Explore 1542 historical events from 2010–2019.
Janice Wendell Crouch was an American religious broadcaster. Crouch and her husband, Paul, founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) in 1973.
Jan Crouch, American televangelist, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (born 1938)
Romana Barrack, known by the pseudonym Carla Lane, was an English screenwriter and animal rights campaigner. Lane was known for creating or co-creating successful British sitcoms s…
Carla Lane, English television writer (born 1928)
Rupert Neudeck was a German theologian, journalist and aid worker, especially with refugees.
Rupert Neudeck, German journalist and humanitarian (born 1939)
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the nickname "the Greatest", he is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight …
Muhammad Ali, American boxer (born 1942)
Carmen Maria de Araújo Pereira was a Bissau-Guinean politician. She served three days as Acting President in 1984, becoming the first woman in this role in Africa and the only one …
Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician (born 1937)
Jerome Seymour Bruner was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Bruner …
Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (born 1915)
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi was a Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.
Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess grandmaster; arguably the best player never to become World Chess Champion (born 1931)
Christina Victoria Grimmie was an American singer, songwriter, and internet personality. In 2009, she began posting covers of popular songs on YouTube. After releasing her debut EP…
Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (born 1994)
Rudi Altig was a German professional track and road racing cyclist who won the 1962 Vuelta a España and the world championship in 1966. After his retirement from sports he worked a…
Rudi Altig, German track and road racing cyclist (born 1937)
Sir Peter Levin Shaffer was an English playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. His best-known works are the plays Equus and Amadeus, both of which earned him the Tony Award for Bes…
Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter; works included Equus and Amadeus (born 1926)
Gordon Howe was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. From 1946 to 1980, he played 26 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and six seasons in the World Hockey Associati…
Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1928)
Ann Morgan Guilbert, sometimes credited as Ann Guilbert, was an American television and film actress and comedian who portrayed a number of roles from the 1950s on, most notably as…
Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress and singer (born 1928)
Joseph Georges Gilles Claude Lamontagne was a Canadian politician who held a number of offices both in Quebec and federally. A Liberal, he was Mayor of Quebec City (1965–1977), Pos…
Gilles Lamontagne, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1919)
Helen Joanne Cox was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Pa…
Jo Cox, English political activist and MP (born 1974)
Dr. Jeppiaar, also known as Jeppiaar Jesuadimai and J. P. R., was an Indian politician, educationist, and industrialist. He was born in Muttom near Nagercoil, Travancore Cochin Pr…
Jeppiaar, Indian educationist, founder and chancellor of Sathyabama University (born 1931)
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 hostin…
An Islamic terrorist killed 49 people in a mass shooting at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida
Helen Joanne Cox was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Pa…
Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency
Anton Viktorovich Yelchin was an American actor. Born in the Soviet Union to a Russian Jewish family, he immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of six months. …
Anton Yelchin, American actor (born 1989)
The Paris Agreement is an international treaty on climate change that was signed in 2016. The treaty covers climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance. The Paris Agreement …
The Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, opened for signature and was signed by 175 parties
On May 1, 2016, a wildfire began southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. On May 3, it swept through the community, forcing the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history…
The evacuation of nearly 88,000 people began when a wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, and burned fo
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 was shot and killed after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gar
Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev is a Kazakh politician who served as the first president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019. He also held the special title of Elbasy from 2010 to 2022 a…
Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97
Princess Charlotte of Wales is a member of the British royal family. She is the second child and only daughter of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, and a …
Princess Charlotte of Wales, British royal, and third in line to the British throne
Valery Konsantinovich Belousov was a Russian professional ice hockey coach and player.
Valery Belousov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (born 1948)