Explore 1359 historical events from 2020–2029.
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Widely considered one of Can…
Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1938)
Aase Foss Abrahamsen was a Norwegian writer. She primarily wrote for children and young adults, but also books for adults.
Aase Foss Abrahamsen, Norwegian writer (born 1930)
Doyle Frank Brunson was an American poker player who played professionally for over 60 years. He was a two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion, a Poker Hall of Fa…
Doyle Brunson, American poker player (born 1933)
Dr. Norman (Norm) Green was an American long-distance runner. He set numerous American and World records over his career. He still holds the current M55 American record for the 10,…
Norm Green, American long-distance runner (born 1932)
Titan, previously named Cyclops 2, was a submersible created and operated by the American underwater tourism company OceanGate. It was the first privately owned submersible with a …
Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, imploded while attempting to view the wreck of the Titanic, kill
The Wagner Group, officially known as PMC Wagner, is a Russian state-funded private military company (PMC) that was controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally …
The Wagner Group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin launches an insurrection against the Russian government
Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is its capital and most populous city with a population of 1.24 million people.…
A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău Inte
Ariane 5 is a retired European heavy-lift space launch vehicle operated by Arianespace for the European Space Agency (ESA). It was launched from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in Fr…
The last Ariane 5 rocket is launched, carrying the Heinrich Hertz and Syracuse 4B satellites.
Barbenheimer was a cultural phenomenon that preceded and surrounded the simultaneous theatrical release of two major studio films—Barbie by Warner Bros. Pictures and Oppenheimer by…
The Barbenheimer phenomenon begins as two major motion pictures, Greta Gerwig's fantasy comedy Barbie and Christopher…
Andrew Michael Rourke was an English musician best known as the bassist of the 1980s indie rock band the Smiths. Regarded as one of the greatest bassists of his generation, he was …
Andy Rourke, English bassist (born 1964)
Tina Turner was a singer, songwriter, actress and author. Dubbed the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she broke both racial and gender barriers in rock music with her vocal prowess and st…
Tina Turner, American-Swiss rock and pop singer, dancer, actress and author (born 1939)
Sir David William Brewer was a British marine insurance broker who served as Lord Mayor of London (2005/06) and Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London to Elizabeth II (2008–15).
David Brewer, English politician, Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London (born 1940)
Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, better known by his ring name the Iron Sheik, was an Iranian-American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler and actor. To date he is the only Iranian …
The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler and actor (born 1942)
In August 2023, major floods occurred in large part of Slovenia and neighbouring areas of Austria and Croatia due to heavy rain. Amongst others, the level of rivers Sava, Mur and D…
Worst floods hit major parts of Slovenia.
The 2023 Hawaii wildfires were a series of wildfires that broke out in early August 2023 in the U.S. state of Hawaii, predominantly on the island of Maui. The wind-driven fires pro…
Hawaii wildfires: Seventeen thousand acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others…
Luna 25, also known as the Luna-Glob lander, was a failed Russian lunar lander mission operated by Roscosmos. It was the first lunar mission undertaken by Russia since the Soviet-e…
Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
The Wagner Group, officially known as PMC Wagner, is a Russian state-funded private military company (PMC) that was controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally …
A business jet carrying key leadership members of the Russian private military company Wagner Group crashes, killing…
Radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan began being discharged into the Pacific Ocean on 11 March 2011, following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear di…
Japan officially begins discharging treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the…
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson was an American media mogul, televangelist, political commentator, presidential candidate, and charismatic minister. Robertson advocated a conservativ…
Pat Robertson, American televangelist (born 1930)
Alain Touraine was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. T…
Alain Touraine, French sociologist (born 1925)
Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursu…
Ted Kaczynski, American mathematician and domestic terrorist (born 1942)
On August 26, 2018, a mass shooting occurred during a Madden NFL 19 qualifying tournament at the GLHF Game Bar in the Jacksonville Landing marketplace in Jacksonville, Florida, Uni…
Exactly 5 years after the 2018 Jacksonville Landing shooting, there is another shooting in Jacksonville, Florida,…
On August 26, 2018, a mass shooting occurred during a Madden NFL 19 qualifying tournament at the GLHF Game Bar in the Jacksonville Landing marketplace in Jacksonville, Florida, Uni…
Exactly five years after the 2018 Jacksonville Landing shooting, there is another shooting in Jacksonville, Florida,…
Aditya-L1 is a coronagraphy spacecraft for studying the solar atmosphere, designed and developed by ISRO and various other Indian Space Research Institutes. It is orbiting at about…
India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1…