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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Nov
12
2014
📜 The European Space Agency's lander Philae touched down on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko,…
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Nov
18
2014
📜 Two Palestinian men attacked the praying congregants of a synagogue in Jerusalem with…
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Dec
7
2014
📜 The annual furry convention Midwest FurFest was targeted in an unsolved chlorine gas…
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Dec
16
2014
📜 A hostage crisis in a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney, Australia, ended with police…
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Dec
22
2014
📜 The United States Copyright Office stated that works lacking human authorship, such as a…
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Dec
28
2014
📜 Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed into the Java Sea after the pilots mishandled a…
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Dec
28
2014
📜 The passenger ferry Norman Atlantic caught fire in the Adriatic Sea, killing an…
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Jan
9
2015
📜 Contaminated beer served at a funeral in Tete Province, Mozambique, killed 75 people and…
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Jan
9
2015
📜 A hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurred at a Jewish market…
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Jan
26
2015
📜 A jet fighter crashed at Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete, Spain, killing 11 people and…
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Feb
4
2015
📜 Shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport, the crew of TransAsia Airways Flight…
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Feb
11
2015
📜 Turkish student Özgecan Aslan was murdered during a rape attempt, sparking mass…
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Feb
24
2015
📜 At a restaurant in Uherský Brod, Czech Republic, a gunman opened fire in a restaurant,…
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Feb
27
2015
📜 Russian statesman and politician Boris Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin,…
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Mar
16
2015
📜 Natalia Kills and Willy Moon were fired as judges on the second series of The X Factor…
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Mar
18
2015
📜 Gunmen attacked the Bardo National Museum in Tunisia, killing 24 people.
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Mar
24
2015
📜 The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberately crashed the aircraft, an Airbus…
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Mar
27
2015
📜 Himeji Castle, the largest and most visited Japanese castle, re-opened after five years…
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Mar
28
2015
📜 A siege of a hotel in Mogadishu by al-Shabaab militants, which began the previous day…
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Apr
2
2015
📜 Gunmen attacked Garissa University College in Kenya, killing 148 people and wounding 79…
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Apr
2
2015
📜 Six elderly men burgled a safe-deposit facility in Hatton Garden, London, and stole…
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Apr
14
2015
📜 Western Kentucky University announced a five-year suspension of their swimming and…
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Apr
19
2015
📜 Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American, died of injuries sustained while in the…
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Apr
25
2015
📜 Nepal was struck by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake, killing more than 8,000 people.
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Apr
29
2015
📜 The ringleaders of the Bali Nine were executed in Indonesia for attempting to smuggle…
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