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Global2021
On this day (05/22), 5 years ago: Hypothermia kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) Gansu ultramarathon disaster in China.
On 22 May 2021, twenty-one professional runners died from hypothermia while competing in a government-run 100-kilometre (62 mi) trail running race held in the Yellow River Stone Forest in Jingtai County, Gansu, China. - summary
Saudi Arabia2019Tech launches
The world's largest oil company's $2 trillion IPO marked Saudi Vision 2030 ambitions and unprecedented market access.
Saudi Aramco has both the world's largest proven crude oil reserves, at more than 270 billion barrels, and largest daily oil production of all oil-producing companies. - summary
Global2018
On this day (07/25), 8 years ago: As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
The 2018 Suwayda attacks were a string of suicide bombings and mass shooting incidents in Suwayda, Syria on 25 July 2018. - summary
Global2014
On this day (08/02), 12 years ago: At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
As of December 30, 2014, the explosion killed 146 workers and injured 114 others. - summary
Spain2004Disasters
Al-Qaeda-linked bombings killed 191 commuters and triggered Spain's withdrawal from Iraq, reshaping European counterterrorism policy.
The bombings constituted the deadliest terrorist attack carried out in the history of Spain and the deadliest in Europe since the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in Scotland. - summary
Global1998
On this day (07/12), 28 years ago: The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.
Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a former British Army soldier from Northern Ireland. - summary
Global1995
On this day (07/12), 31 years ago: Chinese seismologists successfully predict the 1995 Myanmar–China earthquake, reducing the number of casualties to 11.
It also includes studies of the environmental effects of earthquakes such as tsunamis; other seismic sources such as volcanoes, plate tectonics, glaciers, rivers, oceanic microseisms, and the atmosphere; and artificia… - summary
Global1968
On this day (08/02), 58 years ago: An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
The 1968 Casiguran earthquake occurred on 04:19:22 local time on August 2 with a moment magnitude of 7.6 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). - summary
Australia1967Elections
1967 Referendum on Aboriginal Rights
On May 27, 1967, Australians voted to amend their constitution in a referendum that fundamentally altered the legal status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. - summary
China1958Disasters
Mao's catastrophic agricultural collectivization experiment triggered a famine killing tens of millions, among history's deadliest human-made disasters.
Party officials set wildly optimistic grain quotas and falsified production numbers up the chain of command, creating a statistical fiction that masked deepening agricultural collapse. - summary
Austria1950Wars
Five years after Nazi defeat, Austria's most notorious death camp was formally recognized as a memorial site, anchoring postwar reckoning with genocide.
Estimated deaths: 95,000 - key fact
Japan1945Wars
America's atomic gamble vaporizes a city and kills 140,000.
The device, code-named "Little Boy," detonated about 1,900 feet above the city. - summary
France1916Wars
Battle of the Somme Begins
It took place between 1 July and 17 November 1916 on both sides of the upper reaches of the river Somme in France. - summary
Italy1908Disasters
The Messina earthquake and tsunami across the Strait devastated southern Italy, killing some 100,000 people in one of history's deadliest seismic events.
On December 28, 1908, at 5:20 a.m., a massive earthquake struck the Strait of Messina between Sicily and Calabria in southern Italy. - summary
United States1906Tech launches
Reginald Fessenden had a problem: wireless telegraphy worked fine for Morse code, but voices turned to mush. - summary
Russia1905Elections
Tsar Nicholas II's forced concessions established Russia's first elected parliament, marking tentative constitutional reform amid revolutionary ferment.
The October Manifesto, officially "The Manifesto on the Improvement of the State Order", is a document that served as a precursor to the Russian Empire's first Constitution, which was adopted the following year in 1906. - summary
India1905
British India allows limited elections to the Imperial Legislative Council, sparking nationalist fervor.
The cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century. - summary
Switzerland1905Tech launches
Albert Einstein was 26 years old and working as a technical expert at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern when he submitted four papers to Annalen der Physik in 1905. - summary
Global1898Wars
The Treaty of Paris, signed on December 10, 1898, formally concluded the Spanish-American War and redrew the map of the Caribbean and Pacific. - summary
France1895Tech launches
The Lumière brothers' public screening of motion pictures in Paris launched cinema as a mass entertainment medium and art form.
Army Air Forces (AAF) during World War II, and was the first military unit made up entirely of professionals from the film industry. - summary