Presidential Medal of Freedom
2013 Ben Bradlee is presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony
Presidential Medal of Freedom
2013 US President Barack Obama posthumously awards civil rights activist Bayard Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Event of Interest
2014 Nearly 5 million illegal migrants in the US have the threat of deportation deferred, after President Barack Obama announces sweeping immigration changes
- 2015 More than half of all trees in Amazon forest at risk of extinction according to data published in journal "Sciences Advances"
American Music Awards
2016 44th American Music Awards: Drake, Justin Beiber, Ariana Grande, & Carrie Underwood win
Sports History
2016 Jimmie Johnson driving for Hendrick Motorsports, wins Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Florida to claim record equalling 7th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series; Richard Petty & Dale Earnhardt, 7 titles
Sports History
2016 Scotsman Andy Murray breaks through for a first season-ending ATP World Tour Finals tennis title with a 6-3, 6-4 win in London over 5-time defending champion Novak Đoković
Event of Interest
2016 South Korean President Park Geun-hye's controversial friend Choi Soon-sil charged with abuse of authority and coercion amid calls to also impeach the President
- 2017 Atlanta's Georgia Dome, once the world's largest covered stadium, is destroyed in a controlled implosion
Event of Interest
2017 German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces that coalition talks to form a government have collapsed
- 2017 Investment corporation Tencent's market value hits $511 billion, - first Asian company to join the $500 billion club
- 2018 Airbnb bans listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank
Film & TV History
2018 Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan confirms he has paid off the debts of 1,398 farmers worth $560,000, amid Indian agricultural crisis
- 2018 Mississippi 15 week abortion ban overturned by US judge saying it violated women's constitutional rights
- 2018 More than 40 religious scholars killed, at event to mark birth of prophet Mohammed, by a suicide bomber near the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan
- 2018 Sell-off in technology stocks leads stock market losses wiping out all 2018 market gains
Sports History
2018 South African golfer Gary Player receives PGA recognition for his 3 Senior British Open wins (1988, 90, 97) from before event recognised as a major title (2003); takes him to 9 Senior majors
- 2019 Britain's Prince Andrew announces he is stepping back from public duties after outcry from disastrous interview on his friendship with Jeffry Epstein
- 2019 Oxford Dictionaries word of the year is "climate emergency"
- 2019 Snakes lived with hind legs for 70 million years (Najash rionegrina), according to research from La Buitrera Palaeontological Area, Argentina, published in "Science Advances"
- 2019 US Ambassador Gordon Sondland testifies in impeachment inquiry that “We followed the president’s orders.” and that “everyone was in the loop” over Ukraine dealings
Sports History
2022 Dutch driver Max Verstappen retains Formula 1 Drivers' C'ship for Red Bull with a win in the season-ending Abu Dhabi GP; Verstappen's 3rd straight Abu Dhabi win, record 15th of the season, record 454 points for season
Music History
2022 Elton John completes the North American leg of his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour" at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California
- 2022 New York state activates the National Guard to assist with historic snow event around Buffalo, with Orchard Park receiving almost 6 1/5 ft [1]
Sports History
2022 Serbian tennis star Novak Đoković wins record equalling sixth ATP World Tour Finals beating Casper Ruud of Norway 7-5, 6-3 in Turin, Italy
- 2022 UN COP27 summit agrees to establish fund to help poor and vulnerable countries with climate change, with committee to be made up of representatives from 24 countries [1]
- 2022 World's longest-serving president, authoritarian leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, 80, wins re-election in Equatorial Guinea, extending his 43-year rule [1]
