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Global1996
On this day (07/29), 30 years ago: The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was the United States Congress's first legislative attempt to regulate obscene and indecent material on the Internet. - summary
Global1994
On this day (05/24), 32 years ago: Four men are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993; each one is sentenced to 240 years in prison.
On February 26, 1993, Ramzi Yousef and associates carried out a van bomb terrorist attack below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. - summary
Global1993
On this day (08/01), 33 years ago: The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
The Great Flood of 1993 was a flood that occurred in the Midwestern United States, along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributaries, from April to October 1993. - summary
Global1992
On this day (05/23), 34 years ago: Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
Giovanni Falcone was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. - summary
Global1992
On this day (08/12), 34 years ago: Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The North American Free Trade Agreement, referred to colloquially in the Anglosphere as NAFTA, was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America. - summary
Global1989
On this day (07/22), 37 years ago: The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff.
On 6 July 1989, Abd al-Hadi Ghanim, a 25-year-old militant of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, seized the steering wheel of a crowded Egged commuter bus line No. - summary
Global1984
On this day (07/18), 42 years ago: McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: James Oliver Huberty kills 21 people and injures 19 others before being shot dead by police.
The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre was a mass shooting which occurred at a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California, on July 18, 1984. - summary
Global1983
On this day (05/20), 43 years ago: Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by UMkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
The Church Street bombing was a terrorist car bombing on 20 May 1983 in the South African capital Pretoria by uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress (ANC). - summary
Global1980
On this day (05/20), 46 years ago: In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, with 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.
The 1980 Quebec independence referendum was the first referendum in Quebec on the place of Quebec within Canada and whether Quebec should pursue a path toward sovereignty. - summary
Afghanistan1979Wars
The Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan sparked a decade-long conflict that drained Soviet resources, emboldened mujahideen fighters, and accelerated the USSR's eventual collapse.
Operation Baikal-79 was the codename for the Soviet Union's military intervention in Afghanistan, initiated on December 25, 1979. - summary
Guyana1978Disasters
On November 18, 1978, Guyana became the site of one of the deadliest incidents in modern history when over 900 members of the Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, died in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural compo… - summary
Global1976
On this day (08/18), 50 years ago: The Korean axe murder incident in Panmunjom results in the deaths of two US Army officers.
The Panmunjom axe murder incident, also known as the Korean axe atrocity incident, was the killing of two United Nations Command officers, Captain Arthur Bonifas and First Lieutenant Mark Barrett, by North Korean sold… - summary
Pakistan1971Wars
The nine-day conflict resulted in Bangladesh's independence from West Pakistan and remains one of the deadliest wars of the post-1945 era.
Bangladesh and Pakistan are both South Asian Muslim-majority countries. - 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
Democratic Republic of the Congo1961Wars
Patrice Lumumba's execution on January 17, 1961, ended Congo's first independent prime minister and became a flashpoint of Cold War interference in Africa.
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1961) - Democratic Republic of the Congo. - summary
China1958Disasters
Mao's catastrophic agricultural collectivization experiment triggered a famine killing tens of millions, among history's deadliest human-made disasters.
Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, launched in 1958, was an economic and social campaign that aimed to rapidly transform China from an agrarian society into an industrial powerhouse. - summary
Italy1943Wars
Italian Surrender & Armistice
The Armistice of Cassibile was signed on 3 September 1943 by Italy and the Allies, marking the end of hostilities between them during World War II. - summary
China1937Wars
Japanese forces committed mass atrocities against Chinese civilians and soldiers in Nanking, killing tens of thousands and establishing a template for industrial genocide.
The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing was the mass rape and murder of Chinese civilians, noncombatants, and prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China. - summary
Japan1931Wars
Japan's militarist invasion of Manchuria defied the League of Nations and marked the opening move in imperial expansion across Asia.
The Empire of Japan's Kwantung Army invaded the Manchuria region of China on 18 September 1931, immediately following the Mukden incident, a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext to invade. - summary
South Africa1899Wars
Britain's bitter three-year conflict with Boer republics cemented imperial control of Southern Africa and exposed imperial vulnerabilities.
The Second Boer War, also known as the Boer War, Transvaal War, Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the Boer republics over Britain's influence in Southern Af… - summary