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• 2018 CEattempted assassination of Jair BolsonaroOn 6 September 2018, then federal deputy Jair Bolsonaro suffered an attack during a rally promoting his…
• 2021 CEattempted assassination of Mohamed NasheedOn 6 May 2021, an assassination attempt was made against Maldivian Speaker of the People's Majlis and former…
• 1926 CEattempted assassination of Mustafa Kemal AtatürkIn 1926, the Turkish police arrested dozens of people, including ex-ministers, lawmakers and governors…
• 1981 CEattempted assassination of Pope John Paul IIOn 13 May 1981, in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali…
• 2024 CEattempted assassination of Robert FicoOn 15 May 2024, Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico was shot and critically injured in the central Slovak…
• 1981 CEattempted assassination of Ronald ReaganOn March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan, the president of the United States, was shot and wounded by John Hinckley…
• 1912 CEattempted assassination of Theodore RooseveltOn October 14, 1912, former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt by John…

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• 2001 CEcollapse of the World Trade CenterThe World Trade Center, in Lower Manhattan, New York City, was destroyed after a series of terrorist attacks…
• 1950 CEcoronation of Bhumibol AdulyadejBhumibol Adulyadej (5 December 1927 – 13 October 2016), titled Rama IX, was King of Thailand from 9 June 1946…
• 1977 CEcoronation of Bokassa IThe coronation of Bokassa I and Catherine as the Emperor and Empress of Central Africa took place on 4…
• 2023 CEcoronation of Charles III and CamillaThe coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the 14 other…
• 1804 CEcoronation of Napoleon INapoleon was crowned Emperor of the French on December 2, 1804 (11 Frimaire, Year XIII according to the…
• 2019 CEcoronation of VajiralongkornThe coronation of Vajiralongkorn (Rama X) as king of Thailand took place on 4 May 2019 at the Grand Palace…
• 1799 CEcoup of 18 BrumaireThe Coup of 18 Brumaire (French: Coup d'État du 18 Brumaire) brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First…
• 1888 CEcrime of Fuencarral streetThe crime of Fuencarral street (also known as the murder on Fuencarral street or the case of Fuencarral…

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• 2024 CEdeath and funeral of Alexei NavalnyOn 16 February 2024, at 14:19 Moscow time (11:19 GMT), the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of the…
• 1945 CEdeath of Adolf HitlerOn 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in the Führerbunker when it became clear that…
• 2021 CEdeath of Ali Fazeli MonfaredAli "Alireza" Fazeli Monfared (January 2, 2001 – May 4, 2021) was a 20-year-old Iranian man who was kidnapped…
• 2021 CEdeath of Andrei ZeltserOn 28 September 2021, Andrei Zeltser, a Belarusian IT worker, was killed in Minsk by members of the State…
• 2016 CEdeath of HarambeHarambe (hə-RAHM-bay; May 27, 1999 – May 28, 2016) was a western lowland gorilla who lived at the Cincinnati…
• 2018 CEdeath of Lesandro Guzman-FelizThe murder of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz occurred on June 20, 2018; the 15-year-old was killed by members of the…
• 1957 CEdeath of Maria RidulphMaria Elizabeth Ridulph (March 12, 1950 – c. December 1957) was a seven-year-old girl who disappeared from…
• 1962 CEdeath of Marilyn MonroeOn the evening of August 4, 1962, American actress Marilyn Monroe died at age 36 of a barbiturate overdose…
• 1998 CEdeath of Nicky VerstappenOn the morning of 10 August 1998, 11-year-old Nicky Verstappen disappeared from a summer camp he was…
• 2012 CEdeaths of Lucia and Leo KrimLucia and Leo Krim, aged 6 and 2 respectively, were murdered in the late afternoon of October 25, 2012, at…
• 1944 CEdeportation of the Crimean TatarsDuring the Sürgünlik ("exile"), at least 191,044 Crimean Tatars were subjected to ethnic cleansing and…
• 2023 CEdestruction of the Kakhovka DamThe Kakhovka Dam was breached in the early hours of 6 June 2023, causing extensive flooding along the lower…
• 2001 CEdisappearance of Asami ChidaThe Disappearance of Asami Chida occurred in Muroran, Iburi, Hokkaido, Japan on the afternoon of Tuesday…
• 2006 CEdisappearance of Jennifer KesseOn January 23/24, 2006, Jennifer Joyce Kesse, a 24‑year‑old finance manager, disappeared from her home in…
• 1948 CEdisappearance of Virginia CarpenterMary Virginia "Jimmie" Carpenter was a 21-year-old American missing person from Texarkana, Texas, who went…
• 2017 CEdisappearance of the ARA San JuanOn 15 November 2017, the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan disappeared in the South Atlantic off the coast of…
• 2023 CEdischarge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power PlantRadioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan began being discharged into the…
• 1973 CEdrought in NigeriaLong-term drought in Nigeria has resulted in desertification and a shortage of land for raising cattle and…
• 1793 CEdrownings at NantesThe drownings at Nantes (French: noyades de Nantes; Breton: beuzioù e Naoned) were a series of mass…

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• 2011 CEearly 2011 Telangana protestsThe early 2011 Telangana protests refers to a chain of events that took place during the early months of…
• 2012 CEemo killings in IraqThe 2012 emo killings in Iraq were a string of homicides that were claimed by some sources to be part of a…
• 173 CEequestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (monument) builtThe equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (Italian: statua equestre di Marco Aurelio; Latin: Equus Marci…
• 79 CEeruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius, a stratovolcano located in the modern-day region of Campania, Italy, erupted…
• 1992 CEethnic cleansing in the Bosnian WarEthnic cleansing occurred during the Bosnian War (1992–95) as large numbers of Bosniaks and Croats were…
• 1654 CEexplosion of the powder magazine in DelftDelft (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdɛl(ə)ft] ) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland…
• 1930 CEexposition of 1930The Liège International Exposition (French: Exposition internationale de Liège) of 1930 was a world's fair…

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• 1999 CEfire of the Mont Blanc tunnelOn 24 March 1999, a transport truck caught fire while driving through the Mont Blanc Tunnel between France…
• 1881 CEfirefight at the O.K. CorralThe gunfight at the O.K. Corral pitted lawmen against members of a loosely organized group of cattle rustlers…

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• 1882 CEgreat Oulu fire of 1882The great Oulu fire of 1882 was a conflagration that started in the basement of the pharmacy on the corner of…

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• 1989 CEimam Khomeini Mausoleum builtThe Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini (Persian: آرامگاه سید روح‌الله خمینی), also known as the Holy Shrine, or…
• 2019 CEinstallation of Yang di-Pertuan Agong XVIThe installation of Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Haji Ahmad…
• 500 CEiron pillar of Delhi settledThe iron pillar of Delhi is a metal structure 7.21 metres (23 feet 8 inches) high with a 41-centimetre (16…

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• 1978 CEkidnapping of Aldo MoroThe kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, also referred to in Italy as the Moro case (Italian: caso Moro), was…
• 1991 CEkidnapping of Jaycee Lee DugardOn June 10, 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard, an eleven-year-old girl, was abducted from a street while walking to a…
• 2018 CEkidnapping of Jayme ClossOn October 15, 2018, 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson abducted 13-year-old Jayme Lynn Closs after fatally…
• 1973 CEkidnapping of Kim Dae-jungOn August 8, 1973, the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) kidnapped South Korean dissident leader and…
• 2002 CEkidnappings of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle KnightBetween 2002 and 2004, Ariel Castro abducted Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus from the roads…
• 2025 CEkilling of Affan KurniawanOn 25 August until early September 2025, several protests took place in Indonesia as part of a larger civil…
• 2026 CEkilling of Alex PrettiOn January 24, 2026, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old American intensive care nurse for the United States…
• 2020 CEkilling of Brendin HornerBrendin 'Choppie' Horner (c. 1999 – 1 October 2020) was a 21-year-old South African farm manager for the…
• 2024 CEkilling of Brian ThompsonOn December 4, 2024, Brian Robert Thompson, the CEO of the American health insurance company…
• 2013 CEkilling of Clément MéricOn 5 June 2013, a fight between far-left and far-right activists in Paris resulted in the death of…
• 2022 CEkilling of Debanhi EscobarOn 9 April 2022, Debanhi Susana Escobar Bazaldúa, an 18-year-old law student, disappeared from General…
• 2025 CEkilling of Iryna ZarutskaOn August 22, 2025, Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian woman, was killed at the East/West Boulevard…
• 2011 CEkilling of Muammar GaddafiMuammar Gaddafi, a former leader of Libya, was murdered by the National Transitional Council (NTC) on 20…
• 2023 CEkilling of O'Shae SibleyOn July 29, 2023, O'Shae Sibley, a 28-year-old gay man, was stabbed and killed by 17-year-old Dmitry Popov…
• 2024 CEkilling of Odair MonizOn 21 October 2024, Odair Moreno Moniz, a native of Cape Verde and an immigrant in Portugal, died after being…
• 2011 CEkilling of Osama bin LadenOn May 2, 2011, the United States conducted Operation Neptune Spear, in which SEAL Team Six shot and killed…
• 2007 CEkilling of Peter ConnellyPeter Connelly (also known as "Baby P", "Child A", and "Baby Peter", 1 March 2006 – 3 August 2007) was a…
• 2021 CEkilling of Peter R. de VriesOn the evening of 6 July 2021, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter Peter R. de Vries was shot…
• 2026 CEkilling of Renée GoodOn January 7, 2026, Renée Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old American woman, was fatally shot by United…
• 2025 CEkilling of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer ReinerOn December 14, 2025, American filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, photographer and producer Michele Singer…
• 2022 CEkilling of Shireen Abu AklehOn 11 May 2022, Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed by Israel Defense…
• 2024 CEkilling of Sonya MasseyOn July 6, 2024, Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old unarmed Black woman, was murdered by Sean Grayson, a 30-year-old…
• 2023 CEkilling of Tyre NicholsOn January 7, 2023, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black American man, was fatally injured by five black police…
• 2024 CEkilling of Yahya SinwarOn 16 October 2024, during their operations in the Gaza war, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops killed Hamas…
• 2023 CEkilling of Yuval KestelmanOn 30 November 2023, two Palestinian gunmen killed three and wounded 16 Israeli civilians at a bus stop on…

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• 2023 CElandslide of ShoviOn 3 August 2023 at approximately 16:00 local time, a landslide occurred in the mountain resort of Shovi in…
• 1916 CElynching of Jesse WashingtonJesse Washington was a 17-year-old African American farmhand who was lynched in the county seat of Waco…
• 1911 CElynching of Laura and L. D. NelsonLaura and L. D. Nelson were an African-American mother and son who were lynched on May 25, 1911, near Okemah…
• 1981 CElynching of Michael DonaldMichael Donald was a 19-year-old African-American who was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Mobile…

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• 2014 CEmassacreThe Kawuri massacre happened on 26 January 2014 in Kawuri, a village in Konduga Local Government Area, 37 km…
• 1945 CEmassacre in Trhová KameniceThe Massacre in Trhová Kamenice occurred on 8 May 1945 in what is now the Czech Republic. Prior to the…
• 1920 CEmassacre in front of the Reichstag on 13 January 1920The Reichstag Bloodbath (German: Blutbad vor dem Reichstag) occurred on 13 January 1920 in front of the…
• 1936 CEmassacre of BadajozThe Badajoz massacre occurred in the days after the Battle of Badajoz during the Spanish Civil War. Between…
• 1692 CEmassacre of GlencoeThe Massacre of Glencoe took place in Glen Coe in the Argyll region of the Scottish Highlands on 13 February…
• 1941 CEmassacre of KondomariThe Massacre of Kondomari (Greek: Σφαγή στο Κοντομαρί) was the execution of male civilians from the village…
• 1944 CEmassacre of Oradour-sur-GlaneOn 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied…
• 390 CEmassacre of ThessalonicaThe Massacre of Thessalonica in Macedonia, Greece, was a massacre of local civilians by Roman troops which is…
• 1562 CEmassacre of VassyThe Massacre of Vassy (French: massacre de Wassy) was the murder of Huguenot worshippers and citizens in an…
• 1992 CEmassacre of Via D'AmelioThe via D'Amelio bombing (Italian: Strage di via D'Amelio) was a terrorist attack by the Sicilian Mafia…
• 2023 CEmassacre of pensioners in SderotThe battle of Sderot (Hebrew: קרב שדרות; Arabic: معركة سديروت) began on 7 October 2023, when Hamas launched a…
• 1939 CEmassacres in PiaśnicaThe massacres in Piaśnica were a series of mass murders carried out by Nazi Germany during World War II…
• 1895 CEmassacres of DiyarbakırThe massacres of Diyarbakır were massacres that took place in the Diyarbekir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire…
• 1791 CEmassacres of La GlacièreThe massacres of La Glacière that took place during 16–17 October 1791 in the Tour de la Glacière of the…
• 5000 BCEmenhir d'Er Grah (monument) builtThe Locmariaquer megaliths are a complex of Neolithic constructions in Locmariaquer, Brittany. They comprise…
• 2022 CEmissile attack on VinnytsiaThe Russian Navy have launched several rocket attacks on Vinnytsia, Ukraine, during the Russian invasion of…
• 2020 CEmurder of Ahmaud ArberyOn February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was murdered during a racially motivated hate…
• 2008 CEmurder of Ahmet YıldızThe murder of Ahmet Yıldız occurred on 15 July 2008 in Üsküdar, Istanbul. The anti-LGBT hate crime was…
• 2008 CEmurder of Alexandros GrigoropulosAlexandros Grigoropoulos was a 15-year-old Greek student who was shot dead by the Hellenic Police special…
• 2000 CEmurder of Amanda MilanThe murder of Amanda Milan took place on June 20, 2000, when two men killed Milan, a 25-year-old trans woman…
• 2025 CEmurder of Austin MetcalfOn April 2, 2025, Austin Metcalf, a 17-year-old student at Memorial High School, was murdered by Karmelo…
• 2021 CEmurder of Babita DeokaranBabita Deokaran was a South African whistleblower murdered for reporting corruption at the Gauteng Department…
• 2007 CEmurder of Chiara PoggiOn 13 August 2007, 26-year-old Chiara Poggi was murdered in Garlasco, in the Province of Pavia, Italy. The…
• 2017 CEmurder of Dandara dos SantosOn 15 February 2017, Dandara Kettley, a Brazilian travesti, was beaten and shot to death in Bom Jardim, a…
• 2001 CEmurder of Danielle JonesThe murder of Danielle Jones was a 2001 child murder case involving a 15-year-old schoolgirl who disappeared…
• 2021 CEmurder of David AmessOn 15 October 2021, David Amess, a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for…
• 1995 CEmurder of Deanna CreminDeanna J. Cremin (March 26, 1978 – March 30, 1995) was a 17-year-old American girl from Somerville…
• 2015 CEmurder of Dee Dee BlanchardClauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard (née Pitre; May 3, 1967 – June 10, 2015) was a 48-year-old American woman whose…
• 1980 CEmurder of Dorothy Jane ScottDorothy Jane Scott (April 23, 1948 — May 28, 1980) was an American woman who disappeared on May 28, 1980, in…
• 2015 CEmurder of Eitam and Na'ama HenkinA married Israeli couple from Neria, Eitam Simon Henkin, a doctoral student at Tel Aviv University who also…
• 2010 CEmurder of Elin KrantzElin Krantz was a Swedish 27-year-old woman who was murdered in the Biskopsgården district of Gothenburg on…
• 2016 CEmurder of Eunice ElishaEunice Olawale was a Nigerian Christian female preacher who was murdered by suspected Muslim extremists in…
• 2015 CEmurder of FarkhundaThe murder of Farkhunda Malikzada was committed by a Muslim mob in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 19 March 2015.…
• 2020 CEmurder of Fernando Báez SosaFernando José Báez Sosa (2 March 2001 – 18 January 2020), an 18-year old Argentine law student, was beaten to…
• 2020 CEmurder of George FloydOn May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black American man, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old…
• 2016 CEmurder of Giulio RegeniGiulio Regeni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒuːljo reˈdʒɛːni]; 15 January 1988 – c. January–February 2016) was…
• 1992 CEmurder of Helena RappThe murder of Helena Rapp occurred on 24 May 1992 when a Palestinian stabbed 15-year-old Israeli Helena Rapp…
• 1993 CEmurder of James BulgerOn 12 February 1993 in Merseyside, England, two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, abducted…
• 1906 CEmurder of Jeanne Van CalckJeanne Van Calck (17 September 1897 – 7 February 1906), also known as Joanna, was a Belgian child murder…
• 2013 CEmurder of Jessica HeeringaJessica Lynn Heeringa (July 16, 1987 – c. April 26, 2013) was a 25-year-old woman from Norton Shores…
• 2005 CEmurder of Jessica LunsfordJessica Marie Lunsford (October 6, 1995 – February 27, 2005) was an American girl from Homosassa, Florida…
• 2016 CEmurder of Jo CoxOn 16 June 2016, Jo Cox, a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen…
• 2004 CEmurder of Joana CiprianoJoana Isabel Cipriano Guerreiro (born 31 May 1996) was a Portuguese child who disappeared on 12 August 2004…
• 2010 CEmurder of Joanna YeatesJoanna Clare Yeates (19 April 1985 – 17 December 2010) was a landscape architect from Ampfield, Hampshire…
• 1980 CEmurder of John LennonOn the night of 8 December 1980, English musician John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, was shot and fatally…
• 2018 CEmurder of Ján Kuciak and Martina KušnírováJán Kuciak (17 May 1990 – 21 February 2018) was a Slovak investigative journalist. Kuciak worked as a…
• 1995 CEmurder of Karel van NoppenThe murder of Karel Van Noppen was a high-profile political scandal that occurred in Belgium in 1995. Karel…
• 1964 CEmurder of Kitty GenoveseKitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was raped and stabbed to death on March 13, 1964, outside the…
• 1998 CEmurder of Kyle DinkhellerOn January 12, 1998, Andrew Brannan, a 49-year-old Vietnam War veteran, fatally shot 22-year-old deputy…
• 1953 CEmurder of Kyllikki SaariAuli Kyllikki Saari (6 December 1935 – 1953) was a 17-year-old Finnish girl whose murder in 1953 became one…
• 2024 CEmurder of Laken RileyOn February 22, 2024, Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student, was attacked and…
• 2008 CEmurder of Larry KingLawrence Fobes King, also known as Latisha King (January 13, 1993 – February 14, 2008), was a 15-year-old…
• 1983 CEmurder of Lasa and ZabalaThe murder of Lasa and Zabala was one of the first acts carried out by the GAL, a Spanish state sponsored…
• 2013 CEmurder of Lee RigbyOn the afternoon of 22 May 2013, a British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of…
• 1989 CEmurder of Leigh LeighThe murder of Leigh Leigh, born Leigh Rennea Mears, occurred on 3 November 1989 while she was attending a…
• 1982 CEmurder of Linda CookThe murder of Linda Cook was committed in Portsmouth on 9 December 1986. The subsequent trial led to a…
• 2007 CEmurder of Lindsay HawkerOn 26 March 2007, 22-year-old English teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker was murdered by 28-year-old Tatsuya…
• 1988 CEmurder of Lynette WhiteLynette Deborah White (5 July 1967 – 14 February 1988) was murdered in Cardiff, Wales. South Wales Police…
• 2007 CEmurder of Meredith KercherMeredith Susanna Cara Kercher (28 December 1985 – 1 November 2007) was a British student on exchange from the…
• 2018 CEmurder of Mireille KnollMireille Knoll (28 December 1932 – 23 March 2018) was an 85-year-old French Jewish woman and Holocaust…
• 2014 CEmurder of Mohammed Abu KhdeirThe kidnapping and murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir occurred early on the morning of 2 July 2014. Khdeir, a…
• 1995 CEmurder of Nicole van den HurkFifteen-year-old Nicole van den Hurk (Dutch pronunciation: [niˈkɔl vɑn də(n) ˈɦʏr(ə)k; - dɛn -]) disappeared…
• 1937 CEmurder of Pamela WernerOn the morning of 8 January 1937, the severely mutilated body of Pamela Werner (believed born 7 February…
• 2014 CEmurder of Pentecostals in SlavianskIn Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, four members of the Transfiguration of The Lord (Ukrainian…
• 2006 CEmurder of Robert Eric WoneRobert Eric Wone (June 1, 1974 – August 3, 2006) was an American lawyer who was murdered in the Washington…
• 2017 CEmurder of Robert GodwinOn April 16, 2017, 74-year-old Robert Lee Godwin Sr. was shot and killed while walking in the Glenville…
• 2021 CEmurder of Samuel LuizSamuel Luiz Muñiz, a 24-year-old nursing assistant, was beaten to death in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, on 3…
• 2020 CEmurder of Samuel PatyOn 16 October 2020, Samuel Paty (French: [samɥɛl pati]), a French secondary school teacher, was attacked and…
• 2017 CEmurder of Sarah HalimiSarah Halimi was a retired French doctor and schoolteacher who was attacked and killed in her apartment on 4…
• 1995 CEmurder of SelenaOn the morning of March 31, 1995, American singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was fatally shot at the Days Inn…
• 2001 CEmurder of Shalhevet PassThe murder of Shalhevet Pass was a sniper shooting attack carried out by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron, West…
• 1979 CEmurder of Shanda SharerShanda Renee Sharer (June 6, 1979 – January 11, 1992) was an American girl who, at the age of 12, was…
• 1991 CEmurder of Sonia Rescalvo ZafraSonia Rescalvo Zafra (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsonja resˈkalβo ˈθafɾa]; 1946 – 6 October 1991) was a Spanish…
• 2004 CEmurder of Tali Hatuel and her four daughtersThe murder of the Hatuel family was a shooting attack on May 2, 2004, in which Palestinian militants killed…
• 1979 CEmurder of Tammy AlexanderTammy Jo Alexander (November 2, 1963 – November 9, 1979) was an American teenage girl who was found murdered…
• 2008 CEmurder of Travis AlexanderTravis Victor Alexander (July 28, 1977 – June 4, 2008) was an American salesman who was murdered by his…
• 1991 CEmurder of Tupac ShakurOn September 7, 1996, at 11:15 p.m. (PDT), Tupac Shakur, a 25-year-old American rapper, was shot in a…
• 2016 CEmurder of Wayan Mirna SalihinOn 6 January 2016, Wayan Mirna Salihin died in Abdi Waluyo Hospital after drinking a Vietnamese iced coffee…
• 2016 CEmurder of Yangjie LiOn 11 May 2016, 25-year-old Chinese architecture student Yangjie Li was abducted, raped, and murdered by…
• 1997 CEmurder of the Notorious B.I.G.On March 9, 1997, 24-year-old American rapper Christopher Wallace, known professionally as the Notorious…
• 2017 CEmurders of Abigail Williams and Liberty GermanThe murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German, also known as the Delphi murders, occurred on February…
• 2015 CEmurders of Alison Parker and Adam WardOn the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees…
• 2007 CEmurders of Channon Christian and Christopher NewsomChannon Gail Christian, aged 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom Jr., aged 23, were a couple from Knoxville…
• 2013 CEmurders of Chris Kyle and Chad LittlefieldOn February 2, 2013, Christopher Scott Kyle (born April 8, 1974) and his friend Chad Hutson Littlefield (born…
• 2018 CEmurders of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and Maren UelandOn 17 December 2018, the bodies of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, a 24-year-old Danish woman, and Maren Ueland…

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• 1914 CEnaval warfare in the Mediterranean during World War INaval warfare in the Mediterranean during World War I took place between the naval forces of the Entente and…

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• 2016 CEoccupation of the Malheur National Wildlife RefugeOn January 2, 2016, an armed group of right-wing militants seized and occupied the headquarters of the…

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• 1250 CEpalazzo dei Notai (palace) builtPalazzo dei Notai is a historic building in Bologna, Italy. It faces Piazza Maggiore, between the basilica di…
• 2018 CEpoisoning of Sergei and Yulia SkripalThe poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, also known as the Salisbury poisonings, was a failed assassination…
• 1177 CEpont Saint-Bénézet (bridge) builtThe Pont Saint-Bénézet (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ sɛ̃ benezɛ]; Provençal: Pònt de Sant Beneset), also known…
• 1930 CEpopulation transfer in the Soviet UnionFrom 1930 to 1952, the government of the Soviet Union, on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and under…
• 2020 CEprotests against Benjamin NetanyahuA series of protests against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, colloquially referred to as the…
• 2001 CEprotests during the EU summit in Gothenburg 2001This is a list of meetings of the European Council (informally referred to as EU summits); the meetings of…

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• 2017 CEraid on YaklaThe Raid on Yakla was a joint United States/United Arab Emirates military operation carried out on January…
• 2007 CEre:publicare:publica is a conference in Europe that deals with Web 2.0, especially blogs, social media, and information…

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• 2024 CEself-immolation of Aaron BushnellOn February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after…
• 2024 CEshooting in September 2024 in MunichOn 5 September 2024, a shooting occurred in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Germany. The perpetrator, an 18-year-old…
• 2020 CEshooting of Jacob BlakeOn August 23, 2020, Jacob S. Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot and seriously injured by police officer…
• 2020 CEshooting of Matthew HuntMatthew Dennis Hunt was a New Zealand Police constable who was killed in Massey during a traffic stop on 19…
• 2014 CEshooting of Michael BrownOn August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson…
• 2012 CEshooting of Trayvon MartinOn the evening of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, United States, George Zimmerman fatally shot…
• 2026 CEsinking of IRIS DenaDuring the 2026 Iran war, the Iranian Navy frigate IRIS Dena was torpedoed and sunk by the United States…
• 2018 CEsinking of MV Sinar BangunMV Sinar Bangun sank on 18 June 2018 in Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia, during its trip from Simanindo…
• 2022 CEsinking of the Kazu IThe Kazu I (Hepburn: kazu wan) was a 19-ton tourist boat operating off the Hokkaido island of Japan…
• 1994 CEsinking of the MS EstoniaMS Estonia, a cruiseferry operated by Estline, sank on Wednesday, 28 September 1994, between about 00:50 and…
• 2014 CEsinking of the MV SewolOn the morning of Wednesday, 16 April 2014, the ferry MV Sewol sank while en route from Incheon towards Jeju…
• 2022 CEsinking of the MoskvaThe Russian warship Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet, was attacked and sunk by…
• 1915 CEsinking of the RMS LusitaniaRMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat…
• 1912 CEsinking of the RMS TitanicRMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912. The largest ocean liner in service at the…
• 1985 CEsinking of the Rainbow WarriorThe sinking of Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was an act of French state-terrorism carried…
• 2022 CEstabbing of Salman RushdieOn August 12, 2022, Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times by…
• 1980 CEstabbing of Suzanne BombardierSuzanne Arlene "Suzie" Bombardier (March 14, 1966 – June 22, 1980) was an American teenager who was…
• 1994 CEsuicide of Kurt CobainOn April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain, the lead singer and guitarist of the American rock band Nirvana, was found…
• 1709 CEsurrender at PerevolochnaThe surrender at Perevolochna was the capitulation of almost the entire Swedish army on 30 June 1709 (O.S.) /…
• 1945 CEsurrender of JapanThe surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and…

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• 1936 CEthe Crimes of the Tunnel of Death of UseraUsera Tunnel (Spanish: Túnel de Usera, also Spanish: Túnel de la muerte) was a scam operated by Republican…
• 1829 CEtreaty of AdrianopleThe Treaty of Adrianople (also called the Treaty of Edirne) concluded the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–29…
• 1699 CEtreaty of KarlowitzThe Treaty of Karlowitz, concluding the Great Turkish War of 1683–1699, in which the Ottoman Empire was…
• 2017 CEtrial of Catalonia independence leadersThe trial of Catalonia independence leaders, legally named Causa Especial 20907/2017 and popularly known as…
• 1920 CEtu mamThe 1920 Mendoza earthquake took place in the province of Mendoza, Argentina, on 17 December at 15:00:04…
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• 1500 BCEunfinished obelisk (monument) builtThe unfinished obelisk is the largest known ancient obelisk and is located in the northern region of the…

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• 1852 CEyellow fever in Buenos AiresThe Yellow fever in Buenos Aires was a series of epidemics that took place in 1852, 1858, 1870 and 1871, the…

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