Explore 1542 historical events from 2010–2019.
A major earthquake occurred in Nepal on 12 May 2015 at 12:50 pm local time with a moment magnitude of 7.2–7.3, 18 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of Kodari. The epicenter was on the b…
An earthquake in Nepal killed 218 people and injured more than 3,500 others
On May 12, 2015, an Amtrak Northeast Regional train from Washington, D.C., bound for New York City derailed and wrecked on the Northeast Corridor near the Kensington neighborhood o…
A train derailment killed eight people and injured more than 200 others in Philadelphia
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnation…
Islamic State militants entered the ancient city of Palmyra
MV Dongfang zhi Xing was a river cruise ship that operated in the Three Gorges region of inland China. On the night of 1 June 2015, the ship was traveling on the Yangtze River when…
The river cruise ship Dongfang zhi Xing capsized in the Yangtze, resulting in 442 deaths in China's worst peacetime mari
White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white peop…
A white supremacist committed a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Car
The Flint water crisis was a public health crisis from 2014 to 2025 which involved the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, being contaminated with lead and possibly Leg…
The Flint water crisis begins when officials at Flint, Michigan switch the city's water supply to the Flint River, leadi
On 30 April 2014, a bomb-and-knife attack occurred in the Chinese city of Ürümqi, Xinjiang. The terrorist attack killed 3 people, and injured 79 others. The attack coincided with t…
A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others
On 17 May 2014, an Antonov An-74 transport aircraft of the Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force crashed while en route to Xiangkhouang Province, northern Laos, killing all but on…
A military plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people
Kerala Blasters Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Blasters, is an Indian professional football club based in Kochi, Kerala, that competes in the Indian Super League (IS…
The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada are formed
Taavi Aulis Rytkönen was a Finnish footballer. He became the country's first professional player when he signed for France's Toulouse FC in 1952.
Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer and manager (born 1929)
Ernst Florian Winter was an American historian and political scientist, the first director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna after World War II, and chairman of the International…
Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (born 1923)
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean De…
The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to wid
Bernat Klein CBE was a Serbian textile designer and painter. Based in Scotland, Klein supplied textiles to haute couture designers in the 1960s and 1970s, and later sold his own cl…
Bernat Klein, Serbian-Scottish fashion designer and painter (born 1922)
Wojciech Grzegorz Leśnikowski, was a Polish-American architect, writer and educator. He oversaw and participated in the design and construction of numerous large-scale architectura…
Wojciech Leśnikowski, Polish–American architect and academic (born 1938)
Karpal Singh s/o Ram Singh Deo was an Indian Malaysian politician and lawyer. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Bukit Gelugor in the state of Penang from 200…
Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (born 1940)
Guru Dhanapal was an Indian film director, who worked in Tamil cinema, mostly with actor Sathyaraj and Karthik (actor).
Guru Dhanapal, Indian director and producer (born 1959)
Sanford Jay "Sandy" Frank, also known as Sandy Frank, was a television writer who was known as a writer for Late Night with David Letterman. He wrote for Letterman's NBC show for f…
Sanford Jay Frank, American screenwriter and producer (born 1954)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program and for research in…
NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another sta
Flint is a city in and the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States. The city's population was 81,252 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 79,735 in 2024, maki…
The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water cri
On 2 May 2014, a pair of mudslides occurred in Argo District, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. The death toll is uncertain, the number of deaths is believed to be at least 350 and…
Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing
From late 2011 to 2014, Kenya experienced an upsurge in violent terrorist attacks. Kenyan government officials asserted that many of the murders and blasts were carried out by al-S…
Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya
Brian Priestman was a British conductor and music educator.
Brian Priestman, English conductor and academic (born 1927)
Neville Kenneth Wran was an Australian politician who was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 to 1986. He was the national president of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1…
Neville Wran, Australian politician, 35th Premier of New South Wales (born 1926)
George Harry Heilmeier was an American engineer, manager, and a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays (LCDs), for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall…
George H