Explore 1542 historical events from 2010–2019.
Ian Deans was a Scottish-Canadian politician. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1979 and was a member of the House of Commons of Ca…
Ian Deans, Canadian politician (born 1937)
Shanghai Disneyland is a theme park located in Chuansha New Town, Pudong, Shanghai, China, that is part of the Shanghai Disney Resort. The park is operated by Disney Experiences an…
Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in mainland China, opens to the public
Victoria Wood was an English comedian, actress, musician, screenwriter, and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several …
Victoria Wood, British comedian, actress and writer (born 1953)
Banharn Silpa-archa was a Thai politician who served as the Prime Minister of Thailand from 1995 to 1996. Banharn made a fortune in the construction business before he became a Mem…
Banharn Silpa-archa, Thai politician, Prime Minister from 1995 to 1996 (born 1932)
Thomas Lancelot Lewis was a New South Wales politician who served as the 33rd Premier of New South Wales from 1975 to 1976, and served as a minister in the cabinets of Sir Robert A…
Tom Lewis, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of New South Wales (born 1922)
Jenny Diski FRSL was an English novelist, non-fiction writer and memoirist. She was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; articles and essays she wrote for the publi…
Jenny Diski, English author and screenwriter (born 1947)
Jadranka Stojaković was a Bosnian singer-songwriter popular in the former Yugoslavia, known for her unique voice. Her best known hits are "Sve smo mogli mi", "Što te nema", and "Bi…
Jadranka Stojaković, Yugoslav singer-songwriter (born 1950)
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was a Burundian army officer and politician who ruled Burundi as president and de facto military dictator from November 1976 to September 1987.
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Burundian politician (born 1946)
Patrick Claude Ekeng Ekeng was a Cameroonian professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He had two international caps for his country's national team, whom he re…
Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (born 1990)
Reginald Roy Grundy was an Australian entrepreneur and media mogul, best known for his numerous television productions. He was the producer of various Australian game shows, such a…
Reg Grundy, Australian businessman (born 1923)
William Joseph Schallert was an American character actor who appeared in dozens of television shows and films over a career spanning more than 60 years. He is known for his roles o…
William Schallert, American actor; president (1979–81) of the Screen Actors Guild (born 1922)
Michael George Raymond Agostini was a Trinidadian track and field athlete. He was the first athlete from his country to win a gold medal at what is now known as the Commonwealth Ga…
Mike Agostini, Trinidadian sprinter (born 1935)
Murray Arnold Straus was an American professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire. He is best known for creating the conflict tactics scale, the "most widely used inst…
Murray A
Darwyn Cooke was a Canadian comics artist, writer, cartoonist, and animator who worked on the comic books Catwoman, DC: The New Frontier, The Spirit and Richard Stark's Parker: The…
Darwyn Cooke, American comic book writer and artist (born 1962)
Alan Young was a British Canadian and American actor. Young is best known for portraying Wilbur Post in the television comedy Mister Ed (1961–1966) and voicing Disney's Scrooge McD…
Alan Young, English-born Canadian-American actor (born 1919)
Morley Safer was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the news magazine 60 Minutes, whose ca…
Morley Safer, Canadian-born American journalist (born 1931)
Kho Jabing, later in life Muhammad Kho Abdullah, was a Malaysian of mixed Chinese and Iban descent from Sarawak, Malaysia, who partnered with a friend to rob and murder a Chinese c…
Kho Jabing, Malaysian convicted murderer who was executed by hanging in Singapore (born 1984)
Nicholas Menza was an American musician who was the drummer of the thrash metal band Megadeth from 1989 to 1998. He played drums on four of Megadeth's albums: Rust in Peace (1990),…
Nick Menza, American drummer and songwriter (born 1964)
Velimir "Bata" Živojinović was a Yugoslav and Serbian actor and politician. He appeared in more than 340 films and TV series, and is regarded as one of the best actors in former Yu…
Velimir "Bata" Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (born 1933)
Hedy Epstein was a German-born Jewish-American political activist and Holocaust survivor known for her support of the Palestinian cause through the International Solidarity Movemen…
Hedy Epstein, German-born American human rights activist and Holocaust survivor (born 1924)
Thomas James Lysiak was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Selected in the first round, second overall, of the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft by the Atlanta Flames, he was addition…
Tom Lysiak, Polish-Canadian ice hockey player (born 1953)
Richard George MacLeish was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers, Hartford Whalers, Pit…
Rick MacLeish, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1950)
Mohamed Abdelaziz ben Khalili ben Mohamed al-Bachir Er-Rguibi was the 3rd Secretary General of the Polisario Front, from 1976, and the President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Repu…
Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (1976–2016) (born 1947)
Harambe was a western lowland gorilla who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo. On May 28, 2016, a three-year-old boy visiting the zoo climbed under a fence into an outdoor gorilla enclosur…
Harambe, Cincinnati Zoo western lowland gorilla (born 1999)