Event of Interest
1994 South African President Nelson Mandela visits US
Nelson Mandela
Event of Interest
1996 Following the Port Arthur Massacre, John Howard's Australian government starts a gun buy back scheme. Compulsorily acquires more than 640,000 firearms, including many newly illegal semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.
John Howard
- 1997 Spice Hot premieres on cable
Event of Interest
1998 Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
Vladimir Putin
- 1998 LA's Mauricio Cienfuegos and Martin Machon equal the MLS playoff record of 3 assists each as the Galaxy roll to a 6-1 win over the Dallas Burn at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California
- 2005 Bombing kills 23 people in Bali.
- 2006 Indra Nooyi becomes the new CEO of PepsiCo
- 2007 Most of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 came into force in the United Kingdom.
Appointment of Interest
2011 Martin Dempsey is appointed US Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Obama
Martin Dempsey
Barack Obama
- 2012 3 NATO soldiers and 16 Afghan police are killed by a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan
- 2012 36 people are killed in a ferry collision in Hong Kong
- 2012 California becomes the first US state to ban conversion therapy for minors
- 2013 A partial United States federal government shutdown occurs as a result of political disagreements over operational spending
- 2014 41 children are killed by a suicide bombing on the Akrameh al-Makhzumi school in Homs, Syria
- 2015 A gunman kills 8 students and a teacher at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon
- 2015 Mudslide on the outskirts of Guatemala City leaves at least 131 dead and 300 missing
- 2015 Cargo ship El Faro goes missing with 33 crew during Hurricane Joaquin near the Bahamas
Important Vote
2017 Amid a deepening constitutional crisis, Catalonia holds an independence referendum on seceding from Spain
Carles Puigdemont
- 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology awarded to James Allison and Tasuku Honjo for cancer treatment innovations
- 2018 French photographer Jean-Claude Arnault, at the center of a Nobel prize sexual assault scandal, sentenced to two years in prison for rape
- 2018 New trade deal announced between United States, Canada and Mexico (USMCA), replacing NAFTA
- 2018 The United States, Mexico and Canada agree a new trade deal to replace NAFTA
- 2018 More than 80,000 American died of the flu during 2017-2018 winter, highest in ten years, according to US heath officials
- 2019 Political crisis in Peru as President Martín Vizcarra dissolves Congress over its refusal to support his anti-corruption reforms
- 2019 China celebrates 70th anniversary of Communism with military parade in Beijing with 15,000 soldiers
- 2019 Indian government bans the export of onions, an important food staple to control prices, causing shortages in Bangladesh and Nepal
- 2019 Law allowing teachers to carry guns in schools comes into effect in US state of Florida
- 2019 Former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger found guilty of murdering her black neighbor in his apartment in landmark case on use of police force and racial bias
Event of Interest
2019 Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders taken to hospital after suffering a heart attack
Bernie Sanders