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Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat and statesman who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients o…
Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat and seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (born 1938)
Uri Avnery was an Israeli writer, journalist, politician, and activist, who founded the Gush Shalom peace movement. A member of the Irgun as a teenager and a veteran of the 1948 Pa…
Uri Avnery, Israeli writer, politician and peace activist (born 1923)
Stefán Karl Stefánsson was an Icelandic actor and singer. He was best known for portraying Robbie Rotten, the antagonist of the children's television series LazyTown.
Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor and singer (born 1975)
Edward Calhoun King was an American musician. He was a guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock and guitarist and bassist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Sk…
Ed King, American musician (born 1949)
Krishna Reddy was an Indian master printmaker, sculptor, and teacher. He was considered a master intaglio printer and known for viscosity printing.
Krishna Reddy, Indian printmaker, sculptor and teacher (born 1925)
John Sidney McCain III was an American politician and naval officer who represented Arizona in the United States Congress for over 35 years, first as a U.S. representative from 198…
John McCain, American politician (born 1936)
The Congress of Deputies is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliamen…
For the first time since its transition to democracy, the Congress of Deputies in Spain passed a motion of no confidence
Association football, more commonly known as simply football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a bal…
The last members of a junior association football team and their coach were rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non, a…
Marvin Neil Simon was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his p…
Neil Simon, American playwright and author (born 1927)
A vehicle-ramming attack occurred on April 23, 2018, when a rented van was driven along Yonge Street through the North York City Centre business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canad…
A man intentionally struck pedestrians with a van on Yonge Street in Toronto, Canada, leading to 11 deaths
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was held on Saturday 19 May 2018 in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in the United Kingdom. The groom is a member of the British r…
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (both pictured) took place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, Englan
Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Mexican charter airline Global Air on behalf of Cubana de Aviación, from José Martí International Airport…
Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 crashed near Santiago de las Vegas shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Ai
Hayabusa2 is an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA. It is a successor to the Hayabusa mission, which returned asteroid samples for the…
The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 (artist's impression pictured) arrived at the asteroid Ryugu to collect samples for r
Mario Mandžukić is a Croatian football coach and a former player who was most recently an assistant coach for the Croatia national team. As a player, he played as a forward and bec…
Croatian Mario Mandžukić scored the first own goal in a FIFA World Cup final in their defeat to France.
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is a Zimbabwean politician who has served as the president of Zimbabwe since 2017. His rule has been described as a dictatorship. A member of ZANU–PF an…
Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) was elected to his first full term as president, having served as leader since the 2017…
Dahyan, sometimes rendered as Dhahyan or Duhyan, is a town in Saada Governorate in north-western Yemen. It is the birthplace of Badreddin al-Houthi, father of Hussein al-Houthi. Du…
A civilian school bus in Dahyan, Yemen, was bombed by Saudi Arabia killing at least 40 children under 15.
The Confederate Monument, University of North Carolina, commonly known as Silent Sam, is a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier by Canadian sculptor John A. Wilson, which stood o…
Silent Sam, a Confederate monument on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was toppled by…
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…
United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting
Stephen Joseph Scalise is an American politician who has been the House majority leader since 2023 and the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district since 2008…
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A series of four initial deadly wildfires erupted across central Portugal in the afternoon of 17 June 2017 within minutes of each other, resulting in at least 66 deaths and 204 inj…
A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others
The Syrian civil war was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered…
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last footholds of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Lev
The WannaCry ransomware attack was a worldwide cyberattack in May 2017 by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm, which targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating syste…
The WannaCry ransomware attack impacts over 400,000 computers worldwide, targeting computers of the United Kingdom's Nat
On 23 June 2017, a series of terrorist attacks took place in Pakistan resulting in 96 dead and over 200 wounded. They included a suicide bombing in Quetta targeting policemen, foll…
A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others
The Alexandria train collision occurred on 11 August 2017 near Khorshid station in the suburbs of the eastern edge of Alexandria, Egypt.
At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.