- 2013 Massive flooding occurs in northern India killing up to 10,000 people
Event of Interest
2013 The US government charges NSA leaker Edward Snowden with violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property
Sports History
2015 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, Belmont CC: Defending champion Bernhard Langer of Germany wins by 6 strokes ahead of runner-up Kirk Triplett
- 2015 Women's PGA Championship, Westchester CC: 3-peat for Inbee Park; beats fellow South Korean Kim Sei-young by 5 strokes; previously LPGA Championship
- 2016 First mammal made extinct by human-induced climate change announced - the Bramble Cay melomys from Torres Strait
- 2017 Bernie Sanders supporter opens fire at Republican politicians practising baseball near Washington, D.C., injuring 4
- 2017 Fire in Grenfell Tower block in London, England kills 79 and injures 37
- 2017 Leo Varadkar formally elected Irish Prime Minister (taoiseach) in Dáil ceremony in Dublin - youngest Irish Prime Minister at 38 and 1st openly gay
- 2017 US Library of Congress names Tracey K. Smith as Poet Laureate
- 2017 US Senate approves new sanctions against Russia as punishment for meddling in the 2016 election
FIFA World Cup
2018 21st FIFA World Cup opens at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia with British singer Robbie Williams and Russian soprano Aida Garifullina performing
- 2018 Malaysia's national debt reassessed at $250 billion, up from previous estimate $170 billion, 80% of gross domestic product
- 2018 US government confirms 1500 boys being held separated from their parents in Casa Padre, shelter facility for illegal immigrants in a former Walmart in Brownsville, Texas
Event of Interest
2018 US Justice Department concludes James Comey was "insubordinate" in his handling of Hilliary Clinton investigation in 2016
Album Release
2019 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen's 19th studio album "Western Stars"
- 2019 Petition to create world's first "time free zone" on Sommaroy island which has complete daylight for 2 months, delivered to the Norwegian parliament
- 2019 Swiss women hold a national strike over the country's slow pace towards equality
- 2020 India reports surge of nearly 12,000 a day confirmed COVID-19 cases (320,922 overall), the world's fourth-affected country, as death toll hits 9,195
Sports History
2021 Cristiano Ronaldo removes sponsors coke bottles from his press table at the European Championships, prompting the company share price to drop $4 billion
- 2021 Heatwave event begins across western US and Canadian states with Denver at 101 degrees and Helena 105 degrees
- 2022 Denmark and Canada agree to split the arctic Hans Island, ending their 50-year "Whiskey War", where each country laid claim by buying whiskey on the island [1]
- 2022 First controversial UK flight to take asylum seekers to Rwanda cancelled after last-minute legal ruling from European Court of Human Rights of "real risk of irreversible harm" [1]
- 2022 Last part of the world's largest floating restaurant, the Jumbo Kingdom seafood restaurant, leaves Hong Kong after 46 years (sinks four days later near the Paracel islands Islands) [1]
