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-2001-01-13, A 7.6-magnitude earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 944 people.
-2001-01-16, Assassination of Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
-2001-01-26, A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Gujarat, India, causing significant casualties.
-2001-02-13, A 6.6-magnitude earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 315 people.
-2001-06-23, An 8.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Peru, causing a destructive tsunami.
-2001-09-11, September 11 attacks: Al-Qaeda terrorists hijack four planes, crashing them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, killing 2,977 people.
-2002-02-03, A 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey, killing 41 people.
-2002-02-23, The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia kidnap presidential candidate Íngrid Betancourt.
-2002-03-25, A 6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Nahrin, Afghanistan, killing 800 people.
-2002-06-04, The ringed dwarf planet Quaoar is discovered.
-2002-08-19, Chechen separatists shoot down a Russian Mil Mi-26, killing 127 soldiers.
-2002-10-12, Jemaah Islamiyah militants detonate bombs in Bali, killing 202 people.
-2002-10-23, Chechen rebels take control of the Nord-Ost theatre in Moscow, leading to a hostage crisis.
-2002-11-16, The first case of the SARS epidemic is recorded in Guangdong province, China.
-2003-01-05, Tel Aviv central bus station: Two Palestinian suicide bombers attack a neighborhood in Tel Aviv, killing at least 23 people and injuring 103.
-2003-01-08, Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashed into a hangar upon takeoff in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 passengers and crew.
-2003-01-22, The last signal from NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft is received, some 12.2 billion kilometers from Earth.
-2003-02-01, At the conclusion of the STS-107 mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry over Texas, killing all seven astronauts on board.
-2003-02-07, 2003 El Nogal Club bombing: A car bomb goes off in the garage of the El Nogal club in Bogotá, Colombia, killing 36 people and injuring hundreds.
-2003-02-18, Daegu subway fire: An arsonist sets fire to a subway train in Daegu, South Korea, killing 192 people.
-2003-02-19, An Ilyushin Il-76 plane crashes near Kerman Airport in Iran, killing 270 military personnel.
-2003-02-20, A pyrotechnics accident during a Great White concert causes a fire at a nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, killing 100 people.
-2003-03-12, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić is assassinated in Belgrade by a sniper.
-2003-05-21, The 6.8 Mw Boumerdès earthquake strikes in Algeria, killing over 2,200 people.
-2003-08-19, In the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad 22 people are killed, among them United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello.
-2003-11-12, A suicide bombing at an Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriyah, Iraq, kills 17 Italian military police officers and nine Iraqi civilians.
-2003-12-26, The 6.6 Mw Bam earthquake shakes Iran, killing approximately 50,000 people.
-2004-01-03, Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.
-2004-02-26, Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
-2004-03-11, Al-Qaeda bombings on Cercanías trains in Madrid, Spain, kill at least 192 people.
-2004-08-01, A fire in the 'Ycua Bolaños-Botánico' supermarket in Asunción, Paraguay kills around 400 people.
-2004-08-24, Two Russian passenger planes explode and crash, killing all on board, due to female Chechen suicide bombers.
-2004-09-01, Beslan school siege begins, resulting in more than 330 deaths.
-2004-10-08, Suicide bombers detonate bombs at the Red Sea resort of Taba, Egypt, killing 34 people.
-2004-11-02, George W. Bush is re-elected President of the United States.
-2005-01-05, Eris, the most massive known dwarf planet, is discovered.
-2005-01-20, The most intense solar particle event in recorded history is observed.
-2005-02-14, Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri is assassinated.
-2005-03-28, The Nias–Simeulue earthquake strikes northern Sumatra.
-2005-03-31, The dwarf planet Makemake is discovered.
-2005-04-02, Pope John Paul II dies.
-2005-07-07, Four coordinated suicide bombings hit London.
-2005-07-23, Bombings in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, kill over 80 people.
-2005-08-14, Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes in Greece.
-2005-08-16, West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes in Venezuela.
-2005-08-29, Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
-2005-08-31, The Al-Aimmah bridge disaster in Baghdad kills 953 pilgrims.
-2005-10-08, The Kashmir earthquake strikes Pakistan and nearby areas.
-2005-11-09, Suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan, kill at least 60 people.
-2005-11-11, Zamanbek Nurkadilov is found dead in Kazakhstan.
-2005-12-25, A train derailment in Japan kills five people.
-2006-01-12, A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 pilgrims.
-2006-01-29, The roof of a building at the Katowice International Fair collapses in Poland, killing 65 and injuring 170.
-2006-01-30, Jennifer San Marco goes on a killing spree in Goleta, California, leaving seven people dead before taking her own life.
-2006-02-04, Egyptian passenger ferry MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98 sinks in the Red Sea, killing over 1,000 people.
-2006-02-17, A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines, killing an estimated 1,126 people.
-2006-02-22, Explosions at the al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq, escalate sectarian violence into the Iraqi Civil War.
-2006-03-09, NASA's Cassini–Huygens spacecraft announces a geyser-like emission on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
-2006-05-27, The Yogyakarta earthquake in Indonesia kills more than 5,700 and injures 37,000.
-2006-07-11, A series of bomb blasts in Mumbai, India, kills more than 200 people.
-2006-08-10, A terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives on flights is thwarted.
-2006-08-14, Sri Lankan Civil War: Chencholai bombing kills 61 female students.
-2006-08-22, Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes, killing all 170 on board.
-2006-09-28, Typhoon Xangsane causes over 300 deaths in the Philippines and Vietnam.
-2006-09-29, Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides with an Embraer Legacy 600, killing all 154 on board the 737.
-2006-11-23, A series of car bombs in Sadr City, Baghdad, kills at least 215 people.
-2007-01-01, Adam Air Flight 574 crashes into the Makassar Strait, killing all 102 on board.
-2007-02-02, The IPCC publishes its fourth assessment report, concluding that global climate change is 'very likely' to have a predominantly human cause.
-2007-02-13, North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization.
-2007-04-16, Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho fatally shoots 32 people and injures 17 others.
-2007-04-24, Gliese 581c, a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet, is discovered.
-2007-05-03, British three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
-2007-07-17, TAM Airlines Flight 3054 crashes in São Paulo, killing all 187 passengers and crew, and 12 people on the ground.
-2007-09-06, Israeli Air Force airplanes attack a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria.
-2007-11-07, WikiLeaks leaks the standard US army protocol at Guantanamo Bay.
-2007-11-16, Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing up to 15,000 people.
-2007-12-27, Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated at an election rally in Rawalpindi.
-2008-01-21, Stock markets plunge globally amid fears of a U.S. Great Recession.
-2008-03-08, Barisan Nasional loses two-thirds majority in Malaysian general election.
-2008-03-19, GRB 080319B, the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, is observed.
-2008-05-03, Cyclone Nargis kills over 138,000 people in Myanmar.
-2008-05-12, A 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Sichuan, China, killing an estimated 87,000 people.
-2008-05-21, Manchester United wins the UEFA Champions League in an all-English final.
-2008-07-02, Íngrid Betancourt and 14 hostages are rescued from FARC by Colombian forces.
-2008-07-21, Radovan Karadžić is arrested in Serbia for war crimes.
-2008-08-20, Spanair Flight 5022 crashes in Madrid, killing 154 people.
-2008-09-20, Suicide truck bomb destroys Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan.
-2008-11-01, Satoshi Nakamoto publishes 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System'.
-2008-11-04, Barack Obama is elected as the 44th President of the United States.
-2008-11-19, First successful trachea transplant using a tissue-engineered organ is performed.
-2008-11-26, Mumbai attacks by Lashkar-e-Taiba result in 164 deaths.
-2008-12-11, Bernard Madoff is arrested for operating the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
-2008-12-22, Coal fly ash spill in Tennessee becomes the largest industrial spill in U.S. history.
-2009-01-03, The first block of Bitcoin's blockchain is established by Satoshi Nakamoto.
-2009-01-15, US Airways Flight 1549 ditches in the Hudson River, all 155 people are rescued.
-2009-02-07, Bushfires in Victoria, Australia, leave 173 dead.
-2009-02-25, Bangladeshi border security force mutiny results in 57 army officers and 17 civilians killed.
-2009-03-02, President of Guinea-Bissau, João Bernardo Vieira, is assassinated.
-2009-03-04, ICC issues arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes.
-2009-03-17, President of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, is overthrown in a coup.
-2009-04-06, A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 308.
-2009-06-01, Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 on board.
-2009-06-25, Death of Michael Jackson triggers worldwide grief and internet traffic surge.
-2009-06-28, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is ousted in a coup.
-2009-07-26, Boko Haram initiates an uprising in Nigeria.
-2009-09-29, An 8.1 Mw earthquake strikes Samoa, leaving at least 192 dead.
-2009-09-30, A 7.6 Mw earthquake strikes Sumatra, Indonesia, leaving at least 1,115 dead.
-2009-11-23, 58 people are killed in the Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines.
-2009-12-25, A Nigerian terrorist attempts to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253.
-2010-01-12, A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince.
-2010-01-19, Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh is assassinated in Dubai.
-2010-02-27, An 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing at least 525.
-2010-03-26, The ROKS Cheonan, a South Korean Navy ship, sinks off the country's west coast, killing 46.
-2010-04-05, Julian Assange leaks footage of a 2007 airstrike in Iraq titled 'Collateral Murder' on WikiLeaks.
-2010-04-10, The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes near Smolensk, Russia.
-2010-04-20, The Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, causing a massive oil spill.
-2010-05-06, The 2010 Flash Crash, a trillion-dollar stock market crash, occurs over 36 minutes.
-2010-07-25, WikiLeaks leaks over 90,000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan.
-2010-09-04, A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks Christchurch, New Zealand, causing significant damage.
-2010-10-25, An earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, kills over 400 people.
-2010-11-28, WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables.
-2011-01-04, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi dies after setting himself on fire, sparking the Arab Spring protests.
-2011-01-14, The Tunisian government falls; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia.
-2011-03-11, A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, causing significant casualties and nuclear emergencies.
-2011-03-17, The UN Security Council votes to create a no-fly zone over Libya.
-2011-05-02, U.S. Navy SEALs kill al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
-2011-07-22, Anders Behring Breivik kills 77 people in Norway in a bomb blast and massacre.
-2011-10-20, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, ending the war.
-2011-12-17, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies, succeeded by his son Kim Jong Un.
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-2012-01-13, Costa Concordia cruise ship runs aground off Italy, causing 32 deaths.
-2012-02-01, Port Said Stadium riot in Egypt results in 74 deaths.
-2012-02-06, Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes central Philippines, killing 112.
-2012-03-04, Explosions at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, Congo, kill at least 250.
-2012-03-12, Coach crash in Switzerland kills 28, including 22 children.
-2012-04-11, 8.6 earthquake strikes Indonesia, triggering a small tsunami.
-2012-04-13, North Korean satellite explodes shortly after launch.
-2012-04-20, Bhoja Air Flight 213 crashes in Pakistan, killing all 127 on board.
-2012-05-02, The Scream painting sells for $120 million, setting a new auction record.
-2012-05-19, Chelsea wins the UEFA Champions League.
-2012-06-03, Dana Air Flight 0992 crashes in Nigeria, killing 153 on board and 6 on the ground.
-2012-06-24, Lonesome George, last Pinta Island tortoise, dies.
-2012-07-04, CERN announces discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson.
-2012-07-20, Aurora, Colorado shooting kills 12 and injures 58.
-2012-07-30, India experiences the worst power outage in history, affecting 620 million people.
-2012-09-11, US diplomatic missions attacked worldwide, US ambassador killed in Libya.
-2012-10-22, Hurricane Sandy causes 233 deaths and $68.7 billion in damage.
-2012-11-06, Barack Obama reelected President of the United States.
-2012-12-14, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting kills 28 people.
-2013-01-05, A Mw 7.5 earthquake shakes Prince of Wales Island, Alaska.
-2013-01-10, At least 130 people are killed and 270 are injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
-2013-01-16, Hostage crisis at a natural gas facility in Algeria results in 40 deaths.
-2013-01-27, A nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Brazil, kills an estimated 245 people.
-2013-02-11, Emergency Alert Systems in the U.S. are hijacked with a 'Zombie apocalypse' hoax.
-2013-02-15, A meteor explodes over Chelyabinsk, Russia, injuring over 1,400 people.
-2013-02-21, American scientists create a living lab-grown ear using a 3D printer.
-2013-03-24, Central African Republic President François Bozizé flees after rebels capture Bangui.
-2013-04-15, Boston Marathon bombing kills 3 and injures 264.
-2013-04-20, A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Sichuan, China, killing 193.
-2013-04-24, The Savar building collapse in Bangladesh kills 1,134 people.
-2013-05-15, Researchers produce human embryonic stem cells by cloning.
-2013-05-20, An EF5 tornado hits Moore, Oklahoma, killing 24.
-2013-05-22, British soldier Lee Rigby is murdered in Woolwich, London.
-2013-06-06, Edward Snowden discloses U.S. government mass surveillance operations.
-2013-06-23, A bus crash in Montenegro kills 19 Romanian tourists.
-2013-07-06, A train derailment in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, kills 47.
-2013-08-14, Egyptian security forces raid anti-coup camps, killing 2,696.
-2013-08-21, 1,429 are killed in the Ghouta chemical attack in Syria.
-2013-09-21, al-Shabaab militants attack Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 62.
-2013-10-15, A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes Bohol, Philippines, killing 222.
-2013-10-16, Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes, killing all 49 on board.
-2013-11-21, Euromaidan protests begin in Ukraine.
-2013-11-29, A police helicopter crashes into a pub in Glasgow, Scotland, killing 10.
-2014-01-09, Elk River Chemical Spill in Charleston, West Virginia, leaves 300,000 residents without drinkable water.
-2014-03-01, Kunming attack in China results in 31 deaths and 143 injuries.
-2014-03-08, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board.
-2014-04-16, South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes, killing 304 people.
-2014-05-02, WHO identifies the spread of poliomyelitis as a major worldwide health emergency.
-2014-05-05, Boko Haram militants kill approximately 300 people in Nigeria.
-2014-05-20, Jos bombings in Nigeria kill 118 people.
-2014-06-12, Camp Speicher massacre by ISIL in Iraq kills 1,566 Shia Iraqi Air Force cadets.
-2014-07-17, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shot down in Ukraine, killing all 298 on board.
-2014-08-03, Sinjar massacre by ISIS results in over 4,000 Yazidi deaths.
-2014-08-09, Shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, triggers riots.
-2014-09-18, Scottish independence referendum results in a vote against independence.
-2014-09-26, 43 students abducted in Iguala, Mexico, causing international protests.
-2014-10-24, Alan Eustace sets world record for highest and longest free fall jump.
-2014-12-16, Peshawar school massacre by Pakistani Taliban kills at least 145 people.
-2014-12-28, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Java Sea, killing all 162 on board.
-2015-01-03, Boko Haram massacres in Baga, Nigeria, and surrounding villages kill more than 2,000 people.
-2015-01-07, Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris by Al-Qaeda gunmen kills 12 people.
-2015-03-24, Germanwings Flight 9525 is deliberately crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 on board.
-2015-03-25, Saudi-led coalition begins military intervention in Yemen against Houthi forces.
-2015-04-25, A magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal causes over 9,000 deaths.
-2015-05-07, UK General Election results in the first Conservative majority government in 18 years.
-2015-08-05, Debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is found on Réunion Island.
-2015-09-14, First observation of gravitational waves by LIGO.
-2015-09-28, NASA announces the discovery of liquid water on Mars.
-2015-10-23, Hurricane Patricia becomes the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere.
-2015-11-13, ISIL terrorist attacks in Paris result in 130 fatalities.
-2015-11-24, Turkey shoots down a Russian fighter jet on the Turkish-Syrian border.
-2016-01-08, Joaquín Guzmán, the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured in Mexico.
-2016-01-10, David Bowie dies in New York City from liver cancer.
-2016-01-12, A bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul kills 10 people and wounds 15.
-2016-01-16, Terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso kill 30 and injure 56.
-2016-01-16, Tsai Ing-wen becomes the first female President of Taiwan after the Democratic Progressive Party wins the general election.
-2016-02-06, A magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people.
-2016-03-21, The ICC finds Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
-2016-03-22, Brussels bombings kill 35 and injure 300.
-2016-03-24, Radovan Karadžić is sentenced to 40 years for genocide and crimes against humanity.
-2016-04-01, Nagorno-Karabakh clashes result in 350 deaths.
-2016-04-16, A 7.8 earthquake in Ecuador kills 676 and injures over 6,000.
-2016-05-09, Rodrigo Duterte is elected President of the Philippines.
-2016-05-19, EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes, killing all 66 on board.
-2016-05-28, Gorilla Harambe is shot at the Cincinnati Zoo, becoming a global meme.
-2016-06-12, A gunman kills 49 and injures 53 at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
-2016-06-23, The UK votes to leave the EU, triggering Brexit.
-2016-06-28, Atatürk Airport attack in Istanbul kills 999 and injures 230.
-2016-07-14, Nice truck attack kills 86 and injures over 400 during Bastille Day celebrations.
-2016-07-15, A failed coup in Turkey results in 240 deaths and widespread purges.
-2016-08-24, A 6.2 earthquake in central Italy kills 299 people.
-2016-10-03, Hurricane Matthew hits Haiti, killing 546 and causing $2.8 billion in damages.
-2016-11-08, Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States.
-2016-11-28, LaMia Flight 2933 crashes, killing 71, including members of the Chapecoense football team.
-2016-12-19, Berlin truck attack kills 12 and injures 56 at a Christmas market.
-2016-12-25, Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into the Black Sea, killing all 92 on board.
-2017-01-01, Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman opens fire at the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 39 people and injuring 79 others.
-2017-01-08, 2017 Jerusalem truck attack: A Palestinian assailant kills 4 people and injures 15 others in Jerusalem.
-2017-01-16, Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 crashes in a residential area in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, killing all four crew members and 35 people on the ground.
-2017-02-13, Kim Jong-nam is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
-2017-03-31, Political crisis in Paraguay leads to the storming of Congress and the assassination of Rodrigo Quintana.
-2017-04-13, The U.S. drops the GBU-43/B MOAB at an ISIL base in Afghanistan.
-2017-04-15, Emma Morano, the last known person born in the 1800s, dies.
-2017-05-22, ISIL bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, kills 22 people.
-2017-06-03, London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered by Islamist terrorists.
-2017-06-07, ISIL terrorists attack the Iranian Parliament and Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran.
-2017-06-21, The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq, is destroyed by ISIL.
-2017-08-12, Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, results in the death of Heather Heyer.
-2017-08-17, First observation of a neutron star collision provides evidence for the r-process theory.
-2017-08-17, Barcelona attacks: A van attack kills 13 people on La Rambla.
-2017-09-19, A 7.1 Mw earthquake strikes central Mexico, killing 370 people.
-2017-10-01, Las Vegas shooting: 60 people are killed in the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history.
-2017-10-14, A truck bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills at least 587 people.
-2017-11-02, A new species of orangutan is identified in Indonesia.
-2017-11-05, Sutherland Springs church shooting: 26 people are killed in Texas.
-2017-11-12, A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the border region between Iraq and Iran.
-2017-11-20, Nature recognizes ʻOumuamua as the first known interstellar object.
-2017-11-24, A mosque attack in Sinai, Egypt, kills 305 worshippers.
-2018-02-06, SpaceX successfully conducts its maiden flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket.
-2018-02-14, A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida results in 17 fatalities.
-2018-03-04, Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned by the Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England.
-2018-03-19, The world's last male northern white rhinoceros dies in Kenya, making the subspecies functionally extinct.
-2018-03-23, An Islamic terrorist attack in Carcassonne and Trèbes, France, kills five people.
-2018-04-07, A chemical attack in Douma, Syria, reportedly kills at least 70 people.
-2018-07-10, Twelve boys and their football coach are rescued from the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Thailand.
-2018-07-25, Scientists report the presence of a subglacial lake on Mars, the first known body of water on the planet.
-2018-08-20, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg starts a school strike for climate change.
-2018-09-28, A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Sulawesi, Indonesia, causing a tsunami that kills at least 4,340 people.
-2018-10-02, Journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
-2018-12-22, An eruption from Krakatoa causes a tsunami in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia, killing at least 430 people.
-2019-01-25, A mine tailings dam breaks in Brumadinho, Brazil, killing at least 248 people.
-2019-02-26, Indian Air Force launches airstrikes in Balakot, Pakistan, leading to the India–Pakistan standoff.
-2019-03-10, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes, leading to the grounding of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft worldwide.
-2019-03-15, Cyclone Idai hits Mozambique, causing over 1,073 fatalities.
-2019-04-15, A major fire engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
-2019-04-21, Islamist bomb attacks in Sri Lanka kill 259 people on Easter Sunday.
-2019-06-03, Khartoum massacre in Sudan kills over 100 people.
-2019-09-14, Drone attacks on Saudi Aramco oil refineries disrupt oil exports.
-2019-10-27, U.S. announces the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
-2019-12-01, First known human case of COVID-19 documented in Wuhan, China.
-2019-12-09, Volcano erupts on White Island, New Zealand, killing 22 people.
-2020-01-03, A United States drone strike at Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
-2020-01-08, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iranian forces, killing all 176 people on board.
-2020-05-25, Protests caused by the murder of George Floyd break out across hundreds of cities in the U.S. and around the world.
-2020-06-15, At least 20 Indian soldiers and over 40 Chinese forces are killed or injured in skirmishes in the disputed Galwan Valley.
-2020-08-04, An explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 218 people and causes extensive damage.
-2020-09-27, Beginning of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: deadly clashes erupt between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces.
-2020-11-03, Joe Biden is elected as the 46th President of the United States.
-2021-01-06, Supporters of US President Donald Trump attack the US Capitol, disrupting certification of the 2020 presidential election.
-2021-02-01, A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule.
-2021-03-23, Ever Given runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal, disrupting global trade.
-2021-04-20, Idriss Déby, President of Chad, is killed in clashes with rebel forces.
-2021-05-23, Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain journalist Roman Protasevich.
-2021-07-07, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated.
-2021-08-26, A suicide bomb attack at Kabul airport kills at least 182 people, including 13 U.S. service members.
-2021-10-25, The Sudanese military launches a coup against the government.
-2022-01-10, The first successful heart transplant from a pig to a human patient occurs in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
-2022-01-15, A large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai triggers tsunami warnings in multiple countries.
-2022-02-03, Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi is killed in a counter-terrorism raid by U.S. special forces in Syria.
-2022-02-24, Russia begins a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
-2022-02-26, The EU, US, and allies commit to removing Russian banks from the SWIFT payment system.
-2022-02-27, Putin orders Russia's nuclear deterrent forces to be on 'special alert.'
-2022-03-05, Researchers find Endurance, a shipwreck from Ernest Shackleton's exploration.
-2022-03-21, China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing all 133 people on board.
-2022-04-14, The Russian flagship Moskva sinks, claimed by Ukraine to have been struck by missiles.
-2022-05-06, An outbreak of monkeypox begins in London, UK.
-2022-05-09, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns amid protests.
-2022-05-18, Finland and Sweden apply to join NATO.
-2022-05-24, Uvalde school shooting: 18-year-old Salvador Ramos fatally shoots 19 students and two teachers.
-2022-06-22, A 6.2 earthquake strikes the Durand Line between Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing at least 1,163 people.
-2022-07-08, Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is assassinated.
-2022-08-09, William Ruto is elected as Kenya's 5th president.
-2022-09-08, Queen Elizabeth II dies at Balmoral Castle, and Charles III becomes King.
-2022-10-08, An explosion occurs on the Crimean Bridge, causing a partial collapse.
-2022-12-18, Argentina wins the 2022 FIFA World Cup against France.