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The Akihabara massacre was an incident of mass murder that took place on 8 June 2008, in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The perpetrator, 25-year-old Tomo…
Seven people were killed and 10 others were injured in a vehicle and knife attack in Tokyo, Japan
Stephen Joseph Harper is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. He is to date the only prime minister to have come from the modern…
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimila
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who led Zimbabwe from 1980 until he was deposed in a coup in 2017. He served as the first Prime Minister of Zimb…
Robert Mugabe was re-elected as President of Zimbabwe with an overwhelming majority after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai
On 1 July 2008, a riot broke out in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. The riot was sparked by allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 parliamentary election, which occur…
Rioting erupted in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, over allegations of fraud surrounding the recent legislative election.
Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the former territory of Mandatory Palestine. Key aspe…
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An Arab man rammed a loader into traffic in Jerusalem, killing three people and injuring…
The nuclear program of Iran consists of an extensive infrastructure of research sites, uranium mines, research reactors, uranium processing facilities, enrichment sites, the Busheh…
Under the belief that Israel and the United States were planning to attack its nuclear program, Iran conducted the…
Coatis, also known as coatimundis, are members of the family Procyonidae in the genera Nasua and Nasuella. They are diurnal mammals native to South America, Central America, Mexico…
An edit on the page of the coati nicknamed it the Brazilian aardvark, in which multiple news channels followed in…
The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a significant food safety incident in China. The scandal involved Sanlu Group's milk and infant formula along with other food materials and compon…
A tainted milk powder scandal broke in China which ultimately involved an estimated 300,000 victims, the vast majority…
On 2 August 2008, taxi driver Khuan Phokaeng, 50, was murdered in Bangkok, Thailand, by 18-year-old Polwat Chinno, a secondary school student who was addicted to playing the video …
A taxi driver is murdered in Bangkok by a teenager addicted to video games leading to the Thai government banning the…
Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was a Mauritanian politician who was President of Mauritania from 2007 to 2008. He served in the government during the 1970s, and after a long pe…
Mauritanian president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had…
EuroCity (EC) is an international train category and brand for European inter-city trains that cross international borders and meet criteria covering comfort, speed, food service, …
A EuroCity train en route to Prague struck a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the track near Studénka…
Michael Fred Phelps II is an American former competitive swimmer. He won more Olympic medals than any other athlete, a total of 28 medals across four Olympic Games. Phelps also hol…
Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, setting the record for the most gold…
Spanair Flight 5022 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport to Gran Canaria Airport, Spain, with a stopover in Madrid–Barajas Airport that crashed …
Spanair Flight 5022 crashed just after take-off from Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 154 people.
The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia, was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regio…
After a ceasefire was reached in the Russo-Georgian War, Russia recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South…
Greensburg is a city in and the county seat of Kiowa County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population of the city was 740. It is home to the world…
Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by the 2007 Greensburg tornado, a 1
The 2007 Chittagong mudslides occurred in the port city of Chittagong in south-eastern Bangladesh. On 11 June 2007, heavy monsoon rainfall caused mudslides that engulfed slums arou…
Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people
The Al-Askari Shrine, also known as the 'Askariyya Shrine and the Al-Askari Mosque, is a Twelver Shi'ite mosque and mausoleum, located in the city of Samarra, in the Saladin Govern…
The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time
Elie is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district in the Rural Municipality of Cartier in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
The small town of Elie, Manitoba is hit by Canada's most intense tornado on record
Pope Benedict XVI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Following his resignation, he chose to be known as "pope em…
Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thi
Sales of cigarettes and smoking in the United Kingdom are being gradually restricted during the first few decades of the 21st century. The Tobacco and Vapes Act, ban sales of cigar…
Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
Pratibha Devisingh Patil, also known as Pratibha Patil Shekhawat, is an Indian stateswoman and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2007 to 2012. She was the first woma…
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
The Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional was the secret police of Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The DINA has been referred to as "Pinochet's Gestapo".
Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following…
STS-118 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by the orbiter Endeavour. STS-118 lifted off on August 8, 2007, from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Sp…
Space Shuttle program: STS-118 Mission: Endeavour takes off on a mission to the International Space Station.
Air Moorea Flight 1121 was a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter which crashed into the ocean shortly after takeoff from Moorea Airport on Moorea Island in French Polynesia on 9 A…
Air Moorea Flight 1121 crashes after takeoff from Moorea Airport in French Polynesia, killing all 20 people on board.