- 2012 Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands
- 2013 Oracle Team USA defeats Team New Zealand 9-8 to win the America's Cup
- 2015 Singapore closes schools due to hazardous levels of air pollution from fires in Indonesia
- 2015 Caitlyn Jenner officially changes her name from Bruce and her gender to a woman
- 2016 World's largest radio telescope at 500m wide in Guizhou Province, China begins operating
- 2016 Tour Championship Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins in a playoff with Kevin Chappell & Ryan Moore; biggest winner's prize in golf, US$10m
- 2017 First ever woman graduates from the US Marine Corps' Infantry Officer Course
- 2017 Uber's licence to operate is not renewed by Transport for London in the UK, citing problems with background checks
- 2017 Ex-New York congressman Anthony Weiner sentenced to 21 months in jail for sexting underage girl

Jalal Talabani

Gianni Versace
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2018 Comedian Bill Cosby sentenced to 3-10 years in jail for 2004 sexual assault, first celebrity to be jailed in the #MeToo era

Bill Cosby
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2018 US President Donald Trump criticizes Globalism and Iran speaking at the UN General Assembly

Donald Trump
- 2018 Instagram’s co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger resign from Instagram and parent company Facebook
- 2018 Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven loses a confidence vote after election results in a hung parliament
- 2019 Australia's Capital Territory becomes the 1st state in Australia to legalize recreational marijuana
- 2019 Hazzaa AlMansoori becomes first Emirati in space and first Arab astronaut to travel to the International Space Station, travelling on Russian Soyuz-MS 15 spacecraft
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2019 Chinese President Xi Jinping opens Beijing's new Daxing International Airport designed by Zaha Hadid

Xi Jinping
- 2019 Bulgarian economist Kristalina Georgieva named as the new head of the IMF
- 2019 Oaxaca becomes the second Mexican state to decriminalize abortion, during the first 12 weeks
- 2019 Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige reported to have been asked to develop a Star Wars film by the Walt Disney Company
- 2020 Singapore announces it will be the first country in the world to use facial verification as part of its national identity scheme
- 2020 18 people in a government convoy killed by Islamist militants in Borno State, Nigeria
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2020 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the 1st woman to lie in state in the US Capitol in Washington D.C.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg