Explore 3324 historical events from 2010–2019.
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…
The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate in Nationa
The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one…
The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
Robert Oliver Ragland was an American film score composer, best known for his soundtracks to numerous genre films ranging from blaxploitation (Abby), to horror, to monster movies, …
Robert O
Doris Betts was a short story writer, novelist, essayist and Alumni Distinguished Professor Emerita at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was the author of three shor…
Doris Betts, American author and academic (born 1932)
George Blatz Rathmann (1927–2012) was an American chemist, biologist, pioneer in biotechnology and corporate executive. In 1980 he co-founded and served as the first CEO of Amgen, …
George Rathmann, American chemist, biologist, and businessman (born 1927)
Maj Lillemor Arvidsson was a Swedish trade union leader and the Governor of Gotland from 1998 to 2004.
Lillemor Arvidsson, Swedish trade union leader and politician, 34th Governor of Gotland (born 1943)
John Christopher Ethridge was an American country rock bass guitarist. He was a member of the International Submarine Band (ISB) and The Flying Burrito Brothers, and co-wrote sever…
Chris Ethridge, American bass player and songwriter (born 1947)
The Shard, also referred to as the Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 95-storey mixed-use development supertall pyramid-shaped skyscraper, designed by the I…
The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
The 2012 Krasnodar Krai floods were floods in southwest Russia in early July 2012, mainly in Krasnodar Krai near the coast of the Black Sea. The equivalent of five months of rain f…
At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
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: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68…
The 2012 Burgas bus bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by a suicide bomber on a passenger bus transporting Israeli tourists at the Burgas Airport in Burgas, Bulgaria, on 18…
At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas…
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 People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Kobanî without resistance, starting the…
Raymond Thorsteinsson, was a Canadian geologist who focused on the geology of the high Arctic. He was a Fellow of The Arctic Institute of North America, primarily known for his con…
Raymond Thorsteinsson, Canadian geologist and paleontologist (born 1921)
LeRoy T. Walker was an American track and field coach and the first African-American president of the United States Olympic Committee. In the 1996 Olympics, Walker was delegated to…
LeRoy T
Gerald Edmund "Gerry" Bahen was a businessman and Australian rules football player and administrator who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football Leag…
Gerry Bahen, Australian footballer (born 1929)
James Eagan Holmes is an American convicted mass murderer who perpetrated the 2012 Aurora theater shooting in which he killed 12 people and injured 70 others at a Century 16 movie …
James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 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 People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the cities of Amuda and Efrîn without resistance.
Erden Eruç is a Turkish-American adventurer who became the first person in history to complete an entirely solo and entirely human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth on 21 July …
Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
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 People's Protection Units (YPG) captured the cities of Serê Kaniyê and Dirbêsiyê, during clashes…
On July 23, 2012 at 02:08 UTC, a solar storm involving an unusually large and strong coronal mass ejection occurred. It missed Earth by a margin of roughly nine days, as the Sun's …
The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed…
Denzil Eugene Jones was an American rancher and Republican politician. Jones is remembered as a 13-term member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly in which he represented citizens f…
Denny Jones, American rancher and politician (born 1910)
Terence George Spinks MBE was an English boxer, who won the gold medal in the flyweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In the final he defeated Mirce…
Terence Spinks, English boxer and trainer (born 1938)
Daniel Eugene Boatwright was a Democratic politician from the state of California. Boatwright was a longtime state legislator from Concord, California, a suburb in the San Francisc…
Daniel E
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 People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Girkê Legê.