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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Apr
22
2020
📜 A truck struck and killed four Victoria Police officers on the Eastern Freeway,…
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May
5
2020
📜 Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN was forced to go off-air by the National…
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May
25
2020
📜 George Floyd, a black American man, was murdered (memorial pictured) during an arrest by…
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May
26
2020
📜 Protests following the murder of George Floyd erupted in Minneapolis–Saint Paul before…
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May
29
2020
📜 An oil spill in Norilsk released 17,500 tons of diesel oil into nearby rivers.
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May
30
2020
📜 Crew Dragon Demo-2 became the first commercial mission to the International Space Station.
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Jun
29
2020
📜 Reddit banned r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit, for rule violations and antagonizing…
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Jul
2
2020
📜 A landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant killed 175–200 miners, the deadliest mining…
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Jul
13
2020
📜 After a five day search, the body of American actress and singer Naya Rivera was…
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Jul
27
2020
📜 A major oil spill from the Colonial Pipeline was discovered in Mecklenburg County, North…
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Jul
31
2020
📜 A mid-air collision in Soldotna, Alaska, United States, killed seven people, including…
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Aug
4
2020
📜 A large explosion of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in Lebanon killed 218…
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Aug
7
2020
📜 Air India Express Flight 1344 overshot the runway at Calicut International Airport in…
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Sep
5
2020
📜 California wildfires: A pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal party ignited the El…
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Sep
15
2020
📜 The Abraham Accords were signed in Washington, D.C. (signatories pictured), normalizing…
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Oct
30
2020
📜 A magnitude-7.0 earthquake occurred in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey,…
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Nov
8
2020
📜 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijani forces defeated the self-proclaimed Republic of…
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Nov
10
2020
📜 The British government announced that it had removed the last land mine from the…
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Nov
16
2020
📜 The El Dorado Fire in California, United States, was extinguished after 71 days, having…
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Nov
27
2020
📜 Nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, regarded as the chief of Iran's nuclear program,…
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Jan
6
2021
📜 Supporters of then-outgoing U.S. president Donald Trump attack the United States Capitol…
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Feb
1
2021
📜 The Burmese military staged a coup d'état that deposed the democratically elected…
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Feb
23
2021
📜 Riots in four Ecuadorian prisons, caused by gang rivalries, resulted in the deaths of 79…
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Feb
28
2021
📜 Bus drivers in Greater Manchester began an eleven-week strike, one of the longest in…
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Mar
7
2021
📜 A series of four explosions at a military barracks in Bata, Equatorial Guinea caused at…
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