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
30
2018
📜 A magnitude-7.1 earthquake (aftermath pictured) hit Anchorage, Alaska, causing 117…
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Dec
21
2018
📜 Operatives of the British Special Boat Service boarded the container ship Grande Tema in…
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Dec
22
2018
📜 A tsunami, triggered by the partial collapse of Anak Krakatoa, killed 426 people and…
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Dec
28
2018
📜 Netflix released Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, its first interactive content for adults.
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Jan
1
2019
📜 The NASA space probe New Horizons flew by the trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, making it…
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Jan
4
2019
📜 A fire in an escape room in Koszalin, Poland, killed five teenagers.
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Jan
18
2019
📜 An oil pipeline explosion killed 137 people in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico.
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Jan
27
2019
📜 MBC Newsdesk reported on a nightclub assault in Seoul, South Korea, leading to the…
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Feb
12
2019
📜 After being informed that its recently purchased coffin of Nedjemankh (pictured) had…
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Feb
22
2019
📜 A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid, Spain, and stole several mobile…
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Mar
10
2019
📜 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa…
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Mar
18
2019
📜 Syrian civil war: The U.S. Air Force carried out an airstrike in al-Baghuz Fawqani,…
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Mar
21
2019
📜 A major explosion at a chemical plant in Yancheng, China, killed 78 people and injured…
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Apr
10
2019
📜 Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first image of the…
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Apr
15
2019
📜 A fire severely damaged Notre-Dame de Paris, destroying the cathedral's timber spire and…
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Apr
18
2019
📜 The United States Department of Justice released a redacted version of the Mueller…
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May
4
2019
📜 The inaugural race of the W Series took place at Hockenheimring, Germany, and was won by…
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May
31
2019
📜 A shooting at a municipal building in Virginia Beach, United States, left 13 people…
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Jun
9
2019
📜 Dominican-American retired baseball player David Ortiz was shot and severely wounded…
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Jun
20
2019
📜 Iranian aircraft shot down an American drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened…
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Jul
18
2019
📜 An arson attack at the studio of Kyoto Animation in Japan led to the deaths of 36 people.
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Jul
21
2019
📜 People returning from anti–extradition bill protests in Hong Kong were attacked…
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Jul
24
2019
📜 Boris Johnson became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after winning the Conservative…
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Aug
3
2019
📜 A mass shooting occurred at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 23 people and injuring…
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Aug
10
2019
📜 Having already caused severe flooding in the Philippines, Typhoon Lekima made landfall…
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