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2019 Dominican-American retired baseball player David Ortiz was…
2024 A plane crash in Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice …
2008 Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the Fi…
2025 Air India Flight 171 crashes shortly after take-off in Ahme…
2013 Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech pri…
2017 A fire severely damaged Grenfell Tower in North Kensington,…
1996 The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonat…
Richard Deacon, American actor (died 1984)
Air India Flight 171 crashes shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, India, killing 260 people.
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Air India Flight 171 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, to London Gatwick Airport in …
Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashes shortly after takeoff into the B
On 12 June 2024, an early-morning fire broke out at a residential building in Mangaf in Kuwait's Ahmadi Governorate housing 196 male migrant workers of NBTC Group, killing 50 migr…
A fire in a residential building in Mangaf, Kuwait City kills at least 50 people
Kassym-Jomart Kemeluly Tokayev is a Kazakh politician and diplomat who has served as the second president of Kazakhstan since 2019. He previously served as Prime Minister from 199…
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is inaugurated as the second president of Kazakhstan
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 s…
United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea held the first meeting between leaders of their two
On June 12, 2016, 29-year-old Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded 58 in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. Pulse was hosti…
Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States
Shia Islam in Iraq has a history going back to the times of Ali ibn Abi Talib who moved the capital of the Rashidun Caliphate from Medina to Kufa, two decades after the death of M…
Between 1,095 and 1,700 Shia Iraqi people are killed in an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Camp Sp
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June 2009, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, …
A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), …
Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force, Kosovo Force (KFor), ente
Presidential elections were held in Nigeria on 12 June 1993. The elections were the first held since the 1983 military coup d'état which ended the Second Nigerian Republic. They w…
An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
Presidential elections were held in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) on 12 June 1991. This was the first ever Russian presidential election. The election w…
In modern Russia's first democratic election, Boris Yeltsin is elected as the President of Russia
On June 12, 1991, 152 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians were massacred by members of the Sri Lankan military in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Bat…
Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai n
Russia Day, called Day of Adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of RSFSR before 2002, is the national holiday of Russia. It has been celebrated annually on 12 June sinc…
Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046 was an Argentine scheduled domestic flight from Buenos Aires to Posadas, via Resistencia, that undershot the runway at Libertador General José de …
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de S
The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country located in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Dem…
The Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed durin
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc…
Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States. It is located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the worl…
A nuclear disarmament rally and concert is held in New York City
Indiana Jones is an American media franchise consisting of five films and a prequel television series, along with games, comics, and tie-in novels. The franchise centers on the ad…
The first of the Indiana Jones film franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, is released in theaters
Bryan Lewis Allen is an American self-taught hang glider pilot and cyclist. He achieved fame when he piloted the two aircraft that won the first two Kremer prizes for human-powere…
Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man-powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross
The State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain was an election case heard by the Allahabad High Court in 1975 that found the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi guilty of electoral ma…
State of Uttar Pradesh v
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal co…
The United States Supreme Court in Loving v
