Date, Event
1/13/01, A 7.6-magnitude earthquake hits El Salvador， killing at least 944 people.
1/16/01, Assassination of Laurent-Désiré Kabila， President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1/26/01, A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Gujarat， India， causing significant casualties.
2/13/01, A 6.6-magnitude earthquake hits El Salvador， killing at least 315 people.
6/23/01, An 8.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Peru， causing a destructive tsunami.
9/11/01, 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.
2/3/02, A 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Afyonkarahisar Province， Turkey， killing 41 people.
2/23/02, The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia kidnap presidential candidate Íngrid Betancourt.
3/25/02, A 6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Nahrin， Afghanistan， killing 800 people.
6/4/02, The ringed dwarf planet Quaoar is discovered.
8/19/02, Chechen separatists shoot down a Russian Mil Mi-26， killing 127 soldiers.
10/12/02, Jemaah Islamiyah militants detonate bombs in Bali， killing 202 people.
10/23/02, Chechen rebels take control of the Nord-Ost theatre in Moscow， leading to a hostage crisis.
11/16/02, The first case of the SARS epidemic is recorded in Guangdong province， China.
1/5/03, Tel Aviv central bus station: Two Palestinian suicide bombers attack a neighborhood in Tel Aviv， killing at least 23 people and injuring 103.
1/8/03, Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashed into a hangar upon takeoff in Charlotte， North Carolina， killing all 21 passengers and crew.
1/22/03, The last signal from NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft is received， some 12.2 billion kilometers from Earth.
2/1/03, At the conclusion of the STS-107 mission， the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry over Texas， killing all seven astronauts on board.
2/7/03, 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.
2/18/03, Daegu subway fire: An arsonist sets fire to a subway train in Daegu， South Korea， killing 192 people.
2/19/03, An Ilyushin Il-76 plane crashes near Kerman Airport in Iran， killing 270 military personnel.
2/20/03, A pyrotechnics accident during a Great White concert causes a fire at a nightclub in West Warwick， Rhode Island， killing 100 people.
3/12/03, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić is assassinated in Belgrade by a sniper.
5/21/03, The 6.8 Mw Boumerdès earthquake strikes in Algeria， killing over 2，200 people.
8/19/03, In the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad 22 people are killed， among them United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello.
11/12/03, A suicide bombing at an Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriyah， Iraq， kills 17 Italian military police officers and nine Iraqi civilians.
12/26/03, The 6.6 Mw Bam earthquake shakes Iran， killing approximately 50，000 people.
1/3/04, Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt， killing all 148 aboard.
2/26/04, Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar， Bosnia and Herzegovina.
3/11/04, Al-Qaeda bombings on Cercanías trains in Madrid， Spain， kill at least 192 people.
8/1/04, A fire in the 'Ycua Bolaños-Botánico' supermarket in Asunción， Paraguay kills around 400 people.
8/24/04, Two Russian passenger planes explode and crash， killing all on board， due to female Chechen suicide bombers.
9/1/04, Beslan school siege begins， resulting in more than 330 deaths.
10/8/04, Suicide bombers detonate bombs at the Red Sea resort of Taba， Egypt， killing 34 people.
11/2/04, George W. Bush is re-elected President of the United States.
1/5/05, Eris， the most massive known dwarf planet， is discovered.
1/20/05, The most intense solar particle event in recorded history is observed.
2/14/05, Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri is assassinated.
3/28/05, The Nias–Simeulue earthquake strikes northern Sumatra.
3/31/05, The dwarf planet Makemake is discovered.
4/2/05, Pope John Paul II dies.
7/7/05, Four coordinated suicide bombings hit London.
7/23/05, Bombings in Sharm El Sheikh， Egypt， kill over 80 people.
8/14/05, Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes in Greece.
8/16/05, West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes in Venezuela.
8/29/05, Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
8/31/05, The Al-Aimmah bridge disaster in Baghdad kills 953 pilgrims.
10/8/05, The Kashmir earthquake strikes Pakistan and nearby areas.
11/9/05, Suicide bombings in Amman， Jordan， kill at least 60 people.
11/11/05, Zamanbek Nurkadilov is found dead in Kazakhstan.
12/25/05, A train derailment in Japan kills five people.
1/12/06, A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual at the Hajj in Mina， Saudi Arabia， kills at least 362 pilgrims.
1/29/06, The roof of a building at the Katowice International Fair collapses in Poland， killing 65 and injuring 170.
1/30/06, Jennifer San Marco goes on a killing spree in Goleta， California， leaving seven people dead before taking her own life.
2/4/06, Egyptian passenger ferry MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98 sinks in the Red Sea， killing over 1，000 people.
2/17/06, A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte， Philippines， killing an estimated 1，126 people.
2/22/06, Explosions at the al-Askari Shrine in Samarra， Iraq， escalate sectarian violence into the Iraqi Civil War.
3/9/06, NASA's Cassini–Huygens spacecraft announces a geyser-like emission on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
5/27/06, The Yogyakarta earthquake in Indonesia kills more than 5，700 and injures 37，000.
7/11/06, A series of bomb blasts in Mumbai， India， kills more than 200 people.
8/10/06, A terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives on flights is thwarted.
8/14/06, Sri Lankan Civil War: Chencholai bombing kills 61 female students.
8/22/06, Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes， killing all 170 on board.
9/28/06, Typhoon Xangsane causes over 300 deaths in the Philippines and Vietnam.
9/29/06, Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides with an Embraer Legacy 600， killing all 154 on board the 737.
11/23/06, A series of car bombs in Sadr City， Baghdad， kills at least 215 people.
1/1/07, Adam Air Flight 574 crashes into the Makassar Strait， killing all 102 on board.
2/2/07, The IPCC publishes its fourth assessment report， concluding that global climate change is 'very likely' to have a predominantly human cause.
2/13/07, North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization.
4/16/07, Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho fatally shoots 32 people and injures 17 others.
4/24/07, Gliese 581c， a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet， is discovered.
5/3/07, British three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz， Portugal.
7/17/07, TAM Airlines Flight 3054 crashes in São Paulo， killing all 187 passengers and crew， and 12 people on the ground.
9/6/07, Israeli Air Force airplanes attack a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria.
11/7/07, WikiLeaks leaks the standard US army protocol at Guantanamo Bay.
11/16/07, Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh， killing up to 15，000 people.
12/27/07, Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated at an election rally in Rawalpindi.
1/21/08, Stock markets plunge globally amid fears of a U.S. Great Recession.
3/8/08, Barisan Nasional loses two-thirds majority in Malaysian general election.
3/19/08, GRB 080319B， the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded， is observed.
5/3/08, Cyclone Nargis kills over 138，000 people in Myanmar.
5/12/08, A 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Sichuan， China， killing an estimated 87，000 people.
5/21/08, Manchester United wins the UEFA Champions League in an all-English final.
7/2/08, Íngrid Betancourt and 14 hostages are rescued from FARC by Colombian forces.
7/21/08, Radovan Karadžić is arrested in Serbia for war crimes.
8/20/08, Spanair Flight 5022 crashes in Madrid， killing 154 people.
9/20/08, Suicide truck bomb destroys Marriott Hotel in Islamabad， Pakistan.
11/1/08, Satoshi Nakamoto publishes 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System'.
11/4/08, Barack Obama is elected as the 44th President of the United States.
11/19/08, First successful trachea transplant using a tissue-engineered organ is performed.
11/26/08, Mumbai attacks by Lashkar-e-Taiba result in 164 deaths.
12/11/08, Bernard Madoff is arrested for operating the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
12/22/08, Coal fly ash spill in Tennessee becomes the largest industrial spill in U.S. history.
1/3/09, The first block of Bitcoin's blockchain is established by Satoshi Nakamoto.
1/15/09, US Airways Flight 1549 ditches in the Hudson River， all 155 people are rescued.
2/7/09, Bushfires in Victoria， Australia， leave 173 dead.
2/25/09, Bangladeshi border security force mutiny results in 57 army officers and 17 civilians killed.
3/2/09, President of Guinea-Bissau， João Bernardo Vieira， is assassinated.
3/4/09, ICC issues arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes.
3/17/09, President of Madagascar， Marc Ravalomanana， is overthrown in a coup.
4/6/09, A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila， Italy， killing 308.
6/1/09, Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean， killing all 228 on board.
6/25/09, Death of Michael Jackson triggers worldwide grief and internet traffic surge.
6/28/09, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is ousted in a coup.
7/26/09, Boko Haram initiates an uprising in Nigeria.
9/29/09, An 8.1 Mw earthquake strikes Samoa， leaving at least 192 dead.
9/30/09, A 7.6 Mw earthquake strikes Sumatra， Indonesia， leaving at least 1，115 dead.
11/23/09, 58 people are killed in the Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines.
12/25/09, A Nigerian terrorist attempts to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253.
1/12/10, A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti， devastating the nation's capital， Port-au-Prince.
1/19/10, Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh is assassinated in Dubai.
2/27/10, An 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile， triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing at least 525.
3/26/10, The ROKS Cheonan， a South Korean Navy ship， sinks off the country's west coast， killing 46.
4/5/10, Julian Assange leaks footage of a 2007 airstrike in Iraq titled 'Collateral Murder' on WikiLeaks.
4/10/10, The President of Poland， Lech Kaczyński， is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes near Smolensk， Russia.
4/20/10, The Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico， causing a massive oil spill.
5/6/10, The 2010 Flash Crash， a trillion-dollar stock market crash， occurs over 36 minutes.
7/25/10, WikiLeaks leaks over 90，000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan.
9/4/10, A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks Christchurch， New Zealand， causing significant damage.
10/25/10, An earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra， Indonesia， kills over 400 people.
11/28/10, WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250，000 American diplomatic cables.
1/4/11, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi dies after setting himself on fire， sparking the Arab Spring protests.
1/14/11, The Tunisian government falls; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia.
3/11/11, A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Japan， causing significant casualties and nuclear emergencies.
3/17/11, The UN Security Council votes to create a no-fly zone over Libya.
5/2/11, U.S. Navy SEALs kill al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
7/22/11, Anders Behring Breivik kills 77 people in Norway in a bomb blast and massacre.
10/20/11, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte， ending the war.
12/17/11, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies， succeeded by his son Kim Jong Un.
1/13/12, Costa Concordia cruise ship runs aground off Italy， causing 32 deaths.
2/1/12, Port Said Stadium riot in Egypt results in 74 deaths.
2/6/12, Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes central Philippines， killing 112.
3/4/12, Explosions at a munitions dump in Brazzaville， Congo， kill at least 250.
3/12/12, Coach crash in Switzerland kills 28， including 22 children.
4/11/12, 8.6 earthquake strikes Indonesia， triggering a small tsunami.
4/13/12, North Korean satellite explodes shortly after launch.
4/20/12, Bhoja Air Flight 213 crashes in Pakistan， killing all 127 on board.
5/2/12, The Scream painting sells for $120 million， setting a new auction record.
5/19/12, Chelsea wins the UEFA Champions League.
6/3/12, Dana Air Flight 0992 crashes in Nigeria， killing 153 on board and 6 on the ground.
6/24/12, Lonesome George， last Pinta Island tortoise， dies.
7/4/12, CERN announces discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson.
7/20/12, Aurora， Colorado shooting kills 12 and injures 58.
7/30/12, India experiences the worst power outage in history， affecting 620 million people.
9/11/12, US diplomatic missions attacked worldwide， US ambassador killed in Libya.
10/22/12, Hurricane Sandy causes 233 deaths and $68.7 billion in damage.
11/6/12, Barack Obama reelected President of the United States.
12/14/12, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting kills 28 people.
1/5/13, A Mw 7.5 earthquake shakes Prince of Wales Island， Alaska.
1/10/13, At least 130 people are killed and 270 are injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
1/16/13, Hostage crisis at a natural gas facility in Algeria results in 40 deaths.
1/27/13, A nightclub fire in Santa Maria， Brazil， kills an estimated 245 people.
2/11/13, Emergency Alert Systems in the U.S. are hijacked with a 'Zombie apocalypse' hoax.
2/15/13, A meteor explodes over Chelyabinsk， Russia， injuring over 1，400 people.
2/21/13, American scientists create a living lab-grown ear using a 3D printer.
3/24/13, Central African Republic President François Bozizé flees after rebels capture Bangui.
4/15/13, Boston Marathon bombing kills 3 and injures 264.
4/20/13, A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Sichuan， China， killing 193.
4/24/13, The Savar building collapse in Bangladesh kills 1，134 people.
5/15/13, Researchers produce human embryonic stem cells by cloning.
5/20/13, An EF5 tornado hits Moore， Oklahoma， killing 24.
5/22/13, British soldier Lee Rigby is murdered in Woolwich， London.
6/6/13, Edward Snowden discloses U.S. government mass surveillance operations.
6/23/13, A bus crash in Montenegro kills 19 Romanian tourists.
7/6/13, A train derailment in Lac-Mégantic， Quebec， kills 47.
8/14/13, Egyptian security forces raid anti-coup camps， killing 2，696.
8/21/13, 1，429 are killed in the Ghouta chemical attack in Syria.
9/21/13, al-Shabaab militants attack Westgate mall in Nairobi， Kenya， killing at least 62.
10/15/13, A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes Bohol， Philippines， killing 222.
10/16/13, Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes， killing all 49 on board.
11/21/13, Euromaidan protests begin in Ukraine.
11/29/13, A police helicopter crashes into a pub in Glasgow， Scotland， killing 10.
1/9/14, Elk River Chemical Spill in Charleston， West Virginia， leaves 300，000 residents without drinkable water.
3/1/14, Kunming attack in China results in 31 deaths and 143 injuries.
3/8/14, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board.
4/16/14, South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes， killing 304 people.
5/2/14, WHO identifies the spread of poliomyelitis as a major worldwide health emergency.
5/5/14, Boko Haram militants kill approximately 300 people in Nigeria.
5/20/14, Jos bombings in Nigeria kill 118 people.
6/12/14, Camp Speicher massacre by ISIL in Iraq kills 1，566 Shia Iraqi Air Force cadets.
7/17/14, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shot down in Ukraine， killing all 298 on board.
8/3/14, Sinjar massacre by ISIS results in over 4，000 Yazidi deaths.
8/9/14, Shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson， Missouri， triggers riots.
9/18/14, Scottish independence referendum results in a vote against independence.
9/26/14, 43 students abducted in Iguala， Mexico， causing international protests.
10/24/14, Alan Eustace sets world record for highest and longest free fall jump.
12/16/14, Peshawar school massacre by Pakistani Taliban kills at least 145 people.
12/28/14, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Java Sea， killing all 162 on board.
1/3/15, Boko Haram massacres in Baga， Nigeria， and surrounding villages kill more than 2，000 people.
1/7/15, Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris by Al-Qaeda gunmen kills 12 people.
3/24/15, Germanwings Flight 9525 is deliberately crashed in the French Alps， killing all 150 on board.
3/25/15, Saudi-led coalition begins military intervention in Yemen against Houthi forces.
4/25/15, A magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal causes over 9，000 deaths.
5/7/15, UK General Election results in the first Conservative majority government in 18 years.
8/5/15, Debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is found on Réunion Island.
9/14/15, First observation of gravitational waves by LIGO.
9/28/15, NASA announces the discovery of liquid water on Mars.
10/23/15, Hurricane Patricia becomes the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere.
11/13/15, ISIL terrorist attacks in Paris result in 130 fatalities.
11/24/15, Turkey shoots down a Russian fighter jet on the Turkish-Syrian border.
1/8/16, Joaquín Guzmán， the world's most powerful drug trafficker， is recaptured in Mexico.
1/10/16, David Bowie dies in New York City from liver cancer.
1/12/16, A bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul kills 10 people and wounds 15.
1/16/16, Terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou， Burkina Faso kill 30 and injure 56.
1/16/16, Tsai Ing-wen becomes the first female President of Taiwan after the Democratic Progressive Party wins the general election.
2/6/16, A magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes southern Taiwan， killing 117 people.
3/21/16, The ICC finds Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
3/22/16, Brussels bombings kill 35 and injure 300.
3/24/16, Radovan Karadžić is sentenced to 40 years for genocide and crimes against humanity.
4/1/16, Nagorno-Karabakh clashes result in 350 deaths.
4/16/16, A 7.8 earthquake in Ecuador kills 676 and injures over 6，000.
5/9/16, Rodrigo Duterte is elected President of the Philippines.
5/19/16, EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes， killing all 66 on board.
5/28/16, Gorilla Harambe is shot at the Cincinnati Zoo， becoming a global meme.
6/12/16, A gunman kills 49 and injures 53 at a nightclub in Orlando， Florida.
6/23/16, The UK votes to leave the EU， triggering Brexit.
6/28/16, Atatürk Airport attack in Istanbul kills 999 and injures 230.
7/14/16, Nice truck attack kills 86 and injures over 400 during Bastille Day celebrations.
7/15/16, A failed coup in Turkey results in 240 deaths and widespread purges.
8/24/16, A 6.2 earthquake in central Italy kills 299 people.
10/3/16, Hurricane Matthew hits Haiti， killing 546 and causing $2.8 billion in damages.
11/8/16, Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States.
11/28/16, LaMia Flight 2933 crashes， killing 71， including members of the Chapecoense football team.
12/19/16, Berlin truck attack kills 12 and injures 56 at a Christmas market.
12/25/16, Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into the Black Sea， killing all 92 on board.
1/1/17, Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman opens fire at the Reina nightclub in Istanbul， Turkey， killing 39 people and injuring 79 others.
1/8/17, 2017 Jerusalem truck attack: A Palestinian assailant kills 4 people and injures 15 others in Jerusalem.
1/16/17, Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 crashes in a residential area in Bishkek， Kyrgyzstan， killing all four crew members and 35 people on the ground.
2/13/17, Kim Jong-nam is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
3/31/17, Political crisis in Paraguay leads to the storming of Congress and the assassination of Rodrigo Quintana.
4/13/17, The U.S. drops the GBU-43/B MOAB at an ISIL base in Afghanistan.
4/15/17, Emma Morano， the last known person born in the 1800s， dies.
5/22/17, ISIL bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester， England， kills 22 people.
6/3/17, London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered by Islamist terrorists.
6/7/17, ISIL terrorists attack the Iranian Parliament and Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran.
6/21/17, The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul， Iraq， is destroyed by ISIL.
8/12/17, Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville， Virginia， results in the death of Heather Heyer.
8/17/17, First observation of a neutron star collision provides evidence for the r-process theory.
8/17/17, Barcelona attacks: A van attack kills 13 people on La Rambla.
9/19/17, A 7.1 Mw earthquake strikes central Mexico， killing 370 people.
10/1/17, Las Vegas shooting: 60 people are killed in the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history.
10/14/17, A truck bombing in Mogadishu， Somalia， kills at least 587 people.
11/2/17, A new species of orangutan is identified in Indonesia.
11/5/17, Sutherland Springs church shooting: 26 people are killed in Texas.
11/12/17, A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the border region between Iraq and Iran.
11/20/17, Nature recognizes ʻOumuamua as the first known interstellar object.
11/24/17, A mosque attack in Sinai， Egypt， kills 305 worshippers.
2/6/18, SpaceX successfully conducts its maiden flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket.
2/14/18, A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland， Florida results in 17 fatalities.
3/4/18, Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned by the Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury， England.
3/19/18, The world's last male northern white rhinoceros dies in Kenya， making the subspecies functionally extinct.
3/23/18, An Islamic terrorist attack in Carcassonne and Trèbes， France， kills five people.
4/7/18, A chemical attack in Douma， Syria， reportedly kills at least 70 people.
7/10/18, Twelve boys and their football coach are rescued from the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Thailand.
7/25/18, Scientists report the presence of a subglacial lake on Mars， the first known body of water on the planet.
8/20/18, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg starts a school strike for climate change.
9/28/18, A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Sulawesi， Indonesia， causing a tsunami that kills at least 4，340 people.
10/2/18, Journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul， Turkey.
12/22/18, An eruption from Krakatoa causes a tsunami in the Sunda Strait， Indonesia， killing at least 430 people.
1/25/19, A mine tailings dam breaks in Brumadinho， Brazil， killing at least 248 people.
2/26/19, Indian Air Force launches airstrikes in Balakot， Pakistan， leading to the India–Pakistan standoff.
3/10/19, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes， leading to the grounding of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft worldwide.
3/15/19, Cyclone Idai hits Mozambique， causing over 1，073 fatalities.
4/15/19, A major fire engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
4/21/19, Islamist bomb attacks in Sri Lanka kill 259 people on Easter Sunday.
6/3/19, Khartoum massacre in Sudan kills over 100 people.
9/14/19, Drone attacks on Saudi Aramco oil refineries disrupt oil exports.
10/27/19, U.S. announces the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
12/1/19, First known human case of COVID-19 documented in Wuhan， China.
12/9/19, Volcano erupts on White Island， New Zealand， killing 22 people.
1/3/20, A United States drone strike at Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
1/8/20, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iranian forces， killing all 176 people on board.
5/25/20, Protests caused by the murder of George Floyd break out across hundreds of cities in the U.S. and around the world.
6/15/20, At least 20 Indian soldiers and over 40 Chinese forces are killed or injured in skirmishes in the disputed Galwan Valley.
8/4/20, An explosion in Beirut， Lebanon， kills at least 218 people and causes extensive damage.
9/27/20, Beginning of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: deadly clashes erupt between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces.
11/3/20, Joe Biden is elected as the 46th President of the United States.
1/6/21, Supporters of US President Donald Trump attack the US Capitol， disrupting certification of the 2020 presidential election.
2/1/21, A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule.
3/23/21, Ever Given runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal， disrupting global trade.
4/20/21, Idriss Déby， President of Chad， is killed in clashes with rebel forces.
5/23/21, Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain journalist Roman Protasevich.
7/7/21, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated.
8/26/21, A suicide bomb attack at Kabul airport kills at least 182 people， including 13 U.S. service members.
10/25/21, The Sudanese military launches a coup against the government.
1/10/22, The first successful heart transplant from a pig to a human patient occurs in Baltimore， Maryland， United States.
1/15/22, A large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai triggers tsunami warnings in multiple countries.
2/3/22, Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi is killed in a counter-terrorism raid by U.S. special forces in Syria.
2/24/22, Russia begins a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
2/26/22, The EU， US， and allies commit to removing Russian banks from the SWIFT payment system.
2/27/22, Putin orders Russia's nuclear deterrent forces to be on 'special alert.'
3/5/22, Researchers find Endurance， a shipwreck from Ernest Shackleton's exploration.
3/21/22, China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi， China， killing all 133 people on board.
4/14/22, The Russian flagship Moskva sinks， claimed by Ukraine to have been struck by missiles.
5/6/22, An outbreak of monkeypox begins in London， UK.
5/9/22, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns amid protests.
5/18/22, Finland and Sweden apply to join NATO.
5/24/22, Uvalde school shooting: 18-year-old Salvador Ramos fatally shoots 19 students and two teachers.
6/22/22, A 6.2 earthquake strikes the Durand Line between Afghanistan and Pakistan， killing at least 1，163 people.
7/8/22, Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is assassinated.
8/9/22, William Ruto is elected as Kenya's 5th president.
9/8/22, Queen Elizabeth II dies at Balmoral Castle， and Charles III becomes King.
10/8/22, An explosion occurs on the Crimean Bridge， causing a partial collapse.
12/18/22, Argentina wins the 2022 FIFA World Cup against France.