Event of Interest
2013 Pope Benedict XVI presents his farewell address to Vatican City
- 2014 Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine
- 2014 Chaos erupts after the Swedish Public Employment Service mistakenly invites 61,000 people to a job interview in Stockholm
- 2014 Republic of Crimea announces a referendum and ousts its regional government
- 2014 US Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoes a "religious freedom" bill that would have allowed businesses to turn away gay customers
Music History
2015 70's glam rocker Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) sentenced to 16 years in prison for various child sex convictions
- 2015 Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow
Music History
2018 Barbra Streisand reveals she has cloned her dog twice
Event of Interest
2018 Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Trump, has his top-secret security clearance at the White House downgraded
Laureus Awards
2018 Laureus World Sports Awards, Monte-Carlo Sporting, Monaco: Sportsman: Roger Federer; Sportswoman: Serena Williams; Team: Mercedes F1 team
Captain Marvel
2019 "Captain Marvel" film directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, starring Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson premieres
Film & TV History
2019 Actor Luke Perry (52) suffers a stroke in Los Angeles
- 2019 Doctors announce world's second known case of semi-identical twins, a boy and girl from Brisbane, Australia
- 2019 First gun control legislation for 25 years passed by US House of Representatives, with new federal background checks
Event of Interest
2019 Michael Cohen, former lawyer to Donald Trump testifies before the House Oversight Committee saying Trump is "racist", a "con man" and "a cheat"
- 2019 Pakistan shoots down an Indian fighter jet and captures the pilot, further escalating tensions in the disputed Kashmir region
Summit of Interest
2019 Second summit begins between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam
- 2019 Smallest baby boy ever born to be later successfully released, goes home, after original birth weight of 268g (9.45oz) from Tokyo hospital
- 2019 Train crashes into a buffer at Cairo's main railway station killing 25 and injuring dozens in Egypt
- 2020 Biggest cosmic explosion ever detected from a supermassive black hole in Ophiuchus galaxy 390 million lights years away, (size of 15 Miky Ways), published in "Astrophysical Journal"
- 2020 Dow Jones Index suffers its biggest points fall in history closing down 1,190.95 in New York amid concerns about COVID-19
- 2021 US authorizes its third COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, a one-shot vaccine
- 2022 Countries sanction Russia for its invasion of Ukraine; EU closes its airspace to Russian planes, Russian banks excluded from worldwide Swift payment system, Sweden sends arms to Ukraine
- 2022 EU warns Russian invasion of Ukraine means Europe facing major humanitarian crisis, 18 million Ukrainians displaced with four million refugees fleeing the country
Northern Ireland Brexit Deal
2023 New post-Brexit deal for Northern Ireland announced by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen [1]
