- 2014 After featuring in a magazine article with long-time life partner, veteran MLB umpire and crew chief Dale Scott openly acknowledges his homosexuality; overwhelmingly positive reaction from baseball circles
Film & TV History
2014 Comedian Bill Cosby resigns from the board of trustees of an American university following renewed sexual assault allegations
Event of Interest
2014 Elizabeth Lauten, an aide to a Republican congressman resigns after her online criticism of President Barack Obama's teenage daughters
- 2014 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists clash with police as they try to surround the government's headquarters in some of the worst violence since the protests began
Event of Interest
2014 Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial Intelligence could be a "threat to mankind" and spell the end of the human race
- 2014 The World Food Programme suspends critical food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt because of a lack of funds
- 2014 Vanuatu police arrest at least 20 people over the deaths by hanging of two men accused of sorcery
- 2015 Attack on a social services centre in San Bernardino, California kills 14 and wounds 17
Event of Interest
2016 Donald Trump takes a call with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen, in a break from America's long standing "One China" policy
- 2016 Fire during a dance party at an Oakland warehouse kills 36
- 2016 For 6th time in 7 years, Cincinnati Reds 1st baseman Joey Votto wins Tip O'Neill Award as best Canadian MLB player; hit .326 with NL-leading .434 OBP, 29 HRs & 97 RBIs in an outstanding all-around season for last-place club
- 2017 Egyptian lawyer Nabih al-Wahsh sentenced to 3 years in prison for saying women wearing ripped jeans should be raped
Event of Interest
2018 Andrés Manuel López Obrador is sworn in as President of Mexico
Event of Interest
2018 Israeli police recommend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife be charged with fraud and bribery
Event of Interest
2018 Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari denies he has died and been replaced by a Sudanese impostor after ill health
Agreement of Interest
2018 Trade war truce agreed between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at G-20 meeting in Argentina
Ballon d'Or
2019 FIFA Ballon d'Or: Barcelona forward Lionel Messi wins his record 6th award from Liverpool's Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk; American midfielder Megan Rapinoe is Women's World Player of the Year
- 2019 Hawaiian Carissa Moore earns her 4th World Surf League Women’s Championship Tour title with a third placing at the season-ending Maui Pro event at Honolua Bay
- 2019 Steve Bullock and Joe Sestak drop out of the US Presidential race
- 2020 The UK becomes the first western country to authorize a vaccine for COVID-19, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
- 2020 US Attorney General William Barr says there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, despite claims by President Donald Trump
- 2020 US records its largest daily death toll for COVID-19 at 2,885 and for the first time patient numbers in hospital exceed 100,000
