Moments in History
The events Wikipedia's editors chose for each day of the year — about 6,500 turning points, each at the day it happened.
Events 6531 totals
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Dec
13
2013
📜 Beyoncé (pictured) released her fifth studio album without any prior announcement or…
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Dec
15
2013
📜 The South Sudanese Civil War began when three opposition leaders voted to boycott the…
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Dec
19
2013
📜 The European Space Agency's spacecraft Gaia was launched with the goal of constructing…
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Dec
30
2013
📜 Supporters of Congolese religious leader Paul-Joseph Mukungubila carried out a series of…
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Jan
6
2014
📜 The first episode of the documentary series Benefits Street aired on Channel 4,…
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Feb
3
2014
📜 Russia's first school shooting took place when a student opened fire at School No. 263…
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Feb
7
2014
📜 An inquiry report of the United Nations Human Rights Council found systematic and…
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Feb
7
2014
📜 Researchers announced the discovery of the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England,…
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Feb
18
2014
📜 A series of violent events (pictured) involving protesters, riot police, and unknown…
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Feb
26
2014
📜 Former editor-in-chief of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao Kevin Lau was stabbed, prompting…
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Mar
2
2014
📜 The Oscar selfie, considered to be one of the most influential photographs of all time,…
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Mar
8
2014
📜 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239…
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Mar
12
2014
📜 A gas leak caused an explosion in East Harlem, New York City, destroying two apartment…
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Mar
20
2014
📜 Taliban militants killed nine civilians in a mass shooting at the Kabul Serena Hotel in…
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Mar
22
2014
📜 A massive landslide in Oso, Washington, killed 43 people after engulfing a rural…
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Mar
29
2014
📜 The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales took place following the passage of…
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Apr
12
2014
📜 A fire broke out near Valparaíso, Chile, eventually destroying at least 2,500 homes and…
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Apr
16
2014
📜 The ferry MV Sewol capsized and sank off Donggeochado, South Korea, killing 306 people,…
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Apr
17
2014
📜 NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet with a radius similar…
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Apr
21
2014
📜 The city of Flint, Michigan, U.S., changed its water source to the Flint River, which…
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Apr
25
2014
📜 A water crisis began when officials in Flint, Michigan, switched the city's water supply…
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Apr
30
2014
📜 A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China, killed three people and injured 79 others.
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May
2
2014
📜 Two mudslides in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, killed at least 350 people.
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May
2
2014
📜 Russo-Ukrainian War: Forty-eight people were killed during a confrontation between…
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May
13
2014
📜 The worst mining disaster in Turkish history took place when an explosion caused an…
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