters Elaine Thompson Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson
trifecta women's 100m final at the Tokyo Olympics; Thompson Herah retains title

Jul 31
American swimmer Caeleb Dressel wins 100m butterfly in WR 49.45 at the Tokyo Olympics;
completes 100m freestyle/butterfly double

Jul 31
Australian swimmer Kaylee McKeown wins gold in 200m backstroke to complete 100/200 double
at the Tokyo Olympic Games

Jul 31
American swimming superstar Katie Ledecky wins the women's 800m gold for an unprecedented
third consecutive Olympics in Tokyo; claims distance 800/1500m double

Jul 31
First mixed-gender event to feature in Olympic swim program; Great Britain team of Kathleen Dawson,
Adam Peaty, James Guy & Anna Hopkin wins mixed 4×100m medley relay in WR 3:37.58 in Tokyo











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Aug 1
Australian swimmer Emma McKeon claims gold in 50m freestyle and 4x100m medley relay
for total 7 medals at Tokyo Olympics; equals record set by Russian gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya in 1952

Aug 1
Canada marks its first Emancipation Day (date slavery abolished in the British Empire in 1834)

Aug 1
394 migrants rescued from a stricken vessel by humanitarian NGO ships in Tunisian waters

Aug 1
American virologist Dr. Anthony Fauci says "things are going to get worse" as US COVID-19 cases
double in 10 days due to surge of Delta variant

Aug 1
American swimmer Caeleb Dressel wins his 5th gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics in 50m freestyle
and 4x100m medley relay

Aug 1
Marcell Jacobs becomes first Italian athlete to win the coveted 100m in 9.80 at the Tokyo Olympics

Aug 1
Italian Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar avoid a jump-off by agreeing to share
the long jump gold medal after tying on 2.37m at the Tokyo Olympic Games

Aug 1
Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas records a WR 15.67m to claim the women's gold medal
at the Tokyo Olympics

Aug 1
Chinese diver Shi Tingmao completes women's 3m springboard/synchronized 3m springboard double
at the Tokyo Olympics for second consecutive Games

Aug 1
Myanmar's military ruler Min Aung Hlaing names himself Prime Minister, pledges to hold elections by 2023

Aug 1
The US passes the 35 million mark in COVID-19 cases with California becoming first state to record 4 million cases

Aug 1
American swimmer Robert Finke wins men's 1,500m gold in 14:39.65 at the Tokyo Olympics,
completing long distance double 800/1,500m

Aug 2
70% of American have had at least one COVID-19 vaccination shot,
a target President Joe Biden had hoped to meet by 4 July

Aug 3
New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington wins her third straight Olympic K-1 200m title at the Tokyo Games;
also wins K-2 500m for her 4th career Olympic gold medal

Aug 3
Karsten Warholm of Norway runs first ever sub-46 second 400m hurdles 45.94 WR to claim
gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

Aug 3
132 wildfires in Turkey's southern coastal Manavgat district have burnt 118,789 hectares
of land in six days, killing eight people

Aug 3
Jamaican athlete Elaine Thompson Herah wins 200m gold in Tokyo to become the first female to
claim the 100/200m double at consecutive Olympic Games

Aug 3
Singer Tony Bennett celebrates his 95th birthday with Lady Gaga in the first of 2 "farewell"
performances at Radio City Music Hall, NYC

Aug 3
Hawaii's largest wildfire on record, Mana Road Fire in South Kohala,
finally being brought under control after burning through 40,000 acres

Aug 4
Mediterranean region evolving into a "wildfire hotspot" according to authorities,
amidst extreme temperatures with Greece experiencing one of its worst heatwaves in 40 years

Aug 4
Rihanna named the world's wealthiest female musician worth $1.7 billion by Forbes

Aug 4
Global known COVID-19 caseload passes 200 million, with the death toll at 4.2 million
according to Johns Hopkins

Aug 4
Largest wildfire in California so far in 2021, the Dixie Fire at 320,000 acres,
destroys the gold rush town of Greenville

Aug 4
Americans Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad go 1-2 in women's 400m hurdles
at the Tokyo Olympics; McLaughlin sets WR 51.46s

Aug 5
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts (80) announces he will be unable to accompany
the band on its 2021 U.S. tour, based on medical advice; American Steve Jordan tapped to fill in

Aug 5
FC Barcelona confirms record breaking Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi will leave the
club because of Spanish La Liga regulations on player payments

Aug 5
New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington wins her third Olympic gold medal of the Tokyo Games
by winning K-1 500m; 5th career gold for Carrington

Aug 6
Jamaican 100/200m champion Elaine Thompson Herah claims her third track gold medal of the
Tokyo Olympics as part of the winning Jamaican 4x100m relay team

Aug 6
Faith Kipyegon of Kenya retains her Olympic 1,500m title in OR 3:53.11 at the Tokyo Olympics

Aug 7
Kevin Durant with 29 points leads USA to his third and the team's 4th consecutive Olympic
men's basketball gold medal with an 87-82 win over France in Tokyo

Aug 7
As part of the winning American 4×400m relay team in Tokyo, Allyson Felix takes her total to
11 Olympic medals; becomes the most decorated female Olympian in track and field history

Aug 7
Dutch athlete Sifan Hassan wins 10,000m gold medal in 29:55.32 at the Tokyo Olympics to
claim the 5/10k double

Aug 7
Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra makes history winning his country’s first-ever Olympic track
and field gold with 87.58m in Tokyo

Aug 8
Taliban forces capture three regional Afghan cities including key northern city of Kunduz

Aug 8
The Dixie Fire becomes California's second-largest wildfire ever at 463,000 acres (724 square miles)

Aug 8
XXXII Summer Olympic Games officially close at the Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan

Aug 8
More than 51 people killed in northern Mali after attacks on three villages by Islamist jihadists

Aug 8
USA women's basketball team wins it's record extending 7th consecutive Olympic gold medal with
90-75 win over Japan in Tokyo; guards Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi each win their 5th straight gold

Aug 8
"Wright Brothers' moment" in nuclear fusion research when 1.3 megajoules of energy produced at
National Ignition Facility by the Livermore Lab

Aug 9
Landmark UN IPCC climate report "is a "Code Red for humanity", rise of 1.5C now certain, catastrophic
change can still be avoided if the world works fast

Aug 9
Herd of 14 elephants returning home from a 500km (300-mile) trek across China,
lead authorities to evacuate 150,000 people out of their path

Aug 9
Cholera outbreak in Nigeria has killed more than 800 people with 31,425 suspected cases
since January 2021 according to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control

Aug 10
Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo resigns amid a sexual harassment scandal
Aug 10
Forest fires kill 65 people, including 25 soldiers, in Algeria in the Kabylie region during
heatwave conditions

Aug 10
"I am Legend" screenwriter Akiva Goldsman tweets "It's a movie. I made that up. It's. Not. Real."
amid rumors COVID-19 vaccines could turn people into zombies, as in the film

Aug 11
Sicily records highest-ever temperature in Europe of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 degrees Fahrenheit)
in city of Siracusa (unverified)

Aug 11
Torrential rains cause flash flooding in Turkey's northwestern provinces of Kastamonu, Sinop and Barti,
killing at least 77 with more missing

Aug 11
Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi is confirms signing a rich 2-year contract with French Ligue 1
champions Paris Saint-Germain after leaving FC Barcelona

Aug 12
195 million Americans across 34 states under heat advisory warnings from Pacific Northwest to the
Northeast as summer of intense heat continues in Northern Hemisphere

Aug 12
US Census reveal country grown more diverse, growth in Hispanic (+23%) and Asian (+36%) populations,
1st ever decline in white population (-2.6%)

Aug 12
Phoenix is the US's fastest-growing city (+11.2%), overtaking Philadelphia to be nation's fifth largest
at 1.6 million according to US Census

Aug 12
Bennu Asteroid, size of the Empire State Building, now has 1-in-1,750 chance of hitting Earth in 2182,
according to data from NASA's OSIRIS-REX spacecraft

Aug 12
Britney Spear's father says he will step down as her conservator after the singer called his
conservatorship abusive, amid a #FreeBritney campaign

Aug 12
US FDA authorizes a third booster COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for people with weak immune systems

Aug 14
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Tyler Gilbert throws a no-hitter in his MLB debut,
defeating San Diego Padres, 7-0 in Phoenix; record equalling 8th no-hitter of the season

Aug 14
7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes south-west Haiti near city of Les Cayes, killing at least 2,200 people,
injuring many more and destroying 52,000 homes

Aug 14
Spain records its highest ever temperature of 47.2C (117F) in Montoro, Córdoba

Aug 14
It rains for the first time at Greenland ice sheets' highest point, at Summit Station research facility,
above freezing conditions create some melting for 337,000 square miles of ice

Aug 14
Calder Fire, near Lake Tahoe, begins in California, goes on to destroy 1000 structures and over 218,000 acres

Aug 15
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls a snap election for 20 September, two years ahead of schedule

Aug 15
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani flees the country as Taliban forces enter the capital Kabul and take control

Aug 15
Petrol tanker explosion kills 27 and injures 79 in al-Tleil, Lebanon, amid the country's continuing economic crisis

Aug 16
Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and his cabinet resign after losing their majority amid political turmoil

Aug 16
US President Joe Biden says "I stands squarely behind my decision" to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan,
despite sudden collapse of the country to the Taliban

Aug 16
First official water shortage declared at Lake Mead, major reservoir on Colorado river supplying 40 million people,
with cuts mandated mainly for Arizona

Aug 16
First Marvel film with an Asian superhero "Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings"
starring Simu Liu premieres in Los Angeles

Aug 17
One in five US hospital ICUs at or over 95% capacity due to Delta surge of COVID-19,
with 1,800 children hospitalized

Aug 18
MLB Los Angeles Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani becomes fastest player in team history to reach 40 home runs
in a season, also pitches 8 innings in 3-1 win at Detroit

Aug 19
Iran's official COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 amid its fifth wave of infections,
according to its Health Ministry

Aug 21
Flash flooding in Humphreys County, Middle Tennessee, kills 22 with dozens missing

Aug 22
British Open Women's Golf, Carnoustie CC: Anna Nordqvist of Sweden finishes 1 stroke clear of
Madelene Sagström, Lizette Salas and Georgia Hall to win her third major title

Aug 22
Tropical storm Henri makes landfall near Westerly, Rhode Island

Aug 22
Josephine Baker will be the first black woman to be interred in the Panthéon in Paris,
according to the French government

Aug 22
US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Singapore to begin a short visit to South East Asia

Aug 23
US Food and Drug Administration grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people 16 and over.
First vaccine to move past emergency-use status in the US.

Aug 23
Video evidence of a Seychelles giant tortoise hunting and eating a bird revealed for the first time,
tortoises previously thought to be herbivores

Aug 24
16th Paralympic Games opens in Tokyo, Japan

Aug 24
Kathy Hochul becomes the first female Governor of New York,
replacing Andrew Cuomo after his resignation

Aug 24
UN says Madagascar on brink of world's first "climate change famine" with people
suffering "catastrophic" levels of hunger, after four years without rain

Aug 24
Beyoncé becomes first black woman and third person to wear the Tiffany Diamond
in an advertising campaign for the company alongside her husband Jay-Z

Aug 26
Two bomb blasts at Kabul Airport, Afghanistan, kill at least 60 people, including 12 US soldiers,
amid international efforts to evacuate citizens out of the country

Aug 27
Britain's Prince Andrew served with a US federal lawsuit alleging he sexually abused
a teenager 20 years ago

Aug 28
MLB Los Angeles Angels pitcher/designated hitter Shohei Ohtani becomes 1st player in team
history to reach 20 stolen bases and hit 40 home runs in a season, in 10-2 win over San Diego Padres

Aug 29
Hurricane Ida makes landfall as a Category 4 storm near Port Fourchon, Louisiana,
on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

Aug 29
Missile and drone attack on al-Anad airbase in south Yemen kills at least 30 soldiers,
one of the deadliest attacks in recent years

Aug 30
America ends its longest-ever war of 20 years in Afghanistan as the last military
evacuation plane flies out of Kabul

Aug 30
Algeria becomes the last country to stop selling leaded petrol, ending 99 years of
gasoline use worldwide, saving 1.2 million lives a year

Aug 30
China restricts online gaming for under 18s to one hour on Fridays,
weekends and holidays ordering companies to enforce this

Aug 31
36-year old Cristiano Ronaldo is confirmed as a Manchester United player for a second time when
his transfer from Juventus is ratified; Ronaldo left United in 2009 to join Real Madrid


Sep 1
Texas law banning most abortion after six weeks comes into effect, now most restrictive in the country

Sep 1
South America's second-longest river, the Paraná, at its lowest levels for 77 years due to drought

Sep 1
Cristiano Ronaldo breaks world record for goals scored in men's international football;
hits his 110th and 111th goals for Portugal in 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over Republic of Ireland in Faro

Sep 1
Record rain recorded in Central Park, New York (7.13 inches) and Newark, New Jersey (8.41 inches)
from remnants of Hurricane Ida

Sep 1
Powerful 400 yard wide EF-3 tornado travels 12.5 miles through Gloucester County, New Jersey,
destroying 50 homes, several farm buildings, and killing 3 dairy cows

Sep 2
At least 43 people die as the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the US Northeast with record rains,
tornadoes and flooding with New York and New Jersey declaring state of emergency

Sep 4
Nigerian government announces it is suspending Twitter indefinitely after it removed a post by
President Muhammadu Buhari

Sep 5
Coup by soldiers in Guinea headed by Colonel Doumbouya deposes President Alpha Condé and
his government, claiming rampant corruption

Sep 5
Tour Championship, Men's Golf, East Lake GC, GA: Patrick Cantlay claims richest prize in golf ($15m)
with 1 stroke win over Jon Rahm; runner-up Rahm pockets $5m

Sep 6
Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Inverness GC, OH: Europe retains title 15-13;
Emily Kristine Pedersen of Denmark edges Danielle Kang 1-up to clinch Cup for Europe

Sep 7
Taliban announce their interim government in Afghanistan with Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund
in the most senior role

Sep 7
Mexican Supreme Court rules making abortion a crime is unconstitutional,
setting an important precedent

Sep 7
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signs law restricting voting rights in the state,
including limiting use of drop boxes and empowering partisan observers

Sep 7
US records more than 40 million cases of COVID-1, daily cases at 161,000 (5 September),
daily deaths at 1,560 with hospitalizations averaging 102,000 per day (NY Times figures)

Sep 7
El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender

Sep 8
US Biden administration releases blueprint calling for 44% of American electricity to
come from the sun by 2050 (currently 3%)

Sep 8
Forty-one prisoners die in a fire at Tangerang prison, near Jakarta, Indonesia

Sep 8
Large statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee removed from plinth on
Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia

Sep 8
Wildfire in Spanish Sierra Bermeja mountains in Andalucía erupts forcing evacuation of 2,600 people

Sep 9
US President Joe Biden announces widespread COVID-19 vaccine mandates for federal workers,
contractors and large employers affecting 100 million people

Sep 9
US 2021 summer the hottest on record with average 74 degrees Fahrenheit,
overtaking record set in 1936, during the Dust Bowl

Sep 9
17 hospital patients die after heavy rainfall and flooding in Tula, central Mexico

Sep 9
Tom Brady becomes first player in NFL history to start 300 regular season games as he
guides Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an opening day 31-29 win at home to Dallas Cowboys

Sep 11
US Open Women's Tennis: Emma Raducanu ends Britain's 44-year wait for a women's
Grand Slam singles title beating Leylah Fernandez of Canada 6-4, 6-3; first qualifier to win a major title in Open era

Sep 11
74th Cannes Film Festival: Audrey Diwan's "Happening" (L'Événement) wins the Palme d'Or

Sep 11
Twentieth anniversary of 9/11 marked by US President Joe Biden and former presidents
Barack Obama and Bill Clinton in New York

Sep 12 US Open Men's Tennis: Russia's Daniil Medvedev wins his first major title by shattering
Novak Đoković's hopes of completing a Grand Slam in one-sided 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 final

Sep 12
Taliban says women must study in gender-segregated classrooms in Afghanistan

Sep 12
40th MTV Video Music Awards: Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber, and Olivia Rodrigo win

Sep 12
World's largest container ship, the Ever Ace, 400m-long (1,300ft) carrying 23,992 containers
arrives in Felixstowe on its maiden voyage

Sep 12
Paris's Arc de Triomphe covered in fabric in tribute to the late artist Christo, his unfulfilled project

Sep 13
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett makes first official visit to Egypt in a decade for talks
with President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in Sharm el-Sheikh

Sep 13
Nicki Minaj tweets misinformation about vaccines making men impotent, forcing prominent
officials to publicly debunk it, including Antony Fauci and the Health Minister of Trinidad

Sep 14
1 in 500 Americans have died of COVID-19 as the nation's known death toll
reaches 663,913 (Johns Hopkins)

Sep 14
California Governor Gavin Newsom defeats a state vote to recall him from office

Sep 14
US records lowest level of people living in poverty since records began in 1967
(9.1% vs 11.8% in 2019), due to increase in government aid

Sep 15
US gymnasts, including Simone Biles, testify against former team doctor Larry Nassar
at a Senate Committee hearing, criticizing a system that allowed it to happen

Sep 15
US, UK and Australia announce trilateral security partnership Aukus, to counteract influence of China,
including helping Australia build nuclear-powered submarines

Sep 15
SpaceX launches the first all-civilian spaceflight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for three-day orbit around Earth

Sep 16
French President Emmanuel Macron says France has killed leader of the Islamic State in the
Greater Sahara Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi

Sep 16
Idaho Department of Health and Wellness says whole state now in a hospital resource crisis,
will ration healthcare, due to COVID-19 surge

Sep 16
Britain's Kew Gardens sets world record for the largest living plant collection (16,900) on a single site
according to Guinness World Records

Sep 16
Earliest evidence announced for humans making clothes discovered from bone tools 100,000 years old
found at Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco

Sep 17
France recalls its ambassadors to the US and Australia, describing their new Aukus pact and
the cancellation of a major military contract as a 'stab in the back'

Sep 17
Netflix drama "Squid Game" premieres created by Hwang Dong-hyuk

Sep 18
US authorities begin moving, to repatriate, more than 10,000 mostly Haitian migrants
living under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas

Sep 19
Cumbre Vieja volcano erupts on the Spanish island of La Palma, its first eruption since 1971

Sep 19
US apologizes for an Afghan airstrike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children

Sep 19
RuPaul becomes the most decorated black artist in Emmy history, winning his 11th award for "RuPaul’s Drag Race"

Sep 19
73rd Emmy Awards: "The Crown" Best Drama, "Ted Lasso" Best Comedy, "Mare of Easttown" Best Limited Series

Sep 19
Body of travelogue blogger Gabby Petito found at Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming

Sep 20
Pfizer announces they have developed a safe COVID-19 vaccine for 5-11 year olds
with the dose 1/3 of the strength

Sep 20
First edition of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstein" sells for $1.17 million,
setting new world record for a printed work by a woman

Sep 20
Kansas City Royals' Salvador Perez hits his 46th home run to break Hall of Famer Johnny Bench's
MLB record for most in a season by a catcher, in Royals 7-2 win in Cleveland

Sep 21
World leaders address climate change at the UN, Joe Biden pledges to double financial aid to
developing countries, President Xi Jinping says China will stop coal-fired projects abroad

Sep 21
McDonald's announces plans to "drastically" reduce plastic in its Happy Meals by 2025
(these meals make it one of largest toy distributors in the world)

Sep 22
WHO warns urgent action needed on air pollution, is on a par with smoking and a poor diet,
causing seven million premature deaths a year

Sep 23
Fossilized footprints 23,000-21,000 years old from White Sands, New Mexico indicate settlement by
humans of North and South America earlier than previous thought

Sep 23
Biden administration and EPA introduce first regulation against greenhouse gases,
reduction of hydrofluorocarbons by 85% in 15 years

Sep 24
Notorious Indian gangster Jitender Maan Gogi shot death in a court in Delhi, by men posing as lawyers

Sep 25
UK announces temporary visas to try and counteract shortage of lorry drivers for deliveries to the
UK amid panic buying on fuel

Sep 26
Switzerland votes to legalize same-sex marriage in nationwide referendum

Sep 26
Ryder Cup Golf, Whistling Straits, Haven, Wisconsin: United States regain title beating
Team Europe by a record, 19-9; Dustin Johnson 5-0-0

Sep 26
Laver Cup Men's Tennis, Boston: Team Europe whitewash Team World, 14-1;
Team Europe wins title for a 4th consecutive edition; Andrey Rublev 3-0 for event high 6 points

Sep 26
German election: centre-left Social Democrats win most seats but not a majority over ruling
conservative Christian Democratic Union without its retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel

Sep 26
74th Tony Awards: "Moulin Rouge!" Best Musical, " The Inheritance" Best Play, Aaron Tveit,
Lois Smith and Adrienne Warren win

Sep 27
NASA/USGS Landsat-9 earth-observing satellite launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

Sep 27
Netflix says Shonda Rhimes' "Bridgerton" is its most-watched series ever, with "Extraction",
starring Chris Hemsworth, its No. 1 film

Sep 27
R&B artist R. Kelly is convicted on nine counts of racketeering and sex trafficking after a six-week trial in New York

Sep 28
Russia reports its highest daily COVID-19 death toll of 852 amid its third wave of infections with less
than half of the population vaccinated with one dose

Sep 28
US National Inventors Hall of Fame announces it will induct two Black women for the first time;
Engineer Marian Croak and ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath

Sep 29
Tunisian President Kais Saied appoints Najla Bouden Romdhan as Tunisia's and the Arab world's first female prime minister

Sep 29
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declares 23 species of bird, fish and other wildlife extinct,
including the ivory-billed woodpecker

Sep 29
Britney Spears' father Jamie Spears suspended as her conservator by a judge in Los Angeles after claims of abuse

Sep 30
Former UK policeman Wayne Couzens given rare life-sentence for raping and killing Sarah Everard,
judge saying his crime as bad as a terrorist atrocity

Sep 30
Land, including world's oldest living rainforest, Daintree National Park (180 million yrs old)
returned to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in Far North Queensland, Australia

Sep 30
Canada observes its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, honoring victims and survivors
of residential schools for indigenous children



Oct 1
US COVID-19 death toll passes 700,000, with daily deaths averaging 1,900 a day

Oct 1
Global COVID-19 death toll of recorded cases passes 5 million as the Delta variant continues to surge around the world

Oct 1
Rock singer David Lee Roth announces his retirement will follow a five-concert residency in Las Vegas in January 2022

Oct 2
Massive oil slick from a pipeline discovered off California, along Orange County coast covering 13 square miles

Oct 3 Pandora Papers investigation reveals secret wealth of 30 current and former world leaders including
Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Czech PM Andrej Babis and former UK PM Tony Blair

Oct 3
Tropical Cyclone Shaheen makes landfall in Oman and Iran, killing at least nine people

Oct 3
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady becomes NFL's all-time leader in career passing yardage
in 19-17 win vs NE Patriots at Gillette Stadium: Brady 22-43 for 269 yards to pass Drew Brees' high of 80,358

Oct 3
Record rainfall in Europe when 36 inches (925 mm) of rain begins falling in northern Italian town of Rossiglione

Oct 3
MLB Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Hector Neris strikes out three Florida Marlins,
setting new franchise record of 520, in his last game before becoming a free agent

Oct 4
Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discovering
receptors for temperature and touch

Oct 4
Fumio Kishida takes office as Japan's new Prime Minister after taking over as leader of the
Liberal Democratic Party

Oct 4
Global outage of Facebook and its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, for six hours

Oct 4
Three years worth of rain (14 inches or 300 mm) falls in 12 hours in city of Al Khaburah, Oman,
in the wake of tropical cyclone Shaheen

Oct 5
Russia launches an actor and director to the International Space Station to make the first film in orbit

Oct 5
Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi for pioneering
work that warned of climate change

Oct 5
Major French investigation fings clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 children over 70 years,
most of the victims boys

Oct 5
480 Otis wins Alaska's Fat Bear Week for pre-hibernation weight gain for the third year in a row

Oct 6
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recommends world's first Malaria vaccine (Mosquirix)
for children after a pilot program was effective in Africa
Oct 6 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan for development
of asymmetric organocatalysis (tool for building molecules)

Oct 6
Carnegie Hall in NYC re-opens after 18 month pandemic shutdown with a concert by The Philadelphia Orchestra,
conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Oct 6
Los Angeles votes in some of the strictest COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the country,
requiring vaccinations before people can enter indoor businesses and events

Oct 7
Zanzibar born writer Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

Oct 8
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia
"for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression"

Oct 9
Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis narrowly defeated in nation elections by a
coalition of opposition parties

Oct 10
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen says country won't bow to Chinese pressure in defiant speech on
Taiwanese National Day, day after Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to "fulfil reunification"

Oct 11
Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens for their work
on "natural experiments"

Oct 11
Australia's largest city Sydney ends its 107-day lockdown, with restrictions easing for fully vaccinated people

Oct 11
Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden steps down after The NY Times details emails in which he
made homophobic and misogynistic remarks; earlier reports alleged racist statements about a union leader

Oct 11
Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens for their work
on "natural experiments"

Oct 11
Australia's largest city Sydney ends its 107-day lockdown, with restrictions easing for fully vaccinated people

Oct 11
Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden steps down after The NY Times details emails in which he made
homophobic and misogynistic remarks; earlier reports alleged racist statements about a union leader

Oct 13
24 year old Rumeysa Gelgi from Turkey confirmed as World's tallest living woman by Guinness World Records
at 215.16 centimeters 215.16cm (7ft 0.7in)

Oct 13
Bow and arrow terrorist attack kills five and injuries two in Kongsberg, Norway

Oct 14
Record price for a Banksy artwork paid of 18.5 million pounds ($25.4 million) for "Love is in the Bin",
that was famously shredded on purchase in 2018

Oct 15
British MP Sir David Amess stabbed to death at a meeting of constituents in Essex in Leigh-on-Sea,
England in probable terror attack

Oct 15
IPL Cricket Final, Dubai International Stadium:
Chennai Super Kings win their 4th IPL title beating Kolkata Knight Riders by 27 runs;
Faf du Plessis scores 86 off 59 balls for Player of the Match

Oct 16
NASA probe Lucy launched on mission to fly-by eight Trojan asteroids circling the sun

Oct 18
Flash foods and heavy rain in northern Indian state of Uttarakhand and Nepal kill over 100 people
after 328mm falls in 24 hrs

Oct 18
Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso declares 60-day state of emergency in response to a violent
crime wave caused by power struggle between drug cartels

Oct 18 Marvel film "Eternals" directed by Chloé Zhao, starring an ensemble cast including
Gemma Chan, Richard Madden and Angelina Jolie premieres in Los Angeles

Oct 19
Moscow's mayor orders unvaccinated people over 60 years to stay home for four months amid a
worsening COVID-19 crisis

Oct 20
Confirmation that Vikings established settlement first in 1021 AD in the New World at
L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, provided by new dating technique using solar storms

Oct 20
Brazilian Senate inquiry finds President Bolsonaro should face series of criminal charges,
including crimes against humanity, for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic

Oct 20
Barbados elects Sandra Mason as its first-ever president, as part of a process to replace
Queen Elizabeth and become a republic

Oct 21
Syria's government says it has executed 24 people for starting devastating wildfires in 2020 that killed three

Oct 21
Actor Alec Baldwin shots cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead and injures director Joel Souza
with a prop gun in rehearsal on a film set at Bonanza Ranch, New Mexico

Oct 22
Australian city of Melbourne "world's most locked down city" exits its sixth lockdown after a total of 260 days

Oct 23
Capture of Colombia's most-wanted drug lord, Dairo Antonio Usuga 'Otoniel', in Colombia's Uraba region,
announced live on TV

Oct 24
Michael Jordan's 1984 Nike Air Ships sell for $1.472 million at Sotheby's, a new record for sneakers at auction

Oct 24
Tom Brady becomes first quarterback in NFL history to record 600 touchdown passes when he hits Mike Evans
in 1st quarter of the Buccaneers 38-3 rout of the Chicago Bears in Tampa Bay

Oct 24
COVID-19 cases in Eastern Europe pass 20 million with Russia, Ukraine and Romania in top five
countries reporting deaths globally

Oct 24
Strongest storm to ever hit the West Coast of the US, with California recording barometric pressure of 945.2 mb,
and San Francisco its wettest October day

Oct 25
Sudan's military takes control of the country, dissolving the power-sharing government and declaring a state of emergency

Oct 25
Elon Musk makes a record $25 billion in one day pushing his estimated worth to $255.2 billion,
likely making him the richest person ever according to Forbes

Oct 25
Afghanistan to become world's worst humanitarian crisis as nearly 23 million people face acute hunger
over winter according to the World Food Program

Oct 26
NASA scientists think they have detected the first planet outside our galaxy, in Whirlpool Galaxy (M51),
28 million light-years away

Oct 26
UN report says current climate pledges put world on course for "catastrophic" average 2.7-degree
Celsius temperature rise this century ahead of Glasgow climate summit

Oct 27
More than one million people in southern Madagascar are on the brink of famine according to
Amnesty International, who urges world to provide relief

Oct 28
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook will change its corporate name to Meta amid
increased public scrutiny over leaked internal documents

Oct 28
Largest-ever drug bust in Asia made by police in Laos with 55 million methamphetamine tablets
and 1.5 tonnes of crystal meth discovered in beer crates

Oct 28
One of world's largest floor mosaics unveiled after restoration at Hisham's Palace (660-750 AD)
by Palestinian authorities in Jericho, West Bank

Oct 30
Grand Ole Opry broadcasts its 5000th Saturday night radio program, from Nashville, Tennessee

Oct 30
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees:
Foo Fighters; The Go-Go's;
Jay-Z; Carole King;
Todd Rundgren; Tina Turner;
Kraftwerk; Gil Scott-Heron;
Charley Patton; LL Cool J;
Billy Preston; Randy Rhodes; and Clarence Avant

Oct 30
World Leader agree historic corporate tax agreement of at least 15% at G20 summit in Rome



November and most of December to Follow

[IceWizard]

Nov 1
Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 5 million according to Johns Hopkins,
with estimates the true toll is at least twice as high

Nov 1
Novavax COVID-19 vaccine receives its first emergency use authorization in Indonesia.
The first protein-based covid vaccine.

Nov 2
Baseball World Series:
Atlanta Braves win 4th title in franchise history;
beat Houston Astros, 7-0 in Game 6 at Minute Maid Park,
Houston for 4-2 series victory; MVP: Braves outfielder Jorge Soler

Nov 2
Former police captains Eric Adams elected the second African American mayor of New York

Nov 2
Jihadist gunman ambush and kill 69 people,
including a local mayor in south-west Niger, adding to the 530 killed in 2021 to date

Nov 3
4-year old Cleo Smith found 18 days after she disappeared from a family tent,
by police in Carnarvon, Western Australia

Nov 3
US begins vaccinating children aged 5 to 11 years with a lower dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

Nov 3
South African writer Damon Galgut wins literature's Booker Prize for his novel "The Promise"

Nov 4
COP26 climate pledges, if kept, could help limit global warning to 1.8 °C
(above pre-industrial averages) according to the International Energy Agency

Nov 4
WHO says Europe is again the Epicenter for COVID-19 after cases rise 50% in a month

Nov 4
Albino activist Overstone Kondowe is sworn in as Malawi's first MP with albinism

Nov 5
Eight people crushed to death and 13 hospitalized in a crowd surge during a Travis Scott
performance at Astroworld Festival, Houston, Texas

Nov 5
NFL Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rogers admits in interview he is unvaccinated and
taking unapproved treatment after testing positive for COVID-19 and in isolation

Nov 5
Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Del Mar Racetrack;
Day 1 winners: Twilight Gleaming, Echo Zulu,
Pizza Bianca, Corniche, Modern Games

Nov 6
Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Del Mar Racetrack;
Day 2 winners: Ce Ce, Golden Pal, Life Is Good,
Loves Only You, Aloha West, Space Blues, Marche Lorraine,
Yibir, Knicks Go

Nov 7
Attempt to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi
through drone attack on his home in Baghdad

Nov 8
US reopens its borders to vaccinated non US citizens after more than 18 months,
lifting restrictions imposed because of COVID-19

Nov 9
EU accuses Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko of "inhuman, gangster-style approach"
to thousands of migrants massing on their border with Poland in freezing conditions

Nov 9
105 year old Julia Hawkins sets world record as first woman and first American her age
to run 100 meters Louisiana Senior Olympic Games

Nov 9
Actor Paul Rudd is named People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive

Nov 10
China and the US announce plans to work together on cutting greenhouse gas
emissions at the COP26 summit

Nov 10
New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson sells Weta Digital's technology division to
video games company Unity for US$1.6 billion

Nov 11
Near-earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa, the size of a ferris wheel,
very likely a fragment of the moon, according to a new study

Nov 12
LA judge rules to end Britney Spears' conservatorship,
which had controlled almost all aspects of her life for 14 years

Nov 12
"Voyage", Abba's first album of new material in 40 years, tops the UK album chart

Nov 12
At least 68 inmates killed in new fighting at Ecuadorean prison,
the Litoral Penitentiary, Guayaquil, following earlier violence in September

Nov 12
Taylor Swift releases her directorial debut the short film "All Too Well" alongside
her re-recorded album "Red (Taylor's Version)"

Nov 13
Glasgow Climate Pact agreed at COP26:
commits countries to a phasedown" of "unabated" coal, end deforestation by 2030
and cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030

Nov 13
Germany records its highest number of daily COVID-19 cases amid
warnings its fourth wave could kill 100,000

Nov 14
Attack on a military police outpost near a gold mine in Inata,
northern Burkina Faso, kills at least 53, prompting three days of national mourning

Nov 15
US President Joe Biden signs a 'once in a generation' $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law

Nov 15
Former Trump aide Stephen Bannon turns himself in after being found in contempt of US Congress
by a federal grand jury, after refusing to comply with investigation into Jan 6

Nov 16
Guanyu Zhou confirmed as China's first F1 driver, racing for Alfa Romeo in 2022

Nov 16
Astronauts on board the International Space Station forced to take shelter as
Russian weapons test creates 1,500 debris field

Nov 16
Frida Kahlo's self-portrait "Diego y yo" (1949) sells for $34.9m -
record price at for a Latin American work at auction

Nov 17
British Columbia declares a state of emergency after an "atmospheric river"
storm causes widespread rain and flooding

Nov 17
Record number of Americans, over 100,000, died of drug overdoses April 2020 - April 2021 according to the CDC

Nov 17
US capitol rioter QAnon Shaman [Jacob Chansley] sentenced to three years in prison by a federal court

Nov 17
Delhi authorities order schools shut till further notice and construction halted as Supreme Court calls for
a "pollution lockdown" as city battles winter smog

Nov 17
Garbiñe Muguruza becomes first Spanish player to win WTA Finals defeating
Estonian Anett Kontaveit 6–3, 7–5 in Zapopan, Mexico

Nov 17
US National Book Award given to Jason Mott (fiction), Tiya Miles (nonfiction) and Martín Espada (poetry)

Nov 18
Longest partial lunar eclipse since 1440, lasting 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds

Nov 18
US judge exonerates two men for the killing of Malcolm X in 1965, saying they were "wrongly convicted"

Nov 19
US jury clears Kyle Rittenhouse (18) of murder for fatally shooting two people and injuring a
third during racial justice protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin

Nov 19
Austria becomes the first country to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory (from 1 Feb)
as it announces its fourth lockdown

Nov 19
Adele releases her fourth studio album "30"

Nov 19
Rounder Records releases "Raise The Roof", the 2nd collaborative album by American bluegrass singer
Alison Krauss and British rock vocalist Robert Plant

Nov 21
Alexander Zverev of Germany captures his second ATP Finals men's tennis title defeating
world #2 Daniil Medvedev 6-4, 6-4 in Turin

Nov 23
Manuscript of early workings of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity
"one of the most important scientific documents of the 20th century" sells at auction for $13 million

Nov 23
At least 45 people are killed when a bus crashes and catches fire, near Sofia, Bulgaria

Nov 23
NASA launches its DART Mission, to test technology to prevent future impact on earth by hazardous asteroid,
by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid (in a real life echo of the movie Armageddon)

Nov 23
Egypt reopens its 3000 year old Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor with a grand ceremony

Nov 24
Three men found guilty by a jury of felony murder of black runner Ahmaud Arbery,
with Travis McMichael also convicted of malice murder in Brunswick, Georgia

Nov 24
At least 27 migrants drown after their boat capsizes in the English Channel trying to reach the UK

Nov 24
Sweden's first female Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson resigns after 12 hours in the job after
her coalition government falls apart

Nov 25
India has more girls than boys for the first time in its history and its population boom is ending,
according to new government survey

Nov 25
Germany's COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 (Robert Koch Institute) amid its highest surge in infections yet

Nov 25
Peter Jackson's documentary series "The Beatles: Get Back" premieres on Disney+

Nov 26
WHO labels COVID-19 variant Omicron a "variant of concern", with its dozens of new mutations,
after it emerges in Botswana and South Africa

Nov 27
Jack Dorsey announces he is stepping down as CEO of Twitter, to be replaced by Parag Agrawal

Nov 28
Barbados becomes a Republic, removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state in a ceremony with
Sandra Mason sworn in as the first President, with Rihanna declared a national hero

Nov 28
Honduras presidential elections: Xiomara Castro elected country's female president (declared 2 Dec)

Nov 29
FIFA Ballon d'Or: Argentina and PSG forward Lionel Messi wins his record 7th award from Robert Lewandowski;
FC Barcelona attacking midfielder Alexia Putellas is Women's World Player of the Year

Nov 30
El Chapo's wife Emma Coronel Aispuro sentenced to three years in the US for helping run her husband's
drug cartel and aid his escape from prison

Nov 30
Josephine Baker becomes the first black woman to be honored at Paris’ Panthéon, France's highest honor

Nov 30
15 year old student shoots four death and injures seven at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan



Dec 1
Tel Aviv named the world's most expensive city for the first time ahead of Singapore and Paris,
with Damascus the cheapest

Dec 1
Turner Art Prize awarded to activist group Array Collective for installation including mock Irish pub -
first Northern Irish artists to win

Dec 4
New Zealand cricket spin bowler Ajaz Patel (10-119) joins Jim Laker and Anil Kumble as the only three men
to take all ten wickets in a Test innings, on Day 2 of the 2nd Test against India in Mumbai

Dec 4
Mt Semeru erupts on Java island, Indonesia, killing at least 14 and injuring 56

Dec 5
First known Hippos tests positive for COVID-19 at Antwerp Zoo in Belgium, with staff putting
Imani (14) and Hermien (41) into isolation

Dec 5
Kennedy Center Honors ceremony held for
Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler, Berry Gordy,
Lorne Michaels and Justino Diaz with
President Biden attending in Washington D.C.

Dec 6
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announces a COVID-19 mandate for all private employers effective
December 27, to combat Omicron, 1st in the country

Dec 6
Former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to four years (later reduced to two)
for inciting public unrest and breaching Covid-19 protocols

Dec 7
Chile becomes the 31st nation to legalize same-sex marriage

Dec 7
US President Joe Biden warns Russian President Vladimir Putin of economic consequences if
Russia continues a military build-up in the Ukraine, during a virtual meeting

Dec 8
Olaf Scholz is sworn as the new Chancellor of Germany, replacing Angela Merkel after 16 years

Dec 9
Actor Jussie Smollett found guilty of falsely reporting a hate crime in 2019, in a Chicago court

Dec 9
More than 40 camels disqualified from the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival beauty contest after
Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements were discovered

Dec 9
Chicago Black Hawks Marc-Andre Fleury becomes 3rd NHL goaltender to reach 500 career wins
in 2-0 shut-out over the Canadiens at Montreal

Dec 9
Truck with a trailer carrying 150 migrants crashes in Chiapas, Mexico, killing 54

Dec 10
Rare December tornadoes strike four American states,
with a 'Quad-State Tornado' across Arkansas, Missouri,
Tennessee and Kentucky, completely destroying some towns
and leaving at least 70 dead

Dec 10
Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, London, England: Europe retains trophy with an 11-6
win over US; MVP: Jayson Shaw (Scotland)

Dec 11
87th Heisman Trophy Award: Bryce Young, Alabama (QB)

Dec 12
British PM Boris Johnson announces a emergency COVID-19 booster program to protect
the NHS and stem a possible incoming “tidal wave of Omicron”

Dec 12
Dutchman Max Verstappen wins Formula 1 Drivers' C'ship for Red Bull with a controversial last lap
win over Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton in the season-ending Abu Dhabi GP

Dec 13
1 in a 100 Americans aged over 65 has now died of COVID-19, or 75% of total deaths,
according to the CDC

Dec 13
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, named Time's Person of the Year

Dec 13
70th Miss Universe Contest won by Miss India's Harnaaz Sandhu in Eilat, Israel

Dec 13
First COVID-19 Omicron death in the UK reported by PM Boris Johnson

Dec 14
American Covid-19 death toll passes 800,000, with more deaths recorded in 2021 than 2020

Dec 14
Steph Curry makes his 2,974th three-point shot to pass Ray Allen as the NBA's greatest career 3-point shooter
during Golden State Warriors' 105-96 win over NY Knicks at Madison Square Garden

Dec 14
Fuel tanker explosion after an accident leaves at least 90 dead in city of Cap-Haitien, Haiti

Dec 15
COVID-19 Omicron variant called "probably the most significant threat" of the pandemic by head of
UK Health Security Agency, warning of "staggering" growth in next few days

Dec 15
Bruce Springsteen sells his music back catalogue to Sony Music Entertainment for an estimated $500 million,
in possibly the biggest deal ever for a single artist

Dec 15
Las Vegas' McCarran Airport officially changes name to Harry Reid International Airport

Dec 16
Super Typhoon Rai strikes the Philippines' south-eastern islands with winds of 195km/h (120mph),
killing at least 375

Dec 16
Six children die in a bouncy castle accident at a school in Devonport, Tasmasia, Australia

Dec 17
Discovery of the first true millipede (Eumillipes persephone) with 1,000 legs found down a drill hole in
Western Australia published in "Scientific Reports"

Dec 19
Former student activist Gabriel Boric wins Chile's Presidential election, to become the country's youngest president at 35

Dec 20
First Hong Kong legislative elections with only 'patriot' candidates allowed to stand has low turnout of 30%

Dec 25 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched in joint effort with ESA (European Space Agency)
and the Canadian Space Agency on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America

Dec 28
Test cricket debutant Scott Boland takes 6 for 7 as Australia retain the Ashes (3-0) with an innings & 14 run
win against England in the 3rd Test in Melbourne






I'm quite sure there will be additions to my list...
Just awaiting updates

[Analin]

O my goodness. Just how long did it take to compile this list??

[IceWizard]

I got it from a site...

It only takes me time to "format" the text ...

Ice

[Analin]

Heh. Wow. I'm over here still unsure about how to post simple picture. Oh well. I'm glad you're so good at that stuff bc I do enjoy your posts.

With love,
Your local computer illiterate

[IceWizard]

Dec 30
Rare winter wildfire destroys nearly 1000 homes at the
base of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, in suburban neighborhoods
between Boulder and Denver

Dec 31
Betty Marion White Ludden A pioneer of early television, with a career spanning nine decades.
White died at her home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California
at the age of 99, less than three weeks before her 100th birthday