Explore 3325 historical events from 2010–2019.
Nanga Parbat , known as Diamer in Shina, is the ninth-highest mountain on Earth with its summit at 8,126 m (26,660 ft) above sea level. Lying immediately southeast of the northernm…
Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten cl
The prime minister of Italy, officially the president of the Council of Ministers, is the head of government of the Italian Republic. The office of president of the Council of Mini…
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and engaging in sex with an underag
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
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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 launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph space probe to observe the Sun
The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by dry lightning on June 28, 2013. On June 30, it overran and killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots…
Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona
Fatuma binti Baraka, popularly known as Bi Kidude, was a Tanzanian taarab singer from Zanzibar. She has been called the "queen of taarab and Unyago music" and was inspired by earli…
Bi Kidude, Tanzanian Taarab singer (born ≈1910)
Yngve Moe was a Norwegian bass guitarist and founding member of the rock band Dance with a Stranger.
Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (born 1957)
V. S. Ramadevi was an Indian politician who was the first lady to become the 8th Governor of Karnataka and 9th Chief Election Commissioner of India from 26 November 1990 to 11 Dece…
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Protests occurred in Egypt on 30 June 2013, marking the one-year anniversary of Mohamed Morsi's presidency. The events ended with the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état after mass protests …
Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their o
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the no…
Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the head of state of Egypt. Under the various iterations of the Constitution of Egypt following the Egyptian revolution of 1952, the …
President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is removed from office by the military after four days of protests all over the…
The Boeing 777, commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, is an American long-range wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The 777 is the wor…
A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and…
Goran Švob was a Croatian philosopher, logician, and author. He was an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University …
Goran Švob, Croatian philosopher and author (born 1947)
Anne Elizabeth Williams was a campaigner for the victims of the Hillsborough disaster of 1989, in which 97 Liverpool football fans, including her son Kevin Williams, died at Hills…
Anne Williams, English activist (born 1951)
Allen Harold "Al" Neuharth was an American businessman, author, and columnist born in Eureka, South Dakota. He was the founder of USA Today, The Freedom Forum, and its Newseum.
Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (born 1924)
Shakuntala Devi was an Indian mental calculator, astrologer, and writer, popularly known as the "Human Computer". Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness …
Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (born 1929)
The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July 6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and …
A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people…
The de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter is a single-engined, high-wing, propeller-driven, short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada. It was conceived …
A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
Typhoon Soulik, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Huaning, was a powerful tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in Taiwan and East China in mid-July 2013. It is the seve…
Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.
On 16 July 2013, 23–27 students died, and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the village of Gandaman in the Saran district of the Indian state of Bihar after eating a Midd…
As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
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 Battle of Ras al-Ayn resumes between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist forces,…
Leopold Engleitner was an Austrian conscientious objector, as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and a concentration camp survivor who spoke publicly and with students about his experienc…
Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor, author, and educator (born 1905)
Richard Pierce Havens was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His music encompassed elements of folk, soul, and rhythm and blues. He had a rhythmic guitar style. He was th…
Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman was an Indian Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer. He is commonly grouped with M.S. Gopalakrishnan and T.N.Krishnan as part of the violin trinit…
Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist and composer (born 1930)