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Ruban Canistus Jayalath Jayawardena MP, commonly as Jayalath Jayawardena, was a medical doctor who was elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka for the opposition United National Par…
Jayalath Jayawardena, Sri Lankan physician and politician (born 1953)
The Nagahan wedding bombing was a suicide bombing on a wedding party, which occurred on 9 June 2010 at around 21:00 local time in the village of Nagahan in Arghandab District of Ka…
At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar
Severo Aparicio Quispe, O. de M., was a Peruvian friar of the Mercedarian Order who was made a bishop of the Catholic Church. He wrote a number of works on the history of the Catho…
Severo Aparicio Quispe, Peruvian bishop (born 1923)
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After leaving Westminster School in central London, he went t…
Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
Ireland, additionally described as the Republic of Ireland, is a country in Northwestern Europe. It consists of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland, with a population of…
Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choos
Surendra Nath was an Indian cricketer who played in eleven Test matches between 1958 and 1961. He was primarily a medium-pace swing bowler, who enjoyed a particularly successful to…
Surendranath, Indian cricketer (born 1937)
Novera Ahmed was a Bangladeshi modern sculptor. She was awarded the Ekushey Padak medal by the government of Bangladesh in 1997 and Independence Award in 2025. Artist Zainul Abedin…
Novera Ahmed, Bangladeshi sculptor (born 1930)
Between 2002 and 2004, Ariel Castro abducted Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus from the roads of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and later held them captive in his ho…
Three women, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States
Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae that is widely accepted as being indigenous to and originating from the continent of Asia. However, the number of …
Cannabis is legalized in South Africa, through a ruling of the Constitutional Court.
Valyantsin Byalkevich, also referred to as Valiantsin Bialkevich, was a Belarusian professional footballer who played as a midfielder for the Belarus national team. He spent the ma…
Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (born 1973)
On 22 April 2019, a landslide triggered the collapse of a jade mine near Maw Wun Kalay, Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar, trapping at least 54 miners. The deaths of four miners were …
The April 2019 Hpakant jade mine collapse in Myanmar kills four miners and two rescuers, with at least 50 others missing
Naxalism is the communist ideology of the Naxalites or Naxals, a grouping of political and insurgent groups from India. It is influenced by Maoist political sentiment and ideology.
Naxalite attack in Gadchiroli district of India: Sixteen army soldiers, including a driver, killed in an IED blast
Naruhito is Emperor of Japan since 1 May 2019. He is the 126th monarch, according to the traditional order of succession.
Naruhito ascends to the throne of Japan succeeding his father Akihito, beginning the Reiwa period
Brexit was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU).
Under pressure over her handling of Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Leader of th
From 2019 until 2020, protests were held in Hong Kong in response to the Hong Kong government's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extrad…
Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 4…
Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)
The GippsAero GA8 Airvan is a single-engined utility aircraft manufactured by GippsAero of Victoria, Australia. It can seat up to eight people, including the pilot.
A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.
Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election, more commonly known as the Mueller report, is the official report documenting the findings …
A redacted version of the Mueller report is released to the United States Congress and the public
On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated ISIS-related terro…
Eight bombs explode at churches, hotels, and other locations in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing at least 269
W Series was an all-female single-seater racing championship. It was held over a total of three seasons in 2019, 2021 and 2022 before the championship fell into administration and …
The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring
In late June and late July 2019 there were two temporally distinct European heat waves, which set all-time high temperature records in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Net…
National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019…
The Altamira prison riot occurred on 29 July 2019, when a riot broke out at the Centro de Recuperação Regional de Altamira prison in Altamira, Pará, Brazil due to drug turf dispute…
The 2019 Altamira prison riot between rival Brazilian drug gangs leaves 62 dead.
The Nyonoksa radiation accident, Arkhangelsk explosion or Nyonoksa explosion occurred on 8 August 2019 near Nyonoksa, a village under the administrative jurisdiction of Severodvins…
An explosion at the State Central Navy Testing Range in Nyonoksa, Russia, kills five people.
Phage therapy, viral phage therapy, or phagotherapy is the therapeutic use of bacteriophages for the treatment of pathogenic bacterial infections. This therapeutic approach emerged…
British 17-year-old Isabelle Holdaway is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage t
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and California junior senator Kamala Harris defe…
United States presidential election: Joe Biden launches his presidential campaign
The International System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI, is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement. I…
The International System of Units (SI): The base units are redefined, making the international prototype of the kilogram
On 24 May 2019, a fire occurred at a commercial complex in Sarthana Jakatnaka area of Surat in the Gujarat state of India. Twenty-two students died and 19 others were injured in an…
Twenty-two students die in a fire in Surat (India)
On May 31, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a municipal building in the Princess Anne area of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The gunman, 40-year-old DeWayne Craddock, a disgruntled cit…
A shooting occurs inside a municipal building at Virginia Beach, Virginia, leaving 13 people dead, including the shooter
Oleh Hennadiiovych Sentsov is a Ukrainian filmmaker, writer, activist and soldier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Crimea. Sentsov has directed the feature films Gamer (2011), Nu…
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.
Operation Peace Spring was a joint operation by the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and the Syrian National Army (SNA) against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), later involving the Sy…
Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.
1031 Canal Street was the site of a partially collapsed 190-foot-tall (58 m) multi-use high-rise building in New Orleans, Louisiana, located at 1031 Canal Street in the Central Bus…
The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing three workers and injuring 30…
The Khartoum massacre occurred on 3 June 2019, when the armed forces of the Sudanese Transitional Military Council, headed by the Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan…
Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm a
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 1999…
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is inaugurated as the second president of Kazakhstan
The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Defense Force is the anti-aircraft warfare branch of Iran's regular military, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army (Artesh). It split from the air for…
Iran's Air Defense Forces shoot down an American surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tensions betwe