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
11
2022
📜 Myanmar civil war: Government troops killed 37 unarmed civilians in Mondaingbin.
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May
12
2022
📜 The Event Horizon Telescope released the first image of Sagittarius A*.
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May
20
2022
📜 Russo-Ukrainian war: Russia claimed full control of Mariupol after a nearly three-month…
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May
24
2022
📜 An 18-year old gunman shot and killed nineteen students and two teachers in a mass…
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Jun
22
2022
📜 An earthquake registering 6.2 Mw caused the deaths of at least 1,000 people in…
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Jun
25
2022
📜 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russian forces captured the city of Sievierodonetsk,…
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Jul
8
2022
📜 Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe (pictured) was assassinated with an improvised…
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Jul
25
2022
📜 The Duffield Memorial (central medallion pictured) in Great Baddow, an "unusual example…
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Sep
6
2022
📜 Liz Truss (pictured) succeeded Boris Johnson as prime minister following the July 2022…
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Sep
8
2022
📜 Queen Elizabeth II (pictured) died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland; her eldest son…
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Oct
1
2022
📜 After losing a league home match to their local rivals, Persebaya Surabaya, around 3,000…
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Oct
20
2022
📜 Protests broke out across Chad after President Mahamat Déby (pictured) declared his…
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Oct
23
2022
📜 Myanmar civil war: Burmese military forces launched airstrikes that killed at least 80…
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Oct
23
2022
📜 Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif is shot and killed by local police in Kajiado, Kenya.
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Oct
25
2022
📜 At 49 days, Liz Truss concluded the shortest tenure as prime minister of the United…
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Dec
9
2022
📜 Members of the European Parliament, including Vice President Eva Kaili (pictured), and…
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Jan
21
2023
📜 A shooting at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California, left 11 people dead and…
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Feb
3
2023
📜 A freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, releasing hazardous materials into the…
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Mar
27
2023
📜 Forty people are killed in a fire at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez,…
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Mar
30
2023
📜 Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president to be indicted by a grand jury.
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Mar
31
2023
📜 A tornado caused the collapse of a venue hosting a sold-out concert in Belvidere,…
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Apr
11
2023
📜 A Myanmar Air Force airstrike killed at least 100 villagers in Pazigyi.
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Apr
18
2023
📜 Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems a $787 million settlement over defamation…
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Apr
20
2023
📜 SpaceX's Starship launched for the first time before exploding four minutes into flight.
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May
5
2023
📜 The World Health Organization declared the end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency.
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