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
23
2017
📜 Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao following the Maute Group attack on…
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May
31
2017
📜 A car bomb exploded near the German embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing more than 90…
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Jun
6
2017
📜 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces opened the Second Battle of Raqqa, the…
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Jun
7
2017
📜 A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashed into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, killing all 122…
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Jun
14
2017
📜 A fire severely damaged Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, killing 72 people.
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Jun
17
2017
📜 Wildfires erupted across central Portugal, eventually causing the deaths of 66 people.
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Jun
27
2017
📜 Websites of Ukrainian organizations were swamped by a massive cyberattack, blamed on…
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Jul
3
2017
📜 In the U.S. state of Arizona, the Boundary Fire (pictured) burned out after 32 days,…
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Aug
18
2017
📜 Two people were fatally stabbed and eight others wounded by a rejected asylum seeker in…
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Aug
19
2017
📜 Around 250,000 farmed non-native Atlantic salmon were accidentally released into the…
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Sep
3
2017
📜 North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test at Punggye-ri, causing a…
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Sep
6
2017
📜 Hurricane Irma reached peak intensity near the Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Saint…
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Sep
10
2017
📜 Hurricane Irma made landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida, as a Category 4, after causing…
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Sep
15
2017
📜 A homemade bomb partially exploded on an eastbound District line train at Parsons Green…
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Sep
19
2017
📜 An earthquake struck central Mexico, killing 370 people and injuring more than 6,000,…
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Oct
1
2017
📜 A lone gunman fired more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from his hotel suite on a crowd…
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Oct
16
2017
📜 The Maltese journalist and anti-corruption activist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in…
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Oct
19
2017
📜 Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered ʻOumuamua (depicted), the first known…
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Oct
31
2017
📜 An Uzbek immigrant drove a rented truck into cyclists and runners in Lower Manhattan,…
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Nov
8
2017
📜 The Louvre Abu Dhabi was inaugurated by the French president Emmanuel Macron and…
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Nov
18
2017
📜 Cyclone Numa, a rare "medicane", made landfall in Greece to become the worst weather…
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Dec
6
2017
📜 Under President Donald Trump, the United States government officially recognized…
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Dec
9
2017
📜 Same-sex marriage in Australia became legal as the Marriage Amendment (Definition and…
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Dec
18
2017
📜 An Amtrak Cascades passenger train derailed near DuPont, Washington, killing three…
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Jan
14
2018
📜 In the "Minneapolis Miracle", American football player Stefon Diggs caught a 61-yard (56…
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