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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Jan
16
2018
📜 In Mrauk U, Myanmar, police fired into a crowd protesting the ban of an event to mark…
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Jan
20
2018
📜 A group of Taliban gunmen attacked and took hostages at the Hotel Inter-Continental…
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Feb
11
2018
📜 Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashed shortly after take-off in Russia due to icing…
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Feb
14
2018
📜 An lone gunman shot and killed seventeen people and injured seventeen others in a mass…
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Feb
15
2018
📜 Following nationwide protests, Hailemariam Desalegn announced his resignation as prime…
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Mar
31
2018
📜 Nikol Pashinyan began his protest walk, starting in the city of Gyumri, opening the 2018…
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Apr
3
2018
📜 A woman opened fire at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three…
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Apr
5
2018
📜 Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a slaughterhouse in…
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Apr
6
2018
📜 A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos collided with a semi-truck, killing 16 and injuring…
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Apr
23
2018
📜 A man intentionally struck pedestrians with a van on Yonge Street in Toronto, Canada,…
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May
18
2018
📜 Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 crashed near Santiago de las Vegas shortly after takeoff…
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May
19
2018
📜 The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (both pictured) took place at St George's…
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Jun
1
2018
📜 For the first time since its transition to democracy, the Congress of Deputies in Spain…
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Jun
27
2018
📜 The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 (artist's impression pictured) arrived at the…
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Jul
10
2018
📜 The last members of a junior association football team and their coach were rescued from…
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Jul
15
2018
📜 Croatian Mario Mandžukić scored the first own goal in a FIFA World Cup final in their…
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Jul
30
2018
📜 Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) was elected to his first full term as president, having…
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Aug
9
2018
📜 A civilian school bus in Dahyan, Yemen, was bombed by Saudi Arabia killing at least 40…
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Aug
20
2018
📜 Silent Sam, a Confederate monument on the campus of the University of North Carolina at…
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Sep
6
2018
📜 The Supreme Court of India invalidated part of Section 377 of the Penal Code, thus…
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Sep
17
2018
📜 The Israeli Air Force conducted missile strikes that hit multiple targets in western…
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Oct
1
2018
📜 The International Court of Justice ruled that Chile was under no obligation to restore…
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Oct
2
2018
📜 The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated in the Saudi consulate…
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Oct
15
2018
📜 Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs was kidnapped from her home in Barron, Wisconsin, and held…
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Oct
23
2018
📜 An escalator accident in Rome left 24 people injured, mostly fans of the CSKA Moscow…
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