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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May
4
2015
📜 The Parliament of Malta moved from the Grandmaster's Palace to the purpose-built…
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May
12
2015
📜 An earthquake in Nepal killed 218 people and injured more than 3,500 others.
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May
12
2015
📜 A train derailment killed eight people and injured more than 200 others in Philadelphia.
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May
19
2015
📜 A corroded pipeline near Refugio State Beach, California, spilled 142,800 gallons (3,400…
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May
21
2015
📜 Islamic State militants entered the ancient city of Palmyra.
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Jun
1
2015
📜 The river cruise ship Dongfang zhi Xing capsized in the Yangtze, resulting in 442 deaths…
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Jun
17
2015
📜 A white supremacist committed a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal…
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Jun
26
2015
📜 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that the right of same-sex couples…
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Jun
27
2015
📜 Ignition of corn starch caused a dust fire at a water park in New Taipei City, Taiwan,…
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Jun
30
2015
📜 An Indonesian Air Force military transport aircraft (pictured) crashed near a…
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Jul
20
2015
📜 A suicide attack (aftermath pictured) in Suruç, Turkey, for which Islamic State of Iraq…
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Aug
5
2015
📜 United States Environmental Protection Agency personnel accidentally caused a spillage…
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Aug
16
2015
📜 Suicide bombers assassinated Pakistani politician Shuja Khanzada and killed at least 21…
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Aug
21
2015
📜 Passengers on a Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris confronted and subdued an attacker…
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Aug
22
2015
📜 A former military aircraft crashed at an airshow at Shoreham Airport in southern…
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Sep
9
2015
📜 Elizabeth II (pictured) became the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom,…
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Sep
12
2015
📜 An explosion involving illegally stored mining detonators in Petlawad, India, killed 104…
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Sep
14
2015
📜 Physicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed gravitational waves, the…
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Oct
22
2015
📜 A sword-wielding man attacked students and teachers at a high school in Trollhättan,…
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Oct
23
2015
📜 Hurricane Patricia, the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Western…
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Oct
24
2015
📜 Lam Wing-kee, the owner of Causeway Bay Books in Hong Kong, known for publishing…
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Nov
13
2015
📜 Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State killed 130…
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Nov
21
2015
📜 The Belgian government imposed a four-day security lockdown in Brussels based on…
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Nov
24
2015
📜 A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down by a Turkish fighter jet after the…
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Dec
2
2015
📜 In San Bernardino, California, a married couple carried out a mass shooting at a…
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