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
7
2015
📜 The JAXA space probe Akatsuki entered into orbit around Venus to study the planet's…
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Dec
26
2015
📜 A violent tornado moves through several suburbs of Dallas, Texas, killing ten and…
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Jan
2
2016
📜 Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia, was executed by the Saudi…
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Jan
16
2016
📜 After gunmen took hostages the previous night at a restaurant in Ouagadougou, Burkina…
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Feb
9
2016
📜 Two commuter trains collided head-on at Bad Aibling in southeastern Germany, killing 12…
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Feb
12
2016
📜 In the first meeting between the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox…
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Mar
19
2016
📜 Flydubai Flight 981 crashed during an aborted landing at Rostov-on-Don Airport, Russia,…
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Apr
22
2016
📜 The Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, opened for signature and…
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May
1
2016
📜 The evacuation of nearly 88,000 people began when a wildfire swept through Fort…
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May
28
2016
📜 Harambe was shot and killed after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the…
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Jun
12
2016
📜 An Islamic terrorist killed 49 people in a mass shooting at the gay nightclub Pulse in…
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Jun
16
2016
📜 Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.
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Jun
23
2016
📜 Citizens of the United Kingdom voted in favour of leaving the European Union.
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Jun
28
2016
📜 Gunmen attacked Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, killing 45 people and injuring more than 230…
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Jul
7
2016
📜 A U.S. Army Reserve veteran ambushed and shot at police officers (memorial service…
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Jul
14
2016
📜 A man deliberately drove a truck into crowds in Nice, France, resulting in 86 deaths.
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Jul
15
2016
📜 The Peace at Home Council, a faction of the Turkish Armed Forces, staged a coup d'état…
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Jul
26
2016
📜 Hillary Clinton (pictured) became the first female nominee for president of the United…
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Jul
27
2016
📜 The last nine Aston Martin DB9 (example pictured) units rolled off the production line,…
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Aug
12
2016
📜 The state-owned Taedonggang Brewing Company inaugurated the first beer festival in North…
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Aug
29
2016
📜 Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, and in that role…
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Sep
23
2016
📜 Following a number of high-profile sexual assaults, major reforms were enacted to…
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Sep
26
2016
📜 The Ecnomiohyla rabborum became extinct when the last known surviving member died in…
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Oct
8
2016
📜 Yemen War: A funeral in Sanaa was hit by two consecutive airstrikes by a Saudi-led…
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Oct
13
2016
📜 The King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, died after 70 years on the throne, at which…
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