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Typhoon Hagibis, known in Japan as the Reiwa 1 East Japan Typhoon , was an extremely large, powerful and costly tropical cyclone that caused widespread destruction in Japan and is …
Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.
Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in the marathon and formerly specialized in the 5000 metres. Kipchoge is the 2016 and 2020 Olympic marathon champion, a…
Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in…
Brigid Jepchirchir Kosgei is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She won the 2018 and 2019 Chicago Marathons, the 2019 and 2020 London Marathons and the …
Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for a woman runner with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon.
Culiacán, officially Culiacán Rosales, is the capital and largest city of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico. Located within the Culiacán Municipality, the city was founded on 29 Septe…
Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.
Prem Tinsulanonda was a Thai military officer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th prime minister of Thailand from 1980 to 1988.
Prem Tinsulanonda, Former Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1920)
William Thad Cochran was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator for Mississippi from 1978 to 2018. A Republican, he previously served in the U.S.…
Thad Cochran, American lawyer and politician (born 1937)
Jason Marcano was a Trinidad and Tobago international footballer who played as a forward.
Jason Marcano, Trinidadian footballer (born 1983)
Kristiani Herrawati better known as Ani Yudhoyono was an Indonesian political and female activist, who was the wife of former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Firs…
Ani Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician, 6th First Lady of Indonesia
Andre Coelho Matos was a Brazilian singer and musician. He was involved in the heavy metal bands Viper, Angra, Shaman and Symfonia. Since 2006, Matos had been dedicating his time t…
Andre Matos, Brazilian heavy metal musician (born 1971)
The 17 October Protests, commonly referred to as the 17 October Revolution or Hirak or Thawrah, were a series of civil protests in Lebanon that began after the Lebanese cabinet ann…
The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon.
The NASA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members for U.S. …
NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of…
Social Outburst were a series of massive demonstrations and severe riots occurring mainly between October 2019 and March 2020, in response to a rise in the Santiago Metro's subway …
Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164…
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house, the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England.…
Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom's Brexit deal, this was the first…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo, and formerly named Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. By land area,…
Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Richard William Stephen Shaw, better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill, was a Jamaican rapper. He was a member of the Texas hip hop group Geto Boys, a group he originally joine…
Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (born 1966)
Billy McKee was an Irish republican and a founding member and leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Billy McKee, Irish republican and founding member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1921)
Sylvia Miles was an American actress. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Farewell, My Love…
Sylvia Miles, American actress (born 1924)
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of…
Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director (born 1923)
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the…
In Canada, the 2019 Canadian federal election ends, resulting in incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remaining in…
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Northern Ireland since 13 January 2020, following the enactment of the Northern Ireland Act 2019. The first marriage ceremony took place on 11 F…
Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland…
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 Da'esh, is a transnatio…
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by…
Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms, from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He was the second…
Alan García, Peruvian lawyer and politician, twice President of Peru (born 1949)
Pauline Hélène "Polly" Higgins was a Scottish barrister, author, and environmental lobbyist, described by Jonathan Watts in her obituary in The Guardian as, "one of the most inspir…
Polly Higgins, Scottish barrister, author and environmental lobbyist (born 1968)
Gloria Laura Vanderbilt was an American artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite.
Gloria Vanderbilt, American artist, author actress, fashion designer, heiress and socialite (born 1924)