1841 events
Four coordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi communities of Qahtaniya and Jazeera, Iraq, killing 796…
Six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force…
Six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force…
A heavy bomber that had been unintentionally loaded with nuclear missiles flew them from North Dakota to Louisiana…
A heavy bomber that had been unintentionally loaded with nuclear missiles flew them from North Dakota to Louisiana…
Three terrorists suspected to be part of al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on Frankfurt Airport…
Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank received a liquidity support facility from the Bank of England,…
A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated explosives in a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 11 people and injuring 70
The Parliament of Nepal unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra of many of his powers
An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film that has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate c
Hezbollah forces crossed the Israel–Lebanon border and attacked Israeli military positions while firing rockets and…
Lebanon War: The Israeli Air Force attacked a three-story building near the Lebanese village of Qana, killing at least…
Sri Lankan civil war: Seventeen employees of the French nongovernmental organization ACF International were massacred…
Sri Lankan civil war: Seventeen employees of the French nongovernmental organization ACF International were massacred…
Grigori Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refused to…
The International Astronomical Union passed a resolution redefining the term planet and classifying Pluto as a dwarf…
Uzbek Interior Ministry and State Security Service troops fired at protesters in Andijan, killing between 187 and 1,500
Same-sex marriage became legal in Spain with the coming into effect of a law passed by the Cortes Generales.