Explore 3324 historical events from 2010–2019.
The Nellore train fire occurred on 30 July 2012, when the Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express train caught fire at 4:22 am near Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India. At least 32 passengers …
A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Two severe power outages affected most of northern and eastern India on 30 and 31 July 2012. The 30 July 2012 blackout affected over 400 million people and lasted about 13.5 hrs. D…
A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
Michael Fred Phelps II is an American former competitive swimmer. He won more Olympic medals than any other athlete, a total of 28 medals across four Olympic Games. Phelps also hol…
Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting was a mass shooting that took place at the gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on August 5, 2012, when 40-year-old Wade Michael Page fatally shot s…
The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting took place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six victims; the perpetrator committed…
William Joseph Skowron, nicknamed "Moose", was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1954 to 1967 for the New Yo…
Bill Skowron, American baseball player (born 1930)
Sir Frederick Richard Allen was a captain and coach of the All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby union team. The All Blacks won all 14 of the test matches they played under his …
Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player and coach (born 1920)
Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus was a Spanish poet from Cantabria who also wrote non-fiction.
Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and author (born 1919)
Allen Joseph Ecuyer was an American football player.
Al Ecuyer, American football player (born 1937)
Patricia Paz Maria Medina was a British actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) and Mr. Arkadin (1955).
Patricia Medina, English actress (born 1919)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program, as well as researc…
NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
The Marikana massacre was the killing of thirty-four miners by the South African Police Service (SAPS) on 16 August 2012 during a six-week wildcat strike at the Lonmin platinum min…
The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.
The 2012 East Azerbaijan earthquakes – also known as the Ahar earthquakes – occurred on 11 August 2012, at 16:53 Iran Standard Time, near the cities of Ahar and Varzaqan in Iran's …
At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
The South African Police Service (SAPS) is the national police force of the Republic of South Africa. Its 1,165 police stations in South Africa are divided according to the provinc…
South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute at Marikana near Rustenburg.
From August 2012 to January 2013, a series of ethnic clashes between the Orma and Pokomo peoples of Kenya's Tana River District resulted in the deaths of at least fifty-two people.…
Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.
Milan Popović (1924–2012) was a renowned Serbian psychiatrist-psychoanalyst, a full professor of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy.
Milan N
Aberdeen Shikoyi was a Kenyan rugby union player. She was the captain of the women's rugby union team.
Aberdeen Shikoyi, Kenyan rugby player (born 1985)
Shukri Mohammed Ghanem was a Libyan politician who was the General Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya from June 2003 until March 2006 when, in the first major gov…
Shukri Ghanem, Libyan politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Libya (born 1942)
Joel King Goldsmith was an American composer of film, television, and video game music.
Joel Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (born 1957)
Roland Moreno was a French inventor, engineer, humorist and author who was the inventor of the smart card. Moreno's smart card, or la carte à puce in French, was little known inter…
Roland Moreno
Anders Behring Breivik is a Norwegian mass murderer, and domestic terrorist who perpetrated the 2011 Norway attacks. A believer in the Great Replacement theory, he sought to combat…
Anders Behring Breivik, perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, is sentenced to 21 years of preventive detention.
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program, to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's helios…
Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space, becoming the first man-made object to do so.
René G. Lépine was a Canadian real estate developer and philanthropist. Lépine was the chairman of Groupe Lépine, a real estate development and investment firm he founded in 1953. …
René Lépine, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1929)
Kathy Diane Wentworth, known as K. D. Wentworth, was an American science fiction author. A University of Tulsa graduate, she got her start winning the Writers of the Future Contest…
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Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm was an American musician who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll…
Levon Helm, American musician and actor (born 1940)