- 2012 18 people drown after an overloaded boat sinks in Cotonou, Benin
- 2012 NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field
- 2013 Australia wins the 3rd test to take win the 2013-14 Ashes test cricket series
Election of Interest
2013 Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany for a third term

Angela Merkel
Film Release
2014 Sony Pictures cancels the release of "The Interview", starring Seth Rogen, Lizzy Caplan, and James Franco, after a cyber attack on the studio

Seth Rogen
- 2014 103-year-old Gus Andreone records the 8th ace of his career on the 113-yard, 14th hole of the Lakes Course, Palm Aire, Sarasota, FL; oldest golfer to record a hole-in-one
- 2015 José Mourinho is sacked as manager of British Premier football club Chelsea
- 2015 Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals is arrested on fraud charges in New York by the FBI
- 2015 Libyan warring political factions sign a UN-brokered deal to form a unified government
- 2017 French sailor François Gabart sets round-the-world record for fastest solo navigation of the globe in 42 days 16 hours
- 2017 Terrorist suicide attack on a Methodist church in Quetta, Pakistan kills nine
Event of Interest
2017 "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" takes more than $450m worldwide in its opening weekend, 2nd largest opening in North America ($220m)

John Williams

Adam Driver
- 2018 CBS announces former Chief Executive Les Moonves will not receive his $120 million exit payout
- 2018 US military confirms it has killed 62 fighters from Islamist group al-Shabab in air strikes in Somalia
- 2018 US poacher sentenced to watch the film "Bambi" repeatedly during year in prison, for killing hundreds of deer in Missouri
- 2018 Malaysia files criminal charges against US bank Goldman Sachs for it role in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd scandal
- 2018 Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster's word of the year is "justice"
- 2018 Astronomers identify furtherest object in the solar system as 2018 VG18 (nicknamed Farout), 120 x further from the sun than earth
- 2018 New reports to US Senate say Russian propaganda efforts on social media much more extensive than thought, including targeting African Americans
Event of Interest
2019 Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death in absentia for high treason

Pervez Musharraf
- 2019 Young girl's 5,700 year old DNA extracted from birch tar used as chewing gum, from Lolland Island, southern Denmark
- 2019 England's Fallon Sherrock becomes first woman to win a match at the PDC World Darts Championship, beating compatriot Ted Evetts, 3-2 at the Alexandra Palace in London
- 2019 Australia has its hottest day ever with average temperature of 40.9 across the country
- 2019 China's 1st domestically built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, enters naval service
- 2020 China's Chang'e-5 mission successfully returns from collecting rock samples from the Moon, landing in Siziwang Banner, Mongolia
- 2020 French President Emanuel Macron tests positive for COVID-19, sending other European leaders into isolation
- 2020 King Carl XVI Gustaf says Swedish authorities have failed in their response to COVID-19, criticizing the country's controversial anti-lockdown strategy
- 2020 More than 300 school boys rescued after they were kidnapped from their school in Katsina state, northern Nigeria
- 2020 Cyclone Yasa makes landfall as a category 5 storm over Bula province, Fiji, killing two people