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
6
2023
📜 King Charles III and Queen Camilla were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
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May
7
2023
📜 A tourist boat capsized, killing at least 22 people in Tanur, India.
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May
9
2023
📜 Pakistani protests: Riots broke out following the arrest of former Pakistani prime…
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Jun
2
2023
📜 A collision between two passenger trains and a parked freight train near the city of…
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Jun
18
2023
📜 The Titan submersible imploded during a dive to the RMS Titanic wreck, killing all five…
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Jun
22
2023
📜 Irish broadcaster RTÉ announced that between 2017 and 2022 it had paid €345,000 more…
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Jul
30
2023
📜 In Pakistan, IS–KP kill over 60 people in a suicide bombing at a political rally in Khar.
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Aug
9
2023
📜 Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated in Quito,…
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Sep
19
2023
📜 Chinese authorities cancelled a run of performances of The Mongol Khan, the first…
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Sep
28
2023
📜 The Sycamore Gap tree (pictured) in Northumberland, England, was illegally felled.
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Oct
7
2023
📜 In the October 7 attacks, Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups killed nearly…
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Nov
24
2023
📜 Hibiscus Rising (pictured), a sculpture commemorating the life of David Oluwale, was…
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Dec
18
2023
📜 A series of mass protests began in Belgrade, Serbia, alleging electoral irregularities…
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Jan
2
2024
📜 While landing at Haneda Airport, Japan Airlines Flight 516 collided with a De Havilland…
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Jan
11
2024
📜 Several thousand North Korean migrant workers in Helong engaged in civil unrest,…
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Mar
22
2024
📜 At least 145 people were killed and 551 injured in a bombing and mass shooting at the…
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Mar
26
2024
📜 The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed following a collision between the MV Dali…
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Apr
14
2024
📜 Flooding in the Persian Gulf began, killing 19 in Oman.
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May
15
2024
📜 Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico is hospitalised after an assassination attempt.
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May
19
2024
📜 In Iran, a helicopter crash killed eight people, including President Ebrahim Raisi and…
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May
21
2024
📜 The Greenfield tornado, estimated to have produced winds in excess of 309 miles per hour…
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May
30
2024
📜 Donald Trump was convicted of falsifying business records in a New York trial, becoming…
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Jun
10
2024
📜 A plane crash in Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President Saulos Chilima.
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Jul
4
2024
📜 Keir Starmer led the Labour Party to a landslide victory in the United Kingdom general…
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Jul
19
2024
📜 Neary's, a New York City Irish pub popular with political elites, closed.
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