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January 1 33
- 2026 Bulgaria officially adopts the Euro, becoming the 21st Eurozone country.
- 2026 A fire at a bar during New Year's Eve celebrations in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, kills 41 people and injures 116 others.
- 2024 A 7.5 Mww earthquake strikes the western coast of Japan, killing more than 500 people and injuring over 1,000 others. A majority of direct deaths were due to collapsed homes.
January 2 14
- 2024 Two aircraft collide on a runway at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, killing 5 and injuring 18.
- 2022 Massive nationwide protests and unrest break out in Kazakhstan over the sudden increase of liquefied petroleum gas prices, leading to 238 people dead and thousands injured by January 11.
- 2004 Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.
January 3 27
- 2024 At least 91 people are killed in bombings in Kerman, Iran, during a ceremony commemorating the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani four years earlier.
- 2023 Singapore's Jurong Bird Park permanently closes.
- 2019 Chang'e 4 makes the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon, deploying the Yutu-2 lunar rover.
January 4 25
- 2019 A fire in an escape room in Koszalin, Poland, kills five teenagers through carbon monoxide poisoning.
- 2018 Hennenman–Kroonstad train crash: A passenger train operated by Shosholoza Meyl collides with a truck on a level crossing at Geneva Station between Hennenman and Kroonstad, Free State, South Africa. Twenty people are killed and 260 injured.
- 2013 A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines.
January 5 19
- 2024 Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 makes an emergency landing at Portland International Airport after a door plug blows off the Boeing 737 MAX 9 operating the flight. There are no fatalities, but the accident prompts the 737 MAX to be grounded and renews scrutiny on Boeing's manufacturing and design issues.
- 2023 The 2023 Sinaloa unrest begins.
- 2014 A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK.II D5 marks the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic engine.
January 6 23
- 2017 Five people are killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida.
- 2012 Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.
- 2005 Edgar Ray Killen is indicted for the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner during the American Civil Rights Movement.
January 7 21
- 2025 A series of wildfires ravage the Greater Los Angeles area, resulting in at least 16 deaths and 13,401 structures destroyed.
- 2020 The 6.4Mw 2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.
- 2015 Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, executing twelve people and wounding eleven others.
January 8 22
- 2021 Twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela.
- 2020 Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashes immediately after takeoff at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport; all 176 on board are killed. The plane was shot down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile.
- 2016 Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.
January 9 19
- 2021 Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes north of Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 62 people on board.
- 2017 Mont-Libre Agile Learning Centre, the province of Quebec's first alternative schooling democratic learning centre to support homeschooled youth, opens in the city of Montreal.
- 2015 The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.
January 10 13
- 2019 A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents' home whilst they were murdered.
- 2013 More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan.
- 2000 Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people.
January 11 26
- 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei: Municipal health officials in Wuhan announce the first recorded death from COVID-19.
- 2013 One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.
- 2003 Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
January 12 21
- 2020 Taal Volcano in the Philippines erupts and kills 39 people.
- 2010 An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing between 220,000 and 300,000 people and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince.
- 2007 Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), one of the brightest comets ever observed is at its zenith visible during the day.
January 13 27
- 2020 The Thai Ministry of Public Health confirms the first case of COVID-19 outside China.
- 2018 A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii causes widespread panic in the state.
- 2012 The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain Francesco Schettino's negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths.
January 14 16
- 2026 Thirty-two people are killed when a crane falls onto a passenger train in Sikhio district, Thailand.
- 2019 A Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crashes at Fath Air Base near Karaj in Alborz Province, Iran, killing 15 people.
- 2016 Multiple explosions reported near the Sarinah Building, Jakarta, followed by shootout between perpetrators and the police, killing seven people. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility.
January 15 26
- 2023 Yeti Airlines Flight 691 crashes near Pokhara International Airport, killing all 72 people on board.
- 2022 The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano erupts, cutting off communications with Tonga and causing a tsunami across the Pacific.
- 2021 A 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia's Sulawesi island killing at least 105 and injuring 3,369 people.
January 16 17
- 2018 Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
- 2017 Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 crashes into a residential area near Manas International Airport in Kyrgyzstan, killing 39 people.
- 2016 Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
January 17 23
- 2026 Indonesia Air Transport ATR 42 crashed near Mount Bulusaraung in South Sulawesi, after losing contact en route to Makassar.
- 2023 An avalanche strikes Nyingchi, Tibet, killing 28 people.
- 2017 The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is announced to be suspended.
January 18 25
- 2026 At least 45 people are killed and 292 others injured after two trains collide in Adamuz in the worst railway disaster in over a decade in Spain.
- 2025 The popular social media app, TikTok, is banned in the United States, after the passing of PAFACA.
- 2019 An oil pipeline explosion near Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills 137 people.
January 19 21
- 2025 Bytedance and sister companies are banned from the United States for "security concerns".
- 2012 The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
- 2007 Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
January 20 12
- 2009 A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
- 1992 Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France, killing 87 of the 96 people on board.
- 1990 Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
January 21 26
- 2025 A fire at the Grand Kartal Hotel in the Kartalkaya ski resort in Bolu Province, Turkey, results in 78 people dead and 51 injured.
- 2023 Huu Can Tran, 72, opens fire in a dance studio in Monterey Park, California, killing eleven people and injuring nine others before later committing suicide. It is the worst mass shooting in Los Angeles County since the 2008 Covina massacre.
- 2003 A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless.
January 22 15
- 2007 At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
- 1999 Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
- 1987 Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
January 23 26
- 2024 Northwestern Air Flight 738 crashes after takeoff from Fort Smith Airport, Northwest Territories, Canada, killing six people.
- 2018 A 7.9 Mw earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
- 2003 A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted.
January 24 22
- 2026 At least 70 people are killed and 10 others missing after major landslides in West Java, Indonesia.
- 2024 An Ilyushin Il-76 crashes in Russia's Korochansky District, killing all 74 people on board.
- 2018 Former doctor Larry Nassar is sentenced up to 175 years in prison after being found guilty of using his position to sexually abuse female gymnasts.
January 25 21
- 2019 A mining company's dam collapses in Brumadinho, Brazil, a south-eastern city, killing 270 people.
- 2013 At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
- 2010 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Na'ameh, Lebanon, killing 90.
January 26 18
- 2021 Protesters and farmers storm the Red Fort near Delhi, clashing with police. One protester is killed and more than 80 police officers are injured.
- 2020 A Sikorsky S-76B flying from John Wayne Airport to Camarillo Airport crashes in Calabasas, 30 miles west of Los Angeles, killing all nine people on board, including five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant.
- 2015 An aircraft crashes at Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete, Spain, killing 11 people and injuring 21 others.
January 27 18
- 2023 Protests and public outrage spark across the U.S. after the release of multiple videos by the Memphis Police Department showing officers punching, kicking, and pepper spraying Tyre Nichols as a result of running away from a traffic stop, which resulted him dying in the hospital three days later after the incident.
- 2023 A shooting at a synagogue in Neve Yaakov, East Jerusalem, kills seven people and injures three others.
- 2017 A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States.
January 28 23
- 2026 The Rubaya mine collapse at Rubaya mines in DR Congo causes at least 400 deaths and injured several others.
- 2026 Storm Kristin causes a catastrophic impact in Portugal and Spain with €6 billion in damage in the central region of Portugal, 15 deaths and 2,000 injuries.
- 2023 Protests begin in the United States after police beat and kill Tyre Nichols.
January 29 16
- 2025 A chartered Beechcraft 1900 crashes near the Unity oilfield in South Sudan, killing 20 people.
- 2020 A plinth breaks between Coral Edge Station and Riviera Station in Singapore, Coral Edge closes one platform.
- 2017 A gunman opens fire at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, killing six people and wounding 19 others in a spree shooting.
January 30 22
- 2020 The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
- 2007 Microsoft Corporation releases Windows Vista, a major release of the operating system Microsoft Windows and the NT based kernel.
- 2006 The Goleta postal facility shootings occur, killing seven people before the perpetrator took her own life.
January 31 18
- 2025 Med Jets Flight 056 crashes near Roosevelt Mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing 8 people and injuring 23.
- 2023 The last Boeing 747, the first wide-body airliner, is delivered to Atlas Air and operated for ApexLogistics. The aircraft was registered as N863GT and named "Empower".
- 2022 Sue Gray, a senior civil servant in the United Kingdom, publishes an initial version of her report on the Downing Street Partygate controversy.
February 1 23
- 2022 Five-year-old Moroccan boy Rayan Aourram falls into a 32-meter (105 feet) deep well in Ighran village in Tamorot commune, Chefchaouen Province, Morocco, but dies four days later, before rescue workers reached him.
- 2013 The Shard, the sixth-tallest building in Europe, opens its viewing gallery to the public.
- 2007 The National Weather Service in the United States switches from the Fujita scale to the new Enhanced Fujita scale to measure the intensity and strength of tornadoes.
February 2 20
- 2025 Slovenian NBA player Luka Doncic is traded from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Anthony Davis in one of the largest trades in American sports history.
- 1998 Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into Mount Sumagaya in the Philippines, killing all 104 people on board.
- 1990 Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
February 3 19
- 2026 Islamist militants massacred at least 162 while injuring and kidnapping dozens in two villages in Kwara State, Nigeria.
- 2023 Ohio train derailment: A freight train containing vinyl chloride and other hazardous materials derails and burns in East Palestine, Ohio, United States, releasing hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the air and contaminating the Ohio River.
- 2014 A school shooting in Moscow, Russia leaves two people dead and one wounded.
February 4 24
- 2025 Ten people are killed in a mass shooting at an adult education centre in Örebro, Sweden.
- 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic causes all casinos in Macau to be closed down for 15 days.
- 2015 TransAsia Airways Flight 235, with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after takeoff, killing 43 people.
February 5 23
- 2020 Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193 overshoots the runway at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport and crashes, killing three people and injuring 179.
- 2019 Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.
- 2016 New Zealand politician Steven Joyce is hit by a flung rubber dildo in a Waitangi Day protest.
February 6 20
- 2023 Two earthquakes measuring Mww 7.8 and 7.5 struck near the border between Turkey and Syria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme). The earthquakes resulted in numerous aftershocks and a death toll of 57,658 people.
- 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries.
- 2016 An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people.
February 7 15
- 2021 The 2021 Uttarakhand flood begins.
- 2013 The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.
- 2009 Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
February 8 16
- 2023 Two children are killed and six others are injured when a bus crashes into a daycare centre in Laval, Quebec, Canada. The driver is arrested and charged with homicide and dangerous driving.
- 2014 A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia, kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured.
- 2013 A blizzard kills at least 18 and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
February 9 21
- 2025 The Baltic states synchronize their electric power transmission infrastructure with the Continental Europe Synchronous Area (CESA), in objective to disconnect from the Russo-Belarussian agreement to use the IPS/UPS system.
- 2021 Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins.
- 2018 Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.
February 10 19
- 2026 Shootings at a residence and a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, leave nine people dead and 27 injured.
- 2021 The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2021 Texas' worst energy infrastructure failure, the 2021 Texas power crisis, starts.
February 11 19
- 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization officially names the coronavirus outbreak as COVID-19, with the virus being designated SARS-CoV-2.
- 2018 Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashes near Moscow, Russia with 71 deaths and no survivors.
- 2017 North Korea test fires a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.
February 12 21
- 2019 The country known as the Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia in accordance with the Prespa agreement, settling a long-standing naming dispute with Greece.
- 2016 Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.
- 2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all 49 on board and one on the ground.
February 13 20
- 2021 A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.
- 2017 Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
- 2010 A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
February 14 18
- 2018 A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 17 injuries.
- 2011 As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
- 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opens fire in a lecture hall of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois, resulting in six fatalities (including the gunman) and 21 injuries.
February 15 21
- 2021 Sixty people drown and hundreds are missing after a boat sinks on the Congo River near the village of Longola Ekoti, Mai-Ndombe Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 2013 A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.
- 2012 Three hundred and sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
February 16 23
- 2021 Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the second anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.
- 2013 A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
- 2005 The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
February 17 18
- 2015 Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.
- 2011 Arab Spring: Libyan protests against Muammar Gaddafi's regime begin.
- 2011 Arab Spring: In Bahrain, security forces launch a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama; the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.
February 18 22
- 2018 Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 crashes in the Dena sub-range in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, Resulting in 66 Deaths
- 2013 Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
- 2010 WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning.
February 19 18
- 2020 Nine people are killed in two domestic terrorist shootings in Hanau, Hesse, Germany.
- 2012 Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico.
- 2011 The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
February 20 19
- 2016 Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
- 2015 Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
- 2010 In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
February 21 22
- 2013 At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
- 1995 Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
- 1994 Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.
February 22 21
- 2022 Twosday, the name given to Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at 2:22:22, occurs.
- 2018 A man throws a grenade at the U.S. embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro. He dies at the scene from a second explosion, with no one else hurt.
- 2015 A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
February 23 22
- 2021 Four simultaneous prison riots leave at least 62 people dead in Ecuador.
- 2020 Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old African-American citizen, is shot and murdered by three white men after visiting a house under construction while jogging at a neighborhood in Satilla Shores near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia.
- 2019 Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board.
February 24 17
- 2016 Tara Air Flight 193, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, crashes, with 23 fatalities, in Solighopte, Myagdi District, Dhaulagiri Zone, while en route from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport.
- 2015 A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.
- 2007 Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
February 25 14
- 2016 Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in a series of shootings in the small Kansas cities of Newton and Hesston.
- 2015 At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan.
- 2009 Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashes during landing at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, primarily due to a faulty radio altimeter, resulting in the death of nine passengers and crew including all three pilots.
February 26 21
- 2021 A total of 279 female students aged between 10 and 17 are kidnapped by bandits in the Zamfara kidnapping in Zamfara State, Nigeria.
- 2019 Indian Air Force fighter-jets target Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camps in Balakot, Pakistan.
- 2013 A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.
February 27 20
- 2019 Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder downs Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman's Mig-21 in an aerial dogfight and captures him after conducting airstrikes in Jammu and Kashmir.
- 2015 Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow while out walking with his girlfriend.
- 2013 A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.
February 28 16
- 2023 Two trains collide south of the Vale of Tempe in Greece, leading to the deaths of at least 57 people and leaving 58 missing and 85 injured.
- 2013 Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so voluntarily since Pope Gregory XII in 1415.
- 2002 During the religious violence in Gujarat, 97 people are killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in the Gulbarg Society massacre.
February 29 22
- 2020 The United States and the Taliban sign the Doha Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan.
- 2020 Luxembourg becomes the first country in the world to render public transport free nationwide.
- 2012 North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid.
March 1 23
- 2014 Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.
- 2008 The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections; as a result ten people are killed.
- 2007 Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.
March 2 21
- 2017 The elements Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson are officially added to the periodic table at a conference in Moscow, Russia.
- 2014 The Oscar Selfie, regarded as one of the most influential and important images of all time, is taken at the 86th Academy Awards.
- 2012 A tornado outbreak occurs over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.
March 3 24
- 2013 A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 48 people and injured 200 others in a predominantly Shia Muslim area.
- 2005 James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
- 2005 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
March 4 20
- 2020 Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk over the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.
- 2018 Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
- 2015 At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.
March 5 24
- 2023 A group of four prisoners escape from the Nouakchott Civil Prison, before being caught the next day.
- 2021 Pope Francis begins a historic visit to Iraq amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2012 Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.
March 6 8
- 2008 A suicide bomber kills 68 people in the Karrada district of Karrada in Baghdad
- 2008 A gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
- 2003 Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board.
March 7 12
- 2024 Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member.
- 2021 At least 108 die and 615 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.
- 2007 Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
March 8 20
- 2021 International Women's Day marches in Mexico become violent with 62 police officers and 19 civilians injured in Mexico City alone.
- 2018 The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) is held on International Women's Day in Karachi, Pakistan, since then held annually across Pakistan, and the feminist slogan "Mera Jism Meri Marzi" (My body, my choice), in demand for women's right to bodily autonomy and against gender-based violence, came into vogue in Pakistan.
- 2017 The Azure Window, a natural arch on the Maltese island of Gozo, collapses in stormy weather.
March 9 17
- 2023 A shooting in the Alsterdorf quarter of Hamburg, Germany, kills eight people and injures another eight.
- 2015 Two Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopters collide in mid-air over Villa Castelli, Argentina, killing all 10 people on board both aircraft, including French athletes Florence Arthaud, Camille Muffat and Alexis Vastine, as well as producers and guests for the French TV show Dropped.
- 2000 Nupedia, a multi-language online encyclopedia, is launched.
March 10 17
- 2026 Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat recorded the second-highest scoring game in NBA history with 83 Points.
- 2023 Silicon Valley Bank collapses due to a run on its deposits, in the second largest bank failure in US history. Its operations are taken over by the FDIC.
- 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 passengers and crew. This and the prior Lion Air Flight 610 led to all 387 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft being grounded worldwide.
March 11 15
- 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic.
- 2018 A Bombardier Challenger 604 crashes into the Zagros Mountains near the Iranian city of Shar-e-kord, killing all 11 people on board.
- 2012 A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.
March 12 22
- 2020 The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2019 In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.
- 2018 US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 crashes at Tribhuvan International Airport in Katmandu, killing 51 and injuring 20.
March 13 23
- 2020 Breonna Taylor is killed by police officers who were forcibly entering her home in Louisville, Kentucky; her death sparked extensive protests against racism and police brutality.
- 2019 The Suzano school shooting kills 10 people.
- 2013 The 2013 papal conclave elects Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio taking the name Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
March 14 21
- 2021 Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.
- 2019 Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.
- 2017 A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance.
March 15 17
- 2022 The 2022 Sri Lankan protests begins amidst Sri Lanka's economic collapse.
- 2019 Beginning of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.
- 2019 Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change.
March 16 22
- 2026 A series of Boko Haram bombings leave 26 dead and 146 injured in Maiduguri, Nigeria.
- 2025 A fire breaks out in a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, killing at least 59 people and injuring 155 others.
- 2022 A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225.
March 17 14
- 2004 Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.
- 2000 Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
- 1988 A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
March 18 21
- 2025 Israel launches widespread aerial bombardments and attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 591 people, including children.
- 2015 The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-four people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
- 1997 The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
March 19 18
- 2016 Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
- 2016 An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.
- 2013 A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
March 20 21
- 2015 A solar eclipse, equinox, and a supermoon all occur on the same day.
- 2012 At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
- 2010 Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland begins eruptions that would last for three months, heavily disrupting air travel in Europe.
March 21 20
- 2022 China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing 132 people.
- 2019 The 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion occurs, killing at least 47 people and injuring 640 others.
- 2006 The social media site Twitter (now officially named X) is founded.
March 22 20
- 2026 Air Canada Express Flight 8646, a Bombardier CRJ-900 operated by Jazz Aviation, collided with a fire truck while landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Two fatalities were reported, both being the captain and the co-pilot. This marked the first fatal accident involving a CRJ-900.
- 2021 Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado.
- 2019 Two buses crash in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people.
March 23 18
- 2026 An Aerospace Force Lockheed C-130 crashes during take-off in Puerto Leguízamo, Colombia, killing 69 people.
- 2025 Israel Defense Forces kill 15 aid workers in the Rafah paramedic massacre.
- 2021 A container ship runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal for six days.
March 24 21
- 2026 OpenAI announces that their flagship Sora app and API are shutting down.
- 2023 An EF4 tornado strikes the towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City, Mississippi, causing mass destruction.
- 2018 Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
March 25 23
- 1996 The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
- 1995 WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
- 1988 The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
March 26 24
- 2024 The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses following a collision between the MV Dali container ship and one of the bridge's support pillars, killing six people.
- 2017 Russia-wide anti-corruption protests in 99 cities. The Levada Center survey showed that 38% of surveyed Russians supported protests and that 67 percent held Putin personally responsible for high-level corruption.
- 2005 Around 200,000 to 300,000 Taiwanese demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of China.
March 27 23
- 2023 Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 2023 Forty people are killed in a fire at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
- 2020 North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.
March 28 14
- 2025 An earthquake strikes close to Mandalay, Myanmar with a magnitude of 7.7, killing over 5400 people.
- 2020 The region of Uusimaa (with the capital city Helsinki) is temporarily isolated from the rest of Finland due to increased COVID-19 infections.
- 2005 An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a magnitude of 8.6 and killing over 1000 people.
March 29 22
- 2021 The ship Ever Given is dislodged from the Suez Canal.
- 2015 Air Canada Flight 624 skids off the runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, after arriving from Toronto shortly past midnight. All 133 passengers and five crews on board survive, with 23 treated for minor injuries.
- 2014 The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.
March 30 17
- 2019 Pope Francis visits Morocco.
- 2011 Min Aung Hlaing is appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces.
- 2008 Drolma Kyi arrested by Chinese authorities.
March 31 19
- 2023 A historic tornado outbreak occurs in the American Midwest and South.
- 1998 Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
- 1995 TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.
April 1 17
- 2026 The Artemis II lunar flyby mission launches, marking the first crewed flight above low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.
- 2011 After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of fourteen people, including seven UN workers.
- 2004 Google launches its Email service Gmail.
April 2 24
- 2024 Viertola school shooting: A 12-year-old pupil is killed and two others injured by a shooter of the same age in Vantaa, Finland.
- 2021 At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track.
- 2021 A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an attacker rams his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol.
April 3 27
- 2018 YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide.
- 2017 A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
- 2016 The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
April 4 18
- 2023 Finland becomes a member of NATO after Turkey accepts its membership request.
- 2013 Seventy-four people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.
- 2011 Georgian Airways Flight 834 crashes at N'djili Airport in Kinshasa, killing 32.
April 5 15
- 2018 Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States.
- 2010 Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
- 2007 The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near Nea Kameni and sinks the next day. Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead.
April 6 19
- 2018 A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team collides with a semi-truck in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 people and injuring 13 others.
- 2012 Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.
- 2011 In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 victims of Los Zetas were exhumed from several mass graves.
April 7 18
- 2021 COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.
- 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.
- 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.
April 8 15
- 2024 Solar eclipse: A total solar eclipse takes place at the Moon's ascending node, visible across North America.
- 2014 Windows XP reaches its standard End Of Life and is no longer supported.
- 2005 A solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
April 9 21
- 2017 The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place.
- 2014 A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
- 2013 A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
April 10 22
- 2023 A mass shooting occurs at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, that leaves five victims dead and eight wounded.
- 2016 The Paravur temple accident, in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for the seventh day of Bhadrakali worship.
- 2016 An earthquake of 6.6 magnitude strikes 39 km west-southwest of Ashkasham, impacting India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan.
April 11 25
- 2023 During the Pazigyi massacre, an airstrike conducted by the Myanmar Air Force kills at least 100 villagers in Pazigyi, Sagaing Region.
- 2021 Twenty-year-old Daunte Wright is shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, by officer Kimberly Potter, sparking protests in the city, when the officer mistakes her pistol for her taser.
- 2018 An Ilyushin Il-76 owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.
April 12 19
- 2014 The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying more than 2,500 homes.
- 2013 Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali.
- 2010 Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28.
April 13 19
- 2024 Six people and the perpetrator are killed and twelve others injured in a mass stabbing at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney, Australia.
- 2023 The house of Jack Teixeira is raided in an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents; he is arrested on the same day.
- 2014 Three people are killed in a shooting in Overland Park, Kansas.
April 14 22
- 2024 Flooding in the Persian Gulf starts, killing 19 in Oman.
- 2016 The foreshock of a major earthquake occurs in Kumamoto, Japan.
- 2014 Two bombs detonate at a bus station in Nyanya, Nigeria, killing at least 88 people and injuring hundreds. Boko Haram claims responsibility.
April 15 24
- 2026 Twelve people and the perpetrator are killed and twelve others injured in a mass shooting at a school in Onikişubat, Turkey.
- 2021 A mass shooting occurs at a FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, killing nine and injuring seven.
- 2019 The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.
April 16 18
- 2024 The historic Børsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, is severely damaged by a fire.
- 2018 The New York Times and The New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal.
- 2016 Ecuador's worst earthquake in nearly 40 years kills 676 and injures more than 230,000.
April 17 14
- 2021 The funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
- 2013 An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
- 2006 A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
April 18 17
- 2026 Seven people are killed and fourteen others are injured in a mass shooting in Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2019 A redacted version of the Mueller report is released to the United States Congress and the public.
- 1980 The town of Elmore City, Oklahoma holds its first dance in the town's history.
April 19 18
- 2021 The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.
- 2020 A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history.
- 2008 The Quito Ultratumba nightclub fire in Quito, Ecuador, kills 19 people and injures at least 24 more.
April 20 19
- 2021 State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota.
- 2013 A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing at least 193 people and injuring thousands.
- 2012 One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
April 21 21
- 2019 Eight bombs explode at churches, hotels, and other locations in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing at least 269.
- 2012 Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, killing one person and injuring 116 others.
- 2004 Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.
April 22 15
- 2020 Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.
- 2016 The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
- 2009 Fox News host Sean Hannity offered to be waterboarded for charity in order to prove that it did not amount to torture, though he did not follow through with it.
April 23 16
- 2024 The 2024 Lumut mid-air collision in Malaysia kills 10 people while rehearsing for the 90th anniversary of the Royal Malaysian Navy.
- 2019 The April 2019 Hpakant jade mine collapse in Myanmar kills four miners and two rescuers, with at least 50 others missing and presumed dead.
- 2013 At least 111 people are killed and 233 injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.
April 24 27
- 2025 A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves one person dead and three others wounded.
- 2013 A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.
- 2013 Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
April 25 17
- 2015 At least 8,962 are killed in Nepal after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal.
- 2014 The Flint water crisis begins when officials at Flint, Michigan switch the city's water supply to the Flint River, leading to lead and bacteria contamination.
- 2007 Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
April 26 17
- 2015 Peaceful protesters install the first anti-monument in Mexico, Antimonumento +43, as a call for justice and remembrance to commemorate the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping, later inspiring similar memorials elsewhere in the country and Latin America.
- 2002 Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, before committing suicide.
- 1994 China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
April 27 22
- 2026 A train crash kills at least 15 people and injures 84 others near Jakarta, Indonesia.
- 2012 At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
- 2011 The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
April 28 19
- 1996 Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
- 1994 Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
- 1988 Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
April 29 15
- 2013 A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
- 2013 National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
- 2011 The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
April 30 22
- 2021 Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
- 2014 A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.
- 2012 An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 108 people. At least 150 more are missing and presumed dead.
May 1 18
- 2024 The 2024 Loblaw boycott, a Canadian boycott against retail corporation and grocer Loblaw Companies, begins.
- 2019 Naruhito ascends to the throne of Japan succeeding his father Akihito, beginning the Reiwa period.
- 2011 Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
May 2 18
- 2014 Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing.
- 2012 A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.
- 2011 Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted fugitive, is killed by the United States Navy SEALs in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
May 3 26
- 2023 Ethnic violence breaks out between the Meitei and the Kuki Zo people in the state of Manipur.
- 2021 Twenty-six people are killed and ninety-eight are injured after an elevated section of the Mexico City Metro collapses.
- 2016 Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire rips through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.
May 4 22
- 2023 Nine people are killed and thirteen injured in a spree shooting in Mladenovac and Smederevo, Serbia. It is the second mass shooting in the country in two days.
- 2019 The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural series champion.
- 2014 Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
May 5 22
- 2023 The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.
- 2007 Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.
- 1994 American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
May 6 26
- 2023 Eight people are killed and seven injured in a mass shooting in Allen, Texas. The perpetrator is killed by a police officer.
- 2013 Three women, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.
- 2010 In just 36 minutes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges nearly 1,000 points in what is known as the 2010 Flash Crash.
May 7 15
- 2023 Tanur boat disaster: At least 22 people are killed when a boat carrying tourists capsizes in Tanur, Malappuram, Kerala, India.
- 2002 An EgyptAir Boeing 737-500 crashes on approach to Tunis–Carthage International Airport, killing 14 people.
- 2002 A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
May 8 19
- 2025 The 2025 papal conclave elects Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, taking the name Leo XIV as the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church.
- 2019 British 17-year-old Isabelle Holdaway is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage therapy to treat a drug-resistant infection.
- 1997 China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
May 9 19
- 2023 The May 9 riots following the arrest of Imran Khan in Pakistan.
- 2020 The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.
- 2002 The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
May 10 20
- 2024 Start of the May 2024 solar storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.
- 2013 One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
- 2002 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
May 11 16
- 2024 Start/Middle of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.
- 2024 The 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is held in Malmö, Sweden. Nemo from Switzerland win with their song "The Code", making them the contest's first non-binary winner.
- 2022 Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is killed while covering a raid in Jenin. Israel eventually admitted and apologized for the murder, after initial denials.
May 12 15
- 2024 Middle/end of the May 2024 solar storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.
- 2015 A train derailment in Philadelphia, United States, kills eight people and injures more than 200.
- 2015 Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3,500.
May 13 24
- 2014 An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners.
- 2013 American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges.
- 2011 Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
May 14 19
- 2022 Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
- 2021 China successfully lands Zhurong, the country's first Mars rover.
- 2012 Agni Air Flight CHT crashes in Nepal after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.
May 15 15
- 2013 An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days.
- 2010 Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
- 2004 Arsenal F.C. go an entire league campaign unbeaten in the English Premier League, joining Preston North End F.C. with the right to claim the title "The Invincibles".
May 16 23
- 2025 A catastrophic EF3 tornado kills five people and causes over $1 billion in damages in St. Louis, MO.
- 2025 A devastating EF4 tornado kills nineteen people in Southeast Kentucky, hitting the towns of Somerset and London.
- 2014 Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya.
May 17 17
- 2010 Pamir Airways Flight 112 crashes in Afghanistan's Shakardara District, killing 44.
- 2007 Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
- 2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
May 18 21
- 2026 A shooting carried out by two gunmen at the Islamic Center of San Diego results in the deaths of five people, including the perpetrators.
- 2018 A school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas kills ten people.
- 2018 Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 crashes in Santiago de las Vegas after takeoff from José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, killing 112 of the 113 people on board.
May 19 20
- 2018 The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is held at St George's Chapel, Windsor, with an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion.
- 2016 EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while traveling from Paris to Cairo, killing all on board.
- 2015 The Refugio oil spill deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto an area in California considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast.
May 20 20
- 2019 The International System of Units (SI): The base units are redefined, making the international prototype of the kilogram obsolete.
- 2013 An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
- 2012 At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
May 21 25
- 2024 The Greenfield tornado kills five and injures 35 across rural Iowa, United States. Wind speeds in excess of 480 kilometres per hour (300 mph) are estimated from measurements for the third time in history.
- 2024 A stabbing spree on the Green line of the Taichung MRT injures four people, including the perpetrator.
- 2017 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus perform their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
May 22 23
- 2026 A gas explosion at a coal mine in Changzhi, Shanxi, leaves at least 82 people dead.
- 2021 Hypothermia kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) Gansu ultramarathon disaster in China.
- 2020 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 98 people.
May 23 23
- 2021 A cable car falls from a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, killing 14 people.
- 2021 Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.
- 2016 Eight bombings are carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. One hundred eighty-four people are killed and at least 200 people injured.
May 24 20
- 2022 A mass shooting occurs at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, resulting in the deaths of 21 people, including 19 children.
- 2019 Twenty-two students die in a fire in Surat (India).
- 2014 A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
May 25 25
- 2018 The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
- 2011 Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
- 2009 North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device, after which Pyongyang also conducts several missile tests, building tensions in the international community.
May 26 24
- 2025 65 people are injured when a car rams into a crowd on Water Street, near Liverpool F.C.'s Premier League trophy parade.
- 2021 Ten people are killed in a shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose, California, United States.
- 2020 Protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd erupt in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, later becoming widespread across the United States and around the world.
May 27 22
- 2018 Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.
- 2006 The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
- 2001 Members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist group, seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
May 28 26
- 2017 Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from the race with an engine issue in his first entry of the event.
- 2013 Start of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey.
- 2012 The Arkankergen massacre in Kazakhstan's Alakol District kills 15 people.
May 29 23
- 2022 Tara Air Flight 197 crashes in Nepal's Mustang District, killing 22.
- 2020 An oil spill in Norilsk releases 17,500 tons of diesel oil into nearby rivers.
- 2015 One World Observatory at One World Trade Center opens.
May 30 25
- 2013 Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
- 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted.
- 2008 TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and crashes, killing five people.
May 31 23
- 2019 A shooting occurs inside a municipal building at Virginia Beach, Virginia, leaving 13 people dead, including the shooter, and four others injured.
- 2017 A car bomb explodes in a crowded intersection in Kabul near the German embassy during rush hour, killing over 90 and injuring 463.
- 2013 The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
June 1 23
- 2015 A ship carrying 458 people capsizes in the Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 442 people.
- 2011 A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
- 2009 Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
June 2 25
- 2023 A collision between two passenger trains and a parked freight train near the city of Balasor, Odisha in eastern India, results in 296 deaths and more than 1,200 people injured.
- 2022 Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations officially changes the name of the Republic of Turkey in the organization from what was previously known as "Turkey" to "Türkiye".
- 2014 Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India, formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh.
June 3 23
- 2025 Reconstitution of the Academy of the Distrustful in the Sala Dalmases of the Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona in Barcelona.
- 2019 Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in protest.
- 2013 At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.
June 4 17
- 2025 Eleven people are killed and 56 people are injured during a crowd crush incident outside M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, India for the celebration of Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Indian Premier League victory.
- 2023 Four people are killed when a Cessna Citation V crashes into Mine Bank Mountain in Augusta County, Virginia.
- 2020 Death of Giovanni López: Protests over the death of Giovanni López Ramírez, who had died on 4 May while in custody, begin in Jalisco following the release of a video of his arrest going viral on social media, and inspired by the George Floyd protests. Later, these spread across Mexico.
June 5 23
- 2025 The Nintendo Switch 2 video game console is released worldwide.
- 2017 Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO.
- 2017 Six Arab countries—Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates—cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region.
June 6 15
- 1994 China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board.
- 1992 Copa Airlines Flight 201 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes into the Darién Gap in Panama, killing all 47 aboard.
- 1971 Soyuz 11 is launched. The mission ends in disaster when all three cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev are suffocated by uncontrolled decompression of the capsule during re-entry on 29 June.
June 7 20
- 2017 A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.
- 2000 The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
- 1991 Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
June 8 18
- 2008 Seven people are killed and 11 more are injured in a massacre in Akihabara.
- 2007 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years, resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
- 2004 The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
June 9 23
- 2009 An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
- 2008 Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
- 1995 Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four.
June 10 18
- 2025 Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and eleven others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria.
- 2018 The Opportunity rover sends its last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.
- 2009 Eighty-eight year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opens fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shoots Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.
June 11 20
- 2012 Seventy-five people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
- 2007 Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
- 2004 Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
June 12 13
- 2025 Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashes shortly after takeoff into the B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, India, killing 241 out of 242 onboard as well as 19 on the ground. This marked the first fatal crash and hull loss of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
- 2024 A fire in a residential building in Mangaf, Kuwait City kills at least 50 people.
- 1988 Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.
June 13 18
- 2023 At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.
- 2021 A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China, kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.
- 2018 Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.
June 14 25
- 2025 Vipul Patel performs the first prostatectomy via transcontinental telesurgery on a man in Angola
- 2017 The Grenfell Tower fire, a catastrophic fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington, London, UK, leaves 72 people dead and another 74 injured.
- 2002 Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
June 15 12
- 2013 A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.
- 1991 In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people.
- 1977 After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections take place in Spain.
June 16 25
- 2019 Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.
- 2016 Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in mainland China, opens to the public.
- 2013 A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
June 17 20
- 2017 A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others.
- 2015 Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1994 Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
June 18 22
- 2023 Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, implodes in the North Atlantic Ocean while attempting to view the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board, including OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush.
- 2018 An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.
- 2007 The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire kills nine firefighters in Charleston, South Carolina.
June 19 21
- 2020 Animal rights advocate Regan Russell is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario.
- 2018 The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.
- 2018 Antwon Rose II is fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.
June 20 21
- 2025 The first EF5 tornado in 12 years occurs in Enderlin, North Dakota.
- 2019 Iran's Air Defense Forces shoot down an American surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tensions between the two countries.
- 2011 RusAir Flight 9605 crashes in Besovets during approach to Petrozavodsk Airport, killing 47.
June 21 15
- 2025 A hot air balloon catches fire mid-flight and crashes in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, Brazil, killing 8 of the 21 on board.
- 2012 A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.
- 2012 An Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport, killing 11.
June 22 17
- 2025 The United States conducts airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
- 2022 An earthquake occurs in eastern Afghanistan resulting in over 1,000 deaths.
- 2012 A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
June 23 23
- 2017 A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others.
- 2014 The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
- 2013 Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
June 24 16
- 2026 Two earthquakes strike Venezuela, leaving more than 2,200 people dead and dozens of others missing.
- 2021 The Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida suffers a sudden partial collapse, killing 98 people inside.
- 2012 Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.
June 25 11
- 2007 PMTair Flight 241 crashes in the Dâmrei Mountains in Kampot Province, Cambodia, killing all 22 people on board.
- 1997 The National Hockey League approved expansion franchises for Nashville (1998), Atlanta (1999), Columbus (2000), and Minneapolis-Saint Paul (2000).
- 1981 Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
June 26 18
- 2024 Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, returns to Australia after pleading guilty to one charge of espionage in a Saipan court and subsequently being released by the United States Department of Justice.
- 2015 Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occur on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people are either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.
- 2013 Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
June 27 18
- 2017 A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware target websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe.
- 2015 Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.
- 2014 At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
June 28 18
- 2001 Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
- 1997 Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
- 1982 Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people.
June 29 21
- 2014 The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
- 2012 A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
- 2007 Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
June 30 25
- 2023 A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău International Airport in Moldova, after being denied entry to the country.
- 2021 The Tiger Fire ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and goes on to burn 16,278 acres (6,587 ha) of land before being fully contained on July 30.
- 2020 The Hong Kong National Security Law is passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and immediately comes into effect after gazettal.
July 1 25
- 2020 The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement replaces NAFTA.
- 2013 Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
- 2008 Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
July 2 15
- 2024 A stampede during a religious event in Uttar Pradesh, India, leaves at least 121 people dead and 150 others injured.
- 2013 A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.
- 2005 The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
July 3 20
- 2006 The Valencia Metro derailment kills 41 people.
- 1988 United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
- 1988 The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.
July 4 18
- 2025 A devastating flood strikes the Texas Hill Country, killing at least 108 people.
- 2025 The Oasis Live '25 tour begins in Principality Stadium, Cardiff, ending a 16-year hiatus.
- 2012 The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
July 5 14
- 2012 The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
- 2009 A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
- 2006 North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
July 6 22
- 2021 An Antonov An-26 operating as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing all 28 aboard.
- 2013 At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.
- 2013 A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.
July 7 19
- 2013 A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
- 2012 At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
- 2011 A man goes on a killing spree in Grand Rapids, Michigan, killing seven and wounding two before killing himself.
July 8 24
- 2025 Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane, causing 44 deaths, over 2.7 residents without power, and $28 billion to $32 billion dollars worth of damage.
- 2014 Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers.
- 2003 Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board.
July 9 19
- 2025 Earth completes its shortest recorded day due to a slight acceleration in rotation, with July 9 lasting approximately 1.3 to 1.6 milliseconds less than 24 hours.
- 2011 A rally takes place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to call for fairer elections in the country.
- 2006 One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310 passenger jet, veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
July 10 22
- 2019 The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.
- 2016 Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.
- 2012 The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.
July 11 22
- 2015 Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from the maximum security Altiplano prison in Mexico, his second escape.
- 2011 Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus.
- 2010 The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carries out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and injuring 85 others.
July 12 18
- 2026 A bar fire kills 33 people in Bangkok, Thailand.
- 2024 Gazpromavia Flight 9608 crashes in Russia's Kolomensky District near Kolomna, killing three.
- 2013 Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.
July 13 15
- 2013 Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.
- 2011 Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
- 2011 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations.
July 14 21
- 2019 A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.
- 2016 A man ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434 before being shot by police.
- 2001 Australian criminal Bradley John Murdoch murders British tourist Peter Falconio and abducts his girlfriend in the Northern Territory.
July 15 24
- 2014 A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
- 2012 South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.
- 2009 Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168.
July 16 18
- 2019 A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.
- 2013 As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
- 2009 Teoh Beng Hock, an aide to a politician in Malaysia is found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the offices of the Anti-Corruption Commission, sparking an inquest that gains nationwide attention.
July 17 22
- 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
- 2014 A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
- 2014 Eric Garner is killed by police officer Daniel Pantaleo in New York City, after the latter put him in a prohibited chokehold while arresting him.
July 18 21
- 2019 A man sets fire to an anime studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan, killing 36 people and injuring dozens of others.
- 2014 The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant requires Christians to either accept dhimmi status, emigrate from ISIL lands, or be killed.
- 2012 At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.
July 19 16
- 2018 The Knesset passes the controversial Nationality Bill, which defines the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
- 1994 Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 is destroyed by a bomb after takeoff from Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport in Colón, Panama, killing 21.
- 1992 A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.
July 20 21
- 2017 O. J. Simpson is granted parole to be released from prison after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence after being convicted of armed robbery in Las Vegas.
- 2015 A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç, Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100.
- 2015 The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.
July 21 21
- 2025 A Bangladesh Air Force Chengdu FT-7BGI crashes shortly after takeoff into Milestone School campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 35 people and injuring 173.
- 2023 The Barbenheimer phenomenon begins as two major motion pictures, Greta Gerwig's fantasy comedy Barbie and Christopher Nolan's epic biographical thriller Oppenheimer, are released in theaters on the same day and audiences, instead of creating a rivalry between the extremely dissimilar films, instead attend and praise both as an informal, surreal double feature.
- 2012 Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
July 22 17
- 2013 Dingxi earthquakes: A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.
- 2005 Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
- 1997 The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
July 23 19
- 2018 A wildfire in East Attica kills at least 102 people. It is the deadliest wildfire in the history of Greece.
- 2014 TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Penghu Airport. Forty-eight of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
- 2012 The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.
July 24 21
- 2025 Angara Airlines Flight 2311 crashes on approach to Tynda Airport, killing all 48 people on board.
- 2024 A Saurya Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 crashes during takeoff from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, killing 18.
- 2014 Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers. The wreckage is later found in Mali. All 116 people on board are killed.
July 25 18
- 2019 National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.
- 2018 As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
- 2000 Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people.
July 26 16
- 2016 The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
- 2016 Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.
- 2011 A Royal Moroccan Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes near Guelmim Airport in Guelmim, Morocco. All 80 people on board are killed.
July 27 17
- 2002 Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 77 and injuring more than 500 others, making it the deadliest air show disaster in history.
- 1997 About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
- 1989 While attempting to land at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, Korean Air Flight 803 crashes just short of the runway. Seventy-five of the 199 passengers and crew and four people on the ground are killed, in the second accident involving a DC-10 in less than two weeks, the first being United Airlines Flight 232.
July 28 19
- 2022 Catastrophic floods devastate Eastern Kentucky, resulting in 45 fatalities and causing damage to thousands of homes and businesses.
- 2018 Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first female skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
- 2011 While flying from Seoul, South Korea to Shanghai, China, Asiana Airlines Flight 991 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold. The Boeing 747-400F freighter attempts to divert to Jeju International Airport, but crashes into the sea South-West of Jeju island, killing both crew members on board.
July 29 20
- 2024 Three children are stabbed to death and 10 other people injured at a dance studio in Southport, England. This incident, coupled with widespread online misinformation, leads to various racially motivated riots across the UK.
- 2019 The 2019 Altamira prison riot between rival Brazilian drug gangs leaves 62 dead.
- 2013 Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.
July 30 25
- 2026 Around 50,000 Moroccan nationals storm the borders of Spanish enclaves in Africa, principally the city of Ceuta. As of August 1, 2026, 67 are confirmed to have died while crossing.
- 2025 A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.
- 2024 A series of landslides occurs in Kerala, India, causing over 420 fatalities.
July 31 25
- 2020 A De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver and Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser collide over Soldotna, Alaska, killing all seven people on board both aircraft, including state representative Gary Knopp.
- 2014 Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.
- 2012 Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
August 1 20
- 2008 The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.
- 2008 Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions die on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth, in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
- 2007 The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145.
August 2 23
- 2014 At least 146 people are killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
- 2005 Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames, leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
- 1999 The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
August 3 23
- 2023 Major floods hit parts of Slovenia.
- 2019 Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
- 2014 A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
August 4 16
- 2020 Beirut Port explosion: At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon.
- 2019 Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 13 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed.
- 1987 The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to give equal time to opposing views.
August 5 18
- 2021 Australia's second most populous state Victoria enters its sixth COVID-19 lockdown, enacting stage four restrictions statewide in reaction to six new COVID-19 cases recorded that morning.
- 2019 The revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (state) occurred and the state was bifurcated into two union territories (Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) and Ladakh).
- 2012 The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting took place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six victims; the perpetrator committed suicide after being wounded by police.
August 6 12
- 2010 Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
- 2009 Metalworkers at a Ssangyong Motor factory in Pyeongtaek, South Korea agree to end a 77-day strike that culminated in a police raid via helicopters leading to several deaths and arrests.
- 2001 Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
August 7 25
- 2026 Debsirin Nonthaburi school shooting
- 2020 Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.
- 2007 At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record.
August 8 19
- 2023 Hawaii wildfires: Seventeen thousand acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
- 2019 An explosion at the State Central Navy Testing Range in Nyonoksa, Russia, kills five people.
- 2015 Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.
August 9 18
- 2024 Voepass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283 crashes near Vinhedo, São Paulo, killing all 62 people on board.
- 2021 The Tampere light rail officially starts operating.
- 2014 Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.
August 10 20
- 2024 Israel strikes Al-Tabaeen school in eastern Gaza City, killing at least 80 Palestinians.
- 2020 Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.
- 2019 Thirty-two are killed and one million are evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.
August 11 26
- 2023 Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
- 2017 At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.
- 2012 At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
August 12 14
- 2021 Six people, five victims and the perpetrator are killed in Keyham, Plymouth in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010.
- 2018 Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Sarmada, Syria.
- 2017 The Unite the Right rally occurs in Charlottesville, Virginia, leading to three deaths and injuring nearly 50 more.
August 13 18
- 2020 Israel–United Arab Emirates relations are formally established.
- 2004 One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
- 1997 The animated TV comedy South Park airs its very first episode.
August 14 23
- 2022 An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens.
- 2021 A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.
- 2018 The collapse of the Ponte Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy, left 16 people injured and 43 people killed.
August 15 21
- 2021 Kabul falls into the hands of the Taliban as Ashraf Ghani flees Afghanistan along with local residents and foreign nationals, effectively reestablishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
- 2015 North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 81⁄2 hours ahead of UTC.
- 2013 At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
August 16 24
- 2020 The August Complex fire in California burns more than one million acres of land.
- 2015 More than 96 people are killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by the Syrian Arab Air Force on the rebel-held market town of Douma.
- 2015 Trigana Air Flight 267, an ATR 42, crashes in Oksibil, Bintang Mountains Regency, killing all 54 people on board.
August 17 26
- 2019 A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured.
- 2017 Barcelona attacks: A van is driven into pedestrians in La Rambla, killing 14 and injuring at least 100.
- 2015 A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others.
August 18 16
- 2019 One hundred activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which has completely melted after having once covered six square miles (15.5 km2).
- 2005 A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java; affecting almost 100 million people, it is one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history.
- 1993 American International Airways Flight 808 crashes at Leeward Point Field at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, injuring the three crew members.
August 19 23
- 2017 Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break.
- 2013 The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
- 2010 Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
August 20 21
- 2020 Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
- 2014 Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
- 2012 A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
August 21 21
- 2017 A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States.
- 2013 Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.
- 1995 Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carroll County near Carrollton, Georgia, killing nine of the 29 people on board.
August 22 20
- 2012 Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.
- 2006 Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
- 2004 Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
August 23 21
- 2023 Chandrayaan-3 mission initiates first Moon landing in Indian history.
- 2013 A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.
- 2012 A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
August 24 22
- 2023 Japan officially begins discharging treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking international concerns and condemnation.
- 2016 An earthquake strikes Central Italy with a magnitude of 6.2, with aftershocks felt as far as Rome and Florence. Around 300 people are killed.
- 2014 A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay Area; it is the largest in that area since 1989.
August 25 14
- 2017 Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004.
- 2010 A Filair Let L-410 Turbolet crashes on approach to Bandundu Airport, killing 20.
- 2005 Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida.
August 26 23
- 2026 A series of large flash floods and debris flows along the Nepal–Tibet border and the Trishuli River, believed to have been caused by glacier collapse, stuck and destroyed numerous settlements, including the Gyirong checkpoint, and killed over 1,400 people, with over 5,800 reported missing.
- 2023 Exactly five years after the 2018 Jacksonville Landing shooting, there is another shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, leaving three people dead.
- 2015 Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.
August 27 15
- 2011 Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.
- 2006 Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
- 2003 Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
August 28 19
- 2022 Phoenix shooting: A man opens fire on pedestrians outside of a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, resulting in the deaths of three people, including the perpetrator.
- 2003 In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device.
- 1996 Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention.
August 29 21
- 2020 2020 Women's FA Community Shield.
- 2012 At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province.
- 2012 The XIV Paralympic Games open in London, England, United Kingdom.
August 30 16
- 2008 A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.
- 2002 Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.
- 1992 The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
August 31 26
- 2025 A landslide in the Darfur region of Sudan kills over 1000 people.
- 2025 An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan kills over 1400 people.
- 2024 A helicopter crashes in Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East, killing all 22 occupants.
September 1 17
- 1974 The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of one hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).
- 1973 A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Celtic Sea results in the rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman.
- 1961 TWA Flight 529 crashes shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport in Chicago, killing all 78 people on board. At the time, it was the deadliest single plane disaster in U.S. history.
September 2 21
- 2024 Four people are killed in a mass shooting targeting homeless people on a Chicago Transit Authority train in Forest Park, Illinois, United States.
- 2024 At least 129 inmates are killed and 59 more injured in an attempted prison break at Makala Prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 2019 Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five.
September 3 21
- 2017 North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.
- 2016 The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally ratify the Paris global climate agreement.
- 2010 After taking off from Dubai International Airport, UPS Airlines Flight 6 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold and crashes near Nad Al Sheba, killing both crew members on board.
September 4 20
- 2024 A 14-year-old gunman kills four people and injures seven in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School near Winder, Georgia.
- 2022 Ten people are killed and 15 are injured in a stabbing spree in 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan.
- 2020 Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope, 93 years, four months, 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903.
September 5 15
- 2022 At least 93 people die and 25 are missing after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Sichuan, China.
- 2005 Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes after takeoff from Polonia International Airport in Medan, Indonesia, killing 149.
- 1996 Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
September 6 20
- 2026 21 Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767 freighter operating on behalf of Amazon Air, overruns the runway upon landing at Miami International Airport, striking multiple ground vehicles, killing at least five people, and injuring five others.
- 2018 Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro survives a stabbing at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.
- 2013 Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.
September 7 24
- 2021 Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador.
- 2019 Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.
- 2017 The 8.2 Mw 2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people.
September 8 18
- 2023 A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes Morocco, killing nearly 3,000 people and damaging historic sites in Marrakesh.
- 2005 Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft from EMERCOM land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
- 1994 USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard, resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
September 9 18
- 2025 Six people are killed when Israel carries out an airstrike on Doha in a failed attempt to decapitate the Hamas leadership.
- 2012 A wave of attacks kills more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
- 2009 The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
September 10 17
- 2025 American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk is assassinated while onstage at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
- 2017 Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $77.2 billion (2017 USD) in damage.
- 2002 Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
September 11 25
- 2024 Hurricane Francine impacts the Gulf of Mexico, as a Category 2 hurricane.
- 2023 The Libyan city of Derna experiences catastrophic floods after Storm Daniel causes two dams to collapse, killing thousands of people.
- 2015 A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others.
September 12 20
- 2021 Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.
- 2014 The Synagogue Church building collapse results in the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by Nigeria's T. B. Joshua.
- 2012 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing 10 and injuring four.
September 13 16
- 2008 Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
- 2007 The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
- 2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
September 14 18
- 2015 The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
- 2008 Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-500, crashes into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport, in Perm, Russia, killing all 88 people on board.
- 2007 Prelude to the 2008 financial crisis: Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
September 15 24
- 2020 Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
- 2011 Four miners are killed in the Gleision Colliery mining accident in the Swansea Valley, Wales.
- 2008 Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
September 16 26
- 2022 The death of Mahsa Amini occurred in Tehran, Iran, sparking worldwide protests.
- 2021 A 6.0 Mw earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing three and injuring more than 88.
- 2015 A 8.3 Mw earthquake strikes the Chilean city of Illapel, killing 15 people, injuring at least 34, leaving at least six missing, and causing extensive damage. One person also dies in Argentina.
September 17 23
- 2025 Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement.
- 2018 A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea.
- 2013 Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.
September 18 21
- 2013 A VIA Rail train crashes into a double-decker bus at a train station in Ottawa, Canada, killing six people and injuring 35 others.
- 2011 The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
- 2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
September 19 20
- 2022 A strong earthquake kills 2 and injures over 30 in Mexico's state of Michoacán.
- 2021 The Cumbre Vieja volcano, on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, erupts. The eruption lasts for almost three months, ending on December 13.
- 2017 The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Mexico, causing 370 deaths and over 6,000 injuries, as well as extensive damage.
September 20 18
- 2019 Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.
- 2018 At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
- 2017 Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.
September 21 30
- 2019 A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.
- 2018 LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos is beaten to death on a busy street in Athens.
- 2015 Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle allegations of fraud. It was the largest a hospital network has ever paid.
September 22 23
- 2006 Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.
- 1995 An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
- 1993 A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
September 23 20
- 2024 Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing more than 490 people.
- 2022 Voting begins in the five-day sham annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, leading to Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
- 2020 A grand jury in Kentucky declines to indict three police officers for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in a drug raid gone wrong, leading to nationwide protests in the U.S.
September 24 26
- 2015 At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a crush during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
- 2014 The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
- 2013 A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing at least 327 people.
September 25 20
- 2018 Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.
- 2003 The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
- 1998 PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.
September 26 24
- 2024 Hurricane Helene makes landfall in Perry, Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, killing over 250 people, causing US$78.7 billion in damage and becoming the deadliest hurricane in the mainland United States since Katrina.
- 2022 A mass shooting occurs at a school in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, Russia, resulting in the deaths of 18 people, including 11 children.
- 2014 A mass kidnapping of 43 students from a teaching college occurs in Iguala, Mexico.
September 27 28
- 2024 Hurricane Helene devastates the Carolinas as a tropical storm, killing hundreds and injuring more.
- 2019 Over two million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across 2,400 locations worldwide.
- 2014 63 people are killed in an eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan.
September 28 18
- 2023 The 2023 Rotterdam shootings occurred, during which two people were killed in a shooting and arson incident at a residence in Delfshaven, Rotterdam. Additionally, one person lost their life in a classroom at the Erasmus University Medical Center.
- 2022 Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cayo Costa State Park, Florida as a category four hurricane, killing 169 and doing $113 billion in damage, becoming Florida's costliest hurricane and the deadliest in 89 years.
- 2018 The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.
September 29 22
- 2013 Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria.
- 2011 The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.
- 2009 The 8.1 Mw Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills over 189 and injures hundreds.
September 30 27
- 2016 Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.
- 2016 Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.
- 2009 The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.
October 1 24
- 2021 The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2019 Kuopio school stabbing: One dies and ten are injured when Joel Marin, armed with a sabre, attacks a school class at Savo Vocational College in Kuopio, Finland.
- 2018 The International Court of Justice rules that Chile is not obliged to negotiate access to the Pacific Ocean with Bolivia.
October 2 14
- 2019 A privately owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.
- 2018 The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2016 Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.
October 3 19
- 2021 Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.
- 2015 Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.
- 2013 At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
October 4 22
- 2017 Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.
- 2010 The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
- 2006 WikiLeaks is launched.
October 5 26
- 2021 Windows 11 is released to the general public.
- 2011 In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.
- 2000 Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
October 6 17
- 2025 The 2025 Alberta teachers' strike begins, leaving approximately 51,000 teachers off-work, impacting about 730,000 Albertan students.
- 2022 Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 2010 Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.
October 7 22
- 2022 Ten people are killed and eight are injured in an explosion at a petrol station in Creeslough, Ireland.
- 2022 Ales Bialiatski, along with two organisations, Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties, are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 2016 In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to over 800.
October 8 16
- 2005 The 7.6 Mw Kashmir earthquake leaves 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.
- 2001 A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
- 1991 Upon the expiration of the Brioni Agreement, Croatia and Slovenia sever all official relations with Yugoslavia.
October 9 22
- 2024 Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane, causing US$34.3 billion in damage only two weeks after Hurricane Helene impacted the state.
- 2012 Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
- 2007 The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2008 financial crisis.
October 10 26
- 2022 Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
- 2018 Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.
- 2018 The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.
October 11 21
- 2018 Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. The crew lands safely.
- 2013 A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 359 people drowning.
- 2001 The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
October 12 23
- 2022 2022 Bratislava shooting occurs outside a gay bar, killing 3 (including the perpetrator) and injuring one.
- 2019 Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.
- 2019 The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing three workers and injuring 30 others.
October 13 20
- 2016 The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 2013 A stampede occurs in India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 and injuring more than 110.
- 2010 The mining accident in Copiapó, Chile ends as all 33 trapped miners arrive at the surface after a record 69 days underground.
October 14 18
- 2021 About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike.
- 2017 An Al-Shabaab suicide bomber detonated a massive truck bomb at the Zobe junction in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killing 587 people, injuring 316 others, and leaving more than 500 missing.
- 2014 A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
October 15 24
- 2018 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.
- 2016 One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.
- 2013 The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.
October 16 24
- 2017 Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.
- 2013 Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
- 2002 The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.
October 17 24
- 2018 The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
- 2004 A fire that lasted over 15 hours destroyed almost one third of the East Tower of the Parque Central Urban Complex in Caracas, Venezuela.
- 2000 The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
October 18 14
- 1992 Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount Papandayan near the town of Garut in West Java, Indonesia, killing 31.
- 1989 A Ilyushin Il-76 of the Soviet Air Forces crashes into the Caspian Sea near Sumgait, killing 57.
- 1978 Based on the world's first children's art museum, the Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics opens in Yerevan.
October 19 20
- 2025 Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris.
- 2013 One hundred and five people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.
- 2012 A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.
October 20 13
- 2005 The general conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passes the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
- 1991 A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.
- 1991 A massive firestorm breaks out in the hills of Oakland and Berkeley, California killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,000 homes, apartments and condominiums.
October 21 18
- 2019 Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 2018 A passenger train derails in Yilan County, Taiwan, killing 18 people and injuring 187.
- 2003 Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery.
October 22 24
- 2019 Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored.
- 2015 Anton Lundin Pettersson attacks a school in Trollhättan, killing three people and injuring two others.
- 2013 The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013.
October 23 14
- 2015 The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia, which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages.
- 2011 A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
- 2007 A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the platform.
October 24 17
- 2018 The world's longest sea crossing, the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, opens for public traffic.
- 2016 A French surveillance aircraft flying to Libya crashes on takeoff in Malta, killing all five people on board.
- 2016 Three heavily armed terrorists from the Islamic State – Khorasan Province open fire on and eventually suicide bomb a police training centre in Balochistan, Pakistan, killing at least 59 cadets and injuring more than 165 others.
October 25 22
- 2025 Vipul Patel performed the first telesurgery between two United States hospitals, AdventHealth Celebration and AdventHealth Minneola.
- 2023 A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured.
- 2010 A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.
October 26 17
- 2015 A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in South Asia, killing 399 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.
- 2012 Microsoft made a public release of Windows 8 and made it available on new PCs.
- 2004 Rockstar Games releases Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the PlayStation 2 in North America, which sold 12 million units for the PS2, becoming the console's best-selling video game.
October 27 16
- 2018 A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing eleven and injuring six, including four police officers.
- 2014 Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
- 1997 The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
October 28 17
- 2026 Two high-speed trains collide in Los Yébenes, south of Madrid, Spain, killing at least 74 passengers and injuring nearly 200.
- 2025 Hurricane Melissa makes landfall near Black River, Jamaica, killing over 30 people, as well as tying the 1935 Labor Day hurricane as the most intense landfall in the North Atlantic.
- 2013 Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.
October 29 23
- 2022 At least 156 die at a crowd crush during a Halloween celebration in Itaewon district, Seoul, South Korea.
- 2018 Lion Air Flight 610, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia killing 189 people on board. This is the first of two crashes that will lead to the plane being grounded worldwide.
- 2015 China announces the end of its one-child policy after 35 years.
October 30 19
- 2022 A pedestrian suspension bridge collapses in the city of Morbi, Gujarat, leading to the deaths of at least 135 people.
- 2020 A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings.
- 2015 A fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital of Bucharest kills sixty-four people and leaves more than 147 injured.
October 31 22
- 2020 Berlin Brandenburg Airport opens its doors after nearly 10 years of delays due to construction issues and project corruption.
- 2017 A truck drives into a crowd in Lower Manhattan, New York City, killing eight people.
- 2015 Metrojet Flight 9268 is bombed over the northern Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
November 1 19
- 2024 A concrete canopy collapses at the Novi Sad railway station, killing 16 people and injuring 3.
- 2009 An Ilyushin Il-76 crashes near the Mir mine after takeoff from Mirny Airport in Yakutia, killing all 11 aboard.
- 2000 Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, formed from sixteen districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh.
November 2 20
- 2020 In Vienna's Innere Stadt district, an ISIL sympathizer shoots and kills four people and injures 23 more, before being shot and killed by the police.
- 1999 Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
- 1997 Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.
November 3 11
- 2014 One World Trade Center officially opens in New York City, replacing the Twin Towers after they were destroyed during the September 11 attacks.
- 1997 The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and East Africa.
- 1982 The Salang Tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills 150–2000 people.
November 4 15
- 2025 UPS Airlines Flight 2976, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11F crashes into multiple buildings during takeoff at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, killing 15 people, including the 3 crew members.
- 2022 The Khash massacre, which refers to the repression of protesters by Iranian security forces, resulting in 18 deaths and more than 20 injuries.
- 2015 A cargo plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, killing at least 37 people.
November 5 19
- 2021 The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized
- 2017 Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
- 2015 An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.
November 6 8
- 2004 An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 120.
- 2002 A Fokker 50 crashes near Luxembourg Airport, killing 20 and injuring three.
- 1995 Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.
November 7 13
- 2012 An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.
- 2007 The Jokela school shooting in Jokela, Tuusula, Finland, takes place, resulting in the death of nine people.
- 1996 ADC Airlines Flight 086 crashes into the Lagos Lagoon in Epe, Lagos State, Nigeria, killing all 144 people on board.
November 8 18
- 2013 Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD; equivalent to $3.95 billion in 2025) in damage.
- 2011 The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
- 2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441: The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".
November 9 19
- 2023 U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.
- 2014 A non-binding self-determination consultation is held in Catalonia, asking Catalan citizens their opinion on whether Catalonia should become a state and, if so, whether it should be an independent state.
- 2012 A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
November 10 21
- 2009 Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
- 2006 Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
- 2002 Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November.
November 11 15
- 2020 Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore islands, killing 67 people. The storm causes the worst floods in the region since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009.
- 2012 A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
- 2011 A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven, including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico.
November 12 20
- 2026 The S.S. United States is planned to be sunk off of the coast of Okaloosa County, Florida.
- 2022 A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra collide in mid-air over Dallas Executive Airport during an airshow, killing six.
- 2020 The PlayStation 5 is released.
November 13 18
- 2022 A mass stabbing occurs in Moscow, Idaho in which four University of Idaho students are killed in off-campus housing.
- 2012 A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.
- 2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
November 14 24
- 2019 A mass shooting occurs at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, resulting in three deaths, including that of the perpetrator, and three injuries.
- 2017 A gunman kills four people and injures 12 others during a shooting spree across Rancho Tehama, California. He had earlier murdered his wife in their home.
- 2016 A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Kaikōura, New Zealand, at a depth of 15 km (9 miles), resulting in the deaths of two people.
November 15 24
- 2022 The world population reached eight billion.
- 2017 A flood a few miles outside of Athens results in the death of 25 people.
- 2010 A fire in a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai, China kills 58 people.
November 16 22
- 2004 Half-Life 2 is released, a game winning 39 Game of the Year awards and being cited as one of the best games ever made.
- 2002 The first cases of the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak are traced to Foshan, Guangdong Province, China.
- 1997 After nearly 18 years of incarceration, China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
November 17 21
- 2019 The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
- 2013 Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.
- 2013 A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.
November 18 21
- 2012 Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
- 2003 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4–3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.
- 2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
November 19 21
- 2022 A gunman kills five and injures 17 at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 2010 The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand. Twenty-nine people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.
- 2004 The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault and battery.
November 20 13
- 2003 After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
- 1998 A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
- 1996 A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.
November 21 25
- 2022 A magnitude 5.6 earthquake on the Indonesian island of Java kills between 335 and 602 people.
- 2021 An SUV plows through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing six and injuring 62.
- 2019 Tesla launches the SUV Cybertruck. A gaffe occurs during the launch event when its "unbreakable" windows shatter during demonstration.
November 22 21
- 2022 A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves seven workers dead, including the shooter, and four others injured.
- 2014 While playing with a toy gun in Cleveland, 12-year-old African American Tamir Rice is killed by a white police officer.
- 2010 During the Cambodian water festival, a stampede in Koh Pich, Phnom Penh, kills 347 people.
November 23 22
- 2019 The last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia, Imam, dies, making the species officially extinct in the country.
- 2018 Founders of Italian fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana issue an apology following a series of offensive advertisements on social media promoting a fashion show in Shanghai, China, which was canceled.
- 2009 The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Philippines; 58 opponents of Andal Ampatuan Jr. are kidnapped and killed.
November 24 18
- 2023 Hibiscus Rising, commemorating David Oluwale, is unveiled in Leeds.
- 2015 A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
- 2015 An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
November 25 18
- 2009 Jeddah floods: Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.
- 2008 Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.
- 2000 The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0 kills 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, being the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
November 26 19
- 2025 The Wang Fuk Court fire, a catastrophic fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong, leaves at least 168 dead and 79 injured.
- 2021 COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization identifies the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
- 2019 A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes western Albania leaving at least 52 people dead and over 1,000 injured. This was the world's deadliest earthquake of 2019, and the deadliest to strike the country in 99 years.
November 27 18
- 2024 Syrian rebel groups led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham launch a ground offensive into Syria.
- 2020 Days after the announcement of its discovery, the Utah monolith is removed by recreationists.
- 2015 An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shoots at least four police officers. One officer later dies. Two civilians are also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered.
November 28 13
- 2014 Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
- 2002 Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.
- 1987 South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
November 29 20
- 2013 LAM Mozambique Airlines 470 crashes in the Bwabata National Park in a pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 33 people on board.
- 2009 Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.
- 1987 North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.
November 30 20
- 2022 The generative AI chatbot ChatGPT is launched by OpenAI.
- 2021 Barbados becomes a republic.
- 2021 A 15-year-old gunman murders four students and injures seven people, including a teacher, in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan.
December 1 20
- 2019 Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match, with Vivianne Miedema involved in ten of the eleven Arsenal goals.
- 2019 The outbreak of coronavirus infection begins in Wuhan.
- 2018 The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu, Finland.
December 2 14
- 2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- 1999 The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
- 1993 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed by police in Medellín.
December 3 18
- 2024 Martial law is declared in South Korea.
- 2023 Mount Marapi located in West Sumatra, Indonesia begins a sporadic series of eruptions. 23 people were killed, and 12 were injured.
- 2012 At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines.
December 4 19
- 2025 Yasser Abu Shabab is assassinated near Rafah, Gaza Strip.
- 2024 UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is shot and killed in Manhattan, New York City near the entrance of the New York Hilton Midtown.
- 2021 Semeru on the Indonesian island of Java erupts, killing at least 68 people.
December 5 16
- 2014 Exploration Flight Test-1, the first flight test of Orion, is launched.
- 2007 Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills nine people, including himself, with a WASR-10 at a Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska.
- 2005 The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
December 6 15
- 2017 Donald Trump's administration officially announces the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
- 1999 A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
- 1998 in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is victorious in presidential elections.
December 7 19
- 2017 Aztec High School shooting: William Atchison kills two students at his former high school.
- 2016 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by an ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board.
- 2015 The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
December 8 21
- 2019 First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China.
- 2013 Riots break out in Singapore, after a fatal accident in Little India.
- 2013 Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first musical act to perform on all seven continents.
December 9 17
- 2021 Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico.
- 2019 A volcano on Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.
- 2017 The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.
December 10 17
- 2021 A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others. Another tornado in Edwardsville, Illinois strikes an Amazon warehouse, killing six workers.
- 2017 ISIL is defeated in Iraq.
- 2005 Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes at Port Harcourt International Airport in Nigeria, killing 108 people.
December 11 23
- 2012 At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.
- 2009 Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment releases the hit mobile game Angry Birds internationally on iOS.
- 2008 Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
December 12 15
- 2015 The Paris Agreement relating to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted.
- 2012 North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2.
- 1999 A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits the Philippines's main island of Luzon, killing six people, injuring 40, and causing power outages that affected the capital Manila.
December 13 20
- 2002 European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on May 1, 2004.
- 1995 Banat Air Flight 166 crashes in Sommacampagna near Verona Villafranca Airport in Verona, Italy, killing 49.
- 1994 Flagship Airlines Flight 3379 crashes in Morrisville, North Carolina, near Raleigh–Durham International Airport, killing 15.
December 14 22
- 2025 At least 16 people are killed, including one gunman, and 43 injured in a mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in the deadliest terror incident in Australia.
- 2020 A total solar eclipse is visible from parts of the South Pacific Ocean, southern South America, and the South Atlantic Ocean.
- 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
December 15 20
- 2017 A 6.5Mwearthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Java in the city of Tasikmalaya, resulting in four deaths.
- 2014 Gunman Man Haron Monis takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.
- 2010 A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48 people.
December 16 21
- 2024 The Abundant Life Christian School shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, takes place, resulting in the death of three people.
- 2022 A landslide occurs at a camp at an organic farm near the town of Batang Kali in Selangor, Malaysia, trapping 92 people and killing 31.
- 2013 A bus falls from an elevated highway in Manila, capital of the Philippines, killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.
December 17 24
- 2014 The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1961.
- 2009 MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.
- 2005 Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
December 18 22
- 2019 The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time.
- 2017 Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501, derailed near DuPont, Washington, a city in United States near Olympia, Washington killing six people, and injuring 70 others.
- 2015 Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.
December 19 16
- 2016 Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.
- 2005 A passenger train from Sucha Beskidzka to Żywiec in Poland loses its brakes while on a steep downhill part of the route. It is stopped in a controlled collision in Świnna by a train travelling in opposite direction. 2 drivers and 6 passengers are injured.
- 2001 Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
December 20 23
- 2024 Six people are killed and over 200 are injured when an anti-Islam activist drives a car into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
- 2024 A mass stabbing occurs in a primary school in Zagreb, Croatia, in which a 7-year-old pupil is killed and six more are injured by a knife-wielding 19-year-old male.
- 2016 Aerosucre Flight 157 crashes during takeoff from Germán Olano Airport in Puerto Carreño, Colombia, killing five people.
December 21 20
- 2023 Fourteen people are killed and 25 others injured during a mass shooting at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2020 A great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs, with the two planets separated in the sky by 0.1 degrees. This is the closest conjunction between the two planets since 1623.
- 2012 2012 phenomenon: Festivities are held in parts of Mesoamerica to commemorate the conclusion of b'ak'tun 13, a roughly 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar whose passing many New Age spiritualists had earlier held to portend a variety of cataclysmic or transformative events.
December 22 20
- 2018 A tsunami caused by an eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia kills at least 430 people and injures almost a thousand more.
- 2017 United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397 against North Korea is unanimously approved.
- 2008 An ash dike ruptures at a solid waste containment area for a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-fired power plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 4.2 million m3 (1.1 billion US gal) of coal fly ash slurry in the largest industrial spill in U.S. history.
December 23 19
- 2023 A series of massacres targeting Berom civilians unfold in the Plateau State in Nigeria, killing over 200 people and further injuring over 500. No group claims responsibility.
- 2005 An Antonov An-140, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan, heading across the Caspian Sea, crashes, killing 23 people.
- 2003 An explosion at the PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field in Kai County, Chongqing, China, kills at least 234.
December 24 20
- 2018 A helicopter crash kills Martha Érika Alonso, first female Governor of Puebla, Mexico, and her husband Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, former governor.
- 2003 The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.
- 1999 Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed).
December 25 26
- 2024 Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 crashes in Aktau, Kazakhstan, killing 38 of its occupants.
- 2020 An explosion in Nashville, Tennessee, occurs, leaving three civilians in the hospital.
- 2019 Twenty people are killed and thousands are left homeless by Typhoon Phanfone in the Philippines.
December 26 26
- 2025 Israel recognises Somaliland as an independent state, becoming the first country to do so.
- 2021 Three people are killed when a 14-year-old opens fire on civilians at a Texaco convenience store in Garland, Texas.
- 2015 A violent EF-4 tornado hits Garland, Texas, killing nine and injuring almost 500 others.
December 27 24
- 2025 An estimated €30 million were stolen from a Sparkasse bank in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
- 2019 Bek Air Flight 2100 crashes during takeoff from Almaty International Airport in Almaty, Kazakhstan, killing 13.
- 2008 Operation Cast Lead: Israel launches three-week operation on Gaza.
December 28 19
- 2019 A truck bomb is detonated in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing at least 85 people and injuring over 140 more. The militant group Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
- 2014 Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.
- 2014 Nine people die and another 19 are reported missing, when the MS Norman Atlantic catches fire in the Strait of Otranto, in the Adriatic Sea, in Italian waters.
December 29 18
- 2024 Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashes into a wall in Muan, South Korea, killing 179 of the 181 occupants. It is the worst aircraft accident on South Korean soil in history.
- 2023 South Africa files a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice over Israeli conducts in the Gaza Strip.
- 2020 A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits near the town of Petrinja in Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia, killing seven people.
December 30 25
- 2020 A large explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden kills at least 22 people and wounds 50.
- 2009 A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 L (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.
- 2009 A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
December 31 24
- 2019 The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2018 Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.
- 2014 A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.